Coastal Carolina’s football players will vote as a team Tuesday

Coastal Carolina’s next football game is at 2 p.m. Saturday at Brooks Stadium against Bryant.

But the Chanticleers’ next big undertaking as a team will come Tuesday, when the entire team of more than 100 players takes part in the voting process.

The players will board buses at 9:45 a.m. for an anticipated 10 a.m. arrival at Christ Community Church in Conway, where they will vote.

“Every one of our guys is going to vote Tuesday, and that’s something I’m incredibly proud of,” head coach Joe Moglia said. “The service academies do that. There’s not going to be one other university football team in the nation that’s going to do that, and you know every one of them probably should do that.”

Some players have already voted through absentee ballots, while the coaching staff has helped all the others go through the process of registering and picking up voter ID cards. As full-time college students they are allowed to vote locally, Moglia said.

“Even though some players have voted early, they will go to the polls Tuesday just to support their teammates,” Moglia said. “The right to vote is one of the cornerstones of this great democracy and is a privilege no one should take for granted.”

Moglia said he will be interviewed by Fox News at 4 p.m. Tuesday regarding his entire team voting, and the network is expected to air footage of the football team at the polling station.

Moglia gives up 30 minutes of practice time each Thursday for a Life After Football session, and last Thursday two interns portrayed Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for a political exercise that included questions from the football team.

This story was originally published November 6, 2016 at 5:46 PM with the headline "Coastal Carolina’s football players will vote as a team Tuesday."