Looking forward to college gameday 10/29

[CHONGS]

@TheBigLead: What say you, @DesmondHoward? RT @beyondthebets: Most unlikely GameDay game ever? #3 Oklahoma at #10 Kansas State two weeks from now

goEMAW.com was told that if ou and ksu both made it to 7-0 then it was a done deal regardless. guess we'll see...

Someone told me they book gameday two weeks early 

to a degree yeah. next weeks has already been decided. i feel pretty confident at this point in time. don't think the gtech game made any difference. guess we'll see.

Ga Tech losing definitely didn't hurt our chances.

dividing zero by zero doesn't make it less than zero.

good lord no

no no no!

zero minus zero is still zero. 

true, but don't divide by zero plz thx

[Rage Against the McKee]

@TheBigLead: What say you, @DesmondHoward? RT @beyondthebets: Most unlikely GameDay game ever? #3 Oklahoma at #10 Kansas State two weeks from now

goEMAW.com was told that if ou and ksu both made it to 7-0 then it was a done deal regardless. guess we'll see...

Someone told me they book gameday two weeks early 

to a degree yeah. next weeks has already been decided. i feel pretty confident at this point in time. don't think the gtech game made any difference. guess we'll see.

Ga Tech losing definitely didn't hurt our chances.

dividing zero by zero doesn't make it less than zero.

good lord no

no no no!

zero minus zero is still zero. 

true, but don't divide by zero plz thx

When you divide by zero, you are limited to infinity. I'll take those odds on getting gameday.

[Dr Rick Daris]

@TheBigLead: What say you, @DesmondHoward? RT @beyondthebets: Most unlikely GameDay game ever? #3 Oklahoma at #10 Kansas State two weeks from now

goEMAW.com was told that if ou and ksu both made it to 7-0 then it was a done deal regardless. guess we'll see...

Someone told me they book gameday two weeks early 

to a degree yeah. next weeks has already been decided. i feel pretty confident at this point in time. don't think the gtech game made any difference. guess we'll see.

Ga Tech losing definitely didn't hurt our chances.

dividing zero by zero doesn't make it less than zero.

good lord no

no no no!

zero minus zero is still zero. 

true, but don't divide by zero plz thx

yeah. i was watching the ku/ou fball game and my dog was transcribing for me. we've gone over adding and minusing and plusing etc like a bajillion times but math is deffy his worst subject. i just dunno. social sciences???

[ChiComCat]

I've always wondered how they get hotel rooms for the entire ESPN crew, do they cancel reservations of regular people like j rake?

probably, but hotels usually save a few rooms(not many) and say they are full up

This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory that people believe.  Why the eff would anyone do this?  ESPN has the rooms because they block them when the games are announced.  They may ask for a few more rooms but the main difference is who they bring

[Dr Rick Daris]

I've always wondered how they get hotel rooms for the entire ESPN crew, do they cancel reservations of regular people like j rake?

probably, but hotels usually save a few rooms(not many) and say they are full up

This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory that people believe.  Why the eff would anyone do this?  ESPN has the rooms because they block them when the games are announced.  They may ask for a few more rooms but the main difference is who they bring

whatever he said.

[Rams]

I've always wondered how they get hotel rooms for the entire ESPN crew, do they cancel reservations of regular people like j rake?

probably, but hotels usually save a few rooms(not many) and say they are full up

This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory that people believe.  Why the eff would anyone do this?  ESPN has the rooms because they block them when the games are announced.  They may ask for a few more rooms but the main difference is who they bring

Are you saying that ESPN has rooms reserved at every FBS college town for every weekend of the football season?  That sounds rather unbelievable.  If you're saying that they reserve the rooms after the Gameday location is announced, that's just Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) since rooms sell out months in advance of the football season.

[ChiComCat]

I've always wondered how they get hotel rooms for the entire ESPN crew, do they cancel reservations of regular people like j rake?

probably, but hotels usually save a few rooms(not many) and say they are full up

This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory that people believe.  Why the eff would anyone do this?  ESPN has the rooms because they block them when the games are announced.  They may ask for a few more rooms but the main difference is who they bring

Are you saying that ESPN has rooms reserved at every FBS college town for every weekend of the football season?  That sounds rather unbelievable.  If you're saying that they reserve the rooms after the Gameday location is announced, that's just Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) since rooms sell out months in advance of the football season.

I'm saying they reserve rooms for a game they know they will televise (be it ESPNU, ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2) when the CFB schedule is announced

[Dr Rick Daris]

I've always wondered how they get hotel rooms for the entire ESPN crew, do they cancel reservations of regular people like j rake?

probably, but hotels usually save a few rooms(not many) and say they are full up

This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory that people believe.  Why the eff would anyone do this?  ESPN has the rooms because they block them when the games are announced.  They may ask for a few more rooms but the main difference is who they bring

Are you saying that ESPN has rooms reserved at every FBS college town for every weekend of the football season?  That sounds rather unbelievable.  If you're saying that they reserve the rooms after the Gameday location is announced, that's just Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) since rooms sell out months in advance of the football season.

he's saying the first and no it's not Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!). it's espn and they'd be Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) if they didn't. also, he's right.

[hemmy]

I heard they sleep in tents.  That is where the Erin Andrews peep hole video came from.

[Rams]

I've always wondered how they get hotel rooms for the entire ESPN crew, do they cancel reservations of regular people like j rake?

probably, but hotels usually save a few rooms(not many) and say they are full up

This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory that people believe.  Why the eff would anyone do this?  ESPN has the rooms because they block them when the games are announced.  They may ask for a few more rooms but the main difference is who they bring

Are you saying that ESPN has rooms reserved at every FBS college town for every weekend of the football season?  That sounds rather unbelievable.  If you're saying that they reserve the rooms after the Gameday location is announced, that's just Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) since rooms sell out months in advance of the football season.

he's saying the first and no it's not Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!). it's espn and they'd be Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) if they didn't. also, he's right.

I never said option A was Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!), I said it was "rather unbelievable"...yet not TOTALLY unbelievable.  I guess it makes sense that they would book rooms at all the locations where they might televise from (it doesn't cost anything, they have the manpower to book and cancel rooms, etc.), but that has to be a shitload of rooms for the Gameday crew doesn't it?  All of the additional production crew and staff above and beyond a normal game telecast.  So are you telling me that 10 or so additional rooms at the Holiday Inn might open up in the next week or so if Gameday decides to go elsewhere?

[MakeItRain]

I've always wondered how they get hotel rooms for the entire ESPN crew, do they cancel reservations of regular people like j rake?

probably, but hotels usually save a few rooms(not many) and say they are full up

This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory that people believe.  Why the eff would anyone do this?  ESPN has the rooms because they block them when the games are announced.  They may ask for a few more rooms but the main difference is who they bring

Are you saying that ESPN has rooms reserved at every FBS college town for every weekend of the football season?  That sounds rather unbelievable.  If you're saying that they reserve the rooms after the Gameday location is announced, that's just Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) since rooms sell out months in advance of the football season.

he's saying the first and no it's not Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!). it's espn and they'd be Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) if they didn't. also, he's right.

I never said option A was Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!), I said it was "rather unbelievable"...yet not TOTALLY unbelievable.  I guess it makes sense that they would book rooms at all the locations where they might televise from (it doesn't cost anything, they have the manpower to book and cancel rooms, etc.), but that has to be a shitload of rooms for the Gameday crew doesn't it?  All of the additional production crew and staff above and beyond a normal game telecast.  So are you telling me that 10 or so additional rooms at the Holiday Inn might open up in the next week or so if Gameday decides to go elsewhere?

This is what I was asking, for a Gameday weekend additional ESPN cast & crew will be in town, more so than a regular weekend.  Gameday crew, ESPN Radio people, ESPN.com writers, etc.

[kcchiefdav]

I've always wondered how they get hotel rooms for the entire ESPN crew, do they cancel reservations of regular people like j rake?

probably, but hotels usually save a few rooms(not many) and say they are full up

This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory that people believe.  Why the eff would anyone do this?  ESPN has the rooms because they block them when the games are announced.  They may ask for a few more rooms but the main difference is who they bring

Are you saying that ESPN has rooms reserved at every FBS college town for every weekend of the football season?  That sounds rather unbelievable.  If you're saying that they reserve the rooms after the Gameday location is announced, that's just Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) since rooms sell out months in advance of the football season.

he's saying the first and no it's not Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!). it's espn and they'd be Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) if they didn't. also, he's right.

I never said option A was Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!), I said it was "rather unbelievable"...yet not TOTALLY unbelievable.  I guess it makes sense that they would book rooms at all the locations where they might televise from (it doesn't cost anything, they have the manpower to book and cancel rooms, etc.), but that has to be a shitload of rooms for the Gameday crew doesn't it?  All of the additional production crew and staff above and beyond a normal game telecast.  So are you telling me that 10 or so additional rooms at the Holiday Inn might open up in the next week or so if Gameday decides to go elsewhere?

This is what I was asking, for a Gameday weekend additional ESPN cast & crew will be in town, more so than a regular weekend.  Gameday crew, ESPN Radio people, ESPN.com writers, etc.

ESPN calls AD JC, "JC, we want to put your school on national TV for 3 hours next Saturday, can u find us accommodations for 50 extra people?"

Currie has 2 options at this point: 1)Turn down millions in free advertizing or 2)call up the rough ridin' holiday inn and tell them to get on the phone to every idiot with reservations for the next weekend and let them know that the university is willing to buy out their room for the next weekend in exchange for whatever the eff they want.

[ChiComCat]

Getting KSU on ESPN Gameday does nothing for Holiday Inn. They are still selling out every weekend there is a game.  ESPN tries to pressure hotels for an extra 10 rooms, but worse case, ESPN tells the additional 10 rooms worth of interns/lowly writers to stay at Fairfield/Quality or drive from JC/Salina.

[TheProdigiousTalent]

Dear god, bros, enough already about hotel rooms for the College Gameday crew.  Can you go discuss this on the politics board or something?  

[michigancat]

Getting KSU on ESPN Gameday does nothing for Holiday Inn. They are still selling out every weekend there is a game.  ESPN tries to pressure hotels for an extra 10 rooms, but worse case, ESPN tells the additional 10 rooms worth of interns/lowly writers to stay at Fairfield/Quality or drive from JC/Salina.

I would take the marriott points and run.

[MadCat]

I've always wondered how they get hotel rooms for the entire ESPN crew, do they cancel reservations of regular people like j rake?

probably, but hotels usually save a few rooms(not many) and say they are full up

This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory that people believe.  Why the eff would anyone do this?  ESPN has the rooms because they block them when the games are announced.  They may ask for a few more rooms but the main difference is who they bring

Are you saying that ESPN has rooms reserved at every FBS college town for every weekend of the football season?  That sounds rather unbelievable.  If you're saying that they reserve the rooms after the Gameday location is announced, that's just Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) since rooms sell out months in advance of the football season.

he's saying the first and no it's not Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!). it's espn and they'd be Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) if they didn't. also, he's right.

I never said option A was Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!), I said it was "rather unbelievable"...yet not TOTALLY unbelievable.  I guess it makes sense that they would book rooms at all the locations where they might televise from (it doesn't cost anything, they have the manpower to book and cancel rooms, etc.), but that has to be a shitload of rooms for the Gameday crew doesn't it?  All of the additional production crew and staff above and beyond a normal game telecast.  So are you telling me that 10 or so additional rooms at the Holiday Inn might open up in the next week or so if Gameday decides to go elsewhere?

This is what I was asking, for a Gameday weekend additional ESPN cast & crew will be in town, more so than a regular weekend.  Gameday crew, ESPN Radio people, ESPN.com writers, etc.

I worked at a hotel in Champaign, IL during the year that Soldier Field was being worked on.  We were also one of the closest hotels to the stadium so the refs, TV crews, etc. usually stayed there.  The hotel intentionally overbooked continually.  They banked on people cancelling and whoever checked in late was SOL.  The local airlines had contracts with the hotel, so we were obligated to find rooms somewhere else for pilots if we were full.

[theymightbegiants]

They could always just stay in aggieville.... I'm sure a few sideline reporters would have no problem finding their own places to crash.

[GoodForAnother]

they'll stay at prince's vacant house, or in wefald's trundle bed

[ChiComCat]

I've always wondered how they get hotel rooms for the entire ESPN crew, do they cancel reservations of regular people like j rake?

probably, but hotels usually save a few rooms(not many) and say they are full up

This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory that people believe.  Why the eff would anyone do this?  ESPN has the rooms because they block them when the games are announced.  They may ask for a few more rooms but the main difference is who they bring

Are you saying that ESPN has rooms reserved at every FBS college town for every weekend of the football season?  That sounds rather unbelievable.  If you're saying that they reserve the rooms after the Gameday location is announced, that's just Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) since rooms sell out months in advance of the football season.

he's saying the first and no it's not Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!). it's espn and they'd be Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) if they didn't. also, he's right.

I never said option A was Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!), I said it was "rather unbelievable"...yet not TOTALLY unbelievable.  I guess it makes sense that they would book rooms at all the locations where they might televise from (it doesn't cost anything, they have the manpower to book and cancel rooms, etc.), but that has to be a shitload of rooms for the Gameday crew doesn't it?  All of the additional production crew and staff above and beyond a normal game telecast.  So are you telling me that 10 or so additional rooms at the Holiday Inn might open up in the next week or so if Gameday decides to go elsewhere?

This is what I was asking, for a Gameday weekend additional ESPN cast & crew will be in town, more so than a regular weekend.  Gameday crew, ESPN Radio people, ESPN.com writers, etc.

I worked at a hotel in Champaign, IL during the year that Soldier Field was being worked on.  We were also one of the closest hotels to the stadium so the refs, TV crews, etc. usually stayed there.  The hotel intentionally overbooked continually.  They banked on people cancelling and whoever checked in late was SOL.  The local airlines had contracts with the hotel, so we were obligated to find rooms somewhere else for pilots if we were full.

I'd imagine its different for an NFL game.  Those get some sort of a national audience on some network and are all televised.

Dear god, bros, enough already about hotel rooms for the College Gameday crew.  Can you go discuss this on the politics board or something?   

He's correct. Nobody should give a crap about this anyways

[MadCat]

I've always wondered how they get hotel rooms for the entire ESPN crew, do they cancel reservations of regular people like j rake?

probably, but hotels usually save a few rooms(not many) and say they are full up

This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory that people believe.  Why the eff would anyone do this?  ESPN has the rooms because they block them when the games are announced.  They may ask for a few more rooms but the main difference is who they bring

Are you saying that ESPN has rooms reserved at every FBS college town for every weekend of the football season?  That sounds rather unbelievable.  If you're saying that they reserve the rooms after the Gameday location is announced, that's just Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) since rooms sell out months in advance of the football season.

he's saying the first and no it's not Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!). it's espn and they'd be Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) if they didn't. also, he's right.

I never said option A was Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!), I said it was "rather unbelievable"...yet not TOTALLY unbelievable.  I guess it makes sense that they would book rooms at all the locations where they might televise from (it doesn't cost anything, they have the manpower to book and cancel rooms, etc.), but that has to be a shitload of rooms for the Gameday crew doesn't it?  All of the additional production crew and staff above and beyond a normal game telecast.  So are you telling me that 10 or so additional rooms at the Holiday Inn might open up in the next week or so if Gameday decides to go elsewhere?

This is what I was asking, for a Gameday weekend additional ESPN cast & crew will be in town, more so than a regular weekend.  Gameday crew, ESPN Radio people, ESPN.com writers, etc.

I worked at a hotel in Champaign, IL during the year that Soldier Field was being worked on.  We were also one of the closest hotels to the stadium so the refs, TV crews, etc. usually stayed there.  The hotel intentionally overbooked continually.  They banked on people cancelling and whoever checked in late was SOL.  The local airlines had contracts with the hotel, so we were obligated to find rooms somewhere else for pilots if we were full.

I'd imagine its different for an NFL game.  Those get some sort of a national audience on some network and are all televised.

The U of Illinois had games...I couldn't tell much of a difference other than the Bears fans tipped a lot better. $$$

[ChiComCat]

Fair enough, but as you know those games, I know the Manhattan ones.  And being in a bigger city, I would imagine you had more competition for those contracts.  In Manhattan, there are really only 2 hotels that are nice enough to compete (maybe 3 once the Garden Inn opens).