State Funded Travel Ban

cawacko said:
California has about ten states on a ban list for public employees to travel to on state money because of these states laws regarding gay marriage and gay rights. As a college athletics fan it now becomes interesting in will they let schools such as UCLA and Cal travel to play schools in those states in the future.


https://newsok.com/article/5596685/will-ucla-still-travel-to-norman-for-the-ou-football-game
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I know Auburn finalized a deal with home-home series with both Cal and UCLA that is about 5 years out so it the athletic departments may not think it's a big deal. But that could change once the exemptions run out and boosters get tired of footing the entirety of the travel bill.
 
cawacko said:
The coaches are (for state schools of course)
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Of course, but in an entourage of 100 people, or whatever college football teams travel with, if 98 percent of them are not state employees, I am sure state policy makes exceptions without it being a egregious example of "liberal hypocrisy", or whatever your point is.
 
Cypress said:
Of course, but in an entourage of 100 people, or whatever college football teams travel with, if 98 percent of them are not state employees, I am sure state policy makes exceptions without it being a egregious example of "liberal hypocrisy", or whatever your point is.
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I'm a (huge) sports fan. I live and die for college football and here's a case where a state's policy might play a role in how certain teams schedule. There's no big political point here. I know others on the board are college football fans as well and I thought might find this interesting.
 
cawacko said:
I'm a (huge) sports fan. I live and die for college football and here's a case where a state's policy might play a role in how certain teams schedule. There's no big political point here. I know others on the board are college football fans as well and I thought might find this interesting.
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Good point.
State policies always - and I mean always - have exemptions and caveats. I am sure Trojan coaches flying to Alabama or whatever, do not run a foul of state policy. In fact, I am positive that state travel to any ass-backwards, bible-thumping state can always be justified and approved on an "as needed" basis. They actually pay lawyers good money to review these policies, and you know lawyers are always going to put in a lot of fine print about exceptions and excemptions.
 
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