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Haywood hopes Miami can avoid tedious travel
By Pete Conrad
After a pretty grim bus ride to the northern suburbs of Chicago last weekend, coach Michael Haywood is taking no chances with his Miami RedHawks and this weekend’s game at Ohio University.
“After that 8-hour, 18-minute ride over to Chicago last week, we’re going to make sure we leave earlier,” Haywood said today during his weekly press conference. “We’ll make sure we don’t get stuck in Columbus. We’re going to make sure in our scheduling process that we’re going to miss (heavy) traffic.”
The RedHawks flew to Boise, Idaho earlier this season. That trip must have seemed like a lark to the RedHawks compared to the much shorter (in distance) trip to Chicago. The team was bottled up in its bus for almost 3 hours just in the Chicago area.
Part of the problem was unbelievably heavy traffic — I spent almost 2 hours moving 2 miles on I-90/I-94 in the south side of Chicago myself last Friday evening, maybe within honking distance of the team bus. Nope, didn’t see Big Bad Leroy Brown.
Part of the problem for Miami was the bus. It was too tall for some of the underpasses leading to the team’s hotel. I heard that took about an extra 40 minutes.
Under good conditions, it normally takes about 6 hours to get to Evanston. But driving conditions are seldom good around Chicago.
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