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Oregon Ducks Big Ten travel schedule
We knew it was going to be brutal having our Ducks traveling to the east coast and back home. Here's a rundown...
Last year in the PAC-12. These are approximate air miles the team has to travel one way.
Eugene to...
Seattle 234
Pullman 346
Bay Area 450 (Cal and Stanford)
Salt Lake 616
L.A. 748 (UCLA and USC)
Phoenix 950
Boulder 956
Tucson 1062
Big Ten Conference
Cornhuskers Lincoln, Nebraska 1360
Golden Gophers Minneapolis, Minnesota 1474
Hawkeyes Iowa City, Iowa 1600
Badgers Madison, Wisconsin 1710
Hoosiers Bloomington, Indiana 1762
Wildcats Evanston, Illinois 1784
Fightin' Illini Champaign, Illinois 1804
Boilermakers West Lafayette, Indiana 1857
Spartans East Lansing, Michigan 1927
Wolverines Ann Arbor, Michigan 2000
Buckeyes Columbus, Ohio 2072
Nitanny Lions State College, Pennsylvania 2300
Terrapins College Park, Maryland 2401
Scarlet Knights Piscataway, New Jersey 2482
This puts things in perspective. Don't know how long this will be sustainable considering the health and welfare of all the Big Ten schools, especially those on the west coast.
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- Jiffy Jeff
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Re: Oregon Ducks Big Ten travel schedule
It's really not sustainable. The "victims" are pretty much every athletic program outside of football for the four B1G west coast schools as well as the ACC west coast schools. Are all of these teams flying charter or commercial? If commercial, you have to add in the layover times and bussing to some of these locations and back. This wreaks havoc on studies as minor sports athletes are truly student-athletes with not much NIL coming their way and needing to keep grades up to sustain their scholarships. One of my roommates back in my college days was a minor sport athlete and her day was 100% full between practice, weights/conditioning, attending classes and study halls. Add in game days and road trips and there was very little room for a social life. Fast forward that schedule to today and it is even more of a grind.
Conferences used to be based on geography. This needs to change back to geography and football needs to become its own institution outside of conference affiliation.
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Re: Oregon Ducks Big Ten travel schedule
Thanks for the sobering stats. And I thought I must have been to blame since I switched over from football that's when the wheels came off. In all seriousness there's nothing funny about the matter.
As others have mentioned there needs to be a seperate football division. Unfortunately with contracts already made it's hard to see how things are going to change. The wheels were set in motion a long time ago when NCAA let the TV money lead the way.
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