It's basketball season! Joe and I love to go to the Spectrum and attend the Aggie basketball games. It is so loud, insane, and intense! I admit, we can be a little mean. I think all athletes, no matter what team they are on, deserve respect for their talent and hard work. The "air ball", and other common chants are fine, but I don't like the chants "stupid", "you suck", and the "you're still ugly" chant that was aimed at Neville. That's my opinion. I don't blame teams for not liking to play in spectrum.
Yesterday the Aggies played Utah in an intense, nail-biting game. The Utah coach was pretty into it. The crowd chanted "anger management" when he was yelling at the referees, and when he get into a 'discussion' with Stew, chanted "Stew is better". It's a pretty creative crowd we have up here. For those of you who didn't watch the game, the end was hectic. With 2.4 seconds left, Utah State passed the ball into play, missed a shot, and Tai Wesley tapped it in. But....somebody forgot to start the time clock! Chaos broke out, because no one knew if we made the shot in time. Coaches were everywhere, refs were reviewing the play, and then after what seemed like hours, they counted the basket and put 0.1 second on the clock. Utah hurled the ball down, but we intercepted it. What a dramatic finish! I have a love/hate relationship with basketball games that are close. I'm like the girl on Remember the Titans, watching through my fingers. Here are a few pictures from the game:
The coaches having a 'discussion'. Things got very heated up.
The review. Referees timing to see how much time had passed.
Tai Wesley after making the winning shot!
Photos from Deseret News.
See something wrong? This poor guy lost one of his antlers!
These are the beautiful horses that pulled us around.
An interesting fact we learned about Elk is that they regurgitate their food and chew it multiple times for better digestion. You could actually see the cows (female elk) swallow their food, and watch it come back up their throat.
The coaches having a 'discussion'. Things got very heated up.
The review. Referees timing to see how much time had passed.
Tai Wesley after making the winning shot!
Joe in the car looking awfully excited! It snowed about six inches that day, and was a blizzard when we headed up to campus. They had two of the main roads closed and cars were getting stuck! The day was, as President Albrecht said, memorable and miserable!
The spectrum full of students. (enlarge picture to see where Joe is)
This is the group that I survived my undergraduate experience with. Our department is very small; most of us had every single class together. We shared good times together, blew up things (mostly me), and laughed a lot.
The weather was perfect for my graduation day! Here is me in front of Old Main.
This is one of my favorite professors, Dr. Hubbard, who liked to perform cool demonstrations and was a really entertaining professor. He calls Joe "the accountant".
