First Owls arrived on campus a decade ago
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First Owls arrived on campus a decade ago
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At the time, it didn't seem so special.
It was the fall of 2000 and they were a bunch of 18-year-old Florida Atlantic freshmen who would be the foundation of FAU's new football program.
"I remember wondering if this was going to happen," said Yrvens Guerrier, one of the 24 recruits who composed the Owls' first signing class. "It was difficult to buy into."
From August through November, that first class, bolstered by walk-ons, would practice and scrimmage without playing a game.
There was no locker room and no weight room, as the Tom Oxley Athletic Center was under construction and would not be completed until January of 2001.
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Re: First Owls arrived on campus a decade ago
Did anyone here go to the attempted "all night" tailgate party in the west gym parking lot? Something only college kids could dream up, start a tailgate party at midnight and go for 8 hours until practice started. It only lasted an hour before the FAU cops broke it up, but not without a fight. When we rebutted that this was a tailgate party, and those were allowed on campus, they didn't know what to do, it was the first time they'd ever had to deal with it. We eventually got the police chief on the phone to get a final decision!
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