Turn Out the Liiiiiiights...

Well Ags, it was a fabulous season... and a great first quarter and a half during the Cotton Bowl! My favorite play was the gorgeous Gray-to-Nwachukwu pass, and I loved the coach hug that followed. That hug really made me smile. For those who didn't see it, here's the touchdown... and the hug (at :40):



The commentators and game coverage were the WORST on Fox. Good gawd. The commentators were so stilted when reading the teleprompters. And the writing was cheesy and trite. They congratulated each other all night for things they'd done in their careers. They interviewed some guy from the 1912 Cotton Bowl or something, while the game was going on. Hello!

The worst part was the guy who was constantly whining that the rules are different in college than what he's used to covering professional ball. Oh. My. Freaking. Gravy. Shut up already and go cover a pro game.

I have to say that Jerrod Johnson is probably my favorite player of the year. I was as hard on him as anyone when he was... um... sucking earlier in the season. He played very well as QB for two years, and I still miss the Johnson-Nwachukwu partnership. Like Tannehill, one of his best QB qualities is his ability to recover easily and stay in the game when things aren't going our way. That's something with which the Aggies have had trouble in the past. Whatever happened to him- probably the surgery last summer- he has continued to lead the team as captain, and with a grace that has been commented upon by many around him. It can't be easy to lose that golden spot on the field, but he has put his personal disappointment aside week after week for the team. Nothing could be more admirable.

Cannot WAIT for next season! We are planning to get season tix for the first time. Someone at work mentioned a friend has LSU season tickets, and has to donate $10,000 per ticket per year to be able to keep them. (Plus the cost of the tickets of course.) I had no idea the donation level was that high! Then she said they are primo 50-yard-line seats. Ahh. We don't need those. I just want to be at Kyle Field. Put me in the end zone or whatever.

Kathy's was a lot of fun, despite the loss! Her parents are great. One of her mom's memories of Kathy's and my time at A&M- how red my face always was (from the blaring sun on the student side) when we would meet them after games. Ahh yes. I remember that. And my head was usually killing me, from all the screaming. Good times.

Also found out that had her dad known he was going to be a National Merit Scholar, he would have gone to Rice instead of A&M. Shocking. Her dad is one of the biggest Aggies I've ever met! He said with a smile that it worked out the way it was supposed to in the end.

On that note- Lauren scored in the top ONE PERCENT of all PSAT takers this year. Woooooo!!!!! She rocks out loud. She should easily make National Merit Semi-Finalist. Then there's an application process similar to any scholarship, to get to Finalist and beyond. They supposedly take the top 50,000 or so for semi-finalist (in September? WTH?), and Lauren is somewhere in the top 15,000. She said she scored higher than everyone she's talked to, even the number one ranked student in her class (a friend of hers), but she is still trying to covertly find out what this particular "genius" guy got on it, to see if she beat him. I don't know where she got that academically competitive streak. *bats eyelashes*