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Road trips helping Nicholls State make ends meet

Sep 25, 2015 at 11:26a ET

Sep 25, 2015 at 11:26a ET

(STATS) - Nicholls has played at Oregon State, Oregon and Air Force in the past three seasons. While the Colonels have come back empty-handed in terms of victories, their pockets have been filled to help sustain their program.

This season's lengthy trek brings the Louisiana school back to Colorado, where it will face the Buffaloes on Saturday and become the only Southland Conference program to head out west in each of the last four years.

These long trips are necessary, athletic director Rob Bernardi said, because like many other states, Louisiana has cut its higher education funding.