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Originally Posted by DCTwister
I concur, I ran XC at a minor program for a little bit. Nothing like a van road trip to Butler County Community College for some college adventure. But anyway.
For sports like XC and track, distance doesn’t matter as much because the league title is based on one meet and then the other meets can be local or wherever. Not a big deal.
The travel is significant in sports like soccer, baseball and softball where there are lots of games and they must play other teams in the league head to head on the road. I guess it’s nice to play baseball for Stanford on scholarship, it’s a great education. It will still appeal to the kids that want that Stanford degree and can’t afford to pay for it. But for the kid who might play pro, might get some NIL, he’s not going to want to be on the road 50% of the year on the east coast and I guess many will just say **** it and transfer.
Conference realignment is ****ing stupid and I blame ESPN for it.
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ACC soccer only plays eight regular season ACC games and four of those games will be played at home. Assuming they let Stanford and UC Berkeley play each other every year,
they'll only have three or four cross-country flights until the ACC tournament. For what it's worth, UC Berkeley has actually already traveled and played Wake Forest in men's soccer this year anyway.
Baseball typically plays a regional midweek game and then a three-game series (Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon). It is a 10-series ACC schedule so that will have
the baseball team flying across the country four or five times in the spring until the ACC tournament. That being said, they probably won't miss any more class than other baseball players in the ACC, they'll just be getting up really early on Friday and getting back a little late on Sunday.