Tod Lanter blogs about Big Blue Madness and team camaraderie for CoachCal.com

The “In Their Own Words” series on CoachCal.com is back, this time with a behind-the-scenes look at Big Blue Madness from Tod Lanter. Lanter, who came out to Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack”, wrote that he wasn’t as nervous as he expected when he came up the lift to the stage for his first Big Blue Madness, 31 years after his dad was introduced in Memorial Coliseum at the first “Midnight Special.”

Tod also wrote about how he ended up at UK, what it was like in practice as the new guy last season, and how close the team is this year. It sounds like they’re all getting along just fine:

One of my favorite things about this team is just how close we all are. Everybody got here in the middle of the summer and we went to a movie like six hours after meeting everyone for the first time. It was just like a random group of strangers at the time who had just met, but we all felt so comfortable with each other. And it doesn’t matter who it is or what our role is on the team, we’re all friends. Like the other day, Brian, Julius, Andrew and I all went out and ate together. We don’t have a certain group of teammates that just hang out. We’ve literally done all kinds of different stuff with different kinds of people, and I think that’s important.

Read Tod’s blog entry here. Watch his Madness intro below.