Eagle Equipment Hits the Road for Idaho
9/21/2015 4:42:00 PM | Football
Dedicated team to make 40-hour drive
STATESBORO, Ga. - As with any road football game, a dedicated group of workers will head out ahead of time to make sure everything is set up and ready for when the team arrives into town for the game. But when that destination is three time zones away, everything changes.
The Georgia Southern football team will fly out of Savannah on Thursday for its game at Idaho this Saturday, but at 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Adam Brooks and Roger Inman will begin the nearly 40-hour drive to Moscow in an equipment truck to ensure the team is ready to roll when it lands in Lewiston at 9:30 p.m. Pacific Time Thursday evening.
"You just have to be organized and make sure you pack everything you can that you're going to need for a trip like this," Brooks said. "It's magnified when we have another road trip next week to Monroe, so you have to pack double and make sure anything and everything you might need is there when the team gets there because there's not any way to fly things the day of the game."
Going on the Eagle-themed truck will be all of the coach trunks featuring their game-day clothes, plus uniforms, and various pieces of extra equipment like stationary bikes and other training equipment. The players' bags, which will include shoulder pads and helmets, will go on the plane because the team still has to practice three times before heading out.
Brooks said there's no set goal for each day in terms of distance traveled, as long as they get there by Thursday afternoon. He figures if he an Inman tag-team and can get in 18 hours driving a day, they'll make their goal.
According to Google Maps, there are three routes the duo could take, but the shortest and most direct has them traveling 2,622 miles from the Ted Smith Family Football Center to the Kibbie Dome. That route would take them through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, clipping Wyoming, Montana and into Idaho, although alternate routes could take them through Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi to the south or Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota to the north.
Brooks said he wasn't sure of which route they'll take, but promises it'll be "the shortest one."
Following the game, Brooks will hop on the team plane back to Georgia while Inman will drive the truck straight to Monroe for next Saturday's game at ULM, a 32-hour, 2,224-mile drive. He'll take a lot of the clothes and loops and get them washed locally while Brooks will wash the uniforms back in Statesboro.
Following the Eagles' game on Oct. 3 at ULM, the truck crew will have an "easy" 10-hour ride back to Statesboro and will have earned the off week as much as any player who suits up in these two games.
Be sure to check out @GSAthletics_FB on Twitter for updates on the duo's drive to Idaho and be sure to give them a wave, or buy them a cup of coffee, if you see the truck headed west on I-90.
The Georgia Southern football team will fly out of Savannah on Thursday for its game at Idaho this Saturday, but at 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Adam Brooks and Roger Inman will begin the nearly 40-hour drive to Moscow in an equipment truck to ensure the team is ready to roll when it lands in Lewiston at 9:30 p.m. Pacific Time Thursday evening.
"You just have to be organized and make sure you pack everything you can that you're going to need for a trip like this," Brooks said. "It's magnified when we have another road trip next week to Monroe, so you have to pack double and make sure anything and everything you might need is there when the team gets there because there's not any way to fly things the day of the game."
Going on the Eagle-themed truck will be all of the coach trunks featuring their game-day clothes, plus uniforms, and various pieces of extra equipment like stationary bikes and other training equipment. The players' bags, which will include shoulder pads and helmets, will go on the plane because the team still has to practice three times before heading out.
Brooks said there's no set goal for each day in terms of distance traveled, as long as they get there by Thursday afternoon. He figures if he an Inman tag-team and can get in 18 hours driving a day, they'll make their goal.
According to Google Maps, there are three routes the duo could take, but the shortest and most direct has them traveling 2,622 miles from the Ted Smith Family Football Center to the Kibbie Dome. That route would take them through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, clipping Wyoming, Montana and into Idaho, although alternate routes could take them through Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi to the south or Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota to the north.
Brooks said he wasn't sure of which route they'll take, but promises it'll be "the shortest one."
Following the game, Brooks will hop on the team plane back to Georgia while Inman will drive the truck straight to Monroe for next Saturday's game at ULM, a 32-hour, 2,224-mile drive. He'll take a lot of the clothes and loops and get them washed locally while Brooks will wash the uniforms back in Statesboro.
Following the Eagles' game on Oct. 3 at ULM, the truck crew will have an "easy" 10-hour ride back to Statesboro and will have earned the off week as much as any player who suits up in these two games.
Be sure to check out @GSAthletics_FB on Twitter for updates on the duo's drive to Idaho and be sure to give them a wave, or buy them a cup of coffee, if you see the truck headed west on I-90.
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