While Griff stood beside bus no 1, checking off each player as they entered the bus, Math Professor James Bond walked down the hill and assured Griff that he would have the two tackles at the Sac Valley stadium before the game began. "Time passes quickly in Professor Bond's car", Griff's Father, who was currently co-authoring a paper with Bond, had assured his son on the telephone.

The players had for the most part been there early, even Will, who had roared into the campus at the break of dawn driving Robbie's TMC Costin. If Durango noticed, he said nothing. It was Saturday morning.

Beside bus no 2, with Durango at her side, Peggy checked off player names as they entered the bus. This was her first away game as a student assistant coach, and she was happy that her Father had promised her he would be at the stadium. "With a surprise". The unofficial Huygens Tech football band -- grown from four men to four men and two women, who joined the band after they saw the team poster -- was also riding in bus number 2.

Computer Science Professor, former Cornerback at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Huygens Tech Defense Coach, Kekoa Alualu had assigned some of his students the creation of a database to manage equipment issues, and -- bearing an unwieldy continuous feed printout -- was supervising equipment loading. The Kitchen was sending out their own van with adequate supplies of food.

arrow Bus engines were revving up; almost everyone was aboard. Amidst cheers from the inside of the bus, Griff kissed Caydance, stepped aboard bus no 1. Caydance waved as the busses pulled out. Down from the President's house came the elusive Mira Palacio-Earle. Standing beside the new coach's wife, Mira also waved as bus no 2 followed bus no 1 down the road and eventually onto the open road to the Sac Valley Campus.