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We added Michigan, Iowa added OSU, Nebraska added MSU, Wisconsin added Rutgers.
Yeah, @PSU, home Wisconsin, @MSU is a heck of a gauntlet to start for working in likely a new QB (Ramsey) into a new offense (Bajakian), after who knows how much practice time with the pause on camp. But everyone is dealing with the same obstacles - to be the best, gotta beat the best!If the season proceeds as scheduled, we will have a big challenge out of the box, opening at Ped State...
Yeah, @PSU, home Wisconsin, @MSU is a heck of a gauntlet to start for working in likely a new QB (Ramsey) into a new offense (Bajakian), after who knows how much practice time with the pause on camp. But everyone is dealing with the same obstacles - to be the best, gotta beat the best!
haha I like it. maybe we can bust up the PSU D with something unexpected a la Randy Walker.It can work both ways. There is no film on a Bajakian offense run by Ramsey at NU. If our offense can get up that learning curve quickly, then I think the advantage is ours.
I would like to see us beat Penn State! Let's go and get a vaccine ASAP!We added Michigan, Iowa added OSU, Nebraska added MSU, Wisconsin added Rutgers.
We have Michigan PSU MSU Md, Wisconsin has Michigan IU Md Rutgers. Their crossovers are quite a bit easier than all the other contenders. Minnesota is a solid #2 easiest, then Purdue; Iowa and Neb might be even tougher than us. I don't even really count Illinois as a real member or contender in the West division.
They left a bunch of bye weeks in 10/11, and global bye week in 13. That's for rescheduling of postponed games I assume if there is an outbreak. I also noticed that all the week 12 games are crossovers, and most of them are the newly added matchups - I think they are positioning themselves for the option of cancelling that week if needed to reschedule others, then they could play a 9 game conference schedule and still say it is a fair season with a full round robin in division.
Hopefully we get a chance to play it out. I assume it would be no fans or extremely limited fans.
GO CATS
If the season proceeds as scheduled, we will have a big challenge out of the box, opening at Ped State...
I think it will start, but will be surprised if it makes it beyond week 2 or 3.Big Ten schedule
Ten football games in twelve weeks.
Does it happen, though?
I so hope this doesn't happen, but it sure seems like the most likely outcome at the moment.I think it will start, but will be surprised if it makes it beyond week 2 or 3.
Once college campuses have students and the games start, cases will skyrocket on the teams and put this revised season at risk.
Certainly possible. I think that's why they've scheduled it this way with all the extra bye weeks. So that if / when that does happen a few weeks in, they can pause for a week or two, suspend games, and see if it is possible to resume things. And see how it goes from there.I think it will start, but will be surprised if it makes it beyond week 2 or 3.
Once college campuses have students and the games start, cases will skyrocket on the teams and put this revised season at risk.
I think the question is not just what happens if there are positive cases within the teams, but what happens if a campus decides it needs to totally shut down (or the state decides for them). That might be where it falls apart.Certainly possible. I think that's why they've scheduled it this way with all the extra bye weeks. So that if / when that does happen a few weeks in, they can pause for a week or two, suspend games, and see if it is possible to resume things. And see how it goes from there.
Well yes. In that case the team would be out. And possibly the whole thing falls apart.I think the question is not just what happens if there are positive cases within the teams, but what happens if a campus decides it needs to totally shut down (or the state decides for them). That might be where it falls apart.
I saw a writer (a serious one, nationally respected) who wrote a piece about how each of the P5 conferences should establish a bubble and send all the players there, and explained how it makes sense monetarily and they can afford it with all the TV revenues. I was like, WTF???? You must be joking this is an absurd suggestion.
I’m sure our amateur athletes would enjoy spending 12 weeks of their lives in isolation just to entertain us! They’re here to play football, not college.Devil's advocate argument for a bubble that I myself don't buy but wrote out of boredom:
The Big Ten designates two cities, one for each division, where all players, coaches, and support staff are isolated for the duration of the season. The players take their classes online with the help of tutors present in the bubble. The cities have to make at least two practice sites available so teams could train in daily shifts. Since there are seven teams in each division, you would have six divisional games and one-cross divisional each week, and since the teams fly and travel private anyway, there would be less likelihood of exposure.
I'm just thinking out loud here, so don't hold me to this, but...I’m sure our amateur athletes would enjoy spending 12 weeks of their lives in isolation just to entertain us! They’re here to play football, not college.
NBA players such as LeBron compared going into their bubble to doing a prison “bid”.I'm just thinking out loud here, so don't hold me to this, but...
Why wouldn't they want to do this?
It's not like college campuses are going to be all that fun to be around this year. Likely no activities. No gatherings. No parties (and if there are, football players would be severely barred from attending them anyway). They wouldn't be missing much on campus. Most classes are going to be online for most campuses anyway, so they're not really missing out a ton there. They would probably be in one of the safest environments you could be in - look how well the NBA bubble is working. Zero positive tests for three trials in a row now for the entire league. And they are hanging out with their friends (teammates) and doing what they love. Maybe it wouldn't be so terrible for them. I think it would beat staying at home by themselves, which is where a lot of campuses might be heading this fall.
Now, there are probably a million other logistical problems with this solution that make it unlikely, but I don't know that its so terrible for the players relative to life in general these days.
LeBron is a pampered millionaire (billionaire?). He had to leave his family and his mansion behind. Life in the bubble for these college kids may not be so terrible - especially compared to the alternative. Most kids on campus are going to be expected to limit the number of people they interact with. I think life will likely feel like prison for most college kids this fall. It's not going to be a fun semester (year, perhaps). I think if you asked my college son, he'd agree to 12 weeks in a bubble with his bandmates playing jazz and attending virtual classes (that's his thing - not football) over staying at home taking classes online or even the current situation where he is living in an apartment with friends where they are basically being told to behave like they are in a bubble. The extra benefit is that the bubble will be way better controlled and probably a lot safer. The more I think about it, the more I wish they'd do a bubble for my kid's program!NBA players such as LeBron compared going into their bubble to doing a prison “bid”.
But they’re doing it because they get paid millions of dollars. And it’s affording them the opportunity to freely spread their messages for social change.
We’re talking about college student athletes, not people who are being compensated to sacrifice there entire lives of their months for free... plus some virtual learning.
They can still see friends and at least attend outdoor events while masked at NU. And if a vaccine comes out, they can quickly get back to those good old college times...
If your son is in a bubble for band, I would bet it’s not all big smelly guys like a football team. Or rather 14 football teams. Bands have lots of females, right? Gorgeous jazz singers and players of various instruments?LeBron is a pampered millionaire (billionaire?). He had to leave his family and his mansion behind. Life in the bubble for these college kids may not be so terrible - especially compared to the alternative. Most kids on campus are going to be expected to limit the number of people they interact with. I think life will likely feel like prison for most college kids this fall. It's not going to be a fun semester (year, perhaps). I think if you asked my college son, he'd agree to 12 weeks in a bubble with his bandmates playing jazz and attending virtual classes (that's his thing - not football) over staying at home taking classes online or even the current situation where he is living in an apartment with friends where they are basically being told to behave like they are in a bubble. The extra benefit is that the bubble will be way better controlled and probably a lot safer. The more I think about it, the more I wish they'd do a bubble for my kid's program!
I’m sure our amateur athletes would enjoy spending 12 weeks of their lives in isolation just to entertain us! They’re here to play football, not college.
Ok... that's a more convincing argument.If your son is in a bubble for band, I would bet it’s not all big smelly guys like a football team. Or rather 14 football teams. Bands have lots of females, right? Gorgeous jazz singers and players of various instruments?
But a bubble for 12 weeks without a potential significant other (ladies) in sight or the ability to leave? That sounds like prison to me, whether you’re a broke college student or a billionaire like LeBron.