COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- It's a Friday night, about 18 hours before the self-proclaimed "greatest team you've never heard of" plays its first game on home soil in the United States, nearly two decades after the program's modern era began.
In a corner meeting room of a suburban Denver Marriott, easels are holding up TV-sized notepads, the pages presumably ready to have any number of inspirational words or tactical diagrams scribbled onto them to discuss the next day's game. Next to them is a projector screen set up to review game film.
Watching in anticipation from the cushioned conference chairs are the 18 players in training camp for the U.