Blue and Gold and Grad

Not to belabor that whole gutless/gutty thing from yesterday, but the old (80s) nickname for the Bruin football program was the "gutty little Bruins"... well, here's some great info re: the blue and gold...

After the 07-08 school year, we now have 103 NCAA Team National Championships. In the last six years, we've won 17 championships, more than anyone else in the country. The 17 were won in eleven different programs (only three programs won multiple NCs: both Women's Gymnastics and Softball went back-to-back in 03 and 04; Women's Water Polo has won FIVE National Championships in the last six years [uh, Coach Krikorian... what HAPPENED in 04?... oh, that's right, you coached the Men's Water Polo team to a National Championship... all's forgiven!]). Now if that wasn't amazing enough, here's the killer stat:

In those same six years, Bruin squads have finished in second place THIRTEEN TIMES... we were that close to having THIRTY National Championships in the last six years

... no wonder those trojies hate us.


Other news:

Yesterday, Kyle graduated ... er, was promoted from Junior High School:

Though he still has one more day at EO Green (go figure), he's a high schooler now!

[note: while I was thankful there wasn't a tribute to the fallen Larry King, I was also amazed (and not in a good way) that there was no mention at all of the tragedy. And given what I heard from a teacher on campus (that the teachers have been told not to talk about the incident, not even amongst themselves in an attempt to heal after the trauma), I'm wondering how much of this is just some lame attempt by the district to cover its ass WRT any upcoming lawsuits... is this another reason why the completely inept principal is being kept on (with any firing/reassignment being seen as an implicit statement that all wasn't done that could have been done)?]