Last year, June Jones recorded SMU’s practices using a ten year old video camera. That doesn’t sound all that different from the technology my cousin Todd used to record my youth football games during the lovely Miss Ann Richards’ second term as governor of our fair state.
My cousin Todd bought his camcorder at Pawn America, by the way. They have a wide range of modern technologies for sale at all their locations. They have something for every budget.
Chad Morris has brought us into the future. He put a series of drones in place to record SMU practices. The SMU athletic department is posting a bunch of excellent Spring Practice videos taken by the drones. They look like hand-held combat shots from a Michael Mann movie.
This is a great idea. Getting these cool drones. What a great coaching tool this will be. This will enable our coaching staff to get a much better view of what’s going on at practice and how they can coach the Mustangs up from all kinds of angles. Count this as reason number 8 that SMU is gonna have a winning season.
As my main man Mike Pierce once said, “Chad Morris is taking us from ColecoVision all the way to the Sega Dreamcast. And he is doing so in just one night.” And when Mike Pierce says Just One Night he is thinking of Eric Clapton and that fine concert album he released in 1980. The finest live album ever recorded at the Budokan Theatre other than Bob Dylan’s, Cheap Trick’s, Dream Theater’s, Ozzy Osbourne’s, Diana Ross’, The Michael Schenker Group’s, Iron Maiden’s, Frank Sinatra’s, Blur’s, The Bay City Rollers’, Journey’s, Mr. Big’s, Avril Lavigne’s, Judas Priest’s, The Backstreet Boys’, The Carpenters’, or Mr. Big’s second live album recorded there.
I’m not a big concert album guy though. I like studio gloss. Live albums, in the words of one of the guys from Camper Van Beethoven, are just “greatest hits played faster.” Except for the two Budokan ones Mr. Big did a few years back. Those were bodacious.
Speaking of that, I nominate Mr. Big’s “To Be With You” as SMU’s 2015 entrance music. It’s slow, soulful groove will be the perfect thing to pump the fellas up for some AAC action. I don’t know how to make a YouTube pump-up video, but if I knew how, I would do a video with the Mustangs’ big hits and big plays from last year. Among the game highlights, I would sprinkle in some candid moments of warmth and collegiality from this year’s pre-season workouts. Then, I would slap some Mr. Big on top of it.
Number one song after number one song.
After I made this unbelievable pump-up video, I would eventually send a copy to University Park. But before I did that, I would put it on a tape and send it right to MTV headquarters in Piscataway, New Jersey. I would include a self-addressed stamped envelope so that Kurt Loder could write me when they planned to put it in heavy rotation. And every day after school, I would dial 1-800-DIAL-MTV and get Adam Curry to put that thing on at the 5 o’clock hour before Mom made supper and flipped over to the Channel 3 News.
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