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Will know more tomorrow big meeting...
Disastrous for NU. You take 3 of the most winnable games off the schedule and hand NU a conference opponent as their 10th game. Best case they get Maryland. Worst case they get Michigan. Given the way the B1G likes to schedule us, go ahead and just assume the "Leaders and Best" are coming to town in September.
Even Indiana, as we've seen, is no penciled-in W.
It feels optimistic to predict .500 with that schedule.
Would have made a lot of sense back in the Big 8 days. But when your conference stretches from Maryland and New Jersey to Lincoln, Nebraska - how is this schedule safer?
Don't get me wrong - I'd rather see 10 games than no games. I just don't see the reasoning behind it.
this shouldn't be glossed over. same with the fact this 'power 5 coach' making these claims doesn't believe in them enough to put his name next to them.It was initially reported by Tom Dienhart though initially. Remember, he's literally the worst college football reporter in America.
Disastrous for NU. You take 3 of the most winnable games off the schedule and hand NU a conference opponent as their 10th game. Best case they get Maryland. Worst case they get Michigan. Given the way the B1G likes to schedule us, go ahead and just assume the "Leaders and Best" are coming to town in September.
Even Indiana, as we've seen, is no penciled-in W.
It feels optimistic to predict .500 with that schedule.
This is just a guess of course but us playing OSU and PSU already this year...I highly doubt they give us Michigan too. More then likely it will be MSU, Indiana or Maryland.
I didn't feel great about the Bearcats, but I felt a lot better about them early in the year than a stretch that goes @OSU, PSU, @Iowa, @Wisconsin, Minnesota. I feel better about Cincy than I do UofM or MSU.Cincinnati wasn’t one of the more winnable games.
I say Indiana... we play Michigan and Sparty next year and we have only teed it up with Indiana twice since 2011..
Wouldnt surprise me if they will have everyone play a home and home against their closest school, something like Nebraska/Minnesota, Iowa/Wisconsin, Illinois/NW, indiana/Purdue, Michigan/Michigan state, Ohio state/penn state, Maryland/Rutgers
Disastrous for NU. You take 3 of the most winnable games off the schedule and hand NU a conference opponent as their 10th game. Best case they get Maryland. Worst case they get Michigan. Given the way the B1G likes to schedule us, go ahead and just assume the "Leaders and Best" are coming to town in September.
Even Indiana, as we've seen, is no penciled-in W.
It feels optimistic to predict .500 with that schedule.
Ok Beav, and other guys, I had a thought based on this.
If they say, which they have, 10 games, 14 weeks, conference only, and we're doing this to add flexibility in the scheduling in case a t eam comes down with a ton of cases...does that mean we get a whole new draw?
Wouldn't you have to? To re-balance home and away games, re-time them, etc? Do you get to elect to take a week off and move a game? How will this work?
I am almost 100% sure that nobody is going to play their existing schedule where you either don't play until ****ing October, or like us you play Purdue then you're off for three weeks? That defeats the purpose of flexibility in case of illness.
I think we may wind up getting a whole new draw.
FWIW, There are three week 1 conference games as currently scheduled.
I am guessing they will stick with division only games and have a couple of home/homes between some of the closer division schools. They will want to restrict travel as much as they can.
Disastrous for NU. You take 3 of the most winnable games off the schedule and hand NU a conference opponent as their 10th game. Best case they get Maryland. Worst case they get Michigan. Given the way the B1G likes to schedule us, go ahead and just assume the "Leaders and Best" are coming to town in September.
Even Indiana, as we've seen, is no penciled-in W.
It feels optimistic to predict .500 with that schedule.
IF they are going to a 10 game schedule, it won't be a 14 week schedule. Season will start Sept 19 or 26, depending on if they give each team a bye. I would also bet on no Big Ten title game with the season ending Thanksgiving weekend. That would be on par with what they are doing with students at those schools that are bringing kids on campus this fall.
That is not what is reported in the story, Tuco. They're saying 10 games over 13-14 weeks with flexible bye weeks built in.
IMHO flexible bye weeks seem difficult at best to manage. Are all bye weeks the same for all teams? I would say no because that is not the definition of flexible, that would be set bye weeks. So then you have to hope that both Team A and Team B have the same by week to make up their game and that no team has more than 3. Sounds like a lot of chasing your own tail.
I would also say that if a team had to cancel more than 1 game, the odds of the season going forward would be minuscule.
Hope they figure out a way
at least those 3 places will have stopped the virus in its tracksPeople I talked to at PS have mentioned serious concerns about 3 B1G teams following thru on fall sports. I don’t want to name them until Commissioner Warren speaks. It’s 2 in the East & 1 from the West.
I hope he was wrong but his information has been pretty strong thru the years.
Sports can be played if you scream "social justice" because the virus will not go after you then. This is a story real news outlets put out.at least those 3 places will have stopped the virus in its tracks
thank goodness for the bravery of those whose paychecks aren't at risk to look out for those whose are. I don't even want to fathom the alternative.
the horror of playing fall sports! the horror!!!