Where was Barta at when the BIG schedule was released? We had no one taking notice of the weekend home game inequity? The lame BIG Commissioner should be taken to the cleaners over this year’s schedule. Barta needs to make it clear to Warren that this disparity will not be acceptable moving forward.
Catch 22 those gray hair and over weight people are the only ones consistently showing up for every game and shelling out the $. Key is for college bball is to have a raucous student section and Iowa doesn’t, or least a consistent one, that gets the rest of the crowd into it. Same people like myself who aren’t happy with environment are also same ones hindered by family life and can’t make the weekday games no matter the time usually.
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Or what? Taking their ball and going home. Lol. Supposedly grown ass men/women posting on here.
Exactly. Iowa has zero/very little input on game times and days. There have been other years where iowa has more weekend games.
Oh great. A Covid Crazy has shown up with a moronic hot take.
Of course masks are silly and useless. That's why doctors and nurses and dentists wear them as a matter of routine. Like the white coats and the washing of hands; it makes them feel superior, but it doesn't protect them, or their patients, from contracting disease. Masks are merely fashion statements by the medical elite. LOL
I don’t want to take us down the rabbit hole, but the ones the VAST majority of the populace wears, the Kleenex-on-a-string, have been proven by many many virologists to do next to nothing to help. The droplets of the virus are the size of vapor. Put one of those masks on, put a pair of glasses next to your mouth and exhale. You will fog up the glasses. Hence, the virus can get through. Sure they help with larger droplets but the N-95 is what’s needed but not worn.
The only way to not spread a virus is to not breathe. The masks that we physicians wear is to prevent personal injury from blood splatter or as mentioned here, large droplet spray. Beyond that, they certainly don't prevent catching or transmitting viral infections as evidenced by the large outbreaks we have seen the past two years.
Not clear to me that complaining to Warren would accomplish anything. I doubt Warren has any control over this either. This should be an item to discuss, but the tip times for example I think are almost entirely controlled by the networks.
Iowa has been a winning program for i think all but two of the last 7 now. Simply relying on that as a solution obviously doesn’t work. And admittedly, the non-conference schedule was less than appealing.
The reason is also SATURDAY games. Nice weather and not cold and snow. Beer all day in the fall.
At this point for the people that think that covid is a serious problem, think that wearing masks does any amount of good (it is indeed doing some harm to the wearer). Then there is very little hope for such a person. The are just too indoctrinated with stupid to be helped. I don't go places that make people wear masks. So I'm going to counter balance out that person.
Rutgers is a poor example. Bigger population area surrounding the gym, and its half the size of Carver. Its a big high school gym. Way easier to pack, and holds the noise totally better then a large open space like Carver.
I hear what you are saying about "winning" records, but by winning I should have clarified. In the 1979-89 time period it was so rabid because the team won big. Final 4, conference title, another Elite 8 appearance, a total of 4 Sweet 16 appearances if my math is right. 10 NCAA tournament appearances in 11 years. That is big-time winning and creates fans forever. Those fans who are still alive who experienced it, and the younger generation has not had 1 of those years that they can remember in their lifetimes. Ever. The football program in that time has had enough big moments interspersed that a new generation of fans that grew up knowing only KF are hooked for life as well. Big 10 titles in 02 and 04, the 09 season with Orange Bowl win, 12-0 regular season in 2015, division title in 2021. Those are lasting memories that fans don't want to miss out on.
