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UF staffers racked up travel costs while working remotely

The University of Florida spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on travel for highly paid Republican hires of then-President Ben Sasse , who permitted them to work from home in other states while commuting periodically to the school’s campus, according to newly released records.

The new figures add to mounting questions about unusually high expenditures of public money by the university president’s office until Sasse’s unexpected resignation last month. More than half the $211,824 itemized expenses attributed to six of his senior UF hires working remotely over 17 months was for airfare or train tickets, plus nearly $50,000 more for hotels.

The costs included all their work-related travel, not just back and forth to UF from their home states — including Nebraska, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The university finally turned over more than 1,500 itemized expense entries for these employees in response to requests filed July 30 under Florida’s public records law. 

More than half the travel expenses specified that they covered campus visits. Others did not always indicate any destination, citing costs for “trip” with no other detail about locations.

In the records UF turned over, lodging costs did not specify whether the employees stayed in budget-style hotels run by popular chains or luxury suites. Most of the rooms appeared to run $150 or $300 per night. Meal costs did not indicate the name or type of restaurant or whether the appointees dined alone.

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The itemized expenses include a nearly $3,300 plane ticket to San Francisco for a three-day trip in January, $450.26 for dinner during a three-day campus visit in April, $90.90 for lunch in April, $266 for a one-day car rental in October and $1.78 for a four-mile drive in a personal car in September. It wasn’t immediately clear who at UF approved each expense item.

Professors and administrative staff at the university are limited to spending no more than $19 for dinner or $11 for lunch and car reimbursement of 44.5 cents per mile when traveling. They can spend more on meals when they entertain donors or prospective donors, but the university urges them to “still adhere as closely to the allowable limits as practical.”

Sasse, the former GOP senator from Nebraska, said “it’s not true” in a statement earlier this month on social media that there was any inappropriate spending by the president’s office. 

“Fiscal stewardship is a fundamental obligation of public institutions — and also because our alumni, donors and hardworking taxpayers should be confident that such stewardship and oversight have been and are being exercised,” Sasse wrote. “They are.”

Early in his tenure as UF president, Sasse told professors in closed-door meetings that he recognized it would be difficult to recruit top performers to move to Gainesville, a college town of about 200,000 in an area of Florida known as “the swamp” because of its humid, rainy weather. He proposed more remote teaching, adding new campuses outside Gainesville and using technology to overcome what he described as “traditional notions of place-and-time teaching.”

Gainesville has limited entertainment options, a municipal airport with few direct connections, a surprisingly high violent crime rate and among the most expensive utility rates in Florida. It’s 90 minutes from Florida’s nice beaches.

A spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis, Bryan Griffin, said the governor’s office had been in touch earlier this month with the State University System and its Board of Governors, which oversees Florida’s public universities, to look into Sasse’s expenditure of state funds. The state’s chief financial officer, Jimmy Patronis, separately urged the same agency to investigate Sasse’s spending, saying his office would provide audit support.

In a possible signal over concerns about the spending, UF has announced that, going forward, all expenses paid out of the university president’s office will be reviewed twice each year and will be the subject of a formal report to the school’s Board of Trustees. 

UF also disclosed this week that — since Sasse’s resignation — it has terminated the jobs of four of six of the employees whose travel records it provided, and a fifth resigned. 

It also fired at least one other senior Republican appointee by Sasse, Penny Schwinn, who had been allowed to work as vice president for K-12 education from her home in Tennessee for a salary of $367,500. It agreed to pay her three months’ salary, or about $92,000, when it fired her, effective July 31. Schwinn was the former Republican commissioner of education for Tennessee.

It also fired Taylor Sliva, assistant vice president of presidential communications and public affairs, who was making $255,000 and had been paid $15,000 to move to Gainesville. Sliva was Sasse’s former press secretary in the Senate. Most professors hired at UF are reimbursed up to $5,000 in moving costs. UF agreed to pay him three months’ salary, or about $64,000, when it fired him, effective Aug. 5. Sliva had been renting a three-bedroom home in Gainesville and still owns a home in Nebraska, according to property records.

The other employees who spent $211,824 in travel were: 

• Raymond Sass, hired as UF’s first-ever vice president for innovation and partnerships with a salary of $396,000 and working from his home in Maryland. Sass was the former chief of staff for Sasse when he served as a U.S. senator from Nebraska. He resigned Aug. 2, according to records obtained by  Fresh Take Florida , a news service of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. “While it is difficult to step away, I believe the time is right for me to explore new challenges and opportunities,” he wrote. Sass spent at least $63,917 in travel expenses, including nearly $1,800 on flights, hotel, car rental, parking, mileage and meals during a three-day campus visit last month.
• James Wegmann, who previously served as Sasse’s communications director during his time in the Senate, still works remotely from Washington as a vice president for communications. Wegmann spent at least $41,594 on travel, including at least $20,573 on plane tickets, and is paid $432,000.
• Alice James Burns, director of presidential relations and major events, and who previously worked for Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina. Burns was paid $206,000 and worked from Washington. UF agreed to pay her three months’ salary, or about $52,000, when it fired her, effective Aug. 1. She spent at least $34,179 on travel, including $14,640 on airfare and nearly $13,000 on hotels..
• Kari Ridder, hired as an adviser to Sasse and who previously worked as state policy director for Sasse in the Senate, was paid $122,400 while living in Nebraska. UF fired Ridder on July 31, the same day Sasse resigned, and told her she would continue to be paid until Nov. 1 and work remotely the whole time. She spent at least $17,151 on travel, including $8,637 on airfare.
• Kelicia Rice, hired at UF as an adviser to Sasse, and made $138,000 while working from her home in Virginia. She was previously a scheduler for Sasse when he was a senator. UF fired her on Aug. 1, effective Nov. 1, and told her she will continue to be paid to work remotely during her final three months. She spent at least $10,652 on travel, including $5,441 on plane tickets.
• Raven Shirley, who lives in Washington, was hired at UF as executive assistant to Sasse and paid $126,000. She was previously director of operations for Sasse in the Senate. UF fired her effective Aug. 1 and agreed to pay her three months’ salary, or about $31,500. Shirley spent at least $22,230 on travel and booked $22,102 more in travel costs on behalf of others, including Sasse, Rice, Ridder, Sliva and Wegmann.

Sasse, 52, attributed his decision to resign to a recent epilepsy diagnosis and new memory issues facing his wife, Melissa, who suffered an aneurysm and series of strokes in 2007. He said he also wanted to spend more time with his children, including his college-age daughters and 13-year-old son.

Hired 17 months earlier, Sasse was paid a base salary of $1 million plus a performance bonus of up to $150,000 each year — guaranteed him the job through at least February 2028. The same contract required six months’ notice for Sasse to resign unless the chairman of the board of trustees, Mori Hosseini, waived that provision.

Sasse has said his family would remain in Gainesville and he will serve as president emeritus and teach classes as a professor at the university. As president, Sasse and his family have been living in a gated, multimillion-dollar mansion on campus next to the law school.

Sasse will be required to leave the mansion by Sept. 30. UF agreed to continue to pay Sasse a base salary of just over $1 million through February 2028 and provide medical, dental, life and disability insurance benefits, according to a contract addendum dated July 18, the same day Sasse publicly announced his resignation.

The salary for Sasse through 2028 was similar to how much UF has been paying its previous president, Kent Fuchs, since he resigned in 2023 after eight years. Fuchs, who has taught engineering students, has agreed to serve as interim president until July 31 next year. UF said it will pay him $1 million base salary as interim president plus a bonus of up to 15% and will create a $5 million endowed professorship in his name in the engineering college.

After Sasse resigned, UF also announced it was rehiring Joseph Glover as its provost, the school’s top academic official. Glover had resigned to become provost at the University of Arizona in April. His new contract with UF pays him $672,000 plus a $50,000 recruitment bonus.

This story was produced by Fresh Take Florida, a news service of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. The reporter can be reached at  [email protected] .

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Cockermouth Travel remained open and on-call 24/7 during the Covid-19 pandemic, even though the travel industry shut down

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A Cumbrian travel agent has slammed the lack of Government support during the pandemic, despite being the worst-hit industry.

Cockermouth Travel remained open and on-call 24/7 during the Covid-19 pandemic, even though the travel industry shut down.

Paul Cusack, owner of the business, highlighted how travel has been one of the worst-hit industries, yet says they have received no help or support from the Government like other sectors have.

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He said: "We are about 99 per cent down year on year. We had to trade because we had hundreds of existing bookings that needed to be cancelled, changed or refunded.

"Every booking we had in place in March last year has either been cancelled and refunded or changed.

"No one actually makes any money until people can get on a plane, go on holiday and come back. So as an industry every travel agent and tour operator in the UK hasn't made a bean since last March."

During the pandemic, the workload was spread between the team meaning that on average Mr Cusack was working about six hours a week.

Cockermouth Travel wouldn't have been able to close, even if they wanted to, as the staff needed to be on hand to deal with existing bookings and queries customers had about their upcoming holidays.

Even though restrictions have eased and people can travel more freely within the UK, this hasn't affected bookings.

Mr Cusack explained: "95 per cent of domestic bookings people do themselves. So that hasn't been any help at all."

Speaking about the green list, Mr Cusack said: "The only actual country that is on the green list is Malta, all the other countries are on the green watch list and could go to amber at any point.

"What has really irked the travel industry is the Greek Islands. The Government said back in February, March time that if a population of a destination had been fully vaccinated then they would allow travel to that destination.

"But yet it's not making it onto the green list. So far one of the issues that the travel industry has with the green list is that the government has so far refused to publish the criteria of making it on or off the green list.

"So we're all working blind."

Last week workers in the travel industry protested at Westminster due to the lack of support.

"People from all parts of the travel industry, airline staff, tour operators, travel agents, everyone was there protesting.

"The reasons we are protesting is because the government has in effect shut us down for the last six months but yet they refuse to give us support for that.

"Statistically, according to the governments own office of national statistics, travel is the worst affected hit industry with regard to Covid yet we are the one they continue to ignore in terms of sector-specific support."

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UF staff spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel after Sasse OK’d remote work

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GAINESVILLE — The University of Florida spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on travel for highly paid Republican hires of then-President Ben Sasse, who permitted them to work from home in other states while commuting periodically to the school’s campus, according to newly released records.

The new figures add to mounting questions about unusually high expenditures of public money by the university president’s office until Sasse’s unexpected resignation last month. More than half the $211,824 itemized expenses attributed to six of his senior UF hires working remotely over 17 months was for airfare or train tickets, plus nearly $50,000 more for hotels.

The costs included all their work-related travel, not just back and forth to UF from their home states — including Nebraska, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The university finally turned over more than 1,500 itemized expense entries for these employees in response to requests filed July 30 under Florida’s public records law.

More than half the travel expenses specified that they covered campus visits. Others did not always indicate any destination, citing costs for “trip” with no other detail about locations.

In the records UF turned over, lodging costs did not specify whether the employees stayed in budget-style hotels run by popular chains or luxury suites. Most of the rooms appeared to run $150 or $300 per night. Meal costs did not indicate the name or type of restaurant or whether the appointees dined alone.

The itemized expenses include a nearly $3,300 plane ticket to San Francisco for a three-day trip in January, $450.26 for dinner during a three-day campus visit in April, $90.90 for lunch in April, $266 for a one-day car rental in October and $1.78 for a four-mile drive in a personal car in September. It wasn’t immediately clear who at UF approved each expense item.

Professors and administrative staff at the university are limited to spending no more than $19 for dinner or $11 for lunch when traveling. They can spend more on meals when they entertain donors or prospective donors, but the university urges them to “still adhere as closely to the allowable limits as practical.”

Sasse, the former GOP senator from Nebraska, said, “it’s not true” in a statement earlier this month on social media that there was any inappropriate spending by the president’s office.

“Fiscal stewardship is a fundamental obligation of public institutions — and also because our alumni, donors, and hardworking taxpayers should be confident that such stewardship and oversight have been and are being exercised,” Sasse wrote. “They are.”

Early in his tenure as UF president, Sasse told professors in closed-door meetings that he recognized it would be difficult to recruit top performers to move to Gainesville, a college town of about 200,000 in an area of Florida known as “the swamp” because of its humid, rainy weather. He proposed more remote teaching, adding new campuses outside Gainesville and using technology to overcome what he described as “traditional notions of place-and-time teaching.”

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A spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis, Bryan Griffin, said the governor’s office had been in touch earlier this month with the State University System and its Board of Governors, which oversees Florida’s public universities, to look into Sasse’s expenditure of state funds . The state’s chief financial officer, Jimmy Patronis, separately urged the same agency to investigate Sasse’s spending, saying his office would provide audit support.

In a possible signal over concerns about the spending, UF has announced that, going forward, all expenses paid out of the university president’s office will be reviewed twice each year and will be the subject of a formal report to the school’s Board of Trustees.

UF also disclosed this week that — since Sasse’s resignation — it has terminated the jobs of four of six of the employees whose travel records it provided, and a fifth resigned.

It also fired at least one other senior Republican appointee by Sasse, Penny Schwinn, who had been allowed to work as vice president for K-12 education from her home in Tennessee for a salary of $367,500. It agreed to pay her three months’ salary, or about $92,000, when it fired her, effective July 31. Schwinn was the former Republican commissioner of education for Tennessee.

It also fired Taylor Sliva, assistant vice president of presidential communications and public affairs, who was making $255,000 and had been paid $15,000 to move to Gainesville. Sliva was Sasse’s former press secretary in the Senate.

Most professors hired at UF are reimbursed up to $5,000 in moving costs. UF agreed to pay him three months’ salary, or about $64,000, when it fired him, effective Aug. 5. Sliva had been renting a three-bedroom home in Gainesville and still owns a home in Nebraska, according to property records.

Sasse was paid a base salary of $1 million plus a performance bonus of up to $150,000 each year. The same contract required six months’ notice for Sasse to resign unless the chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mori Hosseini, waived that provision.

Sasse has said his family would remain in Gainesville, and he will serve as president emeritus and teach classes as a professor at the university. As president, Sasse and his family have been living in a gated, multimillion-dollar mansion on campus next to the law school.

Sasse will be required to leave the mansion by Sept. 30. UF agreed to continue to pay Sasse a base salary of just over $1 million through February 2028 and provide medical, dental, life and disability insurance benefits, according to a contract addendum dated July 18, the same day Sasse publicly announced his resignation.

This story was produced by Fresh Take Florida, a news service of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. The reporter can be reached at [email protected] .

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The new figures add to mounting questions about unusually high expenditures of public money by the university president’s office until Sasse’s unexpected resignation last month. More than half the $211,824 itemized expenses attributed to six of his senior UF hires working remotely over 17 months was for airfare or train tickets, plus nearly $50,000 more for hotels.

The costs included all their work-related travel, not just back and forth to UF from their home states — including Nebraska, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The university finally turned over more than 1,500 itemized expense entries for these employees in response to requests filed July 30 under Florida’s public records law.

More than half the travel expenses specified that they covered campus visits. Others did not always indicate any destination, citing costs for “trip” with no other detail about locations.

In the records UF turned over, lodging costs did not specify whether the employees stayed in budget-style hotels run by popular chains or luxury suites. Most of the rooms appeared to run $150 or $300 per night. Meal costs did not indicate the name or type of restaurant or whether the appointees dined alone.

Sasse stepped down. Donors and top officials say he was forced out.

The itemized expenses include a nearly $3,300 plane ticket to San Francisco for a three-day trip in January, $450.26 for dinner during a three-day campus visit in April, $90.90 for lunch in April, $266 for a one-day car rental in October and $1.78 for a 4-mile drive in a personal car in September. It wasn’t immediately clear who at UF approved each expense item.

Professors and administrative staff at the university are limited to spending no more than $19 for dinner or $11 for lunch and car reimbursement of 44.5 cents per mile when traveling. They can spend more on meals when they entertain donors or prospective donors, but the university urges them to “still adhere as closely to the allowable limits as practical.”

Sasse, the former GOP senator from Nebraska, said, “it’s not true” in a statement earlier this month on social media that there was any inappropriate spending by the president’s office. That statement was a response, in part, to reporting from the Independent Florida Alligator student newspaper detailing the millions Sasse spent to hire several one-time Senate staff members and other GOP officials to those positions.

“Fiscal stewardship is a fundamental obligation of public institutions — and also because our alumni, donors, and hardworking taxpayers should be confident that such stewardship and oversight have been and are being exercised,” Sasse wrote. “They are.”

Early in his tenure as UF president, Sasse told professors in closed-door meetings that he recognized it would be difficult to recruit top performers to move to Gainesville, a college town of about 200,000 in an area of Florida known as “the swamp” because of its humid, rainy weather. He proposed more remote teaching, adding new campuses outside Gainesville and using technology to overcome what he described as “traditional notions of place-and-time teaching.”

Gainesville has limited entertainment options, a municipal airport with few direct connections, a surprisingly high violent crime rate and among the most expensive utility rates in Florida. It’s 90 minutes from Florida’s beaches.

A spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis, Bryan Griffin, said the governor’s office had been in touch earlier this month with the State University System and its Board of Governors, which oversees Florida’s public universities, to look into Sasse’s expenditure of state funds. The state’s chief financial officer, Jimmy Patronis, separately urged the same agency to investigate Sasse’s spending , saying his office would provide audit support.

In a possible signal over concerns about the spending, UF has announced that, going forward, all expenses paid out of the university president’s office will be reviewed twice each year and will be the subject of a formal report to the school’s Board of Trustees.

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UF also disclosed this week that — since Sasse’s resignation — it has terminated the jobs of four of six of the employees whose travel records it provided, and a fifth resigned.

It also fired at least one other senior Republican appointee by Sasse, Penny Schwinn, who had been allowed to work as vice president for K-12 education from her home in Tennessee for a salary of $367,500. It agreed to pay her three months’ salary, or about $92,000, when it fired her, effective July 31. Schwinn was the former Republican commissioner of education for Tennessee.

It also fired Taylor Sliva, assistant vice president of presidential communications and public affairs, who was making $255,000 and had been paid $15,000 to move to Gainesville. Sliva was Sasse’s former press secretary in the Senate. Most professors hired at UF are reimbursed up to $5,000 in moving costs. UF agreed to pay him three months’ salary, or about $64,000, when it fired him, effective Aug. 5. Sliva had been renting a three-bedroom home in Gainesville and still owns a home in Nebraska, according to property records.

The other employees who spent $211,824 in travel were:

• Raymond Sass, hired as UF’s first-ever vice president for innovation and partnerships with a salary of $396,000 and working from his home in Maryland. Sass was the former chief of staff for Sasse when he served as a U.S. senator from Nebraska. He resigned Aug. 2, according to records obtained by Fresh Take Florida, a news service of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. “While it is difficult to step away, I believe the time is right for me to explore new challenges and opportunities,” he wrote. Sass spent at least $63,917 in travel expenses, including nearly $1,800 on flights, hotel, car rental, parking, mileage and meals during a three-day campus visit last month.
• James Wegmann, who previously served as Sasse’s communications director during his time in the Senate, still works remotely from Washington as a vice president for communications. Wegmann spent at least $41,594 on travel, including at least $20,573 on plane tickets, and is paid $432,000.
•  Alice James Burns, director of presidential relations and major events, and who previously worked for Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina. Burns was paid $206,000 and worked from Washington. UF agreed to pay her three months’ salary, or about $52,000, when it fired her, effective Aug. 1. She spent at least $34,179 on travel, including $14,640 on airfare and nearly $13,000 on hotels.
•  Kari Ridder, hired as an adviser to Sasse and who previously worked as state policy director for Sasse in the Senate, was paid $122,400 while living in Nebraska. UF fired Ridder on July 31, the same day Sasse resigned, and told her she would continue to be paid until Nov. 1 and work remotely the whole time. She spent at least $17,151 on travel, including $8,637 on airfare.
•  Kelicia Rice, hired at UF as an adviser to Sasse, and made $138,000 while working from her home in Virginia. She was previously a scheduler for Sasse when he was a senator. UF fired her on Aug. 1, effective Nov. 1, and told her she will continue to be paid to work remotely during her final three months. She spent at least $10,652 on travel, including $5,441 on plane tickets.
•  Raven Shirley, who lives in Washington, was hired at UF as executive assistant to Sasse and paid $126,000. She was previously director of operations for Sasse in the Senate. UF fired her effective Aug. 1 and agreed to pay her three months’ salary, or about $31,500. Shirley spent at least $22,230 on travel and booked $22,102 more in travel costs on behalf of others, including Sasse, Rice, Ridder, Sliva and Wegmann.

Sasse, 52, attributed his decision to resign to a recent epilepsy diagnosis and new memory issues facing his wife, Melissa, who suffered an aneurysm and series of strokes in 2007. He said he also wanted to spend more time with his children, including his college-age daughters and 13-year-old son.

Hired 17 months earlier, Sasse was paid a base salary of $1 million plus a performance bonus of up to $150,000 each year — guaranteed him the job through at least February 2028. The same contract required six months’ notice for Sasse to resign unless the chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mori Hosseini, waived that provision.

Sasse has said his family would remain in Gainesville, and he will serve as president emeritus and teach classes as a professor at the university. As president, Sasse and his family have been living in a gated, multi-million-dollar mansion on campus next to the law school.

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Sasse will be required to leave the mansion by Sept. 30. UF agreed to continue to pay Sasse a base salary of just over $1 million through February 2028 and provide medical, dental, life and disability insurance benefits, according to a contract addendum dated July 18, the same day Sasse publicly announced his resignation.

The salary for Sasse through 2028 was similar to how much UF has been paying its previous president, Kent Fuchs, since he resigned in 2023 after eight years. Fuchs, who has taught engineering students, has agreed to serve as interim president until July 31 next year. UF said it will pay him $1 million base salary as interim president plus a bonus of up to 15 percent, and will create a $5 million endowed professorship in his name in the engineering college.

After Sasse resigned, UF also announced it was rehiring Joseph Glover as its provost, the school’s top academic official. Glover had resigned to become provost at the University of Arizona in April. His new contract with UF pays him $672,000 plus a $50,000 recruitment bonus.

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TCU Football at Stanford: Staff Predictions and Game Previews

Barry lewis | aug 29, 2024.

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The wait is over! College football season has arrived. It's been a long nine months for the TCU Horned Frogs who ended the 2023 season with a disappointing 5-7 record after the dream season of 2022 which saw the Frogs make the National Championship Game.

TCU gets a chance to start with a clean slate as they travel to Palo Alto, California for a Friday night game against Stanford to start the 2024 campaign.

This is the fourth time the two teams have met. TCU holds a 3-0 series record against the Cardinal with wins in 2007 at Palo Alto, 2008 in Fort Worth, and the 2017 Alamo Bowl. The last time TCU played in Palo Alto, Jim Harbaugh was the coach for Stanford.

TCU is a 9.5-point favorite. But how does our staff feel the game will go? To start the 2024, all of our writers are picking the Frogs. 

Staff Predictions - TCU at Stanford

Andrew Bauhs - TCU 35-31 Barry Lewis - TCU 37-24 Brett Gibbons - TCU 30-28 Carson Wersal - TCU 34-17 Davis Wilson - TCU 31-21 Ian Napetian - TCU 27-13 JD Andress - TCU 34-28 Mac Walters - TCU 24-17 Nate Cross - TCU 56-21 Nolan Ruth - TCU 17-13 Ryann Zeller - TCU 35-13 Tori Couch - TCU 27-17 Tyler Brown - TCU 106-0 Zion Trammell - TCU 31-14

Previewing the TCU at Stanford Game

All week, our staff has been providing a preview of the first game of the season. In case you missed some of our earlier coverage, here are some links to those stories:

Stanford Preview Midweek Press Conference with Dykes, Hoover, Clark, and the AD WATCH! Gridiron Frogs Podcast - Breaking Down the Depth Chart Big 12 Week 1 Matchups and Predictions Dear Stanford - Our Weekly Letter to our Opponent Which Big 12 Games Should You Watch in Week 1? Player Profile - Safety Bud Clark TCU Depth Chart Stanford Depth Chart TCU vs Stanford - Betting Odds Keys to the Game

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Barry is the publisher/managing editor for KillerFrogs.com. He has been a Horned Frog since the Jim Wacker era and loves covering all of TCU's sports. 

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Our accessible rooms make travel more comfortable for every guest. Please note that there is no lift at this location, but all accessible rooms are located on the ground floor. Please contact the hotel if you have any questions and let us know how we can assist you.

This hotel offers free parking spaces, available on a first come, first served basis.

About this hotel

Our Cockermouth hotel is on the edge of the Lake District close to all the sights of Cockermouth, including the traditional Jennings Brewery, where you can go on tours and tastings, and Wordsworth House - birthplace of the poet.

There's plenty of top entertainment at the Kirkgate Centre, or if you prefer the great outdoors, head into the the Lakes to see some Britain's most stunning scenery at spots such as Crummock Water, Coniston and Buttermere.

Standard Double Rooms

Unwind in a comfy king size bed, complete with four plump pillows and a cosy duvet. Guests will find this comfortable sleep spot in every standard room.

Enjoy plenty of choices at breakfast and a delicious menu of evening meals in our on-site Bar Café. Along with great food, our Bar Café also serves a range of drinks and bar snacks, including a wonderful selection of world beers, pale ale, IPA and wines. Alcohol-free drinks are also available.

Travelling with little ones? Kids eat FREE at Travelodge. For every full-paying adult, two children under 15 years old get breakfast on us.

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Check-in & check-out.

Standard check-in time: from 3pm. Standard check-out time: until 12pm (noon). Early check-in and late check-out available as extras. 24-hour receptionist.

Food & drink

From conquer-the-day breakfasts to delicious evening meals, our Bar Café has everything you need to stay fueled during your visit.

Monday to Friday, early risers can tuck into our ultimate unlimited breakfast including fresh whole-bean Lavazza coffee from 7am, or take advantage of our extended breakfast until 10am. Weekend guests can enjoy breakfast from 8am until 11am. And great news for families, kids eat FREE at Travelodge. For every full-paying adult, two children under 15 years old get breakfast on us.

In the evenings, enjoy our light bites, drinks from the bar and delicious mains between 5pm and 10pm.

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Please feel free to phone our hotel for further information, calls are charged at 13p per minute plus your phone company's access charge. Bookings made through our Central Reservations line are subject to a non-refundable booking fee of £2.50 per call.

This hotel has an on-site restaurant and bar that serves breakfast and tasty evening meals . On weekdays (Mon-Fri) our unlimited all you can eat breakfast is served from 7am until 10am. At weekends and Bank Holidays breakfast is served between 8am and 11am.*

*Selected hotels offer extended serving times.

Limited free parking is available at this hotel on a first come first served basis.

WiFi is available throughout our hotels allowing you to stay in touch when you are away from home, whether you want to search the web, email or get some work done. WiFi is free for 30 mins per 24 hour period. Alternatively 24 hour access is available for £3.00. Add to your online booking or purchase at hotel via our WiFi log in page using a credit/debit card. Each WiFi voucher code is valid for use on a maximum of two devices. Please note that WiFi is non-refundable. T&Cs apply.

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Travelodge superrooms™.

The perfect choice with added comforts:

• Lavazza A Modo Mio capsule coffee machine
• Hansgrohe Raindance 3jet adjustable power shower
• A choice of firm or soft hypoallergenic pillows
• In-room iron & ironing board for your convenience
• Spacious desk with multiple charging points, desk light and swivel chair
• 32” Samsung LED slimline Freeview TV

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Cockermouth Travel is one of the largest independent travel agents in the UK – with our team having collectively over 255 years of experience in the travel industry. 

Since opening in 1980 we have built up a reputation for dependable service, professional advice and individual care, all backed up by the financial security of ABTA membership. Our highly trained team have the ability and skill to handle all aspects of travel, from a UK break, world cruise or the most complex round the world itinerary – we will match your individual tastes, style and budget to secure the perfect travel experience.

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