Mission Accomplished: Every Varsity Sport

Not yet . . . I'll be Dr. Zoo in a few months--and Prof. Zoo starting in the fall which is pretty exciting, minus the whole having to leave Ann Arbor thing. I don't have souvenirs, partly since you don't need any kind of ticket for about half of them and there aren't even those one-page programs for a few. I did start bringing around my camera once I got a great new one this summer, so I've got pictures of several of the more recent ones.

Braylonfest was my first year of grad school and made me so happy I had chosen to stay! I also remember that it was a 3:30 game; I had just worn a t-shirt since it was decently warm before the game but by the time that it ended I was freezing. My friends and I were going to Ashley's afterwards to celebrate so I ran over to Steve and Barry's while they were waiting and bought a Michigan sweatshirt. It reminds of the great glory of that game every time I put it on. Northwestern was the only team that figured out how to defend Braylon on those jump balls. On every other team, since the defender had great position, he tried to intercept it. The end result would be the defender's hands were at an appropriate height to catch the ball and Braylon would jump overtop and get it instead. Northwestern was the only team that figured out that if Braylon was in the area, you had to give up on the possibility of catching the ball and just bat it down, allowing you to make contact much higher than even Braylon could jump. We still destroyed them, but Braylon's longest catch was 13 yards. I had come up with that strategy earlier and was terrified another team would think of that, but nobody even repeated it after Northwestern held Braylon in check.