Hay Posted January 30, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 1 Content Count: 4 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/30/2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 I just wanted to hear your thoughts on the need for a travel partner for USF in the big east and which school would be best. UCF or one farther south (FIU/FAU) and what are the chances of this happening any time soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flsportsfan83 Posted January 30, 2006 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 1,750 Content Count: 17,508 Reputation: 1,262 Days Won: 13 Joined: 08/16/2004 Share Posted January 30, 2006 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop of Bulltown Posted January 30, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 39 Content Count: 618 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/24/2003 Share Posted January 30, 2006 what do you mean by travel partner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulheap Posted January 30, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 38 Content Count: 509 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/02/2002 Share Posted January 30, 2006 don't ask, don't tell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hay Posted January 30, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 1 Content Count: 4 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/30/2006 Author Share Posted January 30, 2006 Usually when conferences expand/realign they sometimes look for schools within the same geographical area to pair up a member (or bring members in pairs). This is especially the case for members farther out from the conference "center" as it leads to substantial decreases in travel costs.Being that USF is far from all other teams, a travel partner makes sense. Being that the Big East may be wanting to expand soon, it may look for another Florida TV market (Orlando, Miami/Tri-County) and a USF travel partner at the same time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smazza Posted January 30, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 9,898 Content Count: 66,091 Reputation: 2,434 Days Won: 172 Joined: 01/01/2001 Share Posted January 30, 2006 ftu/ou/oc never Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple B Posted January 30, 2006 Group: Moderator Topic Count: 1,615 Content Count: 74,736 Reputation: 10,960 Days Won: 425 Joined: 11/25/2005 Share Posted January 30, 2006 I just wanted to hear your thoughts on the need for a travel partner for USF in the big east and which school would be best.  UCF or one farther south (FIU/FAU) and what are the chances of this happening any time soon.I don't think we want to be paired with that "juggernaut" in Oveido. They'll only make us look bad ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberBull Posted January 31, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 433 Content Count: 2,657 Reputation: 38 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/04/2000 Share Posted January 31, 2006 Does ucf even play division I-A football? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 31, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 723 Content Count: 12,293 Reputation: 64 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/01/2003 Share Posted January 31, 2006 i dont know where you came up with this but it doesn't seem like this actually happens.i do not see how it would save any money by bringing in one of these schools. sure, if UCF was in the big east then they could drive to a conference game every year (but we will probably end up playing them just about every season anyways) FIU and FAU we would fly to anyways (regardless if USF wants to admit it or not but Busing down to miami was a budget issue which will no longer come into play after 1 full season of big east football) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight_Light Posted January 31, 2006 Group: UCF Knights Topic Count: 207 Content Count: 2,276 Reputation: 9 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/04/2000 Share Posted January 31, 2006 i dont know where you came up with this but it doesn't seem like this actually happens.i do not see how it would save any money by bringing in one of these schools.  sure, if UCF was in the big east then they could drive to a conference game every year (but we will probably end up playing them just about every season anyways)  FIU and FAU we would fly to anyways (regardless if USF wants to admit it or not but Busing down to miami was a  budget issue which will no longer come into play after 1 full season of big east football)I think this person was taking in consideration most of the minor sports...aka volleyball, track, baseball, softball, tennis, even possibly basketball.Those teams many times play more than 1 series per trip. "Travel partner" obviously doesn't apply for Football obviously.KL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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