Before we get to this week, I had to post these photos from a golf course we played last week in Austin, Falconhead Golf Club. If you’re ever around Austin, or more accurately, Bees Cave, TX, it’s definitely worth checking out. Forty-nine bucks, cart included, and a nice ranger who gave us some spare ammo. We both chopped our way to some brutal numbers, but saw some nice holes doing it. These photos are from the par 3 signature 17th hole, that features a gigantic green that’s an overhanging limestone shelf. A pretty impressive hole, and some good golf course architecture by the PGA Tour Design Architects, whoever they are.
As we cross into the Eastern Time Zone once again, we decided to do a little projecting for the rest of the season. With the sky dark well before seven, we are truly in the midst of autumn. (And after seeing that the forecast for Morgantown has the temperatures in the 30s around game time, it’s getting to truly feel like football season.) After putting the finishing touches on Episode Nine this morning from a crappy hotel in a really bad part of Memphis, it dawned on me that we’re 8 weeks into this. That is a long time to be living out of the same duffel bag, and sleeping in random hotel rooms. And today, as we continued on the 1,400 odd miles north and east, it feels like it. I’m not going to go as far as saying that morale is low, but the grind is setting in, and the miles aren’t quite ticking off as quickly as they did a few weeks ago. We’re going to start making some adjustments in our schedules, hopefully so we can enjoy some of the fall scenery before it all looks the same in the dead of night.
As we briefly mentioned earlier, we are double dipping this week. In a preseason match-up that must’ve been circled on both West Virginia and Auburn fans schedules, (and the booked hotels prove it) we’re going to Morgantown for a gigantic Thursday night tilt. While West Virginia fans must be disillusioned by first-year coach Bill Stewart’s struggles, at least they can take solace in the fact that Rich Rodriguez isn’t doing much better in Ann Arbor. (I don’t think the Mountaineers lost to Toledo, did they?) And while Auburn fans once again had delusions of grandeur this preseason, they have done what most recent Auburn teams have done lately, stumbled out of the gate. Either way, I had this game locked into the schedule well before the season, and hopefully the Mountaineers can find a way to win the game and burn some couches.
With no vacancy in sight, we might get a head start out of town and towards Ohio. I’m not feeling creative enough to come up with an ESPN like title for the game this Saturday night in the Horseshoe, but it should be a great one. After seeing Ohio State finally look explosive this weekend with Terrell Pryor behind center, and after realizing that Penn State, while looking impressive all season, really hasn’t played a decent team, I’m still trying to figure out where I see this one going.
It’s going to be a really tough weekend for tickets in Columbus, so if anyone is friends with Dick Tressel or knows of someone who will be gentle when negotiating with us, send them our way.
Reporting live from the interstate in West Virginia, RTGD is out.
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