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• Interesting, the Frankies & Portland pulled out leaving DU scrambling. I thought there had to be more to the scheduling problem..... Click Here (NT) -- CLK, Thursday, September 09, 08:19:50pm

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• What I would have liked to seen addressed are : (1) When exactly did the Portland, St. Franny games fall thru ? ( 2 ) Were there signed contracts in place ? (3) After they fell thru what other options existed ? (4) Amodio said scheduling is "Extremely tough" - why is this ? Is it an economic thing ( DU budget limitations )? Is it a DU philosophy thing (i.e. not willing to play 2-1 away, wanted a return visit for a 2010-11 game etc ... ) ? I'm inquisitive by nature and found what WASN'T said more curious than what was said. (NT) -- Abdul Rahman, Friday, September 10, 02:54:34pm
  • I wonder how much RE's aversion to flying restricts what GA can do. (NT) -- TMH, Friday, September 10, 06:38:25pm
    • Why do you believe Ron has an aversion to flying? (NT) -- CLK, Friday, September 10, 07:04:00pm
      • To the best of my knowledge, the teams takes a bus everywhere including if memory serves me correctly to Rice and then Drake, coming back in a snowstorm. -- TMH, Friday, September 10, 07:38:51pm
        • TMH, the team does not bus everywhere. I remember several games where Ray Goss commented on hoping they make their flight. As far as getting back in a snow storm it is pretty hard to fly when the planes are grounded. That is why Ron took the bus back from DC during that horrible snow storm. I would think sometimes logistics play in travel plans, like the trip to Canada. Easier to bus and haul equipment around when playing in various locations. The team does bus to Dayton, Xavier, Olean, Philly (sometimes), but IMHO that has more to do with DU's travel budget than Ron's aversion to flying. (NT) -- CLK, Friday, September 10, 08:12:47pm
          • BTW, I did not mean to imply that Ron does have an aversion to flying in the comment above. (NT) -- CLK, Friday, September 10, 08:14:52pm
          • TMH, the team flew to Houston to play Rice. (NT) -- Phoenix Rising, Friday, September 10, 09:20:03pm
        • CLK, good comments. Team was snowed in at Drake & forecast was showing that flights thru Chicago wouldn't get back to normal for 36 hrs; Ron made a judgement call. Ron does NOT have any aversion to flying. In fact, he would like to have charter flights to almost every game. If they have to fly commercial, they can't fly out after night games - in many cases, they would not arrive until afternoon the next day, missing classes. The bus back from Dayton, X, GW, Philly is much more time efficient that flying commercial; charters take care of those issues, but it's not always in the budget. (NT) -- Phoenix Rising, Friday, September 10, 08:48:05pm
          • So we got all these big-bucks donors going to the hall of fame, and our team doesn't have its own Lear Jet? What is up with that? -- El Duque, Saturday, September 11, 08:05:01am
            • El Duque, that's exactly what the Fat Man in St. Louis has been and is demanding from SLU and their alums. I remember that he decided to protest the lack of charters by boycotting his own radio show last year. He's already complaining about the A-10 schedule this year. It is a big deal in today's world of college athletics, especially with the difficulty of commercial air travel (lack of direct flights, security, delays, etc.). I'm pretty sure that donors fund some of the charters that the Dukes have used. BTW, I believe that a charter for a 300 mile trip will run about $10K. (NT) -- Phoenix Rising, Saturday, September 11, 08:34:55am
              • I'm sure he thinks of it as a large sub, with wings. But I'm not sure a smaller craft could lift off with Jabba the Coach occupying one side of it. (NT) -- El Duque, Saturday, September 11, 09:48:40am
              • Majerus can be a pain in the behind to his own school. (NT) -- Bilgy, Saturday, September 11, 10:32:55am
        • TMH, it is puzzling why the Dukes aren't in some tourney this year. RE's yr 1 they went to Toronto for preseason; nothing for the season. Yr 2 they went to the Drake invite, playing Cal St. Northridge & Drake. Yr 3 nothing (but had Carolina trip over Thanksgiving). Yr 4 was CBE Classic; that was originally planned for Boca Raton but changed by CBE at the last minute to W. Carolina. I understand that you need to get invited to these events & the Dukes for many reasons are not the ideal visitor-maybe a party crasher. But I do think coach & AD need to do a better job on this. (NT) -- Phoenix Rising, Friday, September 10, 08:57:24pm
          • One other thing; teams can play in an exempt tourney every year. They changed the rule a few years ago when you were limited to playing in only 2 exempt tourneys every 4 years. The only rule that I'm aware of is that you can't play in the same exempt tourney for 5 years, so the Dukes can't be invited back to the CBE for 4 more years. This change of the exempt rule has hurt teams like the Dukes;because now larger BCS schools can play every year in some exempt tourney. The exempt organizers want these large schools with a large fan base for attendance vs. a school like Duquesne. (NT) -- Phoenix Rising, Friday, September 10, 09:16:32pm