Here’s a tradition I’m getting better at even though I never was and never will be a “patriot” for my alma mater‘s basketball team, the players are 90% spoiled assholes who all think they’ll make it to the NBA. I do like this celebration as a nice get-together to find out there are more graduates from Marquette than I figured in Austin. I’m confident the bigger cities have larger turnouts and especially the further north you go.
The men’s team played Butler again, an even more un-famous private school based in Indiacrapolis; I visited their campus when I was in high school for a science fair thing. They had Butler under control after letting a 10-0 run happen, aka, defense got its act together.
I do enjoy the company of all the different people, their varying lines of work and how each experience is unique: why they went, where they group, what they studied, etc. Some brought their small children, which bummed me a little because I forgot to bring little Playmobil or LEGO toys for them to keep and more importantly, distracted long enough for the adults to converse. Now to help out the latest person handling all the future get-togethers as I’m always full of suggestions: Stars v. Admirals, Pinballz, Geeks Who Drink (Marquette v. Notre Dame!), etc.