A couple things, foremost, finance does not set prices. Revenue management does.

Hotel Director of Finance here. Please, for the love of Dog. If you find a better rate with an OTA, just call the hotel...We WILL match it.

Clearly Brad Stevens is coming back from the Celtics. I mean, it’s IU, his dream job!

Or bad pro teams. It’s pretty much the same price going to a Rockies game as and Indianapolis Indians game. Which is pretty sweet if you catch them playing a good team on a weekday.

Butler is in the Big East now, and finished 2nd, so...pretty good I’d say.

RE: Villanova

A major conference team playing in a mid-major conference, which makes it so much worse when people pretend their a viable contender.

Can we stop pretending Gonzaga beating up on mid-majors all season puts them in any position to win a title? 

“We don’t care about the NIT at IU we hang National Championship banners.”

I am constantly screaming Signal First, Brakes Second, to no one.

They would make you a Manhattan. It happens, with some frequency. No one but the “well, actually...” crowd gives a shit about the vodka martini thing, least of all bartenders.

Fredrick Noe told me that if you like ice in your whiskey, put fucking ice in your whiskey.

Did you happen to go to a different Big East school?

They play in a stripped down conference rarely on national TV.

Eh, in 2007 he hadn’t been exposed as a bad coach quite yet and was still riding the old man’s coattails and image.

I went cross country skiing for the first time about a month ago. I was on a course at a Nordic center, so the snowpack was really firm. I started going down a pretty steep hill and didn’t get leaned forward fast enough and went straight down on my ass, couldn’t have landed any more squarely on my tail bone. The jolt…

Step one: Don’t be a dick, we have to clean the rooms from the previous night and are at the mercy of when those guests leave. This shit isn’t magic.

True story, my high school German teacher duped the school district into paying for a trip for my senior German IV class to Chicago for a German /Austrian artist exhibit at the AIC. All that was window dressing bullshit...this trip was expressly to take the 8 of us to Berghoff, that’s it, we didn’t even go to the…

My dad had one of these!

Man, it’s weird to see Tommy looking like that...he definitely looks like he could fuck up ‘zee Germans.’