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If you needed another reason to cheer for Davidson in the NCAA Tournament tomorrow night, here's a great one: The school's administration is paying for students to go to Detroit for the Sweet 16.
Seriously: The trustees are paying for all of it. From a letter from school president Tom Ross:
The bus will leave at approximately 6 a.m. on Friday morning. It is approximately an 11 hour ride to Detroit. We will make hotel reservations for you ( 2 students per room). Tickets are for Sessions 1 and 2. If Davidson wins on Friday night, they will play again on Sunday afternoon (exact time not yet known). Win or lose, the bus will leave on Sunday afternoon after the Session 2 game ends. You will most likely arrive back in Davidson on Monday morning between 4 am and 6 am.
If you have already booked a package with the bus that leaves campus on Friday morning (bus, tickets, hotel), then your credit card will not be charged. If you have purchased a ticket and are handling transportation and lodging on your own, then you will be reimbursed for the face value of the ticket only. All of this will be handled next week.
Of course, this is easier to do with a college enrollment of 1,700 undergraduates — about 1/20th of what Wisconsin has — but still ... pretty freaking awesome. Go Wildcats!
It's Good To Be A Davidson Student These Days [Lion In Oil]
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Well, no shit. Tom Cruise is right there on the team.
For 41K per year tuition, they better pony up for a trip to Detriot or two.
Go Wildcats? Aren't 13 of the 16 teams also named Wildcats?
The population of wildcats found in nature must be like one fifth of those found at basketball games.
Davidson kicks ass. It's a great day to be a Wildcat.
My small, geeky liberal arts college had less undergrads than Davidson.
more*
Yeah, need another coffee.
They will also be served a pizza bagel and dessert during the bus ride.
@ghostsoftheSCupcountry: Yeah, if they can affor to go to school there, I can't see them schlepping on a bus for 11 hours.
Yeah, but it's...Detroit.
Also, Stephen Curry asks that someone bring his Bob The Builder DVD and a Capri Sun.
Thank you.
Is that picture from when Curry first used the potty?
11 hours on a bus with the whitest kids you'll ever meet? where do I sign up?
Yeah, but wait until the students find out that the continental breakfast isn't complimentary.
As far as your cocaine needs go, however, you're on your own.
You left out the best part!:
"If Davidson wins and you are arrested while celebrating, bail will be posted for all charges of mischief, vandalism, wilful destruction of public property and simple assaults. While University policy prohibits the posting of bail for charges of sexual assault and aggravated battery, in the event of such a charge you will be provided with a minimum of one (1) character witness and referred to legal counsel in the area.
Finally, any student who successfully scores with Stephen Curry's mom will have a commemorative plaque bearing their likeness hung in the Donor's Wing, and will receive unlimited high fives for one (1) year."
@Camp Tiger Claw:
"Can We Win it?"
"Yes We Can!"
@Juancho: come for the basketball, stay for the violence and political intrigue!
@7-8 Deville: They're riding with the Wisconsin team?
My tiny liberal arts alma mater has fewer undergrads than Davidson. Tuition wasn't that bad there. It was close, though. Must be something in the water in the Southern Conference.
Before the avalanche of "well, everyone at Davidson can afford to go anyway, blah, blah, blah" begins, please note that nobody at Davidson graduates with *any* student loans. Of course, this began after I graduated.
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@ghostsoftheSCupcountry: Damn straight. The laundry service is pretty neato too.
And if you want a reason to root against Davidson: Dean Rusk went there.
Get excited, Detroiters! Buses have a LOT of hubcaps!
@Juancho:
Suck it.
/Detroiter
Note, the school will not be held liable if you cross over 8 mile.
@YukMouth: I'm just kidding, I like your town. I'm going up there in a couple of weeks.
/Clevelander
@Matt_T: What about Telegraph?
Yeah I had forgotten about the no more loans thing. Now, if Wofford had done that fifteen years ago, I'd be set.
After hearing about this, the NCAA has forced Davidson to forfeit their game against Wisconsin and placed the school on probation for 5 years.
That's badass. Bowling Green did a similar thing with the GMAC bowl, but made students pay for the ticket and bus ride. Although I feel that we should have been reimbursed seeing as we lost by 56 points.
@Juancho: hey now, my house used to be right off of Telegraph!
granted it was right off Telegraph 25 miles south of Detroit, but my point stands
@ghostsoftheSCupcountry: Better Dean Rusk than that crusty, old Dean Bitterman. I'm just glad Nerdlinger's "bra bomb" was a success. Yes! Take that Dean Bitterman!
I think the reason they decided to pay for it is because they're hoping those students spend the money they would have used on a ticket for a bulletproof vest.
@Weed Against Speed: Miniature 3 Musketeers?
The obvious:
That's the only way you'd get me to Detroit.
@Jerkwheat: I used to live off Telegraph at 5 mile. Stumbling distance from the Frog.
Good times.
@MattinglysSideburns: COREYYYYY!
@Matt_T: @Juancho: @Jerkwheat:
What about 23 Mile and Van Dyke. That's where my house used to be! Yeah, I'm a white suburbanite.
@Jerkwheat: Where did you live, like Monroe?
@The Man with No Name: Are you a fellow former Falcon?
Just remember kids, Windsor is just across the bridge.
Davidson students also have a free laundry service, except when Najeh Davenport comes for a weekend.
@Weed Against Speed: But it's all about the drinks. They really get you on the drinks.
My alma mater had more teachers than Davidson has students*!
*I went to Wisconsin.
@UkraineNotWeak: Casinos, legal hookers, Codeine Tylenol...the possibilities are endless.
@MattinglysSideburns: On the campus tour a long time ago, my dad asked about Dean Rusk's involvement with the school. The student giving the tour, completely thrown, started listing all of the current deans of the place one by one. Hilarious, and probably not the best spiel.
@Juancho: I am in graduate school here at the moment. I graduate in May '09.
You ever stay in town here during Spring Break when there is no one here? Yeah, I did that. Not a lot of fun. Just a lot of drinking.
@Weed Against Speed: They really shouldn't have used cinnamon-raisin.
@Juancho: ha! indeed! technically, our mailing address was LaSalle though. Goddamn Custer everywhere.
@UkraineNotWeak: Windsor served me very well from the ages of 19-21, back when the Canuckistan dollar was especially cheap too.
@The Man with No Name: I did two years of undergrad there, still consider myself a Falcon. Uh, yeah- there ain't much in BG besides boozing.
@Matt_T: The Davidson kids better not lose themselves in the music, the moment.
@Juancho: Its a MAC thing. 5 years at Western Michigan. Liver the size of Rhode Island.
@PenskeMaterial: Or a donut.
Def thought this happened at every school. So, to recap: most kids play and practice, what, 40-60 hours a week, without getting paid, and then have to haul their asses around the country on their dime?
/cranky old man
@Al Czerviks Ride to Denver via Albany: 2 years BG, 3 (and graduated) from Kent. I didn't drink til I was 21, so my organs were spared.
@Clare: +D12
The two dudes on the right are falling all over each other after yet another hilarious, no-punchline joke from their teammate Dane Cook.
@ghostsoftheSCupcountry: I should have went to Wofford or Converse, but USC-S it was.
Will there be banging on said bus?
Def thought this happened at every school. So, to recap: most kids play and practice, what, 40-60 hours a week, without getting paid, and then have to haul their asses around the country on their dime?
Yes.
No, they're paying for the students to go. Not just the student athletes.
@Matt_T: They're more like D10 now.
Tom Ross then returned to painting his happy little trees