Why Do Players Stay in a Hotel?

[kevol80]

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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Do you know which four?
Fla, Bama, GA, UT?... LSU?I know we had a down year with attendance. I wonder how much we lost in empty seats.

 

[DeerPark12]

Do you know which four?
Fla, Bama, GA, UT?... LSU?I know we had a down year with attendance. I wonder how much we lost in empty seats.

Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia. I didn't see LSU listed.

LSU has higher travel costs than most SEC programs (as does Arkansas), and that plays a role.
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[AZVol]

Do most schools do this? Is this just unique to UT?

I attended last year's game against UCLA. We stayed at the Langham Huntington Resort in Pasadena...it was formerly a Ritz-Carlton. To my surprise the entire UCLA team was staying there....

 

[BigPapaVol]

It's all about the Spanktravision.
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[Brady12]

Teams have "travel teams" for home games as well. When I was at Michigan, we stayed in the Campus Inn the night before home games. Walk-ons, redshirts, and other players not on the "travel" squad didn't participate in the Friday walk-through at the stadium and didn't "travel" to the Campus Inn. They just showed up at the stadium in suit and tie at the appropriate time. Most teams do it this way.