Originally Posted by
The Historian
We're putting more money in baseball but not that much more.
After beating UL-Lafayette last week we bused at the crack of dawn to New Orleans to catch a flight to Charlotte to then bus 4 hours to Beckley, West Virginia where we were playing Marshall. We had travel delays on the return trip and then looked flat as a pancake on Tuesday night. I've heard one story that said we practiced on Monday and another that said we did not.
Then we bused to Bowling Green from Ruston on Thursday. What was supposed to be a 10 hour bus ride plus a stop for a meal in Alabama turned into about a 13 hour bus ride after being stuck in traffic for more than 2 hours where the bus didn't move. We got in late into Bowling Green and the decision was made not to practice, which would have ended around midnight.
We gave up a homerun to the WKU's first batter of the game (I think it was the first) and it was all down hill from there.
As the parent of one of our players told me earlier this season 'if we could take charter flights to just a few select series it would make a huge difference. Not even a jet. A 50-seat prop plane would work just fine'.
I think these 2 series would have been good candidates.