*The NCAA Tournament At-Large Selection Committee (NCAA) and AC Women’s Basketball (ACWBB) walk into a bar from 2018 to 2020* NCAA: “Ehh, I dunno ACWBB, you didn’t win 20 games in 2018.”*ACWBB wins 20 games in 2019* NCAA: “Ehh, I dunno ACWBB, the ASC conference is stronger.”*ACWBB beats ASC champion UT-Dallas at home in 2019*
“You’re all registered Mr. Parrish. Do you have a car?”“I do.”“You’ll park in the College Avenue lot.”“Where’s that?”“Right across from Cousens Gym.” Cousens Gym is the home of Tufts University Basketball. The gym was named for John Albert Cousens, a former president of Tufts. President Cousens was a student at Tufts in the 1890s when
I was a fortunate son to travel to Vietnam with Paul Parrish in 2015. We traveled from Ho Chi Minh City in the south to Hanoi in the north, with a group that included one American (Jon Montgomery) who was close to Karin Alves True…………an Austin College friend of mine. Hey, there’s always a Roo
The all-in-one-shot battlefield run of Lance Corporal Schofield (George Mackay) in the movie 1917 has gotten a lot of media attention, and it sure is impressive. In order to deliver his message to call off the attack, Schofield bravely leaves the crowded trench for the battlefield in order to arrive faster. The scene is symbolic.
There’s a new ESPN 30-for-30 out about the complex story of Virginia Tech’s Michael Vick. You should check it out for the Roo ties. What Roo ties? Well, there’s the fact that Austin College & Virginia Tech share a similar past. Both schools have a 19th century “all-male, all-military” history. Virginia Tech is one of
It’s been a lot of fun watching former small college football players enjoy coaching success at the large college level. This trend makes sense to me. I mean, small colleges produce some of the best lawyers, doctors, educators, and public servants in the country. Wouldn’t that hold true for coaching as well? Spoiler: it does,
Here’s the thing about Austin College and me. The place is magical, and it’s magical because I am almost never there. I had never heard of this north Texas school until my 18th year. I was only there for 3 thanks to a year abroad. The next 8 I was either out-of-state or out of
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In honor of the passing of Texas native and Hall of Fame coach Hayden Fry: two 1976 articles on Fry’s incredibly wise hire of Austin College offensive coordinator Bill Snyder. Fry’s last year of coaching (Iowa) was 1998, when Snyder’s Kansas State Wildcats barely missed a spot in the NCAA national championship game after an
They say a picture tells a thousand words. This one certainly does. It looks like just another football game in just another small town newspaper, doesn’t it? But man is there so much more to this photo. The newspaper is the Panola County Watchman, the paper of choice for the citizens of Carthage, TX. You
