As far as I knew, the plan for Cal/Stanford was to have all their non money making sports games (outside of their rivalry) at Southern Methodist in Texas. So th

As far as I knew, the plan for Cal/Stanford was to have all their non money making sports games (outside of their rivalry) at Southern Methodist in Texas. So the football and basketball games were to be played 'normally', but lacrosse and soccer, for example, were to be at SMU. I'd also heard that a lot of the 'lesser' sports were just going to be keeping on with the PAC12 league anyways, things like water polo which the ACC pretty much doesn't play. That said, with FSU really trying to get out of the ACC, who knows. But you do bring up a good point on the travel times. Most of the 'lesser' sports' players are at the universities for the academics. Especially Stanford due to their admissions model. Take a player in a sport that is an Olympic sport, who now has access to some funds from the NIL. Say swimming or something. They get a lot of cash from Speedo for the NIL as they are likely to win some medals. Now they can hire a real law firm to argue for them against the army of lawyers from the school and they now have a real shot at winning. The title-9 violations from these long distance travel arrangements may not be de jure but a good lawyer can argue that they are de facto violations. And now those schools are paying big money out. And now they can't just cancel all sports other than the money makers because these athletes now have access to real money and real lawyers. What a mess!