You're absolutely right. Bielema really hates Purdue. The Peoria Charter bus kerfuffle tells you as much.
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If we get up big on Purdont, he will run up the score.
What is the Peoria Charter bus kerfuffle?
I doubt it .
it’s just not like him to do that
if we are up by +17 in 4th qtr ( let’s hope) we will see some 2nd & 3rd stringers in
And they migrate as the shadow moves!
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
They contracted with Purdue when PU was hard up for a charter. We cancelled our contract with them and are now using a company out of Iowa to bus our teams
I missed the memo on that one; as well.
URBANA — Peoria Charter’s CEO says his company was abruptly notified last month that the University of Illinois athletic department was ending its two-decade transportation partnership — with little explanation as to why.
https://www.news-gazette.com/busine...cle_292a0cec-3e07-11ef-aad0-7bba2a856512.html
I hope you're right and think you are. I also think we can beat Michigan at home.
I think we can beat Michigan, but our Defense has got to stop the run to beat them. AHen had got to go heavy box and make them beat our strength in the secondary.
True but it seems some way, somehow, Purdue comes up with a herculean effort in the trenches to beat Illinois. PU can't repeat it again, it's only vs. Illinois
.Anyway and any score will be a good win vs. PU.
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Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
There was discussion on this a couple months ago, I don't recall the exact thread but you may be able to search and find it.
Others will disagree, but if all the smoke was true then not a great look IMO. Can't fault a company for trying to develop new business UNLESS we had an exclusivity agreement with them. If we did then never mind.
As I remember there were some (insiders?) who felt Bret was in the right so perhaps there is more to the story. But on the face, punishing an Illinois company for taking Indiana work, then hiring an Iowa company to serve Illinois seems odd.
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- Batavia
I agree, there must be more to it that we don't know. I am not freaking out about it, but at face value it's hard to fault a company from finding customers unless there was some exclusivity agreement.
And what’s the point of exclusivity? If your carrier finds more business to burden their fleet, it helps to hold costs down for everybody. We don’t expect exclusivity from suppliers of equipment, apparel, food/drinks, airlines, etc. Why charter coaches?
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
It's tough for me to understand the benefit of exclusivity for a company that is providing a service as far from proprietary as transportation.
$$$$$. Lower cost if you go with an exclusive supplier.
There has to be more to the story, we only ever heard Peoria Charter's side.
Actually it’s the opposite because you restrict your provider’s ability to burden his assets. Imagine what you’d pay for the privilege of having an exclusive airline, preventing them from carrying other teams. I’m sure you could negotiate such an agreement, but you’d pay dearly for it.
So why do believe IL and (I would assume most other athletic programs) would seek out exclusivity?
Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
I suppose to avoid the scenario where the supplier's fully-utilized assets are unavailable to you but are available to a competitor.
"Hey Peoria Charter, this is Illinois and we need a bus."
Green light, all is well: "No problem, we have one available."
Yellow light, annoying but somewhat understandable: "So sorry, there has been an accident and we don't have a bus right now."
Red light, unacceptable: "Sorry, no buses available, Coach Walters is using them."
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
Primarily the ability to have guaranteed travel on demand with short notice (this is highly important to major programs...allows travel flexibility). I mean sure, you can probably get some pricing discount if you were traveling on a very large scale. However, cheapest pricing is not the primary reason for these agreements (from the buying side).
With such competition available and an everchanging environment for travel, these exclusivity agreements might slowly go away.
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