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Heres the sales pitch by ACross

If you let us handle it, and let us pick the location, you and all employees and extended family can stay gratis. All we need is the exclusive concession. We will arrange the charter planes for the team and non essential staff and their extended families and charge full freight. And you also give us the hwads up so we can book the 3 best hotels. We will house the team and coaching staff and every athletic department and their entire extended families and guess what? Charge the University full freight to the extend we can and wink wink we can give out free rooms to those whom you designate. Finally give us the alumni travel full and exclusive concession and we will squeeze every dollar out of those dumb Irish Micks. They probably give the same pep talk to the deciders as Jordan Belfort gave in the Wolf of Wall Street.