Those players gone have a long start to the season with all those road trips. Hopefully they mentally ready. It's sad Valley have to go through that. No smack.
Gotta' do what you gotta' do but man it's sad that they travel for 2 consecutive months before a home game (conference game) in Jan, w/ the exhibition game the first home game.
Valley has a game Dec 1 in Spokane,WA and come back on the 15th to Seattle, WA. They should have scheduled those games a lot closer to cut down on the travel expenses. I'm sure they tried...well I hope they tried, but dang.