Gheorghemas: Day Five

On the fifth day of Gheorghemas, Big Gheorghe gave to me

Five (Green and) Golden Things
Four songs by "the Chairman of the Board" on his birthday
Three Beauties
A Bald Guy with Two Pupp-ies

Two Types of Stories

Lots of happenings at the Alma Mater of a Nation this Gheorghemas, from things sporting to real estate to expanding the horizons and parameters of the youth, and we're here to bring cover them all.

Tribe men's hoops is off to its best start since 2009-10. Brian Earl's balanced squad (seven different players have topped the team in scoring in its ten games, while six have grabbed the most boards) won six in a row to get to 8-2, rising to a program all-time high of 51 in the NCAA's NET ratings before falling at George Washington in the last game before the break for exams. The Wrens take the court tomorrow at home against Radford in their last non-conference tilt, still a Quad I team.

Not to be overshadowed, the Tribe women's hoops squad backed up its program-first NCAA Tournament appearance with a win at Wake Forest to kick off a four-game winning streak and move to 5-4. Junior Cassidy Geddes guard leads W&M with 14.8 points per game.

We're pleased to see that all around good guy and longest-serving athletic director in W&M history Terry Driscoll is being inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame next April. Former CAA Commissioner Tom Yeager said this of Driscoll, “He was the moral compass of our conference — a quiet leader whose wisdom and perspective shaped college athletics for the better.” Our only regret is that he didn't stay in his job for a few more years and kept Tony Shaver in his.

In off-field, but different sort of field-related news, how'd you like to hear about a mutually beneficial land swap? According to W&M News, the school and the city have agreed to trade parcels near South College Woods. Sean Hughes, W&M's Chief Business Officer said, “It’s a pristine research site, and it’s important for us to protect the boundaries of this ecological preserve in South College Woods. The City of Williamsburg has been an excellent partner, and the university appreciates the City Council and the city manager’s willingness to work together with us on a solution The agreement is especially fitting as William & Mary approaches the culmination of its Year of the Environment celebration.”

We're working on swapping some blogspace for Unit M so we can have a retirement home for frat guys who need a little getaway space.

And finally, W&M is excellent in a lot of arenas. In addition to leading the internet in dipshittery, we're the number one public university in the nation for study abroad participation for the 12th time in the past 17 years. In 2023-24, 55% of W&M students studied abroad at some point in their academic career. Tribe members, nerdy, wordy and worldly.