Iowa-Nebraska Game Postponed
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He also should have known better at the time and not even been on the floor.
I'm sure the coaches wouldn't like it, but since the B1G is not a complete round-robin, changing up opponents in order to get a full 20-game schedule in for everyone should be considered.
A perfect example would be that if Michigan St is not ready to go Saturday, Illinois and Iowa would both be dealing with a second cancellation in as many weeks. Those two teams could play at Carver this weekend, since that matchup was not originally scheduled.
This is ridiculous. I wonder how many of those individuals tested positive once and then within 48 hours or so tested negative. How many could be safely segregated from team activities, etc... Since Fred Hoiberg does have high risk preexisting condition maybe he should take a leave of absence and the rest of the program continue. The rest of those guys are all young, highly unlikely to even get sick and probably half false positives.
The Bug Eaters are shit bags looking for excuses to avoid games they cannot win.
Well, Drake is the team with the covid issues, NOT their opponents.
As a result, Drake is in the middle of 5 games (thru Jan 21) being postponed due to COVID-19 Positive Test Results among Drake’s Tier I Personnel.
So, you still want to play Drake????
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Iowa plays one game in the next 12 days. It’s time for the B1G to get creative with the scheduling, but you may see more teams trying to work the Covid excuse though.
These guys who are staying healthy need something to break up the monotony of gym, zoom, video games over and over. We’re asking a lot of these young people as it already. You start postponing their games, it just takes it to a whole other level.
So if MI State bails on IL next week, IL could schedule at IA instead then we'd play them the following Saturday at their place.
Nebby should just forfeit the rest of the season. Their record at the end of the season would be about the same if they had played.
If you look at the Big Ten standings, I’m sure it’s just coincidence that 3 of the bottom 4 teams have had COVID issues and canceled games.
How? I get that it sucks, but we're in a pandemic. 4,000 people are dying per day. It's going to happen and this is why precautions like this are taken.
We, as Iowa fans, have been incredibly fortunate that the Hawks have been able to stay healthy and no cancellations have been due to them. I hope Nebraska's players and coaches can recover quickly without any long lasting effects.
Except Iowa's issue was this summer before these protocals were put in place AND way before they had daily testing available. Your comparing apples to watermelons here. Also Joe average consumer doesn't have access to this daily testing. This is EXACTLY what the daily testing protocal was put in place to stop from happening, so it could be caught quickly enough to avoid the spread, AND avoid the need for contact tracing.
Nebby's Covid protocol is as structured as their offense.
Make ISU and Nebraska play each other the rest of the season as I’m sure both league officials will be happy to make this arrangement since both teams suck and can’t follow covid protocol, therefore preventing these two teams from taking out the top level teams in both leagues.
There is no way a team should have that many positive cases of covid with daily testing. Unbelievable. Penalties should be accessed to teams that can’t get their players to abide by the protocols while other teams can.
There is no way a team should have that many positive cases of covid with daily testing. Unbelievable. Penalties should be accessed to teams that can’t get their players to abide by the protocols while other teams can.
Good idea...make such teams give back some of their Big Ten Network $ back to the league.
So you're afraid of playing a Missouri Valley team when we are beating B1G teams by 14-20 plus home and away. Sorry man. I don't subscribe to you and whoever thought process afraid to play drake.
Doesn't Hoiberg have some underlying health problems with a heart condition from a few years back? Probably not the best case scenario for him.
Maybe, but beat the rest of the big ten and it won't matter.
Second, who cares. All the games are in 1 town and Iowas the best team there.
It doesn't matter who gets the unfortunate draw of matching up with Iowa. We're not trying to squeeze into the sweet 16 with good matchups.
Either date now works well for the Hawks. MSU plays Illannoy at home the Sat before and is at Rutgers the Thursday after. Either is a little tough for them, but they did cause the problem. Maybe Fran should propose either day and let Izzo choose when he wants a beat down in IC.
Agree. The teams that are having to pause due to COVID are going to have to be willing to play games on quick turnarounds. The 25th or 26th would make the most sense for the Iowa-MSU game now what Iowa-Nebraska is off.
Penn State is playing 4 games this week (scheduled anyway). They played Sun 1-17 @ Purdue (loss), Tue 1-19 @ Ill, Thu 1-21 vs Rutgers, and Sat 1-23 vs NW.
I guess I have not forgotten that Hoyburger ruined the B1G tourney last year for everyone after insisting that he sit on the bench with a severe case of the flu. Very poor judgement on his part and I think we are seeing some more of that poor judgement in the Nebraska program right now.
