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There’s been much discussion on several threads about the effect of travel; I couldn’t find a recent post so dropping this here: In today’s NYTimes/The Athletic, Chantel Jennings reviews UCLA WBB’s odyssey to becoming the top overall seed: How Long was Path to the Tournament for UCLA Women? 36,000 miles (sorry, likely paywall). Interesting to read about all the program adjustments. One comment notes that despite the disruption, a number of Bruins made Big Ten All-Academic team. Hope the former PAC-12 coaches compare notes…

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Hi UltimateCard

About this: "Hope the former PAC-12 coaches compare notes…"

If you were referring to Stanford trying to learn from UCLA how to 'make adjustments to better cope with the increased travel distances & time' ...I would not hold your breath;

Many at Stanford think 'they have a standard that is better, & know more than UCLA, NotreDame & Duke' & would resist adopting some of those university's approaches. And that's really pretty sad & close-minded, and may be a factor in Stanford Sports stagnating, & Stanford student-athletes experiences suffering, while the other 3 universities seem to be adapting more quickly to this new 'NIL/TransferPortal/ExtendedTravel /Need more nimble AdmissionsReviewAndAcceptance For Undergrads & Transfers/ era.

I guess the good news on the Extended Travel front is that 'Commercial Supersonic Flight' (in the form of Boom Air & Coast to Coast, Point to Point Flights) might be coming online in the year 2030 (though very expensive), so after that with the Large Sums of Money that we Stanford purportedly have, maybe we can contract with Boom Air's Commercial Supersonic Flight to ferry the Stanford Teams from California to the ACC East Coast trips, saving lots of hours of 'Flight Time' for our student-athletes.

[StanUSwagU]

There’s been much discussion on several threads about the effect of travel; I couldn’t find a recent post so dropping this here: In today’s NYTimes/The Athletic, Chantel Jennings reviews UCLA WBB’s odyssey to becoming the top overall seed: How Long was Path to the Tournament for UCLA Women? 36,000 miles (sorry, likely paywall). Interesting to read about all the program adjustments. One comment notes that despite the disruption, a number of Bruins made Big Ten All-Academic team. Hope the former PAC-12 coaches compare notes…

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Hi UltimateCard

About this: "Hope the former PAC-12 coaches compare notes…"

If you were referring to Stanford trying to learn from UCLA how to 'make adjustments to better cope with the increased travel distances & time' ...I would not hold your breath;

Many at Stanford think 'they have a standard that is better, & know more than UCLA, NotreDame & Duke' & would resist adopting some of those university's approaches. And that's really pretty sad & close-minded, and may be a factor in Stanford Sports stagnating, & Stanford student-athletes experiences suffering, while the other 3 universities seem to be adapting more quickly to this new 'NIL/TransferPortal/ExtendedTravel /Need more nimble AdmissionsReviewAndAcceptance For Undergrads & Transfers/ era.

I guess the good news on the Extended Travel front is that 'Commercial Supersonic Flight' (in the form of Boom Air & Coast to Coast, Point to Point Flights) might be coming online in the year 2030 (though very expensive), so after that with the Large Sums of Money that we Stanford purportedly have, maybe we can contract with Boom Air's Commercial Supersonic Flight to ferry the Stanford Teams from California to the ACC East Coast trips, saving lots of hours of 'Flight Time' for our student-athletes.