Greg Cody

I think an analogy I would use is Dan Marino's one and only Super Bowl.

in 84 where they got their ass kicked by San Francisco.

We didn't know at the time he'd never go back to another Super Bowl, but that was crushing because Marino was at the top of his game.

He was going to be the guy who made

made the Dolphins a Super Bowl champion for the first time since the early 70s under Shula, and it didn't happen.

And that was, at the time, very heartbreaking.

Yeah, and if they lose a lopsided game, it's easier to rationalize the loss.

It's easier to give Indiana credit.

It's easier to say it wasn't our time.

But the way they lost last night, that's going to haunt Mario forever, I guarantee you.

I think it would be cruel, literally cruel, to blame the Hurricanes as the main emotion coming out of this, to blame Carson Beck even.

I think they had a great season, and I think that should be prioritized.

If I were a Canes fan right now,

I would feel really good.

I would feel a trust in Mario Cristobal to work the portal again, and I would feel like the U is back.

You know, you don't have to win everything to be back.

If you get to the college football playoff for the first time, and you plow through three good teams to reach the championship game... Cristobal fixed it.

He fixed it.

I don't think it is because that's not a championship game.

See, I put the stakes of last night in a whole different category.