Agreed, after the FB season this could have been the year NU revenue sports fell back to the dark ages. This team showed grit and determination, put the whole team on their shoulders and may have singlehandedly kept us positioned for success for years to come. FB seems to be going through a reset of everything other than Fitz, and had we lost CCC this year, the BB team might have been in a similar rebuild mode.
When the stone finally cracks and we win a national championship, these blows will certainly be some that I look back on as key.