Thanks Mark, you are so gracious. Unfortunately, going to Kalamazoo is a little too far for my Carolina Coast family. We are definitely going to Wake Forest, though. Clemson fits my schedule, but not necessarily those of my 4 children. Its hard to justify 2 weeks in a row and over 12 hours of travel just to the closest games that my family would endure.
I've been fortunate to meet Pat twice, once in Myrtle Beach House of Blues, and actually Deansboro (south of Clinton on 12B) of all places, 10 years ago this year. (at an old dairy farm that had been owned by one of my grandmother's cousins.) Active duty at Bragg at the time, I flew back with my then girlfriend (the future Mrs. C Bomb) to attend the concert. I could not let Pat play a "holler" over from my ole stomping grounds and not go. When I told him that we came up from Bragg he mentioned that his brother was in the Air Force. It was so cool to see a Pat Green concert and then drive home on all the back roads to get home in less than 15 minutes.
Mrs. C Bomb and I danced to "Crazy" at our wedding a year later, a song that was so perfect for the moment that I couldn't ever fathom have using a different song. (Of course, I picked that song as my wedding song a full year before I even met my wife...)