I can't quite get a handle on how this went. Did most of the students actually make it to the game? Were some of the students (as was mentioned in a previous thread) actually trashing our own team? Was this worth the effort or perhaps should something else be worked out for future bowl trips?


Thanks!

The bus trip was decidedly a mixed bag.  Perhaps because of the short turnaround, it was pretty disorganized.  Chaperones were pretty disinterested and hands-off.  Communication was at a minimum, so we didn't know why we were stopping sometimes or why we had to sit in a parking lot for 30-45 minutes for seemingly no reason.  Having to stop 25 minutes from the city in order to wait an hour just so we could all arrive at the same time sucked, especially because it helped make us two hours late.

What really ticked me off was on the return trip.  We had been driving for 8 hours nonstop and they made a driver switch outside Louisville.  After about 10 minutes, people started getting off the bus because, hey, we were sitting there for so long and there were restaurants all around.  Apparently there was a planned food stop about 20 minutes after the driver switch (why not combine the two?).  If this had been explained to us, I think we would have been fine with it.  Instead, one of the marketing people decides to start yelling at us like little children, complete with finger pointing, to get back on the buses.  This did not go over well.  That sort of behavior is simply unacceptable.

As Youngstown alluded, it was pretty easy to tell who was there purely for NOLA.  The scene at the Superdome was pretty ugly; many of them had never been to an Ohio game before.  They didn't know the chants, didn't know the traditions, didn't even know to take hats off for the Alma Mater.  Some were so drunk they passed out in their seats.  One girl drunkenly fell and busted her face up.  Some berated our players, their players, their band, and even some of the O Zone.

But the festivities were pretty great and the Hilton was a phenomenal place to stay.  It was a good idea.  Next time, it needs better planning.

And I'm still waiting for Optimist's rant.

Ba bump....ching!!!

He'll be here all week folks.

That'd be 4,000, O69.

Or was she with the brother of Ohio players?

No you are right 4000 are dumbasses 2000 are COMPLETE dumbasses There is a difference. Either that or the new math is starting to take over

Don't be too hard on Ohio69's miscalculation.  He was being distracted at the time trying to supervise the 20% of the employees in his office who are dumbasses. 

(BTW, it's hard to ignore the 20% who are dumbasses.  They seem to make their presence known in a way the 80% can't match.)

OMG! McKINNEY SAID ASS!

Temple better watch out! There's a mad man heading to the Convo right now!

Started thinking today about former Temple Coach Chaney's confrontation with Calipari and that got me all fired up, Pete!  So I threw caution to the wind and said that three letter word...

Yeah I was disappointed to find that out. I feel like a total d-bag complaining about a $40 trip that provided me with my only opportunity to go to New Orleans and watch the game, but I still don't like being lied to. The no outlets or wifi kind of sucked. They shouldn't have advertised it unless they were 100 percent sure the buses were properly equipped. Thank God I had a fully charged iPod and others had some DVDs to watch.

Also as Dragon said, the number of stops we made was ridiculous. The itinerary called for three stops on the way down. We made seven. Every one of the stops seemed extremely disorganized. We never knew if we were allowed off the bus or not. Our chaperone usually told us to not get off just so we could get back on the road sooner, but it seemed other chaperones didn't follow orders and let everyone off at every stop. It took forever to load everyone back up, especially if we stopped at a gas station and everyone went in to buy snacks and drinks. That's why Dragon's bus had to wait so long at the Louisiana rest stop less than 50 miles from the city.