Queen’s football coach Steve Snyder’s press availability, a weekly meeting, was seconds over three minutes long this week, its brevity understandable if not defensible in light of the context of ground rules Snyder laid out through the school’s media-relations department: questions only about Saturday afternoon’s game against the Gryphons in Guelph, and, to be clear, no questions about the Gaels’ past games.

The focus on the game ahead would be entirely understandable and even desirable in a team’s locker room. With just the game in Guelph and a Homecoming contest against Windsor left on the regular-season schedule, it looks like smooth sailing and clear skies ahead to a third-place finish and a home playoff game. Not everything that seemed possible back in August, when the top seed in th

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