Quinn wrote:
freaked4collegefb wrote:
Article out of Jersey with more on Rutgers to Big Ten move at
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It's going to be interesting. One thing is for sure...costs won't be a drastic change. The Big East required the schools programs to travel further than what is ideal. The AAC is worse with more Texas and Florida trips. Meanwhile, the conference makes little money in their revenue sports. That is what will change things by joining the Big Ten. Just having that new income will offset any costs with the goal being to cut down on school subsidies...which is expected.
If you price out the travel from the old Big East to the new Big Ten there are a lot of similar locations...
ND/Purdue, DePaul/Northwestern, Marquette/Wisconsin, Lville/Indiana, Cincy/tOSU, Georgetown/Maryland, Syracuse/PSU...
And travel between USF/Iowa is about comprable (~1K miles) and flight+drive time is similar between WVU/Michigan.
So after rulling out those similar one's you're left with...
B1G: (all flights) MSU, Illinois, Minn, Nebraska
oBE: (all drives) UConn, Prov, St John's, Seton, Nova, Pitt (only flight)
and if they add another Eastern school or 2 like UVA, Syracuse, BC, or even GT then travel would be even more in-line with what is was before in the oBE.
But yes, their travel budget will increase however the major increase in funding will more than make up for those extra trips out West and when consider how the non-fb schools split off and the new AAC was adding more Texas/Florida area schools I'm not sure how even a UConn fan on Rutger's BOR could argue that changing conferences was a bad move...
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