Lincoln Riley Reveals New Airplane Improve for USC’s Grueling 7,298 Mile Journey Schedule

The USC Trojans enter week 3 with their first street contest and Big Ten convention matchup on the Purdue Boilermakers.

Traveling to the midwest with a big group, permitting a correct quantity relaxation and meals, insinuated some journey changes, per coach Lincoln Riley.

Alongside UCLA, Oregon and Washington, the Trojans are one among 4 west coast colleges within the 18 group convention that endure prolonged journeys for away Big Ten video games.

Riley provided insights to the media on how the group deliberate to accommodate a cushty type of journey, together with new type of transportation because of longer journey instances.

“We’ve changed the type of airplane that we’re in. It’s a little different when you’re, an hour and a half or an hour and 45 minutes flight, especially with the size of some of these guys. Then all of a sudden you’re on these planes for four, four and a half hours,” Riley said after Tuesday’s observe.

Last season, USC traveled a complete of 12,710 miles, averaging 2,542 miles per journey. The giant quantity comes from their street video games at Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland, Washington, and UCLA throughout city.

This season, USC travels 7,298 miles. And the group will likely be in type within the new airplane with a brand new consuming schedule and upgraded analysis on sleep.

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The silver lining to the Trojans schedule are not any back-to-back street video games, with every weekend’s journey being break up up with a house sport or a bye week. This season, the Trojans journey to Purdue, Illinois, Nebraska, Notre Dame and Oregon.

For operating again Waymond Jordan, the Hutchinson Community College product, a season within the Big Ten with a loaded touring schedule is model new to him, however appears to be like ahead to touring by air moderately than bus.

“Excited just to play my first big 10 game. Also excited to be able to fly to a game, obviously, in college,” Jordan stated after Tuesday’s observe. “So that’s gonna be greater than me for the most part. We bust everywhere. We flew to one game that was the national playoff game.”

USC’s new routine of touring additionally performs into their observe schedule, and affect from their teaching workers.

For quarterback Jayden Maiava, having energy and conditioning coach Trumain Carroll aside of the group has inspired Maiava and his teammates to make the most of wholesome habits to correctly get better.

“Every time he has an opportunity to go out there, like with me, every Sunday, because we have like that. Monday’s off. It’s just a big academic day,” Maiava stated after Tuesday’s observe. “So they’ll ask almost all the players ‘what is your recovery going to look like for Monday?’ So he keeps us accountable each and every day, day in, day out.”

What Riley additionally emphasised was prioritizing sleep for gamers, ensuring they’re permitting sufficient relaxation in between meals and observe on the street.

“We’ve made a couple changes in that, a couple changes in the schedule, kind of timing of eating, timing of what time we put them in the bed,” Riley continued. “We’ve done a lot of research on sleep, and we haven’t changed anything drastically from a sleep standpoint.”