Cal senior associate AD Josh Hummel: ‘There is no 100-page guide to how you plan in the Atlantic Coast Conference after being in the Pac-12 Conference for 100 years.’
Cal athletic director Jim Knowlton speaks after being introduced by Chancellor Carol Christ in 2018. BERKELEY — Cal will make its first trip east as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference when its men’s soccer team visits North Carolina State on Sept. 6. It’s a 2,400-mile flight that will have taken more than a year to complete.
“We couldn’t be more excited about joining the ACC,” said Cal athletic director Jim Knowlton, who plans to invite ACC commissioner Jim Phillips to the Bears’ first conference home game Oct. 5 against Miami. “It’s going to be a festival to celebrate this new conference.”“Obviously a lot of it was around the logistics of travel, but there were also conversations about academics, the wellness piece of it, scheduling,” said Josh Hummel, a senior associate AD who was hands-on daily with the project.
For the others — including football, basketball, baseball, softball and soccer — flights to Eugene, Oregon will be replaced by Syracuse, New York. Football will fly nearly 21,000 miles for four ACC road games and a non-conference game at Auburn, and its equipment truck will depart no later than Monday for each road trip in order to arrive by Wednesday or Thursday.
To accommodate those demands, teams will travel with tutors, learning specialists and test proctors, as needed, Hummel said. Athletes will meet with professors at the start of each semester to go over their travel schedules and arrange to watch lectures live remotely or on tape.Knowlton fully appreciates the stress athletes will face stemming from how academics are impacted by travel.
Asked this past week how Cal can make this work, Knowlton admitted, “That’s the question of the day.”
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