(03-16-2018 09:37 AM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(03-16-2018 09:23 AM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 12:49 PM)Seminowl Wrote:  All schools who are worried about travel costs should be thinking about moving to FCS. Maybe it wasn’t time to make the jump. Either way FAU is doing great. They started construction on the indoor practice facility and our program is growing at a rapid pace.

Yeah, the travel cost argument doesn't impress me. If Marshall were invited to a new conference with Boise, Houston, Cincy, UCF, and Oregon they'd pay those travel costs gladly.

This highlights that its not really about how far you travel, its really about WHO you are traveling to get to.

Worry about who first...and only then consider travel costs.



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They'd only do it if there was the expectation of increased revenues though. I have serious doubts that traveling to Texas several times a year is really increasing the money coming into ODU.

Look at Boise as an example. They were going to join the Big East and were willing to pay the cost and travel across the continent to play those teams and get BE money. Once the BE split and the AAC was formed, Boise opted out because the cost and effort was not worth it to play the AAC teams like it was for the Big East.