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Travel partner in other sports?
Who is it? Tulane? Or UNT?
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Re: Travel partner in other sports?
May not have one due to travel proximity.
USM only played back-to-back road basketball games on a Wednesday-Saturday once (ECU 1/25, UCF 1/28) and on a Saturday-Wednesday twice (Tulane 1/7 and Memphis 1/11, Houston 2/18 and UTEP 2/22) in 2011-2012. Only the ECU-UCF trip would have kept the team on the road between games.
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If we do, I'd bet our travel partner is N. Texas. If I am remembering correctly, when we started the WAC, SMU was our travel partner and Rice/Tulsa were travel partners.
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travel partner? that is a concept for far flung conferences with no geographic identity. when you are in a more regional conference, there is no need for such things.
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2-3 years ago, they were considering it:
The task force also will consider men's teams having travel partners as the women's teams currently do, and moving to a Thursday-Saturday format instead of the current Wednesday-Saturday.
Any changes would begin in the 2010-11 season.
"There's a variety of ideas out there," Woolard said. "When you've got schools spread across three time zones, you're looking for the most efficient travel costs. At the same time, we don't want to limit the TV opportunities for our best teams, and we want to build a schedule that enhances our teams' chances to make the NCAA Tournament."
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I don't know about "travel partners" in such a tight geographic area, but it should be VERY easy for our AD to schedule these schools for money saving back to back weekend road games:
Rice/UTSA/UTEP
UNT/Tulsa
Tulane/USM/UAB
ECU/UNCC
That's 4 road trips to play 10 possible road games. The only ones that can't be easily serviced at this time are Marshall & FIU, who are both on an island by themselves.
HD
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Re: Travel partner in other sports?
The conference office issues the conference schedule based on what the ADs and presidents approve regarding scheduling policies.
It will depend mainly on whether the current Wednesday-Saturday basketball scheduling format is maintained. Most teams get one home game and one road game per week.
Another point...with 14 teams how many conference games will be played? In a 12-team conference with divisions, it is easy to schedule 16 games and play the other division only once--half at home and half on the road.
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