Snow Day

Wednesday morning, my beau and I were conducting the postmortem on the Mississippi State disaster. We'd discussed the usual things: Do we rely too heavily on Meeks?  What could our offense have done differently?, etc.  Then, out of the blue, my beau made a brilliant point -- Maybe our team, just like everyone else in Lexington, was taking a Snow Day.

In some parts of the country, snow is measured in feet and temps in minuses.  These hardy folks go on to school and work regardless of winter conditions.  Other places see no more than cold rain.  In the Upper-South, however, we see a debilitating storm every four to five years.  Nobody has school, or power, or reason to do anything but drink bourbon and stay inside.  Maybe, my better half reasoned, our players were simply responding to the weather, the lack of classes, and the change in routine in the same way that any other 18-23 year-old college student would: they get a little sluggish, maybe stay up too late, spend too much time hanging out, or they go to that awesome looking midnight cookie van that parks in front of the bookstore.  They are kids, no matter how many expectations we place on them.  I know that the few Snow Days of my college career were spent doing anything but working...


Let's give our boys the Snow Day that everyone else took on Tuesday, and look toward a win against Carolina this weekend.  Hopefully Lexington will be thawed out by then...