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Old Oct 11, 2016, 12:32 pm
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Originally Posted by phxrsng
Not to mention sports charters. I don't know how Rice's teams travel, but if even some of them charter UA to their away games they could approach $5m quickly.

Now whether or not the president or the athletics director should get the CC credit for that, well....
The non-revenue sports probably fly commercial. That said, that's a ton of tickets and could easily be a couple million dollars when you add it all up. Out of Houston, it's probably on United.

I've been on lots of flights with Division I volleyball, baseball, wrestling, soccer, etc. teams. From big-budget (Power 5) programs as well as smaller ones. I'm fairly certain most schools try to send those teams commercial when it's feasible.
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