I am just wondering who went on the road trip to Notre Dame/Illinois/Duke. Did the whole team go or did they take 8 or nine players. The traveling squad would give us an indication of where the coaches are projecting some of the players for the future.

I hope the AG's don't overlook ND to look ahead to the Illini. This should be a wonderful test for the team and I look forward to seeing the results.

Based on who played this last week, here's who I would say you could expect to have traveled:

Lester, Ante, Dakki, Khaled, Joelson, Wooten, and Zach. I would expect that probably 2 more of Loucks, Nallon, and Rolle would also travel.

It was interesting that Rolle didn't play at all on Monday. His results looked pretty good in the fall and I was really looking forward to getting to see him play.

word is that rolle is still hurt, or at least still nursing his injury. neither he nor supenko made the trip.

Loucks is taking a medical redshirt. Bain is redshirting. Rolle will not be playing this Spring.

I am not sure that Rolle will not play this spring. That issue is very much up in the air.

What happened to Loucks? Didn't he play some in the fall? Can you redshirt even if you do play in the fall?

What were the injuries? They must have been serious to keep them out the entire season.

doc: That is the same question I have had. I will try to find out the answer. Matt mentioned it to me Monday, but I did not follow up with what effect his playing the fall would have on all this. I suspect Matt could go if needed, but with our depth this year we have a number of options.

A medical redshirt is allowed in the middle of a season to save eligibility when a player is out for medical reasons. Matt has had 2 operations on his sinus cavities to help with alergies and improve his breathing. He is still not breathing well enough to play competitive tennis and needs more time to heal.

Those that travelled were Lester, Ante, Dakki, Khaled, Joelson, Wooten, and Nallon for sure. Have not heard of an eigth man yet.

[This message has been edited by Ags40luv (edited 1/24/2004 5:21p).]

Zach is the eigth man on the travel squad this trip.