Buy groceries instead of eating out all the time Go to cheap food - remember, as a coach, you may have more disposable income than students Students with food plans on their home campus can get meals packed to take along, at least for the first day. Request free food with similar meal plans at other schools. Drive your own cars and have students drive their own cars to tournaments. Share vans or rent a bus to tournaments. Have one coach in the area work out the logistics and then other schools should cooperate.
Some schools have insurance regulations that prohibit such transportation from happening.
Provide transportation from the tournament hotel to the tournament site and from the airport to and from the hotel. Plan the schedule so people stay at hotels as few nights as possible while at the same time maintaining concern for safety for when people travel to and from the tournament. For example, start your tournament late Friday evening and end mid-day Sunday. Arrange group rates with airlines that fly into your city or area. Arrange discount rates at hotels for your tournament, especially if you have a tournament hotel Work with other schools to offer swings to provide the most rounds for the buck Increase competitiveness of regional tournaments so that national travel is less necessary.