Bowl Preparations
After today’s announcement of the student ticket lottery for bowl tickets talk of the trip is finally turning serious. Well, serious for a larger number of people. I’ve known for a few weeks now that if the bowl is Orange, then I will be there. Janos had the foresight to order Orange Bowl tickets while we still had 2 games left. Wasn’t all that big of a risk, if we wind up in a different bowl then you sell them, hopefully for the same amount that the bowl ticket we need is going for.
The focus is still on Orange. We have been led to believe by just about every sports reporter that Notre Dame is going to the Fiesta Bowl. Not that they even deserve a BCS bid, but thats a story for another time. Here are the details as far as Orange was concerned. The original plan, after Janos first bought the tickets would have been to fly to Orlando and hopefully have lodging at the Crawford residence. Then drive the 3.5 hours to Miami for the game and somehow drive back after. With more people starting to jump on board plans have to change. First, would be a dream scenario if everyone were able to find a place in the Orlando area we could call up our good friends at Carl’s Rent-A-Van and get a sweet ride. The dream of renting a van from Carl dates back to Sophomore year when a whole bunch of people were interested in going on Spring Break, we all know how that story ended. However finding enough space in Orlando would require a few hotel rooms and why pay for rooms in Orlando, go to Miami. So with our good friend Expedia we looked into the options. Turns out it may be cheaper to get a package from Expedia than to do it in pieces. We found an excellent Indian Casino across from Everglades National Park. Package includes airfare and a rental car. Four people per room and car, $311/person for 3 nights. Unbelieveable! I should do this anyway, bowl game or not. I even changed some options, if you add days it gets cheaper, I guess the plane ticket is the largest portion of the price. When I changed the trip from 1/1 to ΒΌ to 1/1 to 1/6 it went down to $283 a person.
Anyway this is all up in the air. Our students need to get themselves tickets. We need to root this weekend for UCLA and Colorado, and even Virginia State (cause I want them to win the ACC, I said early in the season that I thought the most fun bowl matchup we could have would be Virginia Tech). It really doesn’t matter what happens, a trip is going to happen and its going to rock. If we stay at an Indian Casino, well then this trip really will have no ceiling for greatness.