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A kid that I have coached for four years has graduated high school and will now be attending Western (I feel like I went wrong somewhere). Nevertheless, as part of his graduation gift, I was hoping you guys could give me some pieces of advice to pass along to him regarding the school, good places to go, and things he absolutely has to do in his time at Western. I have already come up with a few things such as attend every sporting event possible and buy some Western apparel and throw out his MSU and U-M gear. I even went ahead and bought him a WMU T-shirt to get him started ( a piece of me died inside). Either way, I am obviously short on advice seeing as I only visited WMU for short blurry periods of time in my college career so I was hoping you all could help me out with the rest. Thanks in advance.

Jeeze coach, that had to have been rough. My experiences are a LITTLE old, others will have some great advice I'm sure.

I'm impressed with your support of the youngster, and it had to have hurt to buy WMU gear. I hate seeing my brother come into my house with his Flying C travel bag, ugh.

Buy him a subscription to Broncoblitz.com :domokun:

Unless things have changed in the cafeteria, get to "chicken stip night" early and often.

Rowdy: As a coach, hats off to you!

As an alum of a MAC school, two things I would offer ...

1) Attend one or two games/matches for the smaller, non-revenue sports - volleyball, baseball, etc. As a sports writer for the campus paper, I was assigned to them, but soon found a real sense of enjoyment and attended volleyball matches long after it was no longer my beat.

2) Attend at least one away game for the "big" sports. Always fun. And try to get to the CCHA tournament at least once - great road trip for a bunch of college guys!

GRPunk; things haven't changed.
use Facebook to find people in your classes
join professional groups in your field (doesn't have to be immediate)
Many RA's in freshman dorms organize IM teams; join one
go to hall council meetings, run for a council position if desired
Don't go to the welcome back parties at the begining of semesters your freshman year
At basketball games say hi the the idiot with the flag
Try to find classes on Main campus (not parkview) if at all possible, if not make sure to schedule about one hour before and after for travel time (45min at least)

Quote:Buy him a subscription to Broncoblitz.com

Please no, leave the man-child worship and reports on how many jockstrap adjustments that little Timmy Highschoolballer made in a game, to the middle aged crowd.