Regarding Chattanooga’s failed attempt to hold onto the Football Championship Subdivision title game, at least we now know what NCAA stands for — No Chance After All.
We say this because there reportedly was not a single question asked of our point team following its presentation to the NCAA’s FCS selection committee Thursday. Not one. Nada. Zip.
Which means this whole process was about as up in the air as a torpedo. Then again, losing the title game after 13 years feels like we were torpedoed, undercut, chop-blocked, or any other phrase you’d like to apply to mistreated and misled.
For 13 years we nurtured this baby into young adulthood, repeatedly told that the long-range goal of the NCAA was to turn Finley Stadium into Rosenblatt Stadium, the 61-year-long home of the baseball College World Series.
To help that along, we invested in artificial turf and put up permanent plaques commemorating every championship game played here, not to mention twisting the arms of at least half the gainfully employed people living in the seven states seen from Lookout Mountain to buy tickets each year as some sort of civic duty.