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usonian

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1. If the travel costs are 10 to 12 million dollars for ONE team, imagine the environmental impact.
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 01:41 PM
Aug 2023

As always making money seems to come at someone else's expense.

If it's not on the balance sheet, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

We ALL pay for this.



Thousands of fans, instead of a leisurely drive down I-5 will now be flying across (on average) half the frickin country to support their teams.

Carbon credits?

CABRON CREDITS.

BTW, Chip Kelly has addressed this (from a link on that page above)

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-08-12/chip-kelly-plan-pac-12-college-football

https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-08-04/chip-kelly-college-football-realignment

The Kelly Plan. It has a nice ring to it, but it will never happen.

Chip Kelly’s idea about how to steer the college sports enterprise away from fully losing its soul — having top football schools be classified as independent and playing by their own rules, allowing the rest of the sports to be grouped together regionally as they used to be — is simply too logical for college sports leaders to wrap their heads around.

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