[82lsju]

Looking forward let's say 4 to 6 years I would like to see what the impacts on the student athletes at SC and UCLA are both academically and physically. Ok a slide in academics won't be an issue at SC, but not so at UCLA.  The real issue is the physical issue on how the players perform and how much time they miss playing.  And what happens if the players start saying no to all the travel, and follow up with a lawsuit?  Some interesting chemistry involved with expanded travel demands, NIL, transfer portal, academics, and post playing days employment opportunities.

in football assuming the Big 10 stays at nine conference games, that means USC and UCLA will have at least four road games a year at least as far away as Nebraska (and every other year USC will have five if they continue to play ND).  I wonder if some of these games will get scheduled back-to-back and if the team will stay "on the road" for the week between games like some west coast NFL teams do for back-to-back east coast games (and of course they can do classwork virtually on the road)

and USC and UCLA home games are the new 7pm PT (or later) Big 10 inventory so I'd expect non-marque games to end up in that time slot

this is one reason I think that eventually there will be two football super conferences with "divisions" to create less travel.

will be interesting to see if in the future either schedule non-conference games in the eastern time zone

other sports except for basketball are just hosed for travel if they do compete in a full Big 10 schedule

[82lsju]

Looking forward let's say 4 to 6 years I would like to see what the impacts on the student athletes at SC and UCLA are both academically and physically. Ok a slide in academics won't be an issue at SC, but not so at UCLA.  The real issue is the physical issue on how the players perform and how much time they miss playing.  And what happens if the players start saying no to all the travel, and follow up with a lawsuit?  Some interesting chemistry involved with expanded travel demands, NIL, transfer portal, academics, and post playing days employment opportunities.

in football assuming the Big 10 stays at nine conference games, that means USC and UCLA will have at least four road games a year at least as far away as Nebraska (and every other year USC will have five if they continue to play ND).  I wonder if some of these games will get scheduled back-to-back and if the team will stay "on the road" for the week between games like some west coast NFL teams do for back-to-back east coast games (and of course they can do classwork virtually on the road)

and USC and UCLA home games are the new 7pm PT (or later) Big 10 inventory so I'd expect non-marque games to end up in that time slot

this is one reason I think that eventually there will be two football super conferences with "divisions" to create less travel.

will be interesting to see if in the future either schedule non-conference games in the eastern time zone

other sports except for basketball are just hosed for travel if they do compete in a full Big 10 schedule