UT team's home-game hotel stays to top $42K this season

In a practice at least 10 years old now, the team will again this year stay at a hotel on the Friday nights before home games, Tiffany Carpenter, UT sports information director, told me this morning. She said that's about $96 a room, with two players to a room. In all, they occupy about 55 rooms, she said. That's roughly $42,000 a year, but that does not include incidentals and meals. "Depending on the time of the game, you could have 3-4 meals there," Carpenter said in an e-mail.

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