(03-05-2010 02:31 PM)KnightTower Wrote:  TCU looks good, but could you imagine the travel expenses? Say...Syracuse or Rutgers or UCONN has to go to TCU. That's a 1300/1400/1500 mile, respectively, flight both ways. That ain't cheap. Not to mention everyone else (except L-ville) would also have to travel 800-1000 miles to play them.

And before everyone jumps on the Memphis train, I'd wait a year or two to see which direction their b-ball program goes...

Travel expenses are a red herring in comparison to revenue. TCU jumped to the Mountain West (leaving behind very cheap bus trips to Rice, SMU and Houston) in order to travel to places like Laramie and Provo (which are a LOT harder to get to than most of the BE schools) and the Horned Frogs are only make a few hundred thousand dollars more per year in TV money compared to C-USA. Once you have to get onto a plane, the actual distance really isn't that big of a deal in terms of cost. The point is that TCU's travel costs would not really be any different in the Big East compared to the Mountain West and the Big East already ranges from Milwaukee over to Providence and down to Tampa. If it's a matter of staying in the BCS or not, then travel costs aren't going to be a concern.