This weekend is homecoming weekend at William and Mary. In light of the celebration that will be happening in Williamsburg, VA, this blog is dedicated to the Tribe and my amazing alma mater.
Best class banner ever.
I never experienced homecoming in high school because my tiny private school didn’t have a football team. The closest thing we had was alumni weekend, but there wasn’t really a lot of fanfare around it. Granted, every sports team had a home game that day (which was usually more highly attended by parents than alumni anyway), but that was it. No big homecoming dance, no homecoming king and queen, no homecoming court, et cetera.
Last year’s Rec Center staff alumni gathering. Oh memories.
In retrospect, I’m really thankful that we didn’t have a high school football team, because it made my first college football game that much more awesome. Another probable contributing factor to that awesomeness was the fact that no high school football team meant no winning football record, which meant that I was not at all bothered by the somewhat lackluster performance of the 2004 W&M football team (and the 2005 one, for that matter).
Oh, just a few reasons why I miss college.
Now, five years after my first college football game, the Tribe is ranked fifth in FCS polls and is playing big time rival James Madison on Homecoming weekend. JMU was the team that we lost to when it mattered. My freshman year we lost to them in the FCS semifinal game, which is the closest we’ve ever come to winning a football championship.
Hark upon the gale, Tribe. Hopefully that gale reaches me in Croatia.
