[NU Sports] Merger: Big East & BIg 12

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It's not football where the travel costs are the issue - it's the Olympic
sports.  Football will always pay for itself at the top 48 or 64 schools,
but the increased travel costs and lost class time can be a real problem.  I
know that the new members of the Big East found huge new travel bills for
all of the Olympic sports and the conference had to go to great lengths to
minimize travel time.  For football and basketball with charter flights,
it's not that big a deal, but all other sports travel commercial and then it
becomes a nightmare.

There are now 120 FBS schools - figure no more than 64 involved in this
latest round of conference roulette.
Mark

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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com> wrote:

> > I was pondering the effect of the potential realignments to all of
> college FB, not just to NU.  The B1G will probably come out of it OK.
>
> I agree that the B1G should do well, no matter what N*D* decides to do.
>
> And the impact probably isn't as big as it seems.  There are around 117
> schools
> in the FBS subdivision, this realignment wave is likely to involve no more
> than 20% of them, probably less, and it will have little impact on the
> FCS subdivision and even less on Divisions II and III.
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> Mike Nolan
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