\nSo a couple of weeks ago, I was up in Moraga for a Vandy game at St Mary’s. If you ever cross over Checkpoint Caldecott, I strongly recommend a trip to see the Gaels in action – their little 3500-seat bandbox gym lights up with as loud and rowdy a crowd as you’ll find in college hoops, and the team (chock full of Aussies) is actually pretty damn good. Vandy managed to blow an 11-point lead and won by 2, and St Mary’s had a shot at the end that would have won it.\n<\/p>\n
\nBut that is not the point of this post. The point of this post is that they played a LOT of recorded music, much to my chagrin as a former stalwart of my undergrad basketball pep band* – and sprinkled in among Miley Cyrus and random hip-hop was Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing”. (Believing? Believin’? Whatever.)\n<\/p>\n
\nNot only did the students go apeshit when the opening piano hit, they sang along. <\/em> The whole damn song.\n<\/p>\n \nWhen the hell did a Journey track from my elementary school days turn into some sort of Gen-Z youth anthem? How does shit like this happen? My God, it’s not like we were all singing and dancing along to a Doors song back when I was in high sch–\n<\/p>\n \n–what?\n<\/p>\n \nNever mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So a couple of weeks ago, I was up in Moraga for a Vandy game at St Mary’s. If you ever cross over Checkpoint Caldecott, I strongly recommend a trip to see the Gaels in action – their little 3500-seat bandbox gym lights up with as loud and rowdy a crowd as you’ll find in … <\/p>\n