True, springborofan. I just Google Mapped the distance from Creighton in Omaha (the westernmost of the current BE members) to Gonzaga in Spokane. 1,375 miles. That’s just slightly shorter (by @ 50 miles) than the distance from Creighton to Providence College (the easternmost of the current BE members). So, road trips from Providence to Spokane (or vice versa) would either have to involve air travel or be weeklong affairs, with a round trip from RI to WA being about 5,000 miles. And, if you’re on the women’s Softball team or the men’s Soccer team, well, I hope you like spending a week on a charter bus. And St. John’s, Villanova, and Georgetown wouldn’t have it much better.
Not saying it can’t or won’t happen. Just saying it’s a bad idea if the welfare of the BE student-athletes is of any concern to the powers that be.
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