Scheduling

[Gator Chef Al]

Anyone else a little upset with the way this last week was scheduled? I haven't seen anything posted about this, maybe I missed it. But how can they schedule Iowa to play a game on short rest while giving Nebraska a bye week the week before? Just awful scheduling if you ask me.

 

[yerpHAWK]

They wanted to give Nebraska a shot.

 

[rchawk]

I see your point, it would be better if the Big Ten office scheduled a team's bye-week when their opponent has at least a seven-day rest.

They have only been scheduling games for 12 teams for a handful of years, 14 teams for less than that. It's just one of those breaks that goes your way or doesn't. I'm very happy that the UI had a week off after the NU game, we needed it. I'll go out on a limb and guess that Nebraska wishes they had an off week earlier in the season.

It is what it is. Tee the ball up and let's play football.

 

[Herkmeister]

Kirk has planned for this. All is well.

 

[Gator Chef Al]

Kirk has planned for this. All is well.

Want to elaborate on this? How do you plan for another team having more rest than you?

 

[CO_hawk]

Hopefully the bye week backfires and Nebraska comes out rusty.

 

[LincolnHawkeye]

If you think about it, Iowa doesn't really have that much less rest than last week. The Minnesota game got done at roughly 10:30-11 Saturday night, we played the next Saturday at 11 AM, that's about 6 days and 12 hours of rest. This week, our game got done at roughly 2:30 Saturday afternoon, we play again at 2:30 Friday afternoon. So we have about 6 days of rest this week, only 12 hours less than the week before

 

[rchawk]

Want to elaborate on this? How do you plan for another team having more rest than you?

Probably when the Big Ten releases the schedules a couple of years in advance.

 

[Hawkfan5220]

I can't remember what vid/promo I watched, but one of the changes Ferentz made in the off season was changing practice time/days off. He did that with this Friday game in mind, it is why they have Thursday's off basically.

 

[SLarew]

As KIrk said about his defense you just have to suck it up and play. Will see how Nebbie responds to bye week. Sometimes it wells and setes it doesn'tdoesn't