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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
I know of a guy in Virginia Beach who works the Big XII (just worked his first Final Four) and another guy who lives in South Carolina (never been past the first weekend) who works in the Big XII. So I don't think it's travel logistics that's keeping guys from Texas/Nebraska/Oklahoma/Kansas/Iowa from working in the PAC 12. I think there is something else at play here. (what it is I don't know)
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Sure it is. There just are not very many schools very close out west. Even though there are a few very big cities, there are only a few. Everything is spread out. Instead of a 1-2 hour flights or even a drive, you've got 3-5 hour flights to get to/from your next location. Or, you don't even have a major airport close to the school and you've got a flight and a drive or a flight and some puddle hopper connector.
Once you get west of the central plains, the scale of everything related to travel just doubles....the time and the cost.
Why would an official from Virgina want to spend 4-6 extra hours on the plane to come to the Pac-12 and ONLY the Pac-12 for the same pay when he can bounce between the Big East, Big Ten, ACC, and SEC with short flights.
They're just not going to do that.