Homecoming at El Cid: The Citadel will host a pep-rally/bon-fire on the Washington Light Infantry Field, (for those of you who’ve forgotten your “Knob Knowledge”) WLI Field is the soccer field down by the boat-house. The rally begins @ 5:30 pm or 17:30 for you military-types, with pep-talks from El Cid’s Prez, General Rosa, football Coach Kevin Higgins and basketball Coach Ed Conroy. The “Q’s” (Regimental band and pipes) will perform from Indian Hill and the bon-fire will be ablaze around 7:15 pm. Indeed, the Citadel is starting their Homecoming Weekend a day early, but they are doing so to recognize this country’s Veterans (especially those who served during WWII) on Veteran’s Day. (Click here for parking map)
Ed Conroy begins his tenure at McAlister Field House
Friday night, the Bulldogs open their basketball season against Ohio Valley tip-off is @ 7:05 pm. Ticket prices are $10, but for this very special evening a canned or non-“perishable” food item for donation to the Low Country Food Bank or your ticket for Saturday’s football game against VMI will get you in for free. Citadel graduate and cousin to Ed Conroy (the Citadel’s basketball coach) Pat Conroy, along with teammates from “their losing season” (1966-1967), will be at McAlister Field House to sign Pat’s book My Losing Season. Autographs are free to those with tickets to the basketball game. Granted the Bushido is affiliated (read: graduate) with the Citadel’s cross-town-rivals, I do respect and encourage the exciting changes Coach Conroy is making with the Bulldog program. Obviously, basketball and a flare for creative writing (see Coach Conroy’s blog) are ingrained into the Conroy DNA, but Ed Conroy is doing something revolutionary with the Citadel basketball team-he is involving them with the Corps and he built them a tough schedule. Coach Conroy (as mentioned during his interview on “The Dog-Pound” last night) is reaching across that great-gray divide between the Corps of Cadets and the Corps Squad Athletes by bringing in cadets to practice with the basketball team on Fridays. Will the Citadel be contenders against out of conference teams such as Michigan State, Southern Cal (USC), South Carolina (USC), Notre Dame, and Iowa? Probably not, but their team will become better as they play better teams, making themselves and the SoCon better. By the way, all of those non-conference games are away-games except for the game against the Gamecocks that game will be played at McAlister Field House. (Click here for the Bulldog’s Basketball Schedule)
The Silver Shako
The Bulldogs welcome the VMI Keydets to Johnson-Hagood Stadium on Saturday @ 2pm for a battle between the two military schools for the coveted Silver Shako (a “Napoleonic-cover” or hat worn by both schools in dress parade cast in silver) trophy. Despite getting off to a good start by winning their opener against Davidson, VMI comes to Charleston having dropped eight-straight games. After losing to App. State last week 42-13, the Citadel is 3-6, but fear not Homecoming attendees, the Bulldogs have won their last two home games, beating Western Carolina 30-27 in OT and upsetting Georgia Southern 27-24. After watching the Bulldogs in action, the Bushido predicts that the knobs will have to continue shining the (humidity and salt-water) tarnish off the Silver Shako for another year! Go Bulldogs!
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