UNM Football Weekend Wrap Up

Pictures from this weekend's festivities have been uploaded. Check them out here.

The outfit leadership is very grateful of all the wonderful parent support we received this weekend. Without your efforts, we could not possibly put on the great barbecues or get the freshmen motivated for football weekends. We thank all of you who were able to attend the BBQ, march-in, and football game and encourage everyone to come back in two weeks to the next home game. As of now, the schedule for the 19 September Utah State game is the same with lunch at noon, first call at 3:45, step off at 4:30, and kick off at 6:00. Please help us make the next BBQ even better than yesterday's.

The BBQ chain would like to thank all those parents who kindly and selflessly donated either money or food. It is only because of your generosity that we can afford to put these events on without breaking the upperclassmen's bank accounts.

This week we will be starting to get into the meat of Corps training. The outfit will begin its Physical Training regimen with a diagnostic PT test to determine physical strengths and weaknesses so we can adjust the future PT plan to build and sustain excellent physical performance. We are going on a few Company Runs, as well, to build lung capacity and endurance. These runs also incorporate a significant amount of motivation...there's just something about long runs as an outfit in formation to the First Sergeant's "jodies" (songs to keep everyone in step and maintain cadence) that gets everyone psyched up and motivated. The freshmen will also here from the Fish Drill Team staff about joining the nationally famous FDT, something we encourage all motivated freshmen to get into. We will continue to perfect marching ability and begin football practices in preparation for the intramural season.

As mentioned before, this weekend will be a closed weekend to the freshmen, with mandatory study hours on Saturday and Sunday to prepare for the first round of tests in two weeks. Kelly Essler, the outfit's academic volunteer, will be having the fish out to her house on Saturday for dinner with her family. There, the fish will be able to unwind and relax and be able to interact with her and ask any questions they may have. We encourage all freshmen parents to urge their sons to take advantage of this rare opportunity that many other outfits do not have.

Once again, I would personally like to thank all of you for your help in making this first football weekend so memorable. Going into the weekend, it began to dawn on me that this is the seniors' last year of outfit BBQs as outfit members. After this year, we will go through Aggie football weekends as "Former Foxes." Once this realization set upon me, the entire weekend's activities, which I had taken for granted in the past, began to mean a little more. I want to thank all of you for helping make this weekend so successful for the outfit which, in turn, helped it mean so much more for us, seniors. We all look forward to the wonderful weekends in the future and look forward to your help in making them successful for the outfit.

Have a great week,
Thanks and Gig 'Em!