As expected, President Obama got in a few jokes while honoring the defending national champs.
A lot of things change when your team wins the national title. You get a giant trophy. You get a huge confetti party on national television. The way people describe your conference, your program, and even your state, changes. You can convince nearly 100,000 people, most of them paying, to attend one of your practices. And then, after all the t-shirts have been sold, the selfies snapped, and the stories told, you get to go to the White House to meet the president.