We're delighted to be joined in this episode by Steve Book, one of four 2008 Coke Zero Dream Job Biggest College Hoops Fans in the Nation winners. We wouldn't be able to do it justice trying to describe what it exactly that experience was or how it came to be. You have to listen. Suffice to say it includes references to the IZZOne, the band The All-American Rejects, actor Tim Robbins, and a then-19-year-old newcomer Taylor Swift.
We covered a lot of territory with Book who is both a product of and currently a teacher in Rochester (MI) Community Schools. He discusses how he chose Michigan State University (Hint: Getting an up close look at the marching band entering the field.), how and why much of his childhood in the early-to-mid-1990s was spent in the old Tiger Stadium along the thirdbase line, attending the final game at the Stadium, Cecil Fielder, attending three consecutive Final Fours (2008-2010), his role as an IZZOne section leader, and the 2014 Rose Bowl against Stanford.
We even learn how one of his three children came to be named after a certain arena on the MSU campus.
