Thursday, March 27, 2008

Come one, Come All



By Preston Davis


The CBS Early Show made it to town, and with them a blurred understanding of who or what is actually causing all the raucous: outside media attention or our boys on the hardwood? It’s obvious the ‘Cats are the catalyst, but all the recognition makes for quite the hullaballoo. For Davidsonians, it’s like the circus just wheeled in—no elephants, just cameras and CBS Weather Anchor Dave Price with his production entourage.

They fawn over us. We fawn right back. I suppose when good news is in the air, we all become sycophants to a degree.

Staring at 6:30 this morning the Alvarez College Union became the place to be. Between the Early Show’s main story on the evolution of wedding cakes, the CBS studio shot to us to provide the nation’s weather report.

“Where’d all these people come from?” one soccer mom says to another soccer mom. Doesn’t she know? When the circus comes to town, everyone comes to town.

Scan the crowd. The parents and kids are back. The pep band plays the chorus of Sweet Caroline over and over; We scream it back at them, “SO GOOD! SO GOOD!” There’s a portly 20-something, shirtless, painted red, wearing a whiskered cat nose, tail dangling and some sort of domestic animal floppy ears—he looks like he escaped off the Island of Dr. Moreau. Suits and slobs intermingle to get a glimpse of Dave Price, everyone’s new best friend.  We all politely jostle for better position to see and be seen on national television.

Isn’t it funny that when a camera of consequence enters a room all bets are off and most all faculties of reason leave the mind? With our sheer numbers (400+) and our fervent screaming, Davidson, a gem of higher education in the south with its 23 Rhode Scholars, probably looked like a gaggle of maniacs on TV this morning.

Ain’t it grand?

But really, most of the time we grinned at the spectacle, made small talk and ate our Krispy Kreme. We watched Dave shoot basketball (he missed a lot); We watched him try to talk about Davidson basketball (he mispronounced Stephen’s name); We watched him play a pep band horn (children covered their ears). Despite all of that, we loved him every minute, and once the red light flickered on: SHOWTIME! Dave led the chant and we fell right in. LET’S GO CATS!!!... and on and on.

The TV cameras are nice, and we’re excited about them. But I don’t think focus has been lost. It’s still about our boys. And they in turn helped bring everything under the Davidson bar and diamond into the nation’s view. We know that all of this is a finite thing whether we go to finals or lose tomorrow.

We know come middle of next week CBS could easily be in someone else’s student union while we shake our heads, saying, “would you look at these maniacs.”

But for now we’ll take it all in. It’s all icing on the cake, wedding or not. It’s sweet and so good, so good.

Most likely I’m on the road now, somewhere between Davidson to Knoxville or Knoxville to Detroit with my 4 compatriots. When the sun wakes up tomorrow, I hope I will have beaten it to 8 mile.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

41 comments:

  1. Nice information. I’ve bookmarked your site, and I’m adding your RSS feeds to my Google account to get updates instantly. Mozilla Firefox Crack Serial Key

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thank you for sharing this great post, I am very impressed with your post, the information given is very meticulous and understandable. I will regularly follow your next post.

    ReplyDelete
  3. i really love sports, your blog really help me to understand the game, and be aware all the new news

    ReplyDelete
  4. Need help with your assignment? We’re assignment writing Pay Someone To Do My Assignment Uk experts and will be able to write a high-quality paper that follows all your specific requirements. Get a Free Quote now!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Once you hire our professionals for your essay, you always assured we would provide your essay according to the deadline you indicated. Our essay https://expertpaperwriter.com/bid4papers-com-review/ experts are experienced in working fast and still finding success in producing the desired standards of that essay assignment.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Hi everyone, This web site is piece of writing is actually good, keep up posting.
    온라인카지노
    바카라사이트
    온라인카지노
    카지노사이트

    ReplyDelete
  7. Whats Taking place i’m new to this, I stumbled upon this I’ve discovered It positively helpful and it has aided me out loads. I hope to contribute & assist other customers like its aided me. Great job.

    프로야구상대전적
    플래쉬스코어
    로하이게임

    ReplyDelete
  8. Right here is the perfect blog for everyone who would like to understand this topic.
    You understand so much its almost hard to argue with you You certainly put a fresh spin on a subject which has been written about for a long time. Excellent stuff, just excellent!

    NBA픽
    NBA픽느바챔프
    NBA해외배당

    ReplyDelete
  9. Thanks so much pertaining to giving everyone an update on this issue on your web-site. Thanks for your efforts and consideration of other people by making this blog available.

    사설토토
    파워볼
    안전놀이터

    ReplyDelete
  10. I'm sure you won't be disappointed when you join this very special game, mario games will make you happier

    ReplyDelete
  11. I read your interesting post. This article is about basketball players. Now it's time to get Vfix services https://www.vfixphonesandtech.com/ for more information.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Nice this is really on of the interesting content i am so happy with this. Also if want best help in field of Assignment Help the get it with our experts team of writers who provide you worlds top content of assignment which help you to grab best score in your college.

    ReplyDelete
  13. Having read this I thought it was really informative.

    ReplyDelete
  14. Thankyou for all your efforts that you have put in this.

    ReplyDelete
  15. I wanted to thank you for this excellent read!!

    ReplyDelete
  16. I just want to offer you a huge thumbs up for the great information you have here on this post.

    ReplyDelete
  17. ’ll be coming back to your website for more soon.

    ReplyDelete

  18. I am very impressed with your post because this post is very beneficial for me and provide a new knowledge.

    ReplyDelete
  19. Nice article. This is quite informative.

    ReplyDelete
  20. Hi, happy that i saw on this in google. Thanks!

    ReplyDelete
  21. Wow, superb blog layout! Magnificent, let alone the content

    ReplyDelete

  22. Pretty! This has been an incredibly wonderful article. Thank you for supplying this information.

    ReplyDelete
  23. Good blog and absolutely exceptional. Thank you for sharing this excellent post.

    ReplyDelete
  24. Thank you for providing a good quality article.

    ReplyDelete
  25. I was reading some of your articles on this website and I conceive this web site is very instructive.

    ReplyDelete
  26. I have enjoyed a lot reading this post keep it up.

    ReplyDelete
  27. I really liked it. I wanted to leave a note.

    ReplyDelete
  28. This is the best way to share the great article with everyone one.

    ReplyDelete
  29. Thanks for sharing it with us. Keep it up.

    ReplyDelete
  30. Thanks so much for this post, pretty worthwhile material.

    ReplyDelete
  31. Everything is very open with a really clear description of the issues.

    ReplyDelete
  32. Great article, Thank you for sharing!

    ReplyDelete
  33. I think a lot of articles related to are disappearing someday.

    ReplyDelete
  34. Thank you for letting me know the good content.

    ReplyDelete

Blog on Davidson Athletics

Welcome to the official blog of the Davidson Wildcats! Take an inside look at the world of college athletics from Davidson players, coaches and staff.

Search This Blog