Ringo Starr isn't a Bronco, but his lyrics are right on for SCU in this years WCC - "It Don't Come Easy." You can listen along while you read - just click the link.
"You gotta pay your dues if you don't wanna sing the blues, cause you know it don't come easy."
We are paying our dues big time this season and the next six games are full of potential "blues."
Mark Few and his full strength Zags showed us the gap that still remains to the experience and talent needed to compete with top 20 ranked teams. A real facial.
It's no secret he relishes calling out the rest of the league two years ago to "step it up" and now crushing them on his home floor.
I don't know about you - but I have this HUGE $%### for payback...
It Don't Come Easy...
The next six games are brutal for our young Bronco team. Three roadies - BYU, St. Mary's, and Pacific. Three home games - Pepperdine, Gonzaga, and LMU.
Surviving the six games at 3-3 would be very good. Especially tonight against Pepperdine; after our tsunami loss in Spokane. With only eight scholarship players left, the margin for error is a few microns in Silicon Valley parlance.
Pepperdine has won two of their last three games and took USF to the final 15 seconds; losing to an off balance 3-pointer. St. Mary's crushed BYU at home and lost to USF away. LMU is 13-3 with an early season win vs Georgetown. Pacific is 10-7 with close losses to San Diego and BYU. Add the above, plus the Zags coming to Leavey, and, well - "It Won't Come Easy."
If there's a bright spot, it's that every WCC team is beatable this season; which has not been the case for years. Other than Gonzaga, we are CAPABLE of beating the other nine. Doesn't mean we will, but it can be done. I'd love nothing more than for us to be the ones to tarnish some of their shiny preseason records.
So, if I'm going full Ringo, the next six "Won't Come Easy" but "it's here within your reach if you're big enough to take it."
If we are big enough to take it, it can make a "big" difference in the trajectory of our program...
Pepperdine has won two of their last three games and took USF to the final 15 seconds; losing to an off balance 3-pointer. St. Mary's crushed BYU at home and lost to USF away. LMU is 13-3 with an early season win vs Georgetown. Pacific is 10-7 with close losses to San Diego and BYU. Add the above, plus the Zags coming to Leavey, and, well - "It Won't Come Easy."
If there's a bright spot, it's that every WCC team is beatable this season; which has not been the case for years. Other than Gonzaga, we are CAPABLE of beating the other nine. Doesn't mean we will, but it can be done. I'd love nothing more than for us to be the ones to tarnish some of their shiny preseason records.
So, if I'm going full Ringo, the next six "Won't Come Easy" but "it's here within your reach if you're big enough to take it."
If we are big enough to take it, it can make a "big" difference in the trajectory of our program...
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