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I like the stay-over concept, but does it work with the NCAA rules about a day off per week?  IDK. Consider you might like to practice the nighr after daytime away matches. Or use the evening for video review or prep as a group. Or, gasp, study time. 

As for the added cost, it is probably in the noise. Currently the school doesn’t pay the athletes per day other than $30 per diem. The school is feeding them whether at home or away. It might involve a bit more cost for the bus and one more night hotel. If it saves a charter flight by using commercial flights, it should be cheaper. Unless you’re flying them all first class. 

But the other added cost is missing classes.  Since every sport except football probably has a Sunday match as the last match on a trip, that is probably the most critical cost.  At least for schools that still care about athletes also being students (the NCAA seems to)

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I like the stay-over concept, but does it work with the NCAA rules about a day off per week?  IDK. Consider you might like to practice the nighr after daytime away matches. Or use the evening for video review or prep as a group. Or, gasp, study time. 

As for the added cost, it is probably in the noise. Currently the school doesn’t pay the athletes per day other than $30 per diem. The school is feeding them whether at home or away. It might involve a bit more cost for the bus and one more night hotel. If it saves a charter flight by using commercial flights, it should be cheaper. Unless you’re flying them all first class. 

But the other added cost is missing classes.  Since every sport except football probably has a Sunday match as the last match on a trip, that is probably the most critical cost.  At least for schools that still care about athletes also being students (the NCAA seems to)