Last night at the women’s basketball game, the YMCA Guy was spotted wearing a walking cast on his left foot. Sources tell me Ryan J. Boyd has a broken ankle. How this affects his role in tonight’s game against Rutgers — or, for that matter, how it affects the game in general — is not known. He was walking without crutches and appeared to be moving with promising ease, so let’s not rule him out just yet.

Now, before you dismiss me with disdain, please know I’m not joking around here. First, I think what he does is great for the Coliseum experience. Seriously, he gets people excited to do the YMCA. Look at that crowd! Second, and perhaps most important, is that I remember making a note late that one evening that for the first time in as long as I can remember, RJB did not dance in the loss to Cincinnati. You now how well that went.  

Get well soon, YMCA Guy…