FCS Sightings - Part 2
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:34 pm
I know this probably should have been under FCS Sightings but it's a bit different and I wanted the attention 
(After the past 9 days, can you blame me?)
Just wanted to share a little bit about CatMom and her FCS history
The last time we drove home was in 1998. We did so because my hubby's sister was getting re-married and we had a 50th celebration for my mom & dad. We wanted to have our own car and we were going to be there 2 weeks. However, after that we swore we'd never drive home again. It's a tedious, boring and exhausting 1700+ miles. When my grandmother passed (1999) we flew. When dad had his surgery (Dec 2003) and then passed away a week later and we had to go back for the funeral (Jan 2004), we flew. When mom had triple bypass (June 2004), we flew. When my brother passed and we took some of his ashes to have a memorial service for family in NJ in April 2007 (he lived in Dallas), we flew and when mom had a bad time and was hospitalized last year (April 2008), I flew. At the ages we are now, driving that distance is just way too much.
In 1998 I wasn't following the FCS. I was barely following any college football, to be honest, and I had no clue, nor did I care, about what universities or colleges stared back at me from highway billboards and exit signs. They were just like any other sign that we passed on the long trek across TX, AR, TN, VA, WV, MD and PA (or other states on alternative routes.)
Then my daughter, gratefully, goes to TXST, starting in 2002 (she got core classes out of the way at a Comm College first, while working and being married and going to a smaller college for a semester). Then she got me to go to some football games and.....bam! That's all she wrote.
Now, while I have been in/near many of the SLC schools and a few others (PVA&M) I had never been to, at, near or even knew where most other FCS schools were located...other than what I have learned the past few years.
SLC schools I've been at or very near
UTSA
UTA
SHSU
McNeese
Lamar
TAMUCC
I'll probably never go to Hammond (Nicholls))or Thibadaux, LA. (SLU)
However, going home last week, (and coming back) I had all this info now imbedded in my brain and as soon as I saw one of the signs for an FCS institution it caught my eye, I'd say oh, that's XXX and I'd rattle off some info to my husband (who would listen but roll his eyes).
Some of the schools we went passed or very near: (just sort of near but saw signs have the *)
Alabama State *
Alcorn State
Appalachian State *
UT-Chatty
UDelaware
Grambling
Jackson State
Jacksonville State *
JMU
Liberty *
Northwestern State *
Penn
SFA * never even been close to here before
Tennessee Tech
Towson
UCA *
VMI
There were probably a few more but I didn't write them down until the trip home; which was a diff route than what we took up, so I am doing this from (very poor) memory.
Other notes:
JMU - needs to change their NCAA Championship sign to read something like
2004 NCAA DI Football Champions
not DI-AA - as there is no other champion recognized by the NCAA
I have a fav cousin on each side of the family...David and Brenda
I knew David's daughter went to Liberty (she has 3 semesters left)
I didn't know my cousin Brenda's eldest son went to Appalachian State. (probably class of 1999-2001 or there abouts, as his HS class would be 1995)
I sat and talked with David's daughter about their new stadium construction, their football team and FCS in general
I talked with Brenda (they lived in NC for a lot of years but she is back home while her son lives somewhere down near Boone) about App St, football, Armanti Edwards, the Michigan game, his alumni enthusiasm and TXST.
(After the past 9 days, can you blame me?)
Just wanted to share a little bit about CatMom and her FCS history
The last time we drove home was in 1998. We did so because my hubby's sister was getting re-married and we had a 50th celebration for my mom & dad. We wanted to have our own car and we were going to be there 2 weeks. However, after that we swore we'd never drive home again. It's a tedious, boring and exhausting 1700+ miles. When my grandmother passed (1999) we flew. When dad had his surgery (Dec 2003) and then passed away a week later and we had to go back for the funeral (Jan 2004), we flew. When mom had triple bypass (June 2004), we flew. When my brother passed and we took some of his ashes to have a memorial service for family in NJ in April 2007 (he lived in Dallas), we flew and when mom had a bad time and was hospitalized last year (April 2008), I flew. At the ages we are now, driving that distance is just way too much.
In 1998 I wasn't following the FCS. I was barely following any college football, to be honest, and I had no clue, nor did I care, about what universities or colleges stared back at me from highway billboards and exit signs. They were just like any other sign that we passed on the long trek across TX, AR, TN, VA, WV, MD and PA (or other states on alternative routes.)
Then my daughter, gratefully, goes to TXST, starting in 2002 (she got core classes out of the way at a Comm College first, while working and being married and going to a smaller college for a semester). Then she got me to go to some football games and.....bam! That's all she wrote.
Now, while I have been in/near many of the SLC schools and a few others (PVA&M) I had never been to, at, near or even knew where most other FCS schools were located...other than what I have learned the past few years.
SLC schools I've been at or very near
UTSA
UTA
SHSU
McNeese
Lamar
TAMUCC
I'll probably never go to Hammond (Nicholls))or Thibadaux, LA. (SLU)
However, going home last week, (and coming back) I had all this info now imbedded in my brain and as soon as I saw one of the signs for an FCS institution it caught my eye, I'd say oh, that's XXX and I'd rattle off some info to my husband (who would listen but roll his eyes).
Some of the schools we went passed or very near: (just sort of near but saw signs have the *)
Alabama State *
Alcorn State
Appalachian State *
UT-Chatty
UDelaware
Grambling
Jackson State
Jacksonville State *
JMU
Liberty *
Northwestern State *
Penn
SFA * never even been close to here before
Tennessee Tech
Towson
UCA *
VMI
There were probably a few more but I didn't write them down until the trip home; which was a diff route than what we took up, so I am doing this from (very poor) memory.
Other notes:
JMU - needs to change their NCAA Championship sign to read something like
2004 NCAA DI Football Champions
not DI-AA - as there is no other champion recognized by the NCAA
I have a fav cousin on each side of the family...David and Brenda
I knew David's daughter went to Liberty (she has 3 semesters left)
I didn't know my cousin Brenda's eldest son went to Appalachian State. (probably class of 1999-2001 or there abouts, as his HS class would be 1995)
I sat and talked with David's daughter about their new stadium construction, their football team and FCS in general
I talked with Brenda (they lived in NC for a lot of years but she is back home while her son lives somewhere down near Boone) about App St, football, Armanti Edwards, the Michigan game, his alumni enthusiasm and TXST.
