{"id":86136,"date":"2025-03-21T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/waffle-house-serves-as-retreat-area-for-troy-its-the-type-of-place-we-want-to-represent-ourselves-with\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:30:00","slug":"waffle-house-serves-as-retreat-area-for-troy-its-the-type-of-place-we-want-to-represent-ourselves-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/waffle-house-serves-as-retreat-area-for-troy-its-the-type-of-place-we-want-to-represent-ourselves-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Waffle House serves as \u2018retreat area\u2019 for Troy: \u201cIt\u2019s the type of place we want to represent ourselves with.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Troy Trojans<\/a> are known for forcing turnovers, offensive rebounding and Waffle House, in no particular order. Actually, they might be known for Waffle House more than anything else \u2014 and they\u2019re proud of it.<\/p>\n

Scott Cross\u00a0said he only recruits players who like Waffle House because they are \u2018my kind of people.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the time, after we win, it\u2019s one of the few places that\u2019s open. I\u2019ll go there with my family,\u201d the Troy head coach said in an exclusive interview with KSR+. <\/a>\u201cWe\u2019ll eat there and soak it in before we put the win to bed. Every time we celebrate a birthday, we celebrate it there. We take our team there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their obsession is no exaggeration. When talking to the Trojans ahead of the team\u2019s matchup vs. Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament on Friday, they called Waffle House their home base for any and all gatherings. All week long, they use the 24-hour breakfast joint to break bread (or waffles, rather).<\/p>\n

They cherish those 11 block letters and the yellow and black logo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole last summer, I mean the whole t<\/em>eam just after every practice, we would go there and eat,\u201d second-leading scorer Myles Rigsby told KSR. <\/a>\u201cThis team is different. That\u2019s our our retreat area, as you can say. That\u2019s our retreat area.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all got here around, I want to say two years ago. And we started going there in the summer, like almost every day \u2014 maybe four or five times a week,\u201d Marcus Rigsby Jr. added. \u201cThen over the years, as the years have gone by, we just kept going. We got closer with the Waffle House family, the people that work there. They embraced us and we embraced them, which is great, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waffle House. Four or five times a week.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of the team\u2019s blue-collar approach, a way to keep themselves grounded and establish gritty culture. If you think you\u2019re too good for an order of hash browns scattered, smothered and covered, you\u2019re not someone they want to play with.<\/p>\n

Does that make sense? Standout forward Thomas Dowd did his best to explain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat kind of came from Coach Cross, just like \u2014 it\u2019s kind of hard to explain,\u201d Dowd told KSR. \u201cYou don\u2019t really want someone that thinks they\u2019re too good for Waffle House. Like, you know, it\u2019s Waffle House? How can you be too good for Waffle House? It\u2019s hard to explain, we just go there for all of our team meals and stuff. We know all of the workers personally, we\u2019re good friends with them. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s open 24 hours, so it\u2019s just the type of place that we want to represent ourselves with.\u201d<\/p>\n

With countless visits over the years, they have to have go-to orders, right? Obviously.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m more of a like \u2014 I get two things. I get a hash brown bowl, and then I get a Texas bacon and cheese sausage plate,\u201d Rigsby said.<\/p>\n

Then you have the classics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get the All-Star Special, plain waffle, scrambled eggs, cheese grits and some bacon,\u201d Dowd said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to get the All-Star Special. Gotta get your eggs scrambled, gotta get hash browns, toast, all of that,\u201d Rigsby Jr. added. \u201cGotta get a double waffle \u2014 double waffle, regular waffle. Or I get a little Philly cheesesteak sandwich with hash brown, extra steak and light onions. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great, it\u2019s amazing. You gotta get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

What does the weekly Waffle House schedule look like? You\u2019d actually be proud of them. At most, the Trojans are there four to five times a week, but they\u2019ve recently cut back. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt died down a little bit, so I\u2019d probably say three,\u201d Rigsby Jr. told KSR.<\/p>\n

Talk about self control.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope the Trojans loaded up on breakfast and come out sluggish against the Wildcats. Eat all of the continental waffles you can throw down, Troy!<\/p>\n

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