Cal's Stupid Travel Plans

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#26
milohimself said:
Meaning they've also experienced the humidity. I used to experience it every summer with a trip to the Miami valley of Ohio, about 100+ degrees outside and air you could eat. I've also been to Disneyworld in early August. That was thick.
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I agree that many of them have probably been exposed to it somewhere. However, that doesn't really help them get used to playing a football game in it. In addition, as a transplanted Southerner now living in bone dry Phoenix, Arizona, I can tell you that even if you grew up used to the extremely high humidity, once you get used to lower humidity it's harder to deal with the higher humidity when you go back.
 
#27
#27
GAVol said:
Maybe they can handle the travel well, but my question is why would you not come in a day earlier or at least early on Friday and just eliminate jet lag from the equation?
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I know some people who can't shake jetlag in a week.
 
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Vol423 said:
I agree that many of them have probably been exposed to it somewhere. However, that doesn't really help them get used to playing a football game in it. In addition, as a transplanted Southerner now living in bone dry Phoenix, Arizona, I can tell you that even if you grew up used to the extremely high humidity, once you get used to lower humidity it's harder to deal with the higher humidity when you go back.
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Moved to Flagstaff last July from Knoxville. Visited Knoxville in Dec. of '05 ... almost died.
 
#30
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GAVol said:
Maybe they can handle the travel well, but my question is why would you not come in a day earlier or at least early on Friday and just eliminate jet lag from the equation?
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As I stated before, due to the time of the game, I don't think it will be in the equation. It would one thing if the game was being played at 10:00 am EST, or 7:00 am PST. However, playing the game late in the afternoon means that they'll just be playing a game early in the afternoon. That's not unusual.
 
#31
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Vol423 said:
I was about to make a similar post, but decided to wait. In general, I find that people out West tend to travel a lot more than people in the South.
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We travel in the South. We go to town and everything. geez, I figured you knew that.

But honestly. The folks out West have more of a reason to travel to the South. It's the South! :dance:
 
#32
#32
milohimself said:
I know some people who can't shake jetlag in a week.
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Me too, and I think it's rather comical to not be able to shake jetlag in a week's time.

For jetlag to be an issue in this game, the game would have to be played early in the morning. Since it isn't being played early in the morning, I see no issue here.
 
#33
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VolBeef88 said:
We travel in the South. We go to town and everything. geez, I figured you knew that.

But honestly. The folks out West have more of a reason to travel to the South. It's the South! :dance:
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The reason I didn't originally make my post was that I didn't want anyone to take it out of context and get offended by it. There are lots of people in the South that travel all over the place. However, as a general rule, I find that people out West tend to travel more. For instance, when I lived in Tennessee and North Carolina, I knew a lot of people that had never been out of the state, or they had been out of state only to go to the beach in Virginia or South Carolina. You don't find many people like that out West. In Phoenix, almost everyone that lives here is from somewhere else. It's very difficult to find anyone that was born and raised here.
 
#34
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Vol423 said:
The reason I didn't originally make my post was that I didn't want anyone to take it out of context and get offended by it. There are lots of people in the South that travel all over the place. However, as a general rule, I find that people out West tend to travel more. For instance, when I lived in Tennessee and North Carolina, I knew a lot of people that had never been out of the state, or they had been out of state only to go to the beach in Virginia or South Carolina. You don't find many people like that out West. In Phoenix, almost everyone that lives here is from somewhere else. It's very difficult to find anyone that was born and raised here.
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There was no need my friend. No need at all.
 
#37
#37
VolBeef88 said:
No need to travel out of state. When you live in Tennessee you are living in God's Country.
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:post-4-1090547912: I like Tennessee a lot, and I have tons of family in and around the Nashville area, but I've lived a lot of places in my life and Phoenix is by far my favorite place that I've ever lived.
 
#38
#38
VolinArizona said:
Moved to Flagstaff last July from Knoxville. Visited Knoxville in Dec. of '05 ... almost died.
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Speaking of Flagstaff, did you hear that NAU played ASU really tough last night? The final score was 35-14, but they were still tied at 14-14 entering the fourth quarter.
 
#39
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Vol423 said:
:post-4-1090547912: I like Tennessee a lot, and I have tons of family in and around the Nashville area, but I've lived a lot of places in my life and Phoenix is by far my favorite place that I've ever lived.
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You have apparently spent way too much time in the sun. You need a nice glass of sweet iced tea and some green stuff to look at, so you will snap back to your senses.
 
#40
#40
VolBeef88 said:
You have apparently spent way too much time in the sun. You need a nice glass of sweet iced tea and some green stuff to look at, so you will snap back to your senses.
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You can get the green stuff if you drive up to Flagstaff. It's about 150 miles north of Phoenix, it's at 7,000 elevation and in the middle of the nation's largest Ponderosa pine forest.

I really miss the sweet tea, though. While working at a client's office on the West side of town, I ate at Cracker Barrel twice last week, so I was able to score some sweet tea, country ham, fried okra and fried apples. Cracker Barrell is as southern as food gets out here unless you hit my mom's place. I really miss great barbecue out here too. There was a really good barbecue place in Scottsdale for a while. The couple that owned it were from Tennessee, and the barbecue was really good. They had both Tennessee and North Carolina barbecue. Their business closed early this year. I was absolutely appalled.
 
#41
#41
OrangeSquare said:
From a Cal reporter's blog:
Coach Tedford believes in 'business trips" where he flies in as late as possible on Friday. He is keeping the team on West Coast Time and therefore has a wakeup call around 9:30 a.m. on Saturday. The team always practices beginning at 4 p.m. and Saturday's game will begin at 2:30 p.m. West Coast Time, so that won't be much of a change. Jay
Jay Heater 8/31/06


I think that is a HUGE mistake for Cal. I would want to get here on Thursday and get them used to the time change, and let them rest from the flight.
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lets not call it stupid until we actually beat them. Otherwise, everyone monday will be talking about how smart it was.....:ermm:
 
#43
#43
Vol423 said:
I agree that many of them have probably been exposed to it somewhere. However, that doesn't really help them get used to playing a football game in it. In addition, as a transplanted Southerner now living in bone dry Phoenix, Arizona, I can tell you that even if you grew up used to the extremely high humidity, once you get used to lower humidity it's harder to deal with the higher humidity when you go back.
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I grew up in the Knoxville area, and am still living here now, but I lived for a year in Phoenix while attending school. Let me just say, when I came home for christmas and stepped off the plane, I nearly suffocated! You don't realize how bad it is until you get used to something else.
 
#44
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MrOrange said:
I grew up in the Knoxville area, and am still living here now, but I lived for a year in Phoenix while attending school. Let me just say, when I came home for christmas and stepped off the plane, I nearly suffocated! You don't realize how bad it is until you get used to something else.
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I know precisely what you're talking about, and it's even worse in the summer. I can actually feel the humidity enter the plane when they open the door to the airplane. My parents, who grew up in Georgia and Tennessee, always joke that they never knew that humidity came in single digits until we moved to Arizona. We had 3% humidity one day this summer, but we have humidity in the single digits most days of the summer until the monsoon season begins.
 
#45
#45
What is the weather supposed to be in knoxville on Saturday. It has been relatively comfortable in MT this week.
 
#47
#47
I think they are going to be fine. It's not like they are coming over from China and they have a game when people at home would be sleeping. The game, being at 2:30 Cal time, isn't actually at such a bad time. If Coach Tedford decided to tell his team that practice was 2:30 instead of 4, I doubt they would care.

The only thing i question is why come so late?
 
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