The Aggies are 5-1 overall and alone atop the Big Sky conference at 3-0, having already matched their overall and league win totals for all of 2017.
The turnaround in the second year of the Dan Hawkins era may not be complete, but it is certainly rolling down the tracks at a high rate of speed.
Hawkins, of course, will have none of the praise or hype associated with the Aggies’ solid start.
While he’s excited to see stadium seats full — and the grassy berms above both end zones packed with fans and families — he knows there’s much work to be done.
“Anyone who thinks they’re in the catbird’s seat is delusional,” he says.
“There’s a lot of football left to be played and any one of the five teams remaining is capable of beating us.”
In the catbird seat was among the numerous folksy expressions that legendary baseball broadcaster Red Barber used to delight listeners. Some say he invented the expression; others say that he dug it up from his Southern origins. But the truth may be far stranger than those rumors. In a 1942 short story titled "The Catbird Seat," James Thurber featured a character, Mrs. Barrows, who liked to use the phrase. Another character, Joey Hart, explained that Mrs. Barrows must have picked up the expression from Red Barber. To Red, according to Joey, sitting in the catbird seat meant 'sitting pretty,' like a batter with three balls and no strikes on him. But, according to Barber's daughter, it was only after Barber read Thurber's story that he started using "in the catbird seat" himself.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catbird%20seat
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