The Towson Tiger football team lost to Kent State Thursday night by a score of 41-21. If you are a fan of the Tigers, you already know that. You can't win football games when you turn the ball over six times especially when your opponent doesn't turn it over once.

But that game has been covered extensively here on TowsonTigers.com. I thought I would give you a glimpse of what goes on during a Tiger road trip.

The team and staff gathered at the Unitas Stadium field house at noon on Wednesday. Out of the four team buses, my broadcast partner Ron Meehan and I were assigned to bus #3. Ron has had a very tough time adjusting to the fact that he is on bus #3 as a broadcaster. As a Hall of Fame player at Towson, and as an assistant coach at Towson, he always road bus #1. During the course of the two-day trip, I reminded him at least a dozen times that he is no longer a bus #1 guy.

With any Towson football trip, you know things will run like clockwork because Jon Dahlquist is in charge. The Tigers' director of football operations is the best in the country, and that is not an exaggeration. We headed from Towson to BWI for our charter flight to Ohio. 

We left the airport and took the short trip to Dix Stadium. From what I can gather, the stadium is not really close to the main campus. Dix Stadium seats a little over 20 thousand. Its not a bad venue, but there is really nothing that stands out either.

A truck had left Towson on Tuesday, carrying all the football equipment and the players' and staff's luggage. That way, you don't have to check in any baggage and have an easy time on and off of the airplanes. We then headed to Cuyahoga Falls, which is where the team hotel was.

After settling in, the team dinner took place at 6:30 p.m. Following dinner, the team broke into offense and defense for their final meetings. Ron and I attended the offensive meeting, run by assistant Jared Ambrose. The point of a meeting like this is to basically go over all the defenses that the opponent could run. For those of us who are fans, sitting in that meeting the great Jim Mora's quote to the media from years ago kept going through my head - "You think you know, but you don't know, and you never will." Sit through a football team meeting, and that will make sense.

The following day, the team got an early breakfast, and then some time to relax before their afternoon team meal. As head coach Rob Ambrose told me at breakfast, night road games are the worst because there is too much sitting around waiting for the game.

Damon Lewis, Zach Maskavich and I did not have that problem. We left around 1:30 p.m. and headed to Dix Stadium. With our switch from radio to TowsonTigers.com, we have all new equipment, and this was our maiden voyage. After about two hours of testing, we were ready to go. Unfortunately it was only 4 p.m., and game time was 7 p.m.

I met with the Kent State SID to go over player pronunciations, and then with the Kent State radio people. We both kind of grilled each other on our respective teams. It's always good to get the opponents' point of view.

After the game, it was a quick getaway back to the airport. We took off a little after midnight, and landed at BWI a little after one. The buses were waiting, and we got back to Unitas Stadium around a quarter to two in the morning. Players had class the next day, and staff members had to be at work.

Don't forget to join me and Damon Lewis this Thursday from Bill Bateman's in Towson for Tiger Talk. We will be joined by head football coach Rob Ambrose and another Tiger head coach. The show starts at 6 p.m. If you can't make it out to Bateman's, you can hear Tiger Talk right here on TowsonTigers.com.