Meet ‘Tribe’ Chief Seth McGuinness
JASON PALMER | Staff Reporter

Freshman Seth McGuinness may be the loneliest organizational president at MSU.
He is the president of “The Tribe”. You remember, the supposed student cheering section that was intended to revolutionize the way support for the basketball teams was dished out.
Seth is doing well by himself. He stands alone (for the most part) in the second section across from the visitor's bench at D.L. Ligon, proudly wearing his “Tribe” shirt, exhausting his lungs and turning his hands red from clapping.
Still, he looks very out of place in the sea of students who sit on their hands for most of the game and quietly chat with their friends.
I guess you could say that he's unfortunately ignorant enough to not know that just sitting there is the status quo.
But that kind of youthful ignorance is exactly what MSU needs.
His energy isn't wasted or ignored. It is just a tradition that he brought to MSU from home. To say that Seth was spirited in high school would be a vast understatement. He graduated from Mansfield H.S., south of Fort Worth .
In case you are wondering, they're girls basketball team took FOUR CONSECUTIVE State titles.
“Everyone was at those games,” McGuinness said. “I played soccer and everyone went to those games. We had a hockey team and probably had the best support over any of the other teams.”
The “Tribe” showed up in force at one game last semester. I guess they've all been herded to some reservation.
“I've preached to the guys in Pierce Hall about wearing the ‘Tribe' shirts from last semester,” McGuinness said.
He'd settle for a group of students just wearing maroon.
And for those of you that are annoyed of lonely Seth standing in front of you…get ready for a lot more of that.
He is recruiting people to be strategically standing in other areas of the student section side, perhaps causing the opposite of a domino effect. Pockets of standing students could cause (gasp!) everyone to stand.
The invitation for solid support goes far beyond the organizational meetings the Tribe will host.
What about the sororities and the fraternities?
I had a cute little Gamma Phi Beta come up to me the other day at a game and ask me to take pictures of her and her sisters and write about how they were sooooo supportive because they were all there.
Whatever your name was…this column was your chance for positive recognition. And trust me, I would have written so many good words about you that the other sororities would be gealous.
But no, you and your “sisters” failed to do anything worthy of note (i.e. standing, chanting) AND then left at half time. You left. Unbelievable.
Guys and girls alike…where is the kind of standing, yelling, Greek lettered flag waving support there was during football season.
I know that you sit together with your organizations, why not try to be a little more vocal.
Heck, perhaps you could even buy one of those “Tribe” shirts or even design your own. All the Greeks have designed shirts for every event they could imagine. Maybe an MSU Athletic Supporter (all jokes aside) would be a spark plug.
Just imagine. The Kappa Sigmas come to the next game and are loud. Very loud. Then the Phi Sigs try to be louder.
What are you guys scared of? Ridicule?
Back to Tribe Chief McGuinness, who is working on NCAA subsidizing for more shirts, supplies, prizes and anything else he can think of to get people excited.
Perhaps his visions are too grandiose to ever realize at MSU. But he's just a freshman and has 3 more years to keep trying.

Lady Indians swing into gear JASON PALMER | Staff Reporter The sweet ping of an aluminum softball bat echoed across a diamond in Burkburnett on a frigid morning last week as 14 girls prepare to do something never attempted in MSU history. Field a softball team. The Lady Indians held a team scrimmage in preparation for the Texas A&M Kingsville Spring Festival starting this Saturday. The two-day tourney will pit MSU against some of the toughest teams in the region. Head Coach Brady Tigert is fairly familiar with Kingsville . He spent the past three seasons as head coach and compiled an overall record of 110-54. “They have good facilities and warm weather,” Tigert said. “It's going to be tough, every team will be ready to get our and play against a different team.” The Lady Indians played an abbreviated schedule of scrimmages in the Fall, going 10-2-1 and look forward to the season opener.