UTC Mocs logoWhen you think of combinations that don’t often mix well, jocks and cops typically are up there with liver and ice cream, Chuck Fleischmann and Weston Wamp, Alabama and Auburn.
So were you to inform any University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s basketball fan that 15 members of the Mocs had been seen in the company of 15 of our city’s finest policemen and firefighters under the cover of darkness, the fan’s first response might be “Oh, no.”
Yet there were UTC coach Will Wade’s mighty ones Friday at the wholly un-student-friendly hour of 5:30 a.m., waging remarkably friendly competition atop Scrappy Moore Field against those who serve and protect us.
“Chattanooga’s team against Chattanooga’s team,” said Greg Goldin, the UTC associate director of athletic performance who dreamed up these diabolical and debilitating strength and agility drills guaranteed to wobble winner and loser alike.
“We’d like to make this a yearly event for charity. We’d like to do something to recognize the people who put their lives on the line for us every day.”