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Message: [QUOTE="Fishy, post: 4103632, member: 38"] Understand what we’re talking about… Men’s sports…soccer is on a plane two or three times a year. Track is going to meets locally and maybe gets on a plane once depending on where the Big East championship is. Golf is always on a plane because it’s cold in Connecticut in the winter - has nothing to do with their conference. Football, basketball and baseball are what they are. Women’s sports…Track mostly does local meets, but will fly once or twice, depending on where the championship is. Field hockey…there’s a bunch of associate members in the Big East and most are relatively close by, but the program plays a national schedule because they’re good and that’s how it goes. Lacrosse…no home and homes, so you might fly twice to some of the midwest Big East schools and play two games against Butler or whoever. (Or Denver, which I think is an associate member.) Rowing is never on a plane. Soccer is on a plane two or three times a year, depending on where the championship is. Softball, like baseball, travels a lot because you can’t play outdoors here for part of the season. Swimming will always have a local schedule - they’re never on a plane. Tennis will always be local. Volleyball will fly to the midwest once or twice a season. Basically, adding UMass to the conference does nothing for UConn’s travel budget. They’re already on the schedule of some of the Olympic sports and they’re not going to save us a road trip in some of the others. It’s like adding Gonzaga would not really affect the travel for UConn that much either. (The travel for Gonzaga, on the other hand, would be disastrous.) [/QUOTE]

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