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re: UCLA football 2024 schedule, 26752 miles of air travel
Posted on 6/16/23 at 6:16 am to nicholastiger
Posted on 6/16/23 at 6:16 am to nicholastiger
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They scheduled Hawaii They were gonna try and pull another fast one on lsu and play a prep game but lsu scheduled usc to open season instead
We really showed them
This post was edited on 6/16/23 at 6:17 am
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Posted on 6/16/23 at 8:07 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Did you enjoy the game?
Posted on 6/16/23 at 8:12 am to Henry Jones Jr
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The Big 10 and Big 12 are fricking stupid though.
Eh, the big 12 did it to replace teams in reaction.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 8:22 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Have a bloody Mary and be there in 3 hours watching Airplane on your Ipad.
Flights from pac 12 country to the east coast and a good bit of the Midwest are definitely over 3 hours.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 8:47 am to TROCKS50
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UCLA football
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26752 miles of air travel
Posted on 6/16/23 at 8:54 am to Jrv2damac
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the big 12 did it to replace teams in reaction.
With inferior programs
Posted on 6/16/23 at 10:21 am to Henry Jones Jr
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The smaller sports after a few years are going to start getting cut
The increased revenue from having a national conference will mean more money for non-revenue sports. Let's give this experiment ten years. I think the SEC would be smart to expand to the West more. Arizona and Arizona State would make the SEC the true conference of the growing parts of the country. You have to remember that LA, MS, MO, KY, AL, SC are not growing as fast as TX, GA, and FL and there is no SEC presence in NC or VA at this time.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 11:52 am to TU Rob
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It isn’t so much the team having to travel, it is the fact that your common fan isn’t going to make it to road games across the country on a regular basis. I live in central Alabama and I’ve been to road games in Baton Rouge, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Miami, Atlanta, Starkville, etc. My dad and I used to pick one road game a year, either Troy or Alabama, and most of them were nice drives.
I agree with you, but more than ever your average SEC cfb fan who makes road trips lives in a city with a big airport (Houston, Atlanta, Nashville, Dallas) and many fly to games, especially if the drive is longer than 4-5 hours.
Even in the old PAC-12, if I was a UCLA fan living in LA, the only road game I would drive to would be USC, flying everywhere else.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 12:40 pm to chalmetteowl
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With inferior programs
Are you really bragging about getting A&M/missouri/Texas/OU? They’re really not much better than Cincinatti/BYU/Houston in general.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 12:56 pm to Jrv2damac
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Are you really bragging about getting A&M/missouri/Texas/OU? They’re really not much better than Cincinatti/BYU/Houston in general.
I’m saying the Big XII lost their two football blue bloods and added none
Posted on 6/16/23 at 1:20 pm to TROCKS50
I honestly don't think that this is too big of a deal. Football teams are traveling 5 or 6 times a year. It's the smaller sports (basketball, baseball, golf, tennis, soccer, water polo, lacrosse, etc) that will suffer. They are travelling much more often, and often during the week to play weeknight games. They're the ones travelling across multiple time zones, missing classes, etc.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 1:26 pm to GentleJackJones
UCLA vs Rutgers in a midweek basketball game will suck bad for the team traveling
Posted on 6/16/23 at 1:28 pm to chalmetteowl
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I get traveling to big bowl games and championship games, but are a lot of people really just picking random (already televised) regular season road games one or two states away and traveling? Especially when the home teams damn near fill the stadium? That gets brought up a lot on this site but I don’t think the average fan is doing this.
Maybe it’s an SEC thing because it just means more?
for some people, yeah. The SEC footprint makes it somewhat feasible. There are at least 2-3 schools within easy driving distance of every school, outside of maybe Florida and A&M. Alabama has Auburn/Vandy/MSU etc. UGA has UT, USC.
It was just a fun tradition we started once I was out of school. Once the schedules came out, we'd look at what home games we could make it to, and try to pick a road game.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 1:46 pm to ReauxlTide222
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Did you enjoy the game?
Nah...fricking Prohibition.
This post was edited on 6/16/23 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 6/16/23 at 1:52 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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The increased revenue from having a national conference will mean more money for non-revenue sports. Let's give this experiment ten years. I think the SEC would be smart to expand to the West more. Arizona and Arizona State would make the SEC the true conference of the growing parts of the country. You have to remember that LA, MS, MO, KY, AL, SC are not growing as fast as TX, GA, and FL and there is no SEC presence in NC or VA at this time.
Arizona and Arizona State in the Southeastern Conference? Are you out of your mind?
The SEC is the only conference with a cultural identity. Arizona and Arizona State do not have anything, and I mean anything in common with that.
It's not all about revenue or increasing it. We can't sacrifice everything at that altar.
Also, do you have any idea how fricking far it would be from, say, Baton Rouge to Tempe?
Posted on 6/16/23 at 1:55 pm to TU Rob
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for some people, yeah. The SEC footprint makes it somewhat feasible. There are at least 2-3 schools within easy driving distance of every school, outside of maybe Florida and A&M. Alabama has Auburn/Vandy/MSU etc. UGA has UT, USC.
It was just a fun tradition we started once I was out of school. Once the schedules came out, we'd look at what home games we could make it to, and try to pick a road game.
Our shared cultural identity, which is clearly promoted through football, cannot be sacrificed.
Think about how close these schools are to one another:
Bama/State - 84 miles
Ole Miss/State - 102 miles
Georgia/South Carolina - 135 miles
Georgia/Auburn - 153 miles
Tennessee/South Carolina - 263 miles
Auburn/Florida - 311 miles
LSU/Bama - 349 miles
Posted on 6/16/23 at 2:44 pm to GentleJackJones
quote:not only that, they know they’re not making money back for that travel and no one is watching
honestly don't think that this is too big of a deal. Football teams are traveling 5 or 6 times a year. It's the smaller sports (basketball, baseball, golf, tennis, soccer, water polo, lacrosse, etc) that will suffer. They are travelling much more often, and often during the week to play weeknight games. They're the ones travelling across multiple time zones, missing classes, etc.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 8:59 pm to GentleJackJones
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I honestly don't think that this is too big of a deal. Football teams are traveling 5 or 6 times a year. It's the smaller sports (basketball, baseball, golf, tennis, soccer, water polo, lacrosse, etc) that will suffer. They are travelling much more often, and often during the week to play weeknight games. They're the ones travelling across multiple time zones, missing classes, etc.
What games weren’t the small sports getting on a plane for? Looks like each other. They are just going to sit on a plane for 5 hrs instead of 2 1/2 each way.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 9:01 pm to TU Rob
Air travel is super easy nowadays
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