{"id":2150,"date":"2010-12-01T14:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2010-12-01T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T20:10:41","slug":"twis-big-east-athletes-to-hit-bonanza-on-frequent-flyer-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-big-east-athletes-to-hit-bonanza-on-frequent-flyer-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S: BIG EAST Athletes to Hit Bonanza on Frequent Flyer Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is 1,770 miles from Fort Worth,\u00a0Texas, to Providence, Rhode Island.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s the distance between the TCU campus and The BIG EAST headquarters, but\u00a0apparently distance really does make the heart grow\u00a0fonder.\u00a0 TCU’s announcement this week that the school’s athletic programs would leave\u00a0the Mountain West Conference and join the BIG EAST has been widely met with applause and\u00a0back patting all around.\u00a0\u00a0But, we wonder how this move could genuinely be in the best interest of the TCU, and now\u00a0other BIG EAST, student-athletes who\u00a0will have to endure traveling halfway across the country to\u00a0participate in a single game, match or meet and then turn around and go back\u00a0home nearly two thousand miles away?\u00a0\u00a0Look, we know it’s really all about TV\u00a0and\u00a0BCS bowl money.\u00a0 We’re not naive.\u00a0 But,\u00a0in the deliberation by TCU’s Board of Trustees didn’t somebody stand up and\u00a0ask, “What will this mean to our\u00a0kids?”\u00a0 The press releases, of course, threw bright sunshine on the notion saying the athletes would receive much more exposure, but\u00a0we’re just saying if the presidents of NCAA DI schools give as a main reason for not having a football playoff system that the added game or two would put too much strain on the student-athletes, then what do they think the impact of constant cross country travel will have on the 5,000 or so BIG EAST student-athletes?\u00a0 Just curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is 1,770 miles from Fort Worth,\u00a0Texas, to Providence, Rhode Island.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s the distance between the TCU campus and The BIG EAST headquarters, but\u00a0apparently distance really does make the heart grow\u00a0fonder.\u00a0 TCU’s announcement this week that the school’s athletic programs would leave\u00a0the Mountain West Conference and join the BIG EAST has been widely met with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}