Nice Story About the Jump Around Guy, Rick Smith

[TallTitan34]

2008 Big East Tournament, I was in the band as a freshman.  A group of other frosh and I went to visit the "Hello Deli" which was popular on Letterman around that time.  We ran into a nice older (than us) couple in Marquette gear, and I knew I recognized them from somewhere.

It wasn't until they walked out that we realized it was Rick and Joan.  Sadly, there's no photo evidence.  Such a nice couple, though!

I remember during one of the MU games during the 2008 BET, they played Jump Around and he was shown jumping on the video boards throughout the song. 

[SaveOD238]

I can verify. IIRC, he had just grown the lip fuzz and we didn't recognize him at first because of it

You were one of the knuckleheads that didn't believe me!

[Jon]

Nice to see someone else ends up at the Computing Castle in a suit from work. I've had quite a few occasions where I have came directly from work and dressed "for work."

What's a suit??

You can always tell the Seattle or Portland guys in a mtg - they are in shorts and fleece. The ultimate stamp of NW haute couture is the legendary pairing of rag socks with Birkenstock or Keen sandals. A Classic Look.

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

never misses a beat, ey?  i wonder if MU tells him ahead of time when they are gonna do "the jump around"  what if he's in the stall droppin a groaner when they crank it up?  i wouldn't want to be the janitor for that section of rest rooms


but what the H-E-double hockey sticks-good on the guy!

Now THIS is imagery!

[Newsdreams]

Marquette has Engineering Alumni all over the world.  If you Google "Marquette Jump Around Guy" he has multiple videos, articles, blogs like Barstool, even a Facebook page (fallow).  If you see him on Fox, you might Google it.

You know this Chick as you are very involved with the Alumni but his company is large ($30 million in revenue) with projects in many states (municipal and private). 

Like a lot of service marketing like Fiserv, it just takes one or two big ticket sales to make a payout. His cost is free. Not only that, there are a lot of student engineers jumping with him thinking he'd be cool to work for.

So, yeah, I think national eyeballs provide a lot of exposure for him, whether he intended it or not.

A $30 million revenue for an engineering company is not huge by US standards.