OU Spring Practice starts today! Spring in Oklahoma is always wonderful, because it carries the promise of a new season as well as glimpses of the summer to come. Returning nearly all of our big skill players, we have a lot to look forward to, and lots of questions to answer, as usual. This year all-around is better than most, as not only do we have football to talk for the next month, but we also have a basketball team that will likely get a #1 seed to the Big Dance, a highly competitive girls' team (as usual) behind one of college's greatest female coaches in Sherri Coale, and a baseball team that's off to its best start in a few years and is actually ranked! Top it off with a highly competitive softball team that will likely make another strong push for an NCAA championship behind Patty Gasso, another top-notch coach who makes our students, staff, administration, and alumni proud. It's truly a great start to the year.
What a great day. I was noticing also that the weather this week is, as usual for this time of year, turning to spring. Well, this time of year for Oklahoma, anyway. I was telling Heidi just last night as we watched the weather, "welcome to springtime in Oklahoma." We'll get 63 here today, and that's the LOWEST high temp that's predicted for the next week! Upper 70s to low 80s tomorrow through Saturday, and upper 60s Sunday and Monday. (In Colorado, meanwhile, they're all debating about when the next 2-3 snowstorms will roll in before the realistic chances for snow finally peter out for good sometime in mid-May.) Sure, it will be a bit windy, as March in Oklahoma always is, but I was also telling Heidi that we'll probably be swimming in Mom and Dad's pool in about a month and a half! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh...
Every day is a great day, because every day I wake up a Sooner.
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