[NU Sports] For the curious ...

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And I can tell you that at least from the Big East perspective travel costs
remain a major concern of the athletic directors every year.  It's not a
football or basketball issue - those sports more than pay their own way and
those games could be played in China for all the difference travel costs
make.  It's the Olympic sports that it comes into play and the more
geographically dispersed the conference the bigger the problem.  With the
flood of BTN money, maybe it doesn't much matter to a Big Ten school were
the 12th school is located but I'm not so sure that's true.  When push comes
to shove, that 12 or 14th school is going to have to add sufficient marginal
income that it will more than cover the additional travel costs of the
Olympic sports faced by that school's addition.  This decision will not come
down to a football decision - football will be a factor but it will only be
one of a number of factors and will not even be the major factor.

Mark


On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:51 AM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
<sjtruog at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Thanks to GoogleMaps ...
>
> The distance from Austin, TX to ...
>
> - PSU: 1548 miles
> - OSU: 1234 miles
> - MCH: 1369 miles
> - MSU: 1349 miles
> - IND: 1078 miles
> - PUR: 1129 miles
> - ILL: 1032 miles
> - IWA: 1042 miles
> - MIN: 1172 miles
> - WIS: 1243 miles
> - NU:  1178 miles
>
> By comparison, the furthest current trips in the major conferences:
>
> * BIG TEN (the shortest among the big six)
> Minnesota to Penn State - 974 miles
> * SEC
> Arkansas to Florida - 1029 miles
> * BIG XII
> Texas to Colorado - 1082 miles
> * BIG EAST
> South Florida to UConn - 1305 (to Providence for basketball - 1343 mi)
> * ACC
> BC to Miami - 1504 miles
> * PAC TEN
> Washington to Arizona - 1622 miles
>
> For kicks ...
>
> - If Texas joined the Pac 10, Seattle to Austin is 2280 miles!
> - PSU to Mizzou is 851 miles
> - PSU to Nebraska is 1075 miles
> - Minny to Syracuse is 1087 miles
> - Minny to Rutgers is 1205 miles
>
> And for those who say Texas would be a better fit for the SEC or Pac 10:
>
> - Texas to Atlanta: 969 miles (SEC center)
> - Texas to Indianapolis: 1095 miles ... so not much difference
> - Texas to Los Angeles: 1420 miles
> - Texas to Bay Area (real "center" of Pac 10 geographically): 1773 miles
>
> Finally, for the "could be worse" file ...
>
> - The WAC trip for Hawaii to LaTech is 5255 miles
>
> However, at least the GoogleMaps directions say to "kayak" across the
> Pacific Ocean as you leave Honolulu, as opposed to when their directions
> tell you to "swim across the Atlantic" in going from New York to Paris.:)
>
> So in case you're curious ... or a numbers geek ... :)
>
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
>
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> sjtruog at yahoo.com
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