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[QUOTE="CuseLegacy, post: 574079, member: 469"]
All this extra travel is about more than just $$$$..as discussed in this article.
 
Athletes at major universities get access to academic tutoring and financial help, through scholarships, for their schooling. But they also have increased time demands as sports programs jockey to make themselves more attractive for corporate interests.
The football player shoehorned into a Thursday night ESPN game in the athletics department’s search for more TV revenue still has to attend class the next morning. The same goes for the volleyball players at Florida State, who had to miss Thursday afternoon classes and a whole day Friday for a weekend jaunt to play at Boston College in October.
The concern as conference membership changes — as teams at Maryland and Rutgers start making Big Ten Conference trips to the Midwest, for example — is that athletes’ chances to succeed academically will lessen.
“It’s more travel, more time away from class and more pressure on the players, with the financial motivation of getting into the Big Ten,” Vermont School of Law professor Brian Porto said of the Rutgers and Maryland moves. “It’s probably a good financial deal for the two schools involved, but educationally it seems pretty bankrupt to me.”
 
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