With the talk about the WVU Athletic Department sucking wind because of travel costs, I can't imagine what adding schools in Florida would do. It's not as problematic for football, per se, but I'm sure the athletic budgets of every school not called Sooners or Longhorns will be stretched with basketball road trips that stretch from Lubbock, TX to Ames, IA out to West Virginia and then down to Florida. It's like traveling to March Madness every week. Not sure travel distance should be a concern for the Big X(II) when you have the B1G stretching from Nebraska and Minnesota to New Jersey and Maryland. Plus the SEC EAST stretching from Missouri the Florida. It's the new nature of college athletics that we are getting from these super conferences. If the schools in the Big X(II) can't afford to do that then maybe they should just die off. It would make deciding the playoff a hell of a lot easier too.