I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day.
Here are some noteworthy headlines and notes that might interest you:
- Washington and LSU, two schools that have been playing football for almost 120 years, will meet for just the second time in 2009. Believe it or not, the Huskies have been playing football since 1889 and LSU since 1893. The 2009 contest will be in Washington and the home-and-home will be completed in 2012 in Baton Rouge.
- The University of Michigan is set for its NCAA-record 209th consecutive home crowd of 100,000-plus on Aug. 30 when the Wolverines open the year with Utah at Ann Arbor. The streak began with a 102,415 turnout on Nov. 8, 1975, for a Michigan-Purdue game. That's at least 20,900,000 people the last 33 years, right? That's a lot of people.
- Vanderbilt has unveiled a $50 million plan for athletics facility upgrades and additions. I've seen other places say it is as much as $60M. While I applaud the school for taking initiative to fix the facade of the program, it's not enough. That money spent needs to go to more than just steel and concrete. They need to use this to attract better talent. The Commodores haven't had a winning season in over a quarter of a century.
- Lastly, guys like Tommy Tuberville, Charlie Weis and Ron Zook are out visiting the troops overseas. Very cool.