Jordan Acker is someone you very likely had never heard of before this weekend, unless you live in Ann Arbor or the state of Michigan.
Acker, a member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, has been taking in the news along with the rest of us about the new West Coast schools joining the Big Ten Conference.
There also is speculation the Atlantic Coast Conference might invite two schools from the San Francisco Bay Area, Stanford and Cal-Berkeley. Arizona State and Arizona have just joined the Big 12 and will make road trips to Morgantown, West Virginia, and Ames, Iowa.
Travel for athletes is accepted as part of the big-money world of college sports, but whereas it’s part of the price for football and men’s basketball players, the Olympic sport athletes plainly did not sign up for professional-level travel in sports where their income-producing opportunities are limited.
Acker’s thread is timely, detailed and informative. It’s worth reading. Wolverines Wire knows this, but we’re going to make sure you get to read the full thread as well.
Here it is, in full: