The holiday airline crunch put some Pitt football players in a pinch before Joe Golding offered them a ride to El Paso on Christmas.
"I see these three guys, and they have Pitt bags on, and they start talking about playing in the Sun Bowl and having to get to El Paso and there wasn't any cars left," Golding told KTSM's Colin Deaver on Saturday."And I was like 'hey, if we can find a big enough car, I'll take you guys home.' They were like 'who are you?'"
Golding said that he told the guys he was a coach at UTEP, and they piled into an SUV alongside Golding's wife Amanda and children Cason and Chase for an overnight ride to El Paso. "Out here in West Texas, that's what we do," Golding continued."I didn't even really think twice about it. I would hope somebody would do that for Cason and Chase one time if they were stranded somewhere on Christmas night and needed a ride home."
Golding's interview confirmed a story from Pitt football coach Pat Narduzzi, who spoke about his players' ordeal and Golding's hospitality earlier Saturday.Just found out from his wife: Golding's family/3 Pitt players were stranded in Dallas last night, Golding rented a car & they all drove 9 hours to El Paso, got Pitt players to town this AM.
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