The Road to the Final Four Starts
The Road to the Final Four doesn’t start in October when practice starts, suprisingly it starts at 5 in the morning in the parking lot of the Hospitality Office at Lynn University. That is when 12 students and 2 faculty members, Professor Ted Curtis and Dr. Charles Barr, met to head to the Fort Lauderdale Airport. Our flight left at 7:30 and we got to Houston, Texas at 9:30, then flew to Austin 30 minutes later and landed another 30 minutes later.
When we got to Austin, we headed to the University of Texas to have a lunch meeting with the Women’s Athletic Director, Chris Plonsky. She showed us the football facilities. We saw just about everything. We saw the suites, the weight room, the players lounge, training facility, and trophy room. Their facilities are top notch.
After the football facilities, we went to the Texas Swimming Center. This is also top notch. We watched a couple of people practicing their dives. That was really cool. After that we went and toured the Frank C. Erwin, Jr., Special Events Center, which hosts all men’s and women’s basketball games, an arena football team, concerts, and many other events. The film room for the teams looks like a movie theatre, and the practice courts are top notch. Not only do they have the college 3-point line, but also the NBA 3-point line in order to allow guys who were thinking about going to the next level could practice.
From the Erwin Center, we went to the UFCU Disch-Falk Field, the home of the Longhorn baseball team. They are currently renovating the grand stand. The suites are top notch, as is the lockerroom. We then watched the Texas-Rice baseball game. The first 2 plays were pop flys to left field, which the left fielder proceeded to drop both of them. We left after the 2nd inning and came to the hotel. The 3 girls are in 1 room, Professor Curtis are in 2 seperate rooms. 1 guy has a single, and I’m rooming with Michael Woo, who if you followed the Lynn University Fighting Knight basketball season know, is on the basketball team.
Well, tomorrow, we get to San Antonio and I will write tomorrow about it. Talk to you later.
Gene
