BYU vs. San Diego State

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to finally post this. Finals are about here so I've been stressing out a little. Last Saturday, December 1st, we were in San Diego to play our rescheduled game with San Diego State. The game was originally scheduled for October 27th (click here to see the earlier post on canceled game) .

We stayed in the Marriott Cornado Island Resort. Our buses kind of got in the way of my picture. Anyways, it was pretty nice.

This is the view from the right side of our balcony. You can see the bridge connecting Cornado Island to the main land. It was pretty rainy the whole time we were there.

This is the view from the left side of our balcony. Here you can see across the bay into downtown San Diego.

At the resort they had flamingos. They were fenced off in there own little area. The one on the right looks like it doesn't have a head.

Flamingos are cool because if they've got an itch on their back they can just use their head.

The stadium set up at Qualcomm is pretty tough on us managers. To give you an idea I took some pictures to show the trek we have to make just to get our stuff to the locker room. Keep in mind that we have to do this over and over again until all the team's equipment is in the locker room. First we have to push the crap up this ramp from where we park the diesel.

Then it's down a little curve...

Through another little hallway...

Then down a really long hallway...

That keeps going...

... past the Chargers' locker room...

... and keeps going...

...and going until you reach locker room C which happens to be ours.

They actually have us in the old Padres locker room. The Padres played here until Petco Park was built. Now they use this locker room for the visiting teams.

The only problem with that is a baseball team is usually only 20 to 30 guys so there are only about 30 lockers. We travel with 65 players, about 15 coaches, and a bunch of other people. It gets pretty crowded.

Here is the field at Qualcomm.

Here's me on the field at Qualcomm.

Finally the game... well, it wasn't much of a game. We won 48-27. We finished the season undefeated in conference and we're headed back to the Las Vegas Bowl for the third straight year. We'll have a rematch with UCLA on December 22nd. I guess we won't have to wait until next year to get our revenge on Ben Olson (click here and look at the end of this earlier post) .