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[quote=Anonymous]A suggestion regarding reduction of the travel burden for non-football Big Ten athletes beginning in 2024 and beyond:

The Big Ten Conference will be the first coast-to-coast national college conference and it should be the last. (SEC strength comes from its members being located in contiguous states in football country).

Because the Big Ten Conference occupies much of the mid-section of the country, it could adopt tournament style competitions located between the East Coast & the West Coast for non-revenue sports such as field hockey and lacrosse to ease the travel burden on the coastal university student-athletes.

Currently, the University of Nebraska is the western most member of the Big Ten Conference. Teams from Rutgers, Maryland, UCLA, USC, U Oregon, & U Washington, and Penn State among others could meet for multi-team competitions in Lincoln, Nebraska. This could reduce travel times by an average of 50% or more since one trip could include a match against more than one opponent.

Currently, wrestling & basketball utilize one location for meets against more than one opponent. This is not intended to be an elimination style tournament; it is intended to facilitate dual match competitions against more than one team in a single trip to a mid-point location. This will save time and money while greatly reducing stress on students.

Lincoln, Nebraska, for example, has lots of open space land available to add fields for baseball, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, etc.

Indoor sports such as basketball and wrestling and indoor track could also be accommodated by the construction of just one additional state-of-the-art-facility.

This design can be implemented at any Big Ten university location which has land available for expansion. The cost savings for broadcasters such as the Big Ten Network would be substantial.
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