What to look for in the new college football season
Former OU QB Justin Fuente is the new head coach at Virginia Tech. It seems like was going to be the coach there until the 22nd century. It will be cool to follow the Sooner Hokie this year. A key game will be September 10 when Va Tech takes on Tennessee in the “Battle of Bristol”.
They are converting NASCAR’s Bristol Motor Speedway into a football stadium (11,000 tons of gravel are being hauled in to form the base of the new field) for the game.
College fans from outside the state will be able to fly into Stillwater Airport on one of two daily flights American Airlines has begun from Dallas-Fort Worth to Poke-ville. For those West Virginia fans who follow the Mountaineers around the conference that gives them another travel option when coming to Oklahoma.
My New Orleans Cab Driver
(April 9, 2016) It was a little past 6 a.m. this morning and I was on the way to the New Orleans airport. Leaving that city on a Saturday morning when a whole weekend could be played there might not make much sense. But, I had a game to go to back home. That’s what I told the cab driver, L.C., from the back seat of his Suburban as we pulled onto I-10 from the French Quarter.
One of your kids’ games? He asked. Nope, I said. College game. Spring game. I’m a big fan, I said.
L.C. told me that his father was too. His dad was the biggest college football fan ever, he said. When he died, he left L.C. the house and to take care of his mom. Then Hurricane Katrina hit. And it was left in ruin. The family had to move to Houston for months. His brother and family went to Birmingham, Alabama. L.C. returned to Louisiana, but his brother stayed in Alabama; said the kids were doing well in school there.
I told L.C. I used to call my dad after every game. And talk. We were passing by Metairie Cemetery when I said that. L.C. said, me too…man I miss him.
He loved his college team, L.C. said. And you know, it wasn’t LSU or any team around New Orleans. It was “Oklahoma,” L.C. said.