Travel partner has very little to do with Football. Football is revenue generating and there are only a handful of conference road games. The travel issues is a little dicier for basketball, but manageable. It's when the soccer, softball, baseball, track, cross country, tennis, and golf teams have to travel for conference games it gets bad. Some of the schools, Baylor and Texas Tech in particular, are in the middle of ******* nowhere. There may not be more than a single direct flight from Tampa to any of those schools. So that's tons of travel time. Having a travel partner would be a nice benefit (ask WVU).