B1G to use "Flex Protect Plus" schedule in 2024 and 2025

Red_Alert said:
@ South Bend (ND) for USC every other year too.
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Yeah, basically 5 east coast trips per year when they play at ND. Will be interesting to see how the B1G manages around that game, considering it always in the middle of the year. It's gonna be hard to not have them potentially play back to back games on the east coast.

Either way, people are really underestimating the impact of travel. Not so much for football but for the other sports, it's going to be insane. If they try to reduce the number of east coast trips, kids will literally miss a whole week of school. I get school is low on the priority list, but it's still funny to me.
 
Kburjr said:
4 trips per year. They can handle it
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I've seen where UCLA is going to be traveling over 25K miles next year because they have Hawaii scheduled as well.

That is a lot of time on a plane.
 
ericd7633 said:
Yeah, basically 5 east coast trips per year when they play at ND. Will be interesting to see how the B1G manages around that game, considering it always in the middle of the year. It's gonna be hard to not have them potentially play back to back games on the east coast.

Either way, people are really underestimating the impact of travel. Not so much for football but for the other sports, it's going to be insane. If they try to reduce the number of east coast trips, kids will literally miss a whole week of school. I get school is low on the priority list, but it's still funny to me.
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That's why I think Oregon and Washington get in.

Right now there is a Mexican standoff going on where the B1G doesn't want to invite them and officially kill the PAC and Oregon and Washington won't sign a GOR because they don't want to be held to it. Basically one of the corner schools is going to have to get impatient and bolt for the Big 12 and then the dominoes fall.
 
ericd7633 said:
Yeah, basically 5 east coast trips per year when they play at ND. Will be interesting to see how the B1G manages around that game, considering it always in the middle of the year. It's gonna be hard to not have them potentially play back to back games on the east coast.

Either way, people are really underestimating the impact of travel. Not so much for football but for the other sports, it's going to be insane. If they try to reduce the number of east coast trips, kids will literally miss a whole week of school. I get school is low on the priority list, but it's still funny to me.
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Yep. @ South Bend is always in October. @ USC is always in November.

When it's @ South Bend, then UCLA gets that last USC game in November.
 
Wild Turkey said:
That's why I think Oregon and Washington get in.

Right now there is a Mexican standoff going on where the B1G doesn't want to invite them and officially kill the PAC and Oregon and Washington won't sign a GOR because they don't want to be held to it. Basically one of the corner schools is going to have to get impatient and bolt for the Big 12 and then the dominoes fall.
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It would make sense from a logistical standpoint. But if that does happen it looks like 2026 at the earliest since they have 2024 and 2025 scheduled. But at 18 teams, scheduling becomes even more of a nightmare.
 
ericd7633 said:
UCLA's road games in 2024:

@Hawaii
@LSU
@Rutgers
@Indiana
@Michigan
@Iowa

That is insane.
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They charter a plane, the players walk straight from the bus to the plane, straight from the plane to the hotel. It isn't tough at all. The tough part of travel is the waiting in the fucking airport. I live in the NC Triangle and I see the various minor teams all the time. They are the ones that get screwed. But chartered air travel is not the problem it's being made out to be.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
They charter a plane, the players walk straight from the bus to the plane, straight from the plane to the hotel. It isn't tough at all. The tough part of travel is the waiting in the fucking airport. I live in the NC Triangle and I see the various minor teams all the time. They are the ones that get screwed. But chartered air travel is not the problem it's being made out to be.
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That schedule alone is just about 25,000 miles traveled and over 55 hours of flight time. That is insane. I doubt NFL teams even have that much travel time and they play more road games. Also, I think factoring in the body clock issue isn't insignificant. Travelling across time zones back and forth is brutal. I know when I have to do it, even a one hour difference is an adjustment.
 
ericd7633 said:
That schedule alone is just about 25,000 miles traveled and over 55 hours of flight time. That is insane. I doubt NFL teams even have that much travel time and they play more road games. Also, I think factoring in the body clock issue isn't insignificant. Travelling across time zones back and forth is brutal. I know when I have to do it, even a one hour difference is an adjustment.
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I get what you are saying, but I traveled for business for 20 years, on the road all the time, every week. When you are young, it's not that problematic. I am not totally dismissing it ... ideally you wouldn't want all that travel. But 18-26 year olds shouldn't have that big a deal adjusting to it. They will fly in on Thursday, giving them time to adjust.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
I get what you are saying, but I traveled for business for 20 years, on the road all the time, every week. When you are young, it's not that problematic. I am not totally dismissing it ... ideally you wouldn't want all that travel. But 18-26 year olds shouldn't have that big a deal adjusting to it. They will fly in on Thursday, giving them time to adjust.
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It's just an insane amount of travel. One or two long trips is one thing, but 6, is insane. Those are long ass flights. I hope the league doesn't schedule any back to back road games.
 
ericd7633 said:
It's just an insane amount of travel. One or two long trips is one thing, but 6, is insane. Those are long ass flights. I hope the league doesn't schedule any back to back road games.
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Google the distance from LA to Pullman, or Seattle or Portland. They already travel long distances. Yes, it's an extra hour or two to the east coast, in a big cushy chair, with all the food and drink they want. They will be playing video games and having fun.

The time zone adjustment is the biggest issue. That and time away from studying. But flying coast to coast on a chartered flight isn't the issue it's being made out to be.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
I get what you are saying, but I traveled for business for 20 years, on the road all the time, every week. When you are young, it's not that problematic. I am not totally dismissing it ... ideally you wouldn't want all that travel. But 18-26 year olds shouldn't have that big a deal adjusting to it. They will fly in on Thursday, giving them time to adjust.
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love how you put yourself into this.. once you got done traveling 2k miles did you also have a career day rushing 2 days later?
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
Google the distance from LA to Pullman, or Seattle or Portland. They already travel long distances. Yes, it's an extra hour or two to the east coast, in a big cushy chair, with all the food and drink they want. They will be playing video games and having fun.

The time zone adjustment is the biggest issue. That and time away from studying. But flying coast to coast on a chartered flight isn't the issue it's being made out to be.
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That's my point here though. They would never be traveling to both Pullman or Seattle in the same season. Their conference road games this year are at Utah, Oregon State, Stanford, Arizona and USC. So only one trip to the PNW, and it was the same in 2022. And there's no time difference in this trip. They leave at Noon PT on a Thursday to go to Rutgers, they get off the plane and it's almost 9 PM ET when they arrive. That's obviously the most extreme, but doing that 4/5 times is a lot.
 
ericd7633 said:
That's my point here though. They would never be traveling to both Pullman or Seattle in the same season. Their conference road games this year are at Utah, Oregon State, Stanford, Arizona and USC. So only one trip to the PNW, and it was the same in 2022. And there's no time difference in this trip. They leave at Noon PT on a Thursday to go to Rutgers, they get off the plane and it's almost 9 PM ET when they arrive. That's obviously the most extreme, but doing that 4/5 times is a lot.
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So UCLA and USC already have a built in excuse for struggling in the B1G.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
So UCLA and USC already have a built in excuse for struggling in the B1G.
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I think UCLA is going to be bad, just because they aren't that good of a program to begin with. USC will do fine, probably 10-2/9-3 type seasons, I'd guess. Probably play for the B1G title every 3/4 years or so.
 
ericd7633 said:
I think UCLA is going to be bad, just because they aren't that good of a program to begin with. USC will do fine, probably 10-2/9-3 type seasons, I'd guess. Probably play for the B1G title every 3/4 years or so.
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Yea UCLA has not really been good consistently since the 80s. It's been a very mixed bag since then. Logistically there's no reason they shouldn't be a program that wins at least 7-8 games a year. But they've managed to not even do that a lot in the PAC the last 30 years.
 
Thiefery said:
love how you put yourself into this.. once you got done traveling 2k miles did you also have a career day rushing 2 days later?
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Simply trying to share experience of someone who has traveled a ton. No, but I wasn't 18-26, either.

Again, they are traveling 1000 miles to go to Seattle or Pullman, etc. The NFL guys travel cross country all the time and don't seem to have a problem. The MLB guys do it all the time for 8 months and seem to be able to adjust just fine.

These guys aren't pussies like you ... they'll be fine.
 
ericd7633 said:
I think UCLA is going to be bad, just because they aren't that good of a program to begin with. USC will do fine, probably 10-2/9-3 type seasons, I'd guess. Probably play for the B1G title every 3/4 years or so.
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I agree ... they haven't been good for a long time, and moving to the B1G isn't going to help IMO.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
Simply trying to share experience of someone who has traveled a ton. No, but I wasn't 18-26, either.

Again, they are traveling 1000 miles to go to Seattle or Pullman, etc. The NFL guys travel cross country all the time and don't seem to have a problem. The MLB guys do it all the time for 8 months and seem to be able to adjust just fine.

These guys aren't pussies like you ... they'll be fine.
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lol you can be gung ho and still not be the same once you arrive in NJ to play in front of 100 fans
 
Thiefery said:
lol you can be gung ho and still not be the same once you arrive in NJ to play in front of 100 fans
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I think you meant Maryland.
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