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Message: [QUOTE="UCFBfan, post: 3516958, member: 2248"] Was about to post. But the part I found most applicable to us was this: [I]>> One issue being heavily discussed, especially on the Eastern seaboard, is scheduling alliances to save travel costs for non-revenue sports. Using Old Dominion as an example, it makes little sense for its baseball team to travel in Conference USA league games to play at Rice (in Houston), FIU (in South Florida) and Louisiana Tech (in Ruston). Why not James Madison, Richmond and Georgetown? They are all in different leagues, but it would make much more sense. The same could be said for schools in the Northeast, as it makes more sense for Boston College, Rhode Island, Holy Cross and UConn to play each other in non-revenue sports than many of their far-flung geographic league peers. “You would have to get to a place where people put a lot of ego aside,” said another AD in the Group of Five. “Sports is driven more by ego than common sense.” One athletic director in a non-football league said of scheduling more geographically friendly games instead of league schedules: “We are having those discussions.” He said limiting costs on conference road trips in non-revenue sports would save his athletic department hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. In leagues outside the Power Five, that money matters. [B]“Can you imagine being Conference USA or the AAC and you’re sending your baseball team to UTEP or Tulsa,” the AD said, using hypothetical geographic outliers. “It doesn’t make any sense. Much like everything, we’ve done this to ourselves. For us to not think about regional scheduling alliances is complete lunacy.”[/B][/I]<< Moving out of the AAC continues to be a shrewd move. This points to the problem and one of the reasons for leaving. High travel costs aren't worth it. If anything, moving to the Big East will possibly help save some of our Olympic sports. It's not 100% but the travel, outside of 4 Midwest schools, is all within 4 hours. It will be interesting to see if regional conferences start to pop up again. I can't see schools being able to remain so spread out in conferences. The AAC can't possibly survive in it's current setup with travel. The big thing will be if this hits any P5 school. [/QUOTE]

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