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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Southern tries to reduce distractions
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- As it turns out, Saturday’s 34-7 win against Texas Southern truly was a homecoming for the Southern Jaguars. They spent the previous night out of town. On Friday evening, while their friends and fans enjoyed the festivities in Baton Rouge, SU’s coaches and players were about an hour away, staying at a hotel in Lafayette.
As linebacker Anthony Balancier put it, that left them with one thing to do. “Get sleep,” he said. And that was the point. With the host of distractions included in a packed calendar of events during homecoming weekend, interim coach Dawson Odums felt it best to make an escape.
“It’s just a way to get them isolated and have our meetings and really just jell together, have our walk-through and cut down on distractions,” he said. “Being (on campus) on a Friday night during homecoming, I could imagine they would have never gotten any sleep in the dorm.”
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