Monroe, La. – Playing
a day game on the road always feels a little strange. The pregame meal that
everyone is used to consists of salad, baked chicken, pasta, some sort of veggies
and rolls.
But when it’s a day game,
that meal is replaced by scrambled eggs, potatoes, breakfast meets and bagels.
Everyone tends to look a little sleepier for those pregame meals, too.
Monroe is also a little
different from most of the towns that the team visits. I’m not sure the players
always know where they are, because they spend their time in airports, hotels
and arenas with little time to explore. Usually, though, they at least can walk
to a grocery store to pick up snacks.
The hotel we stay at in
Monroe is across the street from the Ike Hamilton Exposition Center and a John
Deere dealership. There is virtually nothing else around (aside from a nice
running trail that the coaches have used), so the players tend to hang out in
the rooms studying and watching quality television. I hear Jersey Shore is
particularly popular with some of the players, as well as the others who like
to make fun of Jersey Shore.
The Ag Expo is being held
across the street, and the team shared the hotel with the Louisiana Cattlemen’s
and Cattlewomen’s Associations.
Today’s game is on the Sun
Belt Network and tape delayed on FSN Rocky Mountain tonight at 9 p.m. MT.
Unfortunately the team
will be unable to watch that tape delay, but only because we are heading back
to Denver this evening, which I am sure all of us are happy about.
Yearly travel totals:
Total Flights
– 9
Total Mileage Flown – 6,851
Total Bus Miles
– 977
Total Number of Hotels – 6
Total Number of Different Airports – 7
Total Number of Airline Delays – 0
Total Number of Cancelled Flights – 0
Total Number of Bags Lost This Year – 0
Total Number of Water Glasses Dumped on Mitch Hyder’s
Lap at Dinner Last Night – 4
Total Number of Dead Opossums that Assistant Coach Jon Jordan Saw on His Run in Monroe – 1
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