At drills: low-pH rejoinders, then eyes closed in the Gatorade pavilion

texture · 9 Nov YDAU, morning

• When: 9 Nov YDAU, the morning drill rotation after the I-Day weekend.
• What: The corpus's one close-up of Watson at his actual job. He works the second drill court (forehands, taped target squares): "Stice consistently misses the square and gets a low-pH rejoinder from Tex Watson, hatless and pattern-balding at twenty-seven" — the scene's only physical description of him, and the acid register of his coaching in one adjective. By the session's later stretch he is furniture: "The other male prorectors are drinking cones of Gatorade, clustered in the little pavilion, feet up on patio-chairs, Dunkel's and Watson's eyes closed."