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Originally Posted by bob jenkins
My general rule of thumb is that the game fee (we don't get mileage fee, but if we did, I'd include it here) in $ should be equal to or greater than the round trip distance in miles.
So, if I get $57 for a varsity game, I'd travel (in general) 28.5 miles each way.
There are exceptions, of course, but I have turned down conferences where the mileage is always in excess of that.
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If I had this rule, I'd probably have about 10 schools I could actually work.
EDITED to add: I found a radius drawing tool and it's actually more like 30 schools. Those schools, though, are concentrated in only a few conferences and these conferences have schools well outside this radius (for example, one conference has a few schools within 20 miles and one that takes me 1:45 to drive to). I have asked a few commissioners to limit the schools they send me to -- one conference has an east and west division and I've asked to only work in the East. They have one of the most generous mileage allotments, though, and it's ironic that I can pick up $30 in mileage driving 10 minutes less than to another school in the big conference around here and we get no mileage there.
One suggestion I'd make to anyone who drives a lot -- get a credit card that gives significant cash back on gas purchases -- I have a BP card. I get 5% back on all BP gas purchases (right now that gets me over $2.50 back per tank) and they also are running a Loyalty Card promotion (you take your receipt inside and they give you a scratch off card you enter on the Internet) that gives back another $2 per fill-up. So for every $50 I put in right now, I'm getting back about 9%.