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I disagree


BYU and WVU are almost equidistant from Norman, Oklahoma and Austin, Texas. Like WVU, BYU is in a different time zone from the rest of the conference.

The issue of air travel is not just about flying 3 hours on an airplane. It's about playing a game at a point farther west and then returning home to a game in the east. For football and men's basketball, it helps that you fly charter, but you still end up with coaches and athletes getting home at 4 am in the morning. For the non-revenue programs that don't charter, you end up having to do more frequent post-game overnights because there are no commercial flights that will get you home after a certain hour. This is the problem WVU experiences. Currently, other Big 12 programs have a long trip when they go to Morgantown, but at least when they go home they "gain" an hour.

If the Big 12 took in BYU, then you'd have everyone making that trip back east after a road trip. And about half the conference schools have more difficult airport situations than WVU.

(In response to this post by Wolfman)

Posted: 04/03/2018 at 09:48AM



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