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Alumni Hall said:
First off it’s all hands on deck at the University on Selection Sunday. AD and all his Senior staff, all of the basketball staff, ticket manager, business manager, equipment manager, Head Trainer are all assembled in a meeting room. As soon as we see where we are going, the ticket manager is contacted by the tournament host ticketing person with amount of tickets and location and prices. We have an allotment that we are required to take. The business manager is contacted by the host tournament rep with details on our hotel and number of rooms/suites being allocated and required to take. Also he will be told of local bus charters in that city as well as the number of complementary rent a cars being given to us with with pick up locations. By this time, a email has been sent to all staff at SJU informing us of all details for the trip, including host sports medicine contacts, hospitals,,pharmacy and walk in clinics, cheer and dance team rules, pre tournament meetings and press conferences, credentials, team travel lists and more. It’s usually about 40 pages of information.
The travel coordinator will contact the official NCAA travel agency and discuss commercial vs charter flights, dates and times of travel. He will send to the travel agency all necessary passenger flight information. He will also send to the team hotel rooming lists, team meal requirements, method of payments. The school pays all up front expenses, except travel and gets a check back from the NCAA post tournament based on number of days on the road times. The ncaa has a set dollar figure (used to be $150-175 per day per person in your travel party). If you take more than the 75 person group, like band and others, that expense is on the University. The number of travel party people and tickets increases as you proceed to regionals.
Equipment manager packs all the gear depending on home vs road assignments. I used to have all my medical bags packed and ready to go right after the Big East Tourney. I would pack about 6 large travel bags with recovery units, Game Ready therapy units, days worth of medical supplies, practice towels and more.
Please feel free to ask any other questions
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Chicks ummm I mean fans waiting in the hotel ?
 
Alumni Hall said:
First off it’s all hands on deck at the University on Selection Sunday. AD and all his Senior staff, all of the basketball staff, ticket manager, business manager, equipment manager, Head Trainer are all assembled in a meeting room. As soon as we see where we are going, the ticket manager is contacted by the tournament host ticketing person with amount of tickets and location and prices. We have an allotment that we are required to take. The business manager is contacted by the host tournament rep with details on our hotel and number of rooms/suites being allocated and required to take. Also he will be told of local bus charters in that city as well as the number of complementary rent a cars being given to us with with pick up locations. By this time, a email has been sent to all staff at SJU informing us of all details for the trip, including host sports medicine contacts, hospitals,,pharmacy and walk in clinics, cheer and dance team rules, pre tournament meetings and press conferences, credentials, team travel lists and more. It’s usually about 40 pages of information.
The travel coordinator will contact the official NCAA travel agency and discuss commercial vs charter flights, dates and times of travel. He will send to the travel agency all necessary passenger flight information. He will also send to the team hotel rooming lists, team meal requirements, method of payments. The school pays all up front expenses, except travel and gets a check back from the NCAA post tournament based on number of days on the road times. The ncaa has a set dollar figure (used to be $150-175 per day per person in your travel party). If you take more than the 75 person group, like band and others, that expense is on the University. The number of travel party people and tickets increases as you proceed to regionals.
Equipment manager packs all the gear depending on home vs road assignments. I used to have all my medical bags packed and ready to go right after the Big East Tourney. I would pack about 6 large travel bags with recovery units, Game Ready therapy units, days worth of medical supplies, practice towels and more.
Please feel free to ask any other questions
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SO interesting.......thanks for the reply!
 
Alumni Hall said:
Fans might already be at the hotel, but the hotel will usually be dressed up with official NCAA banners, balloons. Hotel employees sometimes will be dressed in SJU t shirts when we arrive.
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Ahhh that's exactly what happened when Lavins last year Nathalie and I stayed in the mjmaherjr hotel that Duke just happened to be atl. F'ing coach K standing right next to me.

Best thing from that trip was the guy checking us in gave us like $100 in free Chik Filet certificates
 
Depending on game times and travel, the team might practice on campus before leaving for airport. Usually the athletics department will have a nice send off for the team as we leave Taffner and board the bus.
Let’s say we go to Dayton for a Wednesday night game. We fly Monday late afternoon and check into hotel. Team meals and film sessions will take up most of our time and then I would do multiple treatment and recovery session throughout the day and night. I never left the team hotel and my door was always open for anything the players needed till curfew. Tuesday we would practice at the arena which was mandatory for the fans, more layups and shooting, then we would find a private gym to really do our pregame scout practice. Wed game day we would have a private 1 hr shoot around at the arena.
Team managers were critical to our success in providing Gatorade and food to player rooms, getting the practice gear washed and distributed to rooms and preparing the uniforms for game day. We were blessed to always having great and dedicated managers.
 
mattc said:
I just keep going back to would the committee really only put in three teams from the Big East?
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This the first question. If they only put in 3 from the ACC they could point at that. So in a weird way the NC State win may help us if they are now taking Duke, UNC, NC State and Clemson. Virginia and Pitt should (by rights) be toast. After the BE/ACC piece, you get to is a 4th BE team preferable to a 6th MWC team or a 9th B12 team or a 3rd A10 team, etc.

But I generally agree that it's hard to see the committee taking fewer than 4 from the BE.

That gets you to the second question, which is among SJU, Hall, Providence, whose resume do they like the best. You can point to different things for the 3 different teams to justify taking any of the 3. But overall I think SJU has the edge over Hall and Providence.

I continue to think that we will find a way in and someone else will be unhappy - maybe FAU, maybe Oklahoma, maybe Colorado, maybe Indiana State. A few teams are going to get screwed; I just lean towards us not being one of them. Maybe wishful thinking. We will know soon enough.
 
We are now +152 on fan duel NOT to make it. So better for us than at 230 PM
 
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