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September 13, 2007, 10:22:19 AM
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1)  What's the most rewarding thing about being a Wildcat Walk® Coordinator?
2)  What's the craziest thing you've seen happen during a Wildcat Walk®?
3)  Favorite color, other than purple?
4)  What is the Rubicon?
5)  Name your favorite all-time Wildcat Walk® moment.

September 13, 2007, 10:47:32 AM
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1)  What's the most rewarding thing about being a Wildcat Walk® Coordinator?

I'd have to say having the opportunity to give back to my fellow Wildcats.  Coach Prince meets with us each week and we do a post-mortem on the past week's walk, we discuss what went well, what didn't go so well (OOPS!) LOL.  Basically, it's just fun being a part of the Powercat family just like Jaime Mendez, Darren Sproles, Michael Bishop, and Terrance Newman once were.  GO CATS!

2)  What's the craziest thing you've seen happen during a Wildcat Walk®?

Since KSU football is located at a college, there is always a lot of drinking going on with the kids.  Well, last season during the walk before the Louisville game a young college kid who had one too many sips of daddy's whiskey climbed under the rope, which is a huge no-no, and joined the walk.  Needless to say I had him arrested and we punished him to the full extent of the law for trespassing, drunk in public, and interferring with public parade.

3)  Favorite color, other than purple?

There are colors other than purple?
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4)  What is the Rubicon?

I didn't know the answer to this one either until last season Coach Prince had a Wildcat Walk Coordinator meeting before the season started.  Pizza was had by all.  We had a roundtable discussion on what the Wildcat Walk meant to each of us, some people took it kinda lightly and we kicked them out.  Well, of course Coach Prince went first and he explained that the Rubicon is an ancient river in Italy. The river is notable as Roman law forbade any general from crossing it with an army. The river was considered to mark the boundary between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north and Italy proper to the south; the law thus protected the republic from internal military threat. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, supposedly on January 10 of the Roman calendar, to make his way to Rome he broke that law and made armed conflict inevitable. According to Suetonius he uttered the famous phrase ālea iacta est ("the die is cast").

Suetonius also described how Caesar was apparently still undecided as he approached the river, and the author gave credit for the actual moment of crossing to a supernatural apparition. The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" has survived to refer to any people committing themselves irrevocably to a risky and revolutionary course of action – similar to the current phrase "passing the point of no return". It also refers, in limited usage, to its plainer meaning of using military power in a non-receptive homeland.


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5)  Name your favorite all-time Wildcat Walk® moment.

My favorite all-time Wildcat Walk moment is also my proudest.  This year before the home opener, myself and the other coordinators met the night before the game (Friday) and mapped out where we were going to line up the ropes, etc.  Afterwards everyone left.  I didn't.  I stayed and scrubbed the entire pathway on my hands and knees to clean it up as good as I could.  No path could be clean enough for our WILDCATS.  It took my all night until 4am but I got it done.   


Thanks everyone for supporting the Cats and the Wildcat Walk.

GO STATE!


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September 13, 2007, 10:50:39 AM
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September 13, 2007, 10:56:55 AM
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September 13, 2007, 11:36:29 AM
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'Clams, you are a man among boys.   :notworthy:

September 13, 2007, 02:46:58 PM
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Where do I sign up?  I'm in tears right now, and I'm ready to serve our Wildcats.

September 13, 2007, 03:13:45 PM
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I didn't know the answer to this one either until last season Coach Prince had a Wildcat Walk Coordinator meeting before the season started.  Pizza was had by all.  We had a roundtable discussion on what the Wildcat Walk meant to each of us, some people took it kinda lightly and we kicked them out.  Well, of course Coach Prince went first and he explained that the Rubicon is an ancient river in Italy. The river is notable as Roman law forbade any general from crossing it with an army. The river was considered to mark the boundary between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north and Italy proper to the south; the law thus protected the republic from internal military threat. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, supposedly on January 10 of the Roman calendar, to make his way to Rome he broke that law and made armed conflict inevitable. According to Suetonius he uttered the famous phrase ālea iacta est ("the die is cast").

Suetonius also described how Caesar was apparently still undecided as he approached the river, and the author gave credit for the actual moment of crossing to a supernatural apparition. The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" has survived to refer to any people committing themselves irrevocably to a risky and revolutionary course of action – similar to the current phrase "passing the point of no return". It also refers, in limited usage, to its plainer meaning of using military power in a non-receptive homeland.



Do you think Julius Caesar ever had a pizza? :lick:

September 13, 2007, 03:15:55 PM
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September 15, 2007, 08:40:27 AM
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I (heart) this board.  You f's slay me.

September 15, 2007, 11:06:11 AM
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Basically, it's just fun being a part of the Powercat family just like Jaime Mendez, Darren Sproles, Michael Bishop, and Terrance Newman once were.  GO CATS!

This is too &@#%ing funny!!!  I hope you are being sarcastic.  You are as much a part of the Powercat family as the guy who drains the portable toilets lol. 

September 15, 2007, 11:16:51 AM
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This line frickin kills me:

"Basically, it's just fun being a part of the Powercat family just like Jaime Mendez, Darren Sproles, Michael Bishop, and Terrance Newman once were. "




Surely he can't be serious.

http://forums.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=172#s=172&f=2485&t=1021909

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September 15, 2007, 01:27:43 PM
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This line frickin kills me:

"Basically, it's just fun being a part of the Powercat family just like Jaime Mendez, Darren Sproles, Michael Bishop, and Terrance Newman once were. "




Surely he can't be serious.

http://forums.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=172#s=172&f=2485&t=1021909

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WOW.