The football team aided in flooding efforts Wednesday morning by placing sandbags around the Jacobson Building and the surrounding area.

Coach Paul Rhoads said players arrived for team activities at 6 a.m. and immediately began helping in the relief effort.

“Some guys were here all night and the rest of us got here early this morning,” Rhoads said. “Those football players that were here before the roads closed … as the water started to rise, we went to work and started sandbagging.”

Rhoads said nothing inside the Jacobson Building had flooded yet. He also said that as long as the indoor practice field stays dry, the team can practice and will do so Wednesday afternoon.

“Right now we’re waiting for the water to hold and begin to recede,” Rhoads said. “We’re obviously not doing anything we were scheduled to do today at this point, but it won’t put us behind.”

The water will not keep the team from practicing. Regardless of conditions inside the practice field, “we’ll figure out something,” Rhoads said.