Charter Flight Benefit

[R1Letterman]

https://rmas.fad.harvard.edu/pages/c...r%20commercial

[Big Tyme]

A charter flight to Texas State became available shortly before Wednesday’s game. Folks in the administration and basketball staff were able to go through the process necessary to book the flight for the team. They left late Tuesday afternoon and returned Wednesday night. Bus trip to Mobile was taken Friday afternoon and team is probably almost home as I write this.

What I wonder is if the charter helped performance last 2 games. Without the charter, team would have had 2 commercial flights a layover and some bus rides to get to San Marcos. They would have had a similar experience on Thursday to get to Mobile from Texas. Another benefit of the charter was academics. Team also was able to actually Attend class on Thursday and Friday morning as well due to the charter. I have no idea if the team would have played just as well with the original plan. Still with the results of this trip, I hope more charter opportunities became available when it makes sense to travel that way.

Ridiculous. Don't you know that college athletes NEVER get tired. Heck, they could probably have WALKED to San Marvelous and been fine. Motor vehicles are too woke.

[Esqueleto]

Gotta do what your conference peers are doing, at least. Are they all chartering basketball flights? If so, then this is more of a necessity than a luxury.

[R1Letterman]

The new moneyball- tell recruits charter flights are more dangerous and that money is root of evil and sell no NIL and no charters.... show clip of big bopper and richie valens as proof

[R1Letterman]

What happens if alum from opposing teams have companies that pay NIL, and they pay the opposing players (dont tell them what team they support) but then make the athlete attend events or commercial filming at times that conflict with games

[Policarp]

Naive question.......with so many sports with less than 30-40 travelers with staff/equipment. Pretty much every sport except football........at what point does it make financial sense to have your own mid-size jet vs relying on commercial that don't fly directly into many Sunbelt.cities (plus mid range busing from airport required) or flight charter availability.

Maybe it is time for "Air Louisiana"

[Esqueleto]

Naive question.......with so many sports with less than 40 players plus staff. Pretty much every sport except football........at what point does it make financial sense to have your own mid-size jet vs relying on commercial (plus using) or charter availability.

Good question. I'm surprised some of the big money schools like Texas, A&M, Mich, etc don't already have one.

[ManAboutTown]

Naive question.......with so many sports with less than 40 players plus staff. Pretty much every sport except football........at what point does it make financial sense to have your own mid-size jet vs relying on commercial (plus using) or charter availability.

We can’t afford to pay the NIL guy. How we going to buy a plane!? Lol

In all seriousness, aircraft storage and maintenance are extremely expensive. There’s a reason why most schools don’t have them.

[Policarp]

Good question. I'm surprised some of the big money schools like Texas, A&M, Mich, etc don't already have one.

To keep it busy.....Air Louisiana could be chartered for private use in non peak periods. summer/fall. So it's not all expense......but also as a revenue source.

We go to smaller towns not close to major airports that require multiple.links to get to. Boone, San Marcos, Statesboro, Troy, Jonesboro etc,. Only GA State is a 1 flight and your are there.....no 2nd flight & no cross state bus trips. Fly in....play.....fly to next stop/home.

My motive????? I really like winning on the road. Our team seems to have benefitted from keeping travel.time minimalized.

How to solve cost......

We need to add aeronautics degrees. Flying and engineering/maintenance......that way plane storage/maintenance is an academic expense vs athletic.

[Cajunsmike]

Gotta do what your conference peers are doing, at least. Are they all chartering basketball flights? If so, then this is more of a necessity than a luxury.

I don’t know details of what other schools in the league do as far as travel goes. I recall hearing a year ago that 3 of the new league schools charter frequently. Those are James Madison, Marshall, and Old Dominion. Makes sense those 3 schools would do so due to their location and available resources.

[Cajunsmike]

We can’t afford to pay the NIL guy. How we going to buy a plane!? Lol

In all seriousness, aircraft storage and maintenance are extremely expensive. There’s a reason why most schools don’t have them.

Finding a donor who subsidizes our charter flights may be the way to go here. Could do it for WBB, VB, and diamond sports as well. Football charters to all away games of distance. I think they bus to ULM, USA, and USM within the league. All of those trips are around 4 hours or less. I don’t know if a person exists that would be willing to help with transportation costs for our athletes. I seriously doubt one does considering the state of our RCAF and NIL efforts. Perhaps a way could be found to combine the NIL and transportation subsidy ideas together.

[Duckster]

Zoom Zoom brought up Gonzaga earlier in the thread. Looked up an article from five years ago reporting Gonzaga schedules charter flights for men's and women's basketball. Maybe take the approach of using one of the fractional ownership corporate jets. Schedule the number of annual hours you can afford in advance.