Kirk Bohls profiles UConn on the B12 Expansion tour

[huskymedic]

... and USF @ 25:1

To recap so far:

SMU 40-1
USF 25-1
Boise St 20-1
Colorado St 20-1
Mempis 18-1
Houston 14-1
Central Florida 12-1
UConn 10-1
Cincinnati 5-1
BYU 3-1

 

[CL82]

... and USF @ 25:1

To recap so far:

SMU 40-1
USF 25-1
Boise St 20-1
Colorado St 20-1
Mempis 18-1
Houston 14-1
Central Florida 12-1
UConn 10-1
Cincinnati 5-1
BYU 3-1

"BYU is a national brand name. It also is the only candidate with Power 5 facilities in the major sports"​

I beg your pardon?

I also like the sliding view on travel distance.

Cons: Location, location, location. UConn’s location doesn’t work in its favor, as it’s way too far from the bulk of the Big 12 schools, situated nearly 2,000 miles away from Lubbock. ​

Yet we see none of that regarding BYU.

Let's compare the two:

Longest/shortest Big 12 road trip for Connecticut: Longest — 1,959 miles (Texas Tech); shortest — 530 (West Virginia).

Longest/shortest Big 12 road tripfor BYU: Longest — 1,929 miles (West Virginia); shortest — 872 (Texas Tech)​

So to recap BYU's longest road trip is 30 miles closer than UConn's but their shortest is 342 miles further away!

So why aren't people screaming about BYU as a geographic outlier?

 

[junglehusky]

... and USF @ 25:1

To recap so far:

SMU 40-1
USF 25-1
Boise St 20-1
Colorado St 20-1
Mempis 18-1
Houston 14-1
Central Florida 12-1
UConn 10-1
Cincinnati 5-1
BYU 3-1

kick.

 

[Sky ball]

"BYU is a national brand name. It also is the only candidate with Power 5 facilities in the major sports"​

I beg your pardon?

I also like the sliding view on travel distance.

Cons: Location, location, location. UConn’s location doesn’t work in its favor, as it’s way too far from the bulk of the Big 12 schools, situated nearly 2,000 miles away from Lubbock. ​

Yet we see none of that regarding BYU.

Let's compare the two:

Longest/shortest Big 12 road trip for Connecticut: Longest — 1,959 miles (Texas Tech); shortest — 530 (West Virginia).

Longest/shortest Big 12 road tripfor BYU: Longest — 1,929 miles (West Virginia); shortest — 872 (Texas Tech)​

So to recap BYU's longest road trip is 30 miles closer than UConn's but their shortest is 342 miles further away!

So why aren't people screaming about BYU as a geographic outlier?

That might be misleading. Tally up TOTAL travel distance from BYU and UConn to EACH B12 school.

 

[CL82]

That might be misleading. Tally up TOTAL travel distance from BYU and UConn to EACH B12 school.

Why is someone going on a conference "world tour?"

Regardless, it their metric, not mine.

 

[BlueHen]

I haven't. But it is 600+ square miles. Hartford is 18. So a lot of what people think are the suburbs are Houston. It's freaking huge. Close to half the overall metro population lives in the city itself (2.3m out of 5.6m).

This is a really good one for us.

Lucky for us Fairfield County helps bring New York City, and Houston doesn't have Fairfield County.

 

[TheDoggPound]

I honestly detest Memphis and their fans after all of this. Wish we played them this year so we could whoop em

 

[mavblues]

I honestly detest Memphis and their fans after all of this. Wish we played them this year so we could whoop em

Playing them right now in baseball...

 

[TheDoggPound]

Playing them right now in baseball...

If there were a stream I would watch some of it but I think it's only on radio.

 

[TheDoggPound]

Nvm there is a stream: 2016 Baseball Championship Game 12: UConn vs Memphis

 

[CL82]

Nvm there is a stream: 2016 Baseball Championship Game 12: UConn vs Memphis

Yikes 4-0 Memphis in the first.

 

[huskymedic]

Yikes 4-0 Memphis in the first.

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