Emory & Henry University

You guys have had a pretty good feeder deal from Bryan lately, Coach.

You know, the funny thing is people don't know this, and I did not know Mike before we got out here, but Mike worked at Emory & Henry College.

And Emory & Henry is, you know, 45 minutes from Johnson City, Tennessee.

Emory & Henry? Yes.

That sounds like an old vaudeville act.

Emory & Henry College is in Emory, Virginia, and it is a sweet little school, Division III.

Now they went D2 now.

They're D2.

It was fantastic.

It reminded me a little bit of Emory & Henry, right? Old Steve Spurrier, Emory & Henry play, Polecat.

So it's funny, I saw the Jags did a kind of a Trevor Lawrence jump pass for a touchdown and it reminded me of.

of Dan Mullen, Urban Meyer, Tim Tebow.

But this one threw back a little bit to more Spurrier days.

It wasn't the Emory & Henry by any stretch of the imagination, but it was similar where you had the formation split left and right and go from there.

Buster might have been listening to Swamp Things last week because we were talking about the Wildcat.

He did the Polk instead.

Her route was completely different.

She was attending Emory & Henry and needed an internship credit.

A digital marketing internship at Utility Trailer gave her an unexpected introduction to manufacturing.

two people, two very different educational paths, both found a place in the industry.

Oh, we went up...

Yeah, there's, um, up in Abingdon there's a, uh, place called the MacLaughlin Center at Emory & Henry University where Ryan went to school.

Nice.

And they had an Irish troupe in for a dance, and we have some neighbors, elderly neighbors across the road, so we took them out to dinner and, and went and saw this, uh, Irish dance troupe, which was amazing.

The University of Tulsa is going from $54,000 a year to 25,000.

Emory & Henry in Virginia cut its price in half to just under 20,000.

The goal is enrollment.

School says the big sticker price was scaring families off before they ever saw the aid.

There's challenges with that.

Anytime you go on the road, right? I don't care if you're playing in front of 3,000 people, you know, at Emory and Henry College, or you're playing in front of 103,000 people down at Kyle Field.

You've got to be ready for it.

Obviously, we're going to do different things to simulate different counts, change up our silent count, obviously, so they can't get beat on what we did versus Utah.

And then they come out with the swinging gate.

They do the Emory & Henry also.

Emory & Henry is where you got the center, guard, guard.

You got your tackle out here with receivers, and your tackle out here with receivers.

Or both tackles over here, and then you have two receivers here.

That's Emory & Henry.

That's the swinging gate because it just has the center by itself.

And then linemen over here.

which I wouldn't have otherwise had any other access to because I didn't know anybody.

And eventually ended up, you know, having graduated college, I went to college at Emory & Henry, which is another Southwest Virginian institution.

And I ended up getting a job in publishing, which is where I've been ever since, but that's in New York.

So I ended up sort of swept off here, dropped in, you know, in, gosh, it was January of 2020.