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Airlines Making It Tough on College FB Teams

TexanMark said:
Supply and Demand issues: Airlines restricting seat availability to increase ticket prices. Airlines no longer want much charter business.

Facing Charter Shortage, College Football Reconsiders The Bus

A lesson for Cuse...try to schedule more OOC games within a 6-7 hour bus ride.
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If we are taking 7 hour busrides we are gonna have a new coach.

But for schools like UConn going to Temple and ECU...
 
Bayside44 said:
If we are taking 7 hour busrides we are gonna have a new coach.

But for schools like UConn going to Temple and ECU...
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Well...I'm thinking worst case scenario. This will probably be fleeting as airlines are cyclical. I'm not calling for all OOC games to be within 6-7 hours...just some. I'd like to see more games versus Rutgers, PSU, Maryland, UConn, Temple, UMass, UB, Akron, Kent...games they could bus to if they had too. A mix of 1-1s and 2 for 1s

Cuse still needs to schedule OOC games in southern recruiting and alumni hot spots.
 
Wonder if some colleges will start having an airline fleet war just distancing themselves even more, the rich from the poor?
 
TexanMark said:
Well...I'm thinking worst case scenario. This will probably be fleeting as airlines are cyclical. I'm not calling for all OOC games to be within 6-7 hours...just some. I'd like to see more games versus Rutgers, PSU, Maryland, UConn, Temple, UMass, UB, Akron, Kent...games they could bus to if they had too. A mix of 1-1s and 2 for 1s

Cuse still needs to schedule OOC games in southern recruiting and alumni hot spots.
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You're gonna see Cuse schedule OOC to win moving forward, as long as it's Wildhack and Dino calling the shots. A 6 hour busride is more like 8 hours after it's all said and done, that's just not feasible with all the money on the table for every win. To Buffalo sure, to UVa or Maryland no way.
 
Ish88888 said:
Whatever, D1 teams dont take a bus outside a 2-3 hr trip.
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Ish trim the attitude down a tad...I said it was a worst case scenario if air travel isn't available or prohibitively expensive . It is to our benefit to schedule some OOC games in a 6-7 hour ring.
 
TexanMark said:
Ish trim the attitude down a tad...I said it was a worst case scenario if air travel isn't available or prohibitively expensive . It is to our benefit to schedule some OOC games in a 6-7 hour ring.
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No attitude Tex, we just arent taking bus rides for anything over 3 hrs. AND, funny you bring this up bc i have been begging for a Cuse/Albany series for years and getting laughed at. They are 2 hrs away and play in the best FCS conference;)
 
Ish88888 said:
No attitude Tex, we just arent taking bus rides for anything over 3 hrs. AND, funny you bring this up bc i have been begging for a Cuse/Albany series for years and getting laughed at. They are 2 hrs away and play in the best FCS conference;)
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The point I'm getting at...the airlines are squeezing the charter users...SU of course is going to fly to games over a couple hours...but it makes some sense to always schedule some closer OOC games to save some $$$ in the event this money grab continues.

You could take it a step further...the buy games might go up in cost...so SU would be smart to always schedule FCS teams that can bus in. We pay Colgate a lot less because they bus in. Albany could be a great buy game too.
 
TexanMark said:
The point I'm getting at...the airlines are squeezing the charter users...SU of course is going to fly to games over a couple hours...but it makes some sense to always schedule some closer OOC games to save some $$$ in the event this money grab continues.

You could take it a step further...the buy games might go up in cost...so SU would be smart to always schedule FCS teams that can bus in. We pay Colgate a lot less because they bus in. Albany could be a great buy game too.
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Amen brother!:) Thanks for all you do in bringing Cuse fans together;)
 
TexanMark said:
Well...I'm thinking worst case scenario. This will probably be fleeting as airlines are cyclical. I'm not calling for all OOC games to be within 6-7 hours...just some. I'd like to see more games versus Rutgers, PSU, Maryland, UConn, Temple, UMass, UB, Akron, Kent...games they could bus to if they had too. A mix of 1-1s and 2 for 1s

Cuse still needs to schedule OOC games in southern recruiting and alumni hot spots.
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The airlines start causing problems for college football games, and Congress will re- regulate them, and they will regret that. They can jack up prices for the average joe, but college football is a big business, and you don't mess with the bear, or you get eaten.
 
Bringing in teams for one-off games isn't cheap either. Look at Rutgers.

Liberty will receive $1 million for its Oct. 26, 2019 visit to High Point Solutions Stadium, while UMass will receive a $1.3 million for its Aug. 31 visit, according to contracts obtained by NJ Advance Media through an Open Public Records Act request.
 
Rutgers, umass, holy cross, storz, army, sunyb...or neutral site games at say...GIANTS STADIUM.

just fly for the inconf...
 
KaiserUEO said:
Rutgers, umass, holy cross, storz, army, sunyb...or neutral site games at say...GIANTS STADIUM.

just fly for the inconf...
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Playing at Giants Stadium is deader than Hoffa.
 
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RandygoCuse said:
I guess it's a matter of time before schools start owning their own planes (do any do this already?)
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Probably not, but it could give rise to charter airlines to step into the now-empty niche.
 

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