Senior favorites

By Drew Champlin

Published: November 30, 2007

Spoke with four Trojan seniors and got their thoughts.

OMAR HAUGABOOK

Best place – New Orleans Bowl

Worst place – FIU last year

Best visitor’s locker room – New Orleans Bowl

Worst visitor’s locker room – Western Kentucky. We didn’t have anywhere to put our pads. Everybody’s was on the floor.

Classiest team you’ve played – Nobody

Dirtiest team – I could tell you a lot of teams, but I can’t pick out just one. There’s a lot of teams especially with me

GREG WHIBBS

Best locker room - Virginia

Worst locker room - FAU (had the defense and offense in two different locker rooms)

Best trip - New Orleans Bowl

Worst trip—Louisiana-Monroe (in 2005, 27-3 loss) Long drive, bad trip

Best bus/plane ride home - It was pretty good after Middle Tennessee last year.

Worst ride home - Nebraska (2006 after 56-0 loss). There was nothing good about that one.

Dirtiest team you’ve played - I don’t know

Classiest team you’ve played - No team we play is classy

MARCUS RICHARDSON

Nicest place - nicest place was Virginia, but best environment was LSU. Florida State was fun for me because I’m from Florida, but LSU you can’t compare.

Worst place - UL Monroe a couple of years ago. They didn’t have any security out there, well they had security but their fans were over the rail all day long. You try to listen to coaches and you hear your name being called.

Best locker room - Virginia, that was the best. The shower was spic and span, beautiful, nice towels.

Dirtiest team -  Western Kentucky - holding and cutting and holding. punching under the pile. That’s football, I wasn’t complaining. I was complaining about the holding, but after I realized we weren’t going to get the calls, I stopped worrying about it.

Classiest team - Nebraska. Their fans were clapping for us and all of that junk and rah-rah stuff.

SEAN DAWKINS

Best place - El Paso, Texas, when we played New Mexico State. It was different because I’m from the south and hadn’t been out of the south. It was different seeing all the different houses and being close to the Mexico border.

Worst place - Western Kentucky

Best visitor’s locker room - Nebraska, seeing all the history and banners

Worst visitor’s locker room - Western Kentucky

Dirtiest team - It’s between Florida Atlantic and Florida International. FAU likes to poke your eyes.