Good get for SIU/Carbondale:
https://twitter.com/mvcsports/status/1134184749449265152?s=21
This is wonderful news!
Assuming players, coaches, and official entourage is around 50 people per school... where do they stay? Carbondale runs out of hotel rooms in a hurry. Marion will help, but will teams have to book lodging as far out as Mt. Vernon?
Plenty of empty dorm rooms......
can't afford to get rid of the coach but we can afford to buy this tournament? fail to see the point in this move. let's get our house in order first and then buy the tournament
Agree this is great. Now we just need a baseball team.
March on triumphantly!
can't afford to get rid of the coach but we can afford to buy this tournament? fail to see the point in this move. let's get our house in order first and then buy the tournament
Hey BB, any idea what it costs to land this big boy?
I'm not sayin' -- I'm just sayin'!
This is wonderful news!
Assuming players, coaches, and official entourage is around 50 people per school... where do they stay? Carbondale runs out of hotel rooms in a hurry. Marion will help, but will teams have to book lodging as far out as Mt. Vernon?
I’m kind of surprised they didn’t just use Rent One Park. But I guess they like to keep them on campus.
This is wonderful news!
Assuming players, coaches, and official entourage is around 50 people per school... where do they stay? Carbondale runs out of hotel rooms in a hurry. Marion will help, but will teams have to book lodging as far out as Mt. Vernon?
I’m kind of surprised they didn’t just use Rent One Park. But I guess they like to keep them on campus.
Kind of late to the conversation, but the OVC is having their tournament in Marion at Rent One during the same days as our tournament. I am pretty sure pretty much all of the baseball conference tournaments basically happen during the same weekend nationwide.
This is wonderful news!
Assuming players, coaches, and official entourage is around 50 people per school... where do they stay? Carbondale runs out of hotel rooms in a hurry. Marion will help, but will teams have to book lodging as far out as Mt. Vernon?
I’m kind of surprised they didn’t just use Rent One Park. But I guess they like to keep them on campus.
Kind of late to the conversation, but the OVC is having their tournament in Marion at Rent One during the same days as our tournament. I am pretty sure pretty much all of the baseball conference tournaments basically happen during the same weekend nationwide.
I never realized this. That’s pretty cool that Southern Illinois will have both baseball tournaments going on at the same time. I’ve got to imagine this will stretch the hotel capacity in Carbondale/Marion.
Any word on if SIU will host in 2021 since the season was cancelled? I've been hearing that the MVC is going to have a meeting about permanently cutting most of the conference tournaments, but I have no idea if baseball is on that list of not.
That will make hotel accommodations that much tighter! at least on the first day.
At least Cape & Paducah are only a 45 minute drive to Marion/SIU. Mt Vernon is an hour to SIU.
(I remember that the last DII NCAA football Playoff game at SIU, the opposing team was staying in at the best value inn in West Frankfort)
12 hotels in Marion, and 7 in Carbondale, at least the first 2 days would be tight.
