Why Do Players Stay in a Hotel?

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I never knew they stayed at a hotel before home games. Why do they do this exactly? Seems like a big waste of money and time. But I would like to know.
 
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Reporter - Are you a quarterback?
Crompton - No, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
 
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Also to keep players mind off of everything other than the game. You have to be focused to play D1 football these days. And being in a dorm room apartment complex on the first weekend of Fall Semester at UT, let alone a game weekend, the night before the game could get pretty noisey and distracting. With as much money as football makes for the University, they should front the bill for 50 rooms at a local hotel. They probably get a huge discount anyways.
 
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Gives them the same routine each week, weather it be an away game or home game....allows coaches to regulate curfew, team meetings, and meals.

Some guys are real superstitious or just creatures of habit....keeps everything regimented.
 
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jakeman4 said:
Do most schools do this? Is this just unique to UT?
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I don't know of a Division I school that doesn't do it. It's been the standard since the NCAA did away with athletic dorms in the early 90s, some teams have been doing it much longer.
 
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in 97 we stayed at the same motel (it wasn't a great place) at the UF team. That was a fun friday night
 
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What about when we have a night game(8 O' Clock kick off)? Do they hang out all day before the game our what? Just wondering what the day would be like.
 
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Give_Him_6! said:
What about when we have a night game(8 O' Clock kick off)? Do they hang out all day before the game our what? Just wondering what the day would be like.
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Yeah, they get up late, have a team breakfast, then have meetings in the hotel meeting rooms. Sometimes they will have an additional walkthru in the hotel ballroom.

Then they'll do what alot of us us do for a night game, watch other games.

About 4 hours before the game, they'll meet, have a chapel service (not required), and have the team pre-game meal. The team will then have final position meetings, then board the busses for campus and the Vol Walk.
 
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I went to BYU and I hated it because my friends on the team could never go out with me on Friday night. I believe pretty much all schools do it, regardless of game time.
 
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VolFan_N_NC said:
Also to keep players mind off of everything other than the game. You have to be focused to play D1 football these days. And being in a dorm room apartment complex on the first weekend of Fall Semester at UT, let alone a game weekend, the night before the game could get pretty noisey and distracting. With as much money as football makes for the University, they should front the bill for 50 rooms at a local hotel. They probably get a huge discount anyways.
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This is nitpicky, but football really doesn't make much money for the university. Football makes money for the athletic department. The athletic department is almost a completely separate entity from UTK.
 
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Seriously....
They have team meetings to go over the game plan again. They keep the team focused on the game and out of any mischief. Coaches continue to go over the game plan after they put the team down for the night.
 
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goooooovols said:
Gives them the same routine each week, weather it be an away game or home game....allows coaches to regulate curfew, team meetings, and meals.

Some guys are real superstitious or just creatures of habit....keeps everything regimented.
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Exactly!

Just like you don't want to fix something that's not broke, staying in a hotel at home keeps the rountine the same on the road. Almost all teams do it.
 
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The PAC-10 actually just made it against their rules for home teams to stay in a hotel the night before...seems pretty stupid imo, but that's the Pac 10 for you.
 
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UTHorsey said:
The PAC-10 actually just made it against their rules for home teams to stay in a hotel the night before...seems pretty stupid imo, but that's the Pac 10 for you.
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Cost-cutting move. All of the Pac10 athletic departments finished over $1 million in the hole last year. There were only 11 ADs in the nation to finish in the black, and four were in the SEC.

The P10 presented legislation to the NCAA to ban it outright, but, obviously, it was defeated. That may not be far off tho. Some schools have wanted to do away with it for years, but won't as long as other programs are doing it.
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