Is that the result of a phenomenal bit of talent-spotting on their part, when the vast majority of Scottish football thought they had displayed a gross act of folly, or some monumental good fortune?
It's been a monumental change of fortunes.
In the small but contentious world of poetry and poets, the gift was both praised as an unprecedented boon for a marginalized art form and scorned as ill advised: How could the magazine and its nonprofit publisher, the Modern Poetry Association — it was soon renamed the Poetry Foundation — be prepared for such a monumental change in its fortunes?
He also told parliament that Ms Davidson had failed to revive the fortunes of her party, while achieving the "monumental political triumph" of destroying the fortunes of the other opposition parties through the Tory coalition with the Liberal Democrats at Westminster and its alliance with Labour in the Better Together campaign to save the Union.
This has been a monumental, and swift, turnaround in fortunes.
Here is "Nemesis (The Large Fortune)," the vision of a monumental, voluptuously corpulent naked angel in the sky over a miniature, panoramic townscape from 1501.
But they are also finding much more: monumental remains of the passage of time and fortune for a major city under subsequent Persian, Greek, Roman and Byzantine rule.
His monumental "Christ and the Sinner," which made his fortune when he sold a version to the czar, shocked Orthodox society when it was first shown in 1887, because it showed Christ as unequivocally Jewish.
A recent biography of Heydrich also places the grave in Section A. Hitler wanted Heydrich to have a monumental tomb but, due to Germany's declining fortunes, it was never built.
Somehow it did not seem that bad watching a fellow who lost his fortune to the crooked dealings of financier Allen Stanford trouser that monumental cheque courtesy of his success at the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup on Sunday.
