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[QUOTE="44cuse, post: 58765, member: 693"]
I think this says it perfectly.  I'm not old enough (I don't think) to actually be writing this.  Or, better said, to believe I am writing this or believe that it's true.  But I can't get TippHill's post out of my head from a couple of weeks back.

I'm with you in that I like away games.  I moved out of the area to get to a "bigger world" and it's been awesome.  That said, come the Fall, I am tremendously envious of those of you who get to road trip in the car to Rutgers, UCONN, BC, etc.  As a tradition, that is a super cool thing and, like you, I wonder what the future holds and whether or not that degree of nostalgia will remain.

But then I look at the Pac 10 (and now Pac 12) and see it a bit differently.  The world is going faster and times change.  Just look at the difference in this board from the AOL days to now.  And in the Pac 12, the airports in Oakland, Eugene, Portland, Seattle, LA, and AZ are PACKED with people either flying out Friday night or Saturday and going to games.  I-5 is loaded with cars driving north (to U of O and OSU) and south to USC or UCLA or teams coming to Cal and Stanford.

So I don't really know there is that much to fear.  What I do know is that I would personally prefer a NE conference where car road trips were just what you did.  But that reality went away when the TV money reached the levels it's currently at.

I view it like this: the best we can hope for and what5 we should expect is for the traditions on the campuses in our conference to grow and thrive so the "the experience" of college football is something greater than the game.  I doubt it will, but if conference expansion changes that for the negative, we will all have lost something.

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