We don't wear gloves, so we have to pick up piles of beer-soaked peanuts with our bare hands. You smell like beer for the rest of the day. Volunteers divide into two groups when tackling the cleanup. Some toss trash into garbage bags while they cover the area from the stadium to Hilton Coliseum. The rest use blowers in the stadium stands to remove trash from under the seats.
Cleanups can take anywhere from three to five hours.
It's unpredictable how long a job will take. When evening events are held at the stadium, volunteers work late into the night. Schoepf said the cleaning crew didn't finish until 2 a.m. after the Ohio University game Aug. 31, a night game. Volunteers agreed that the cleanup is hard work, but they said it's rewarding. Pribyl, Sabino and Schoepf are repeat volunteers.