Wisconsin sucks, who can we schedule?

I don't know if Nebraska really pushed hard to have a non-con game this weekend, or what response the Big Ten gave to that request. If we don't hear something in the next few hours (this is Thursday AM as I type this), no hastily cobbled-together game gets played. Even if announced right now, it would be a logistic miracle. 

But here's the thing. The Big Ten may need non-con games coming up. If they legit want to put either Wisconsin or Ohio State in the playoff, and there are too many outbreaks, these teams aren't going to have enough games to qualify. So they're going to need to be open to scheduling a non-con or two in order to fulfill their requirements.

Unless the goal is to just never play the season at all, and wrap it up in a week or two with a few more teams with uncontrollable spread. 

 
funhusker said:
I'd have to agree.  Today is Thursday, tomorrow would be a walk through.  There is literally not enough time left between now and Saturday to make it happen.  

And the idea of playing on Sunday would be dumb.  No way would a responsible coach take one day away from Northwestern week to squeeze in a game that would amount to nothing more than a scrimmage.

NU would be best served at this point to rest up and prepare to take out frustrations on NW.
Click to expand...


Maybe you're right, but I get the feeling Frost/Moos would take that Sunday game in a heartbeat

 
Take the bye. Get an extra week to prepare for NW. Hopefully Iowa can beat em up a bit this week. Get out of Evanston with a victory, and hopefully have some confidence going into a meeting with a likely 1-2 Penn St team. 

 
gobiggergoredder said:
I don’t understand how a team would get paid. There are no fans, no concessions, blah blah.

who pays for the travel, meals, lodging, testing?

itd have to be another program that needs to play.  I just don’t see how this happens.
Click to expand...


Just TV revenues, I guess? Any programming is better than no programming.

 
4ka8lk.jpg


 
Last edited by a moderator:
That was my thinking as well.  I am sure NU had pre-approval to schedule non-con games if cancellations occurred, and NU had a short list of potential opponents.

 
If this actually happens it means that NU has had potential back up games basically planned out and just have to finalize things like travel, TV, etc. I am still skeptical anything happens, but where there's smoke...

 


ColoradoHusk said:
That was my thinking as well.  I am sure NU had pre-approval to schedule non-con games if cancellations occurred, and NU had a short list of potential opponents.
Click to expand...


I 100% think we'd have gone down this road knowing the conference likely wouldn't approve it. It's pretty crazy to not approve it given that UTC has been tested and agreed, so it's just another case to bring up nationally about how poorly the Big Ten leadership has handled everything. I'm sure we hoped they would approve it, but I'm also sure we don't mind extra eyes on the Big Ten botching things. 

 
Back
Top