CLK, good comments. Team was snowed in at Drake & forecast was showing that flights thru Chicago wouldn't get back to normal for 36 hrs; Ron made a judgement call. Ron does NOT have any aversion to flying. In fact, he would like to have charter flights to almost every game. If they have to fly commercial, they can't fly out after night games - in many cases, they would not arrive until afternoon the next day, missing classes. The bus back from Dayton, X, GW, Philly is much more time efficient that flying commercial; charters take care of those issues, but it's not always in the budget. -- Duquesne Dukes Basketball Forum

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Date Posted: Friday, September 10, 08:48:05pm
Author: Phoenix Rising
Subject: CLK, good comments. Team was snowed in at Drake & forecast was showing that flights thru Chicago wouldn't get back to normal for 36 hrs; Ron made a judgement call. Ron does NOT have any aversion to flying. In fact, he would like to have charter flights to almost every game. If they have to fly commercial, they can't fly out after night games - in many cases, they would not arrive until afternoon the next day, missing classes. The bus back from Dayton, X, GW, Philly is much more time efficient that flying commercial; charters take care of those issues, but it's not always in the budget.
In reply to: TMH 's message, "To the best of my knowledge, the teams takes a bus everywhere including if memory serves me correctly to Rice and then Drake, coming back in a snowstorm." on Friday, September 10, 07:38:51pm

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So we got all these big-bucks donors going to the hall of fame, and our team doesn't have its own Lear Jet? What is up with that? -- El Duque, Saturday, September 11, 08:05:01am
- El Duque, that's exactly what the Fat Man in St. Louis has been and is demanding from SLU and their alums. I remember that he decided to protest the lack of charters by boycotting his own radio show last year. He's already complaining about the A-10 schedule this year. It is a big deal in today's world of college athletics, especially with the difficulty of commercial air travel (lack of direct flights, security, delays, etc.). I'm pretty sure that donors fund some of the charters that the Dukes have used. BTW, I believe that a charter for a 300 mile trip will run about $10K. (NT) -- Phoenix Rising, Saturday, September 11, 08:34:55am
  - I'm sure he thinks of it as a large sub, with wings. But I'm not sure a smaller craft could lift off with Jabba the Coach occupying one side of it. (NT) -- El Duque, Saturday, September 11, 09:48:40am
  - Majerus can be a pain in the behind to his own school. (NT) -- Bilgy, Saturday, September 11, 10:32:55am

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