NCAA Tournament 2025

[Kuiper]

I think Tufts said they flew into and out of Charlotte, was thinking all teams did that?

You fly where the NCAA can get flights.  From San Antonio, GSO was the option.

Easier airport access was probably one of the selling points for Columbus or Pittsburgh, the next two Final Four sites.

[Hopkins92]

I hear Dallas might have an airport or two.

(And I know you've laid out the business case for Pitt and CLB... I just have a hard time with the NCAA putting outdoor Final Four games in obvious snow country.)

[Ron Boerger]

A championship proposal in Dallas would likely have to be submitted by the SCAC, co-hosted by UDallas/Austin, neither of which have been terribly successful at the sport on either men's or women's side.  Then again, the ASC was a co-sponsor of a couple (rather poorly attended) football championships in the Houston area, so they could submit as well I guess.

But even in Dallas it can get cold.  Women had their championships in San Antonio back in the teens for a couple of years - the one year I went, temps were in the 30s (but no snow).  Dallas does see snow on occasion, but more often it's ice.  In either case, from personal experience, you don't want to be travelling there when either occur. 

[Kuiper]

Cool story from Tufts coach Kyle Dezotell.  Reposting a video of an Oregon equipment staffer rushing over to give an Indiana player the ball he used to score a touchdown on an interception in the CFB semifinal game, he relayed the following:

This is great. When we won the national championship in golden goal OT one month ago, the
@TrinitySoccerTX
 Asst Coach grabbed the ball out of the net as our team celebrated and gave it to us to keep for posterity. PSA from me - people are generally good and mean well.

Kudos to the Trinity coach.  There are plenty of coaches who would be bitter or just dismayed in that moment and wouldn't think to do that.  And kudos to Dezotell for acknowledging that.