According to the Times, the players met with administrators Tuesday to voice concerns about traveling by bus instead of plane to games in Kansas City, Mo., and Indianapolis, poor facility conditions and the firing of coach Doug Williams in September.
Williams sent a text message Friday evening to USA Today, saying: "I'm proud of them boys. They took a stance."
For the 750-mile trip to a neutral-site game in Indianapolis, SI.com reported that the team left campus at 6 p.m. last Thursday and arrived in Indianapolis at 9 a.m. Friday. Grambling lost 48-0 to Alcorn State the next day. Alcorn State, based in Mississippi, flew to the game, Grambling safety Naquan Smith told SI.
"It does something to your body, being on the bus that long," Smith told SI. "We were kinda upset [the] other team got a chance to fly there. It wasn't fair."