2014年3月27日星期四
Other than the bus, everything worked the way it was supposed to
Other than the bus, everything worked the way it was supposed to."David McCollum, NMSU's deputy AD, said he received an apology from the bus pany. He said details about the Aggies' arrival time somehow hadn't been passed along to the pany.Lewis said a number of factors affect travel, including the number of planes available and new FAA rules requiring flight crews to have 10 hours of actual rest time instead of eight. He said the NCAA is moving more than 120 men's and women's teams, "and then you don't know who's going to lose, so you don't know who's leaving and who's staying.
"Our tournaments didn't shrink and the operation of a charter flight went down because the biggest constraint on us is supply," he added. "It isn't that we had a more expensive option and didn't use it, we didn't have other options to use. We are buying or renting every possible resource we can get access to."
As far as policy changes,Urumqi travel "Do we want to go to a policy that no team goes home if the game doesn't end by 2 o'clock or something?" he said. "The counterbalance to that is you're missing class time because you're not getting home the day you played. The policies and procedures aren't decided by our national office, they're made by the membership."
"It's disgraceful," said Fisher, who hired Menzies as part of his original staff at SDSU in 1999. New Mexico State athletic director McKinley Boston says the NCAA has apologized for making the Aggies fly home immediately after their second-round tournament loss and inadequate bus transportation from the airport.Xinjiang Intencive tour NMSU and San Diego State were told before Thursday's game in Spokane that the loser would have to fly home that night.
After the game, SDSU coach Steve Fisher called the policy "disgraceful" and added: "For the billions of dollars that we have here, for them not to find a way to a modate these kids, the student-athletes you can't tell me they couldn't find charter planes."When the Aggies arrived in El Paso, Texas, only one bus was at the airport to meet them. The bus had to make two trips to get everyone to the campus in Las Cruces.
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