Game Day Oxford....A President and a PA announcer

Just a couple of notes from the game in Oxford Saturday.

First, a woman came up to introduce herself to me. It was Mary Ellen Mazey, the new President of the University. She was introducing herself to people throughout the Falcon section. She sat right in front of us and high-fived everyone whenever we scored.

It has been a long time since BG had a President....

a) Who sat in seats as lousy as mine
b) introduced herself to everyday people
c) High-fived me.

 So good on her. It was nice to meet her. She seems like good people.

We've had some pretty weak PA announcers at BG. One guy kept mispronouncing OUR players...obscure guys like Cole Magner.

But, we never experienced a reign of error like the train wreck who was doing announcing for Miami Saturday. It was borderline offensive to the visiting team. He failed to recognize that we had switched kickers, and frequently mis-identified players. The worse was that he thought that when Anthon Samuel carried the ball, it was DJ Lynch. Once I could see--I do think it is bizarre we have two #6s who both play--but every time, it was getting ridiculous. Wasn't there someone who could run up and say, yeah, dude, you are calling the wrong guy?

I would have loved to be in the booth when Lynch got a late sack and he realized he had been calling the wrong name all day.

 We had a really good time. People were nice, it was a great day, and a very entertaining football game. 

They talked about a sell out crowd, and they had a really good crowd, but it didn't look like a sell out to me. And, I don't think the crowd ever got into the game at all. They weren't even chanting "First down!" until the end. If keeping the crowd out of the game was something BG did, then it helped. And, I really like to see this....which was the scene at the start of the 4th Quarter.