after seeing the new BIG10 and ACC being beat up due to these long distance games I am starting to come around to joining a conference. It makes me very curious about how much we travel truly impacts our team. The only downside I see is that recruiting might be affected to some degree. We use a lot of our distance road games to establish some kind of connection with players on the west coast and southern states. Not having those might change things but I really dont think it would change much. Maybe we should start focusing on ohio, michigan, chicago, and PA more then we have. Also its time to start getting more involved with catholic schools again. Lemming has constantly been on the ND needs to reestablish ourselves with them and that doing so will open some doors into areas like MD, DC, Virginia.