For Penn State, playing a regular-season game on the West Coast is not as simple as just hopping on a plane on a Friday afternoon. “We’re studying what they’re doing in the NFL.' The logistics of getting the Nittany Lions to USC.
Penn State will face some logistical hurdles in the new-look Big Ten.
“We will be able to get out of here, that I’m pretty confident in,” Kraft said. “The equipment is the thing we don’t really have an answer for right now.”For regular-season games, Penn State football charters a smaller plane that leaves from the University Park Airport. The equipment truck is loaded Thursday morning with everything players wear from head to toe, plus headsets, Gatorade, rain gear and anything the team may need.
“It’s miserable to fly equipment,” Caldwell said. “Myself and some student managers were literally under the plane in the cargo hold. We rode the conveyor belt up and you’re hauling trunks too, not just bags, but sideline trunks, and to make them fit you have to flip them and turn them upside down. Then, you have to make sure the weight in the plane is all balanced so you’re shifting stuff around.
Days later LaBarca’s bag was found back in Harrisburg buried underneath a stack of moving blankets that had fallen over while unloading the truck at the airport.Still, the thought of traveling coast to coast during a regular-season game week is practically unheard of for the road warriors who have driven football equipment for a living.
While the Big Ten’s football opponents are known for 2024 and 2025, the dates for those games have yet to be announced. Who Penn State, or anyone in the conference, plays the week after a West Coast trip — and whether that game is home or away — will be another key detail.
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