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Any article with that title should be about Larry Scott.

College football was a different in the 80s but not necessarily better. Having two Polls deciding the NC?????

the none football basketball players getting swept up in it. Having to travel across the country for a softball game. The point of student athletes and conferences getting tossed out the window

Colleges are just glorified corporations now and their primary function is to make their administrators filthy rich. The notion of an educated and enightened population is a thing of the past.

Donn Beach wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 29, 2023 4:04 am

the none football basketball players getting swept up in it. Having to travel across the country for a softball game. The point of student athletes and conferences getting tossed out the window

These are programs that would literally go away without the money made from football and basketball, if I am not mistaken. So, the Pac 12 should have stood fast, been a part of the Pac 8 or 7 or 6 or what ever. They would have lost money hand over fist, and then all these sports crying about traveling would be crying about not having games.

Michael K. wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:22 pm

Donn Beach wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 29, 2023 4:04 am

the none football basketball players getting swept up in it. Having to travel across the country for a softball game. The point of student athletes and conferences getting tossed out the window

These are programs that would literally go away without the money made from football and basketball, if I am not mistaken. So, the Pac 12 should have stood fast, been a part of the Pac 8 or 7 or 6 or what ever. They would have lost money hand over fist, and then all these sports crying about traveling would be crying about not having games.

And as I have pointed out travelling to the Midwest vs. Arizona is a negligible difference but just gives people a reason to freak out over nothing like these athletes travel in covered wagons or something.

It's the east coast isn't it?

Donn Beach wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 30, 2023 6:26 am

It's the east coast isn't it?

Only two of 18 teams can be considered East Coast. There are now 4 on the West Coast. Huskies will probably have two road trips a year East of the Mississippi.

Last season these were the Huskies Road Games:

At UCLA: Can still do that
At Arizona St: Distance: 1,423 miles (Distance to Lincoln Nebraska: 1,666 miles) +243 miles
At Cal: Distance 798 miles (Distance to LA to play USC: 1,136 miles) +338 miles
At Oregon: Can still do that
At WSU: Distance 285 miles (Distance to Minneapolis: 1656) +1371

So in 3 months they would travel an extra 1952 miles or spend about 3.5 extra hours on an airplane on the internet or watching movies or playing video games. God God!

https://sportleaguemaps.com/ncaa/big-ten/

D-train wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 30, 2023 11:13 am

Donn Beach wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 30, 2023 6:26 am

It's the east coast isn't it?

Only two of 18 teams can be considered East Coast. There are now 4 on the West Coast. Huskies will probably have two road trips a year East of the Mississippi.

Last season these were the Huskies Road Games:

At UCLA: Can still do that
At Arizona St: Distance: 1,423 miles (Distance to Lincoln Nebraska: 1,666 miles) +243 miles
At Cal: Distance 798 miles (Distance to LA to play USC: 1,136 miles) +338 miles
At Oregon: Can still do that
At WSU: Distance 285 miles (Distance to Minneapolis: 1656) +1371

So in 3 months they would travel an extra 1952 miles or spend about 3.5 extra hours on an airplane on the internet or watching movies or playing video games. God God!

https://sportleaguemaps.com/ncaa/big-ten/

To be fair, no one is crying about the football team adding miles. They play one game a week, and play those games like 99.99% of the time on a day when there is no school the next day. It is the other sports, particularly the Olympic sports that Fuck Larry Scott loved so much, that are impacted. The problem is, again, if you are a football school and you fail to adapt!? You will be losing a shit ton of money. Do you think they are going to cut Men's basketball or football, or start with some of these sports that despite having low overhead cost the school money because they generate no income?

Again, Washington could have chosen to rescue OSU, Cal, Stanford and WSU. Then what? When the money from football dried up, would those sports whining about extra travel simply been happy that at least we tried to save a dying Conference? I highly doubt it. If the athletic department loses a ton of money from football, the athletic department will become a much smaller department.