Capt. Tuttle
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Some Yankee learnin' school at CCHS today.
Re-read this. Are you certain that was what you intended to write? Be careful when you mock others.I'm surprised it did say:
Some Yankee learnin' school at CCHS today.
Re-read this. Are you certain that was what you intended to write? Be careful when you mock others.
Just looked it up. i always figured they paid for a family member or 2.
16 hours is about right. I know it used to take me 17 hours if I drove it straight from near Rome NY to Montgomery, AL.To my knowledge an official would pay for a parent. Might be only one parent though and definitely not siblings or extended family.
16 hours from Alabama? No way.
Amazing how idiotic the NCAA can be. It is the biggest decision a 17-18 year old can make and schools aren't allowed to pay for family to fly with the kid. Ridiculous. So many of these familes cannot afford it. It should be the kid and parents being covered.
University can provide meals and lodging to parents, also transportation if traveling together in car with prospectTo my knowledge an official would pay for a parent. Might be only one parent though and definitely not siblings or extended family.
16 hours from Alabama? No way.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but covering the cost of all these officials is extremely expensive. The big power conference schools can easily afford it, the middling BCS schools barely turn a profit, and the non-BCS schools have a ton of problems not creating a deficit. Think of the schools in the Sun belt, Mountain West, Conference USA, FCS, that have to not only pay a few hundred dollars for a kid to fly to their school, but then would have to double that to pay for a parent. The costs of officials seems like it would easily cost $100,000+ with travel, food, lodging. So if a small school pays all that money for officials and most of those kids decide to commit to another school, thats a gigantic sunk cost that is hard to make back. You'd basically have to double the budget for officials and put a lot of smaller schools that much closer to a deficit. I know it's easy to think of the SEC, PAC, BIG, and ACC schools as being able to afford this, but for every big school, there are two small schools that have problems funding their athletic departments.Amazing how idiotic the NCAA can be. It is the biggest decision a 17-18 year old can make and schools aren't allowed to pay for family to fly with the kid. Ridiculous. So many of these familes cannot afford it. It should be the kid and parents being covered.
Not everyone flies. Also it could be there is more than just his parents coming with him.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but covering the cost of all these officials is extremely expensive. The big power conference schools can easily afford it, the middling BCS schools barely turn a profit, and the non-BCS schools have a ton of problems not creating a deficit. Think of the schools in the Sun belt, Mountain West, Conference USA, FCS, that have to not only pay a few hundred dollars for a kid to fly to their school, but then would have to double that to pay for a parent. The costs of officials seems like it would easily cost $100,000+ with travel, food, lodging. So if a small school pays all that money for officials and most of those kids decide to commit to another school, thats a gigantic sunk cost that is hard to make back. You'd basically have to double the budget for officials and put a lot of smaller schools that much closer to a deficit. I know it's easy to think of the SEC, PAC, BIG, and ACC schools as being able to afford this, but for every big school, there are two small schools that have problems funding their athletic departments.