Coach Cal the Camper

You probably are not much of a UK fan if you don’t have some idea about all the people that have camped waiting for the Big Blue Madness tickets.  1000s of people have been camping, some since last Wednesday.  The players and coaches have interacted with the fans just as they have in the last few years, but this team has taken it to a whole new level and that includes the coach Cal.  The players have hung, thrown footballs, played corn hole and abused news crews, all in good fun.  Coach Cal has organized food handouts and signing sessions with the fans.  But Coach Cal took it to a whole new level Friday night.  Coach Cal did what any great UK father would do.  He grabbed up his son, a tent and two sleeping bags and joined in the fun.  Yes, Coach Cal camped with the fans.  There is nothing he could have done, and that includes winning a National Championship, that I would think was more cool.  I mean, this is seriously cool.  This is cool to a level of cool Fonzie could never even hope to obtain.  In other words, or not, this was way cool.

I can only hope you get some sort of idea how cool I thought that was. If not, then I probably need to work on my writing skills, which I never really worked on much to begin with.  I’ll be honest in saying I have some reservations about Coach Cal.  There are few to none I wouldn’t.  I am not the type to throw the title of Saviour on a guy that hasn’t even coached one second of basketball for UK yet.  I also get a little defensive internally when I see others who do.  It’s a sure fire recipe for fan explosion if things do not go to their plan.  But right now, I have something tangible I can grab on to with Coach Cal.  I have a camp out.  It might not even seem like much to some, but to have a coach who is so all in that he would do this is amazing to me.  And even larger is the fact that this was a father son deal.

Way Cool, Coach Cal the camper, way cool.