Something I found interesting

[clenz]

While reading around the internet I found something interesting about the travel plans made by/for teams in the NCAA tournament. All team, official, and committee travel for the tournament (and for the NCAA as a whole year-round) is handled by a single travel agency: Short's Travel Management in Waterloo, Iowa.

[Newsbreaker]

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They've done that for years.

[EastonWest]

Re: Something I found interesting

While reading around the internet I found something interesting about the travel plans made by/for teams in the NCAA tournament. All team, official, and committee travel for the tournament (and for the NCAA as a whole year-round) is handled by a single travel agency: Short's Travel Management in Waterloo, Iowa.

O Rly? Welcome to this century.

[Newt99]

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O Rly? Welcome to this century.

Clenz, I actually had no idea about this, so thanks for posting it. If you have a link I'd like to check it out.

Guess I must not be as smart or at least not as smug as some people around here.

[06panther10]

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Guess I must not be as smart or at least not as smug as some people around here.

I second that. I did not know that either. I also did not know that it was wrong to not know it, as it apparently is on this board.

[DrewDog]

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A few years ago, the Courier had an article about Short's role with the tourney and how it works with individual teams to make travel arrangements in such a short period of time.

[victory4uni]

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ya tht really is amazing. It would absolutely suck working there this time of year!

[Kyle]

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David LeCompte, the president of Shorts is a Panther Alum too.

[clenz]

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Clenz, I actually had no idea about this, so thanks for posting it. If you have a link I'd like to check it out.

Guess I must not be as smart or at least not as smug as some people around here.

Thanks for not being an ass about it. I knew some people probably knew this, however, I didn't think everyone would. I figured it would be something people would find interesting about our area. I'm not from the Cedar Valley, and have never really looked into the travel plans of teams from around the nation so I had no idea they all went through Waterloo. I should have figured News and Easton would have known this. They tend to know everything about the world and how it works.

[SteinPizza]

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Thanks for not being an ass about it. I knew some people probably knew this, however, I didn't think everyone would. I figured it would be something people would find interesting about our area. I'm not from the Cedar Valley, and have never really looked into the travel plans of teams from around the nation so I had no idea they all went through Waterloo. I should have figured News and Easton would have known this. They tend to know everything about the world and how it works.

News seemed OK with what you wrote. Easton, on the other hand, seemed to treat your info as if you didn't know that the United Nations in HQ'd in New York, or that Microsoft was HQ'd in Seattle, etc. etc.

I'm with you, I'm not from the Cedar Valley either. Thanks for posting.

[DrewDog]

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Here are a couple articles from the Courier:

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2004/03/19/news/top_news/2b7d98ae292f1dbb86256e5c005aa8dd.txt

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2006/01/29/progress/doc43d7d1bd81573947526759.txt

[Newt99]

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Thanks for the links DrewDog. It is unbelievable that Short's can make that many arrangements in so little time.