Some things have changed. Some things haven't. Last year on an expedition to Tuscaloosa I learned the following:

1. If there's a football game going on, not only are open containers OK, setting up a fully stocked temporary bar is encouraged.

2. There's no need to go to the game. If you look closely at the picture above you'll note that the girls are watching satellite TV on a flat panel in the middle of the Quad. Holy crap.

3. Need to make a beer run? No problem, there's a Publix on campus. Not kidding.

4. The tradition of theft and prank is still around. An inebriated undergrad stole the Alabama helmet from the set of ESPN's Game Day right in front of me and about 100 other people (including the idiots at ESPN). When the police showed up 5 minutes later, a co-ed was heard to say to the officer, beer in hand mind you, "I don't know him, I don't date him no more."

5. The girls have somehow gotten younger. They appear to have been born about the time we were starting high school. We are 5 years away from becoming our parents.