(05-01-2017 08:39 PM)exowlswimmer Wrote:  

(04-26-2017 10:42 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  For football, every team charters and realistically, costs don't vary too much for the marginal 500 miles. This is especially true for teams that are in cities. Rice charters Southwest out of Hobby and they have plenty of aircraft flexibility there.

I know that for basketball, Rice will fly commercial to cities with direct service to Houston. However, if we're at @Marshall/WKU or at @USM/LA Tech, we most often charter a private jet.

I've heard horror stories from our non-revenue athletes about awful connecting routes just to get a better price, however.

Nothing wrong with a "bus" league when people care about your rivals. Flew twice in 4 years as an owl, once to Tulsa on Southwest on our way to Fayettville for a SWC invite meet then once to Mexico City for post Christmas training and a meet with the Mexican and Japanese national teams. Now we spend so much on travel that minor sports are eliminated as they "cost too much!"

Trust me, I wasn't complaining when we bused an hour and a half to College Station. I'm sure the guys on the team this year won't mind busing ten minutes to UH!