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Date Posted: Friday, January 18, 11:16:19am
Author: Millsy
Subject: A Little Bit On the Travel Subsidy

A little bit on the travel subsidy:

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http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/583608/WCHA-unanimously-adds-Alabama-Huntsville-as-10th-team-for-2013-14-season.html?nav=5010

WCHA commissioner Bruce McLeod said UAH will be paying a similar subsidy to what was worked out for both UAF and UAA recently, which he said is less complicated for the other seven schools and more fair for the three outlying universities.

"All we're trying to do ... is not have it cost anymore than the highest cost trip for anyone in the lower 48," McLeod said.

"Rather than buying X-number of tickets and giving you this and giving you that, we agreed on a firm number and that's the check that Alaska will write to the visiting schools. It's a different approach than in the past, but I think it's much, much more fair and what we're going to do is apply that same formula to Huntsville."

Meaning if Bowling Green State is the most expensive trip for Northern Michigan University and Michigan Tech University, then neither would pay more than that sum to visit Huntsville, Ala., Fairbanks, Alaska, and Anchorage, Alaska.

"We used the same premise and we used the same model and came up with a number everyone was pleased with," UAH athletic director E. J. Brophy said from the convention in Dallas.

"The number is an attractive number. It was unanimously agreed upon, a range. Everybody was very happy with that number and that got us over the hurdle. From then on, it was smooth sailing."
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