All the leaves have fallen

The final week of the season is upon the Broncho football team. No way, this stinks, I want more.

Football is one thing I will readily admit to throwing fits about. Whether it be a bad call, my team losing or the end of the season. This season has gone by way too fast. You might think why on earth I’m so bent out of shape regarding a season in which the football team only managed two wins through the first nine games. Or, how I can get so excited about a game that ended up with UCO on the wrong end of the worst loss in this school’s last 93 seasons.

It really depends on your level of patience and your commitment to the university. Whether or not you’re the kind of student that comes to school and the leaves the school as soon as your class is over. Or the student who comes to school early and leaves late all the while being involved throughout the day. The student who just loves to watch the bronze and blue compete whether it be the football team who can’t seem to win or the soccer team who surprises us with a loss every once in a while.

Then you add to the equation whether or not you won’t ever see a Broncho football game again, as a student, or as the student body media’s Sports Editor. Being a senior is full of emotional moments, from the happiest of highs to those wait a minute this isn’t ever going to happen again moments.

Don’t get me wrong there isn’t going to be any tear-jerking moments on Saturday when the final horn sounds on the Bronchos season. It’s just kind of a buzz-kill knowing that some of the guys on the team are done, it’s over for them more than it is me, I just write about the games, they give all they have purely for my entertainment, and yours.

Sitting in the coach’s office every week I’ve grown more attached to this season than any other. I didn’t even write for The Vista last year and now I’m an editor. Which means making my rounds through Hamilton Fieldhouse and asking the coaches why we lost.  This can be challenging at times, but once you’ve got a couple of quotes to plug into your story then the conversation can easily stray into family, classes, high school football or even politics. This is what pulls me into the stadium each and every home game. I could easily make covering the game someone else’s job, but personally I wouldn’t miss the game for the world and as the sports editor I have a nice seat on the 50 yard line.

Covering one more game is going to be awesome, not just because of the President’s Cup and the game against Northeastern is always good. But because it will be one last chance to see the Bronchos as a student at UCO. It’s senior day, and not just for the players. This one’s going to be a good one.