Eagle Droppings

Okay  so Eaglepost has a fairly good source of blogs. All the writers are gentlemen I deeply respect, but I feel that I should compete for your viewing audience too. Here are the top 5 reasons you should read my blog.

1. It’s a student’s perspective: I am currently a student at Southern Miss.

2. I interact with these athletes daily: I am friends with many of the athletes and talk to them from time to tip

3. It’s entertaining: I try to add a little humor to my blogs unless it absolutely requires it to be a serious blog

4. More than just sports: I will do my best to keep you up to date on the on campus happenings besides just sports

5. I fill requests: Got something you want more info about? Let me know, and I’ll search it out for you

Now that I’ve given you a few reasons let me talk about a few things. First off this whole situation with reporting. I think it is definitely possible for 2 Southern Miss boards to co-exist. The difference is in the people. I have a lot of respect for both boards, but I prefer Eaglepost. The gentlemen and ladies at Eaglepost are honest and will call a spade a spade.  Big Gold Nation to me seems to be a little more rubber stampish or at least it was in it’s past incarnation. The information is nice, but not for the price. I enjoy the ability to speak my mind on Eaglepost.  Many on EP don’t have a problem with Big Gold Nation, it seems to be the Big Gold Nation folks that have a problem with EP. I mean maybe I understand why they are mad. I wouldn’t like having to pay for the kind of conversation they have. The simple fact of the matter to me is that I can get better info from a wider variety of sources on Eaglepost. This is now true to an even greater extent with the partnership between EP and Hattiesburg American. The fact that several visitors are attacking Patrick Magee because of his post about someone revealing that Willie Packer was cleared when he wasn’t is complete crap. I assume what happened is someone was let in on a secret. I’m assuming that the secret was that everything seemed a go on Willie Packer and he was about to get clear so they reported it. After it was actually official Patrick reported it. That is called verifying. Reporting something before it is finalized is shooting from the hip and is a pathetic job of reporting. It’s time for everyone to move past this ” I’m part of this board and you are part of that board” crap. Who cares what board you are part of. The only difference is whether you pay for your board or you don’t.

So as now is old news Eaglepost and The Hattiesburg American have formed an alliance. Not the idiotic “survivor” type of alliance but one that will greatly benefit. I will admit I had my reservations at first but this seems to be a win win. Patrick Magee has turned out to be a pretty good writer this summer and has gone after some sources of information. I have been critical of his work as I would expect someone to be of mine, but he has really stepped it up this summer. I’m back at USM and the excitement is amazing. There is a lot more students wearing USM clothing etc on campus and not as many other schools as I have seen in the past. I can’t wait till the first game. Tailgating, beautiful women, and the game of football.

So I know it’s boring for many people waiting on football to come around but its longer for me. I’m helping out around my house waiting to move back to Hattiesburg. I can’t wait till school starts back. It’s going to be a great year for USM football. I’m thinking even with the kinks we need to work out we are going to destroy Louisiana-Lafayette.

So tonight was my fraternities Island Party. Its a free concert we put on for the USM community and city of Hattiesburg, as our way of giving back and to help get our name out there a little. Many generous donations made this years event possible. We were delayed starting 45 minutes as the stage and equipment was covered to let the rain pass. That didn’t stop us after the delay we rocked out until 10:45. We hopefully allowed many people to know what BYX is all about. Good to see some USM alumni stop by and take in the music and food. Tomorrow is the Spring Game. I haven’t been this excited since I don’t know when. I can’t wait. We are doing Tri-Delta Triple Play in the morning before all meeting up and going to the spring game. We are bringing out all our guys for spring game. This is going to be one of the best game days ever. I can’t wait to hear the stadium roaring from people. Also baseball is this weekend. I LOVE baseball. I love the game. The smell of fresh cut grass. The crack of the bat. The thickness in the air on a hot game day. It’s probably my favorite game day experience. On a side note, I ask that everyone keep Corey Stephens in their prayers. He hit the fence hard tonight. He is a very promising player and needs prayers.

Okay the Rice Vs USM game was possibly the best pitched game I have seen in a long time. It was good to see that Sutt finally broke out of his funk and got the game winning homerun. I hope the Eagles have continued success on this road trip. I also attended Dr. Saunders inauguration yesterday. This was an amazing time. I met the Governer as well as the Lieutenant Governer. It was good to see Bishop Ward from the Mississippi Conference of the UMC. All in all it was an awesome day.

So after going to the baseball game I learned something. While Coach Palmer has attained 900 wins as a coach, he seemed no more concerned about it than yesterday. While this is a milestone achievement for any coach, it is nice to see that Coach Palmer places no more significance on that game than the game after. UCF came back with a vengeance. USM thought after they completely dominated the first game that UCF would roll over and die but they didn’t. One other thing that perplexes me. If we had such a successful game on friday, why would we mess with the roster going into saturday? I guess thats why i’m not a coach.

So as I sit here relaxing after enjoying a good baseball game, my thoughts wander. The baseball team seems to show some improvement from last year. While today’s game was a nailbiter, lets not forget that Lipscomb has actually beat some pretty good baseball teams 2 out of 3 last year. I think this weekend showed what the team is capable of. Each day the team won a different way. Friday they came out, tacked on some runs, and left it for the defense and pitching. Saturday they struggled offensively held defensively until the offense came around and won.Then finally today they just fought for everything they had. They decided not to be happy taking 2 out of 3 but wanted the whole sweep instead. Yes my friends baseball is in the air and once again it’s a great day to be a Golden Eagle.

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