Have you thought of trying to quieten the voices with some sort of therapeutic nitrous regimen? Maybe lots and lots of half-way decent Scotch? Just a thought...
To quote the second best Gator Dentist….”Meh”, you can’t choose to go somewhere and then claim that it mentally affects you.
He is right. This is not just football or basketball that might have a private university plane. These other programs may have to travel commercial aircraft. The time in the airport and planes is excruciating in itself. Then consider the games or meets themselves and where do they find time to study for classes or get rest? How does their family watch them play when half the games could be outside the region? Geographic rivals, rivals for decades now discarded for $$$ to pay NIL and keep up with facility wars
They CHOSE to go to a school that put them in that position. That’s like me volunteering to join the military and being upset that they send me overseas. So parents may not be able to travel to Texas to watch their son play…..I’ve been away for a year not seeing my family, we all make choices, and we all need to learn how to live with them for better or for worse. What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger and that works for mental health too.
Uhhhh college is not the military. Nor is it (or was) a place that is defined by authoritarian rule by superiors. Unless one goes to rigid religious institutions. Some of us resent the destruction of traditions and rivalries to line the pockets of the greedy.
The saying "That's what you signed up for" goes for the military when being shipped out, it's expected but for college, alot of kids made their decision based on geographic location and the main reason being closer to home so family can watch them, and with these changes of having room travel mouth of the region a lot further away then evwr before, that's not what they "signed up for" so I can sew wjatbthey are talk8ng about because those was never part of the deal I'm sure when the coach was recruiting the home town kid to "stay home and be closer to family"
Meh Family can still go to home games. Only a select few families have the means to travel to any away games. So there is little changing for families. Now athlete travel will change for sure. Most definitely for the non revenue sports that compete twice a week or more.
It’s fun to watch a Chick have more knowledge than a guy that thinks he knows what he’s talking about
In my mind all the other sports do not have to follow what football does. There are already teams that are basketball only in a conference. Other sports can follow that format.
The main point was these conferences were mostly regional based. Like up until the last couple of additions of Missouri and A&m and now tex and ok the Southeastern conferences was in the Southeastern US. But some of who the BIG10 and BIG12 are adding will now be traveling halfway across the country on a weekly basis for conferemce games. So a UCLA kids family used to be able to stay primarily on the west coast for the majority of their games, a good bit of which in the same state or neighbor state but now they'll be traveling to the Midwest. Some families could still have made it easily to a stanford or Cal game or even to ASU or Oregon state but those teams are now replaced with Ohio state and Michigan teams which obviously are much tougher to make it to.
I get the point and think it's being completely overblown. Maybe 1 percent of families have the financial ability to go to multiple away games, even regionally. So they will do what they have been doing, go to home games and watch TV for away games.
I think for non revenue sports they will absolutely go to schedules with schools in their region. Can you imagine say women’s field hockey or whatever, Rutgers flying to Oregon for a game where 15 people watch? Not to denigrate the athletes or their sport here but where is the common sense? How can anyone justify the travel costs for all the minor sports to travel these distances for an entire season?
