First sorry for the TLDR post but

As we all know, with the recent additions of Oregon and Washington to the B10 the old argument of what about the quality of life and the crazy travel these students athletes are going to do, especially the non-revenue teams.

My opinion is this is a BS debate.

Lets take some real life examples of these 4 schools pre-move, ie this year

Oregon Women's Volleyball - traveled to Honolulu along with 3 other schools, one of which was Northwestern for a tourney. That is an 8hr 15 min flight from Eugene requiring connections in other cities like SF. For NW it was 9 hour flight.

Next Oregon went to San Diego, nearly 2000 miles round trip

Next they played in the Pac 12, B10 challenge in which OSU and Minn traveled to Stanford. 1100+ miles for Oregon, nearly 5000 miles round trip for OSU and over 4000 miles round trip for Minn.

Next was a road trip to Pittsburgh for Oregon, nearly 5200 miles round trip, but instead of coming directly home they made a pit stop in Milwaukee to play Marquette.

Then came conference play with trips to LA, then Tempe and Tuscon combined , (1700 and 2500 round trip respectively) and in between was another trip to SF (1100+ miles) and Salt Lake (1500+ miles), so not even counting some of the closer places the Lady Ducks Volleyball team traveled over 15K miles PLUS a trip to Hawaii.

Example 2 - UCLA Golf - 1st tourney was in Scottsdale (760 miles), next was Grand Haven Michigan (4300+ miles), then Fayettville, AR (3100 miles) then Reno, NV (950 miles), later a trip to Waimea, HI (20 hours of flights rd trip), 2 trips to SF (1500 miles combined) and a trip to SD (350 miles), so again well over 11K miles PLUS a flight to Hawaii

Example 3 - Washington Baseball - trips included Santa Clara, CA (nearly 1700 miles), San Jose (again nearly 1700 miles), LA (nearly 2300 miles), Tucson (3100 miles), Stanford (1800 miles), Scottsdale for the conf tourney (2850 miles), ncaa tourney regional in Stillwater, OK (nearly 4000 miles) or a total of well over 17K miles. Now add in the Rhode Island and Tulane came to Seattle to play them at home. 

Example 4 - USC womens tennis - 1st road trip was Athens, GA (4500 miles), then Austin, TX (2700 miles), Pullman, WA (2200 miles), Seattle WA (nearly 2300 miles), the Tempe/Tucson combo (1000 miles), then a ncaa tourney rd in Lake Nona/Orlando, FL (5550 miles), so approx 18K miles round trip.

So the next time you hear someone say that the coast to coast travel is going to be such a burden, point them to this data. 

I could go on and on like the Oregon softball team travelling along with Maryland and Wisc to Puerta Vallarta Mexico for an early season tourney (4800+ miles for each of them), or the UCLA womens hoops team playing a tourney in the Bahamas (nearly 15 hours flight time rd trip), plus a trip (4800 miles) Columbia SC and a tourney game in Greenville, SC (4700 miles). or Oregon's mens track and field playing events in Lubbock, Boston, Albuquerque and the ncaa tourney in Austin, TX. 

These non-revenue sports travel vast distances all the time, so going once every 4 years to NJ or MD seems quite normal