Sports Saturday ...

Also worth noting on the upcoming sched for the Coogs. We had a date @ Tulane which is obviously not going to happen. The Green Wave have enrolled at Lousiana Tech, with the Tulane teams will compete as originally planned (minus the playing field). No word that I've run across on where Tulane's home games are getting moved to, though. I suspect they'll juggle some stadium dates in-state, but I have a hunch there could be some oddities on the Tulane schedule, like the possiblity of playing a "home" game at the opposing school's digs. I'd look for Tulane to play with a good deal of heart this season, whatever the setting.

"Every year, there's going to be a couple teams emerge that you say, 'Man those two teams need to get together,'" Tipps said.

The teams are there. Longtime Carroll fan Phil Barber had a perfect idea on when and how to do it, too.

"After we both win state," Barber said, "play a game for the New Orleans refugees. A fund-raiser."

Don't discount this idea ... living in the DFW Mid Cities in the 80s (ie - during an NFL strike), I was witness to more than a few matchups that drew tens of thousands in attendance. It'd be a challenge to top the playoff crowd that inter-district rivals LD Bell and Trinity drew in 1982, but it's a welcome challenge for a good idea.

Yeah, I know ... eggs hatching and all that. We'll revisit this idea later.