A couple good stories to read today. One short, one long.
This short post on the Rice Marching Band (known as the MOB). They got some attention over the weekend with their halftime performance against Texas where they spelled out “$EC.” In the past they also had some fun at the expense of Coach Todd Graham — who left Rice for Tulsa after one season. But A&M is a favorite target for a reason.
The MOB certainly seems to enjoy gigging their former Southwest Conference foes. During Saturday’s show, the band took on Texas Gov. Rick Perry (a proud A&M grad) and his presidential bid. The announcer declared, “The next time you go to the polls, ask yourself: Is your candidate smarter than an Aggie?”
The MOB will take on a sacred cow “wherever we find it,” says Throckmorton. “The thing about A&M is everything is sacred there. It’s sort of a match made in heaven.”
One more reason why A&M will fit right into the SEC.
Then there is the long, sad story of Daryl Turner.
A talented wide receiver who should have been catching passes from Dan Marino at Pitt.
It was Marino who hosted Turner on his college visit to the University of Pittsburgh. Marino was just a freshman at the time, and his most natural recruiting ploy was the obvious chance for Turner to spend three years catching passes from one of the country’s best quarterbacks. It was enough for Turner to initially sign Pitt’s letter-of-intent. But thanks to an all-out — and at times questionable — recruiting effort from a school in Turner’s home state, Pittsburgh lost out on the speedster because the letter never got mailed.
After returning to Flint and receiving a visit from Michigan State’s coaching staff, Turner started to waver. He held the signed letter to Pittsburgh and wondered what to do. Only when the Southwestern High principal — a proud Michigan State alumnus — made a secret offer did Turner burn the Pittsburgh letter and sign on with MSU.
“He told me, ‘Well, if you go to Michigan State, you won’t have to come to school anymore because you’re already carrying a 2.7 grade-point average,'” Turner recalled of his high school principal, who shall remain nameless for obvious reasons. “He said, ‘I’ll make sure everything else goes the way you want it to go.'”
There’s every chance a kid from Flint might still have chosen to go to Michigan State, but that offer made it simpler. His addictions made him merely a footnote.
Mark Cuban argues against the 16-team super conferences. Makes a case, but I’m not sure I buy all of the claims.
And they’ve gotta figure out how to minimize Tino’s 1st Q yips.
I’m not saying anything new but if you watch the Sunseri post game interview you’ll see that 90% of the offense went right, even in that first half. The remaining 10% being the overthrown deep balls and Saddler under running his route on his one deep play.
The amount of money they would make with beer sales probably would be offset by money they would lose selling less club seats..or at least not worth the headaches…and it’s all about the dollar..If Pitt would make money selling alcohol at games they would do it.
