When you spread out it's best to be near major airports.

I'd submit that the ACC has so far done a good job of keeping within eastern time zone, and the ACC has done reasonably well with access to major airports. (Boston, Atlanta, Miami) have major airports. (Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Raleigh-Durham, Greensboro, Roanoke, Charlottesville, Greenville, Louisville, South Bend, and Tallahassee) are good regional airports. (Pittsburgh & RDU) at one time were hubs. Accessibility to air travel seems to be an important factor that the ACC uses for analysis.

The author is a Maryland person. I wouldn't want to have to try to get to all the places that Maryland has to get to in the Midwest in the winter either with the Wrestling team. Notre Dame's hockey team didn't like winter hiking all over New England either.

It's the G5 conferences that are really spread out that have a real issue. C-USA, the Sunbelt, and the American really need to look at organizing more regionally for the health of their student athletes.

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Posted: 05/27/2020 at 3:38PM

WaPo column advocating non-revenue sports align by geography -- Vippie1 05/27/2020 10:56AM

Would make sense for Conf USA and AAC -- UpperQuad 06/12/2020 01:46AM

A-10, Big East, and CAA looking at this from a baseball perspective. The -- HokiePWC 06/05/2020 10:12AM

Won’t happen at the P5 level. The conference networks -- GreencastleHokie 05/31/2020 11:01AM

Without being able to read in, the US is vast, he likely doesn't have a -- anotherdamnyankeehokie 05/28/2020 08:15AM

Depends on if the secondary sports charter or fly commercial ** -- GreencastleHokie 05/31/2020 11:03AM

I doubt the WaPo column is taking into consideration conference networks, -- VTHokie2000 05/27/2020 7:10PM

True -- Vippie1 05/28/2020 10:56AM

When you spread out it's best to be near major airports. -- HOO86 05/27/2020 3:38PM

Maryland used to be in a east coast regional conference, but... -- EDGEMAN 05/27/2020 8:13PM

Their football travel may actually be less now, given their division. -- reestuart 05/28/2020 09:04AM

True, but they also played UVa every year. That more than counters either -- GreencastleHokie 05/31/2020 11:06AM

In that case, they should be very happy with their current arrangement. ** -- EDGEMAN 05/29/2020 08:57AM

Ship=sailed ** -- reestuart 05/27/2020 3:12PM

When you spread out it's best to be near major airports.

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