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I'm just going to paste what I posted after the winter rankings came out (it applies to any seasonal or yearly standings as well): The Director's Cup is a joke. Iowa doesn't have skiing, fencing, rifle (wtf?), men's ice hockey, women's ice hockey, or women's bowling (wtf again?). That's 6 of...

MADNESS!!!!

The press boxes were removed recently. I'm not sure what they're going to be replaced with. I can't seem to find the picture I saw awhile back of a big empty space where they used to be.

You mean just have a 4 team conference for a year? I don't think it would be possible to schedule enough opponents for full football and basketball seasons on such short notice. Iowa has enough trouble just filling one Saturday when we've got an open spot in the near future. As for any...

In order to get that money they would all need to remain in the "Big 12". So their only option would be to add teams to the conference, and nobody from the Big East (for example) would be willing to pay their own buyout to join those 4. I'm not sure it would be worth it to create a...

I think people underestimate how easy it will be to root for Nebraska (eventually). I'm not kidding. In recent years I've absolutely despised certain teams and their fans (usually after we've lost to them, like Northwestern), but by bowl-time the anti-Big Ten crap has worn on me enough to cheer...

You're clearly missing my point. Notre Dame is a prestigious undergraduate institution. Their priorities are just different from the Big Ten. The CIC cares far more about research dollars and graduate programs. The academic wing of the Big Ten is not going to ignore this just because Notre Dame...

Because this became an extremely long post, here's the short version: I think adding Nebraska or Notre Dame (or anyone else) ultimately comes down to the university presidents answering this question: Can we trust Nebraska (or Notre Dame) to commit itself to improving its academics enough...

It's not the physical number of TV sets that matters, as evidenced by the value placed on Notre Dame. The Big Ten already has two schools in Indiana, so adding ND wouldn't necessarily add a bunch of local TV subscribers (since they'd likely already have BTN). But there are Domers all over the...

I've looked through Kansas' state statutes and haven't found anything remotely close to such a law. That doesn't mean there isn't some administrative regulation or rule in place, of course, but I would bet the two aren't legally tied to one another. Dan Wetzel tweeted about the phantom law...

I honestly hadn't seen anything about it, so I'm glad they did. Sorry for what I assume was a repost.

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Wrestling counts, but Iowa barely gained more points than ISU in that sport. As I said before, ISU had a slightly better women's basketball team and gained points in women's track and women's gymnastics. The two women's sports Iowa didn't score any points in (track and gymnastics) are basically...

The answer is that Iowa doesn't have skiing, fencing, rifle (wtf?), men's ice hockey, women's ice hockey, or women's bowling (wtf again?). That's 6 of the 15 sports that make up the standings. We gain points over most schools on wrestling, but lose a bunch in other places we have no control...

I think you mean the "Rotel Queso Bowl Presented by Barbasol".

I liked when Philbin said our O-line wasn't as good as 2002 with a little smirk on his face (since he coached the oline that year).

Ha, he wasn't today, but that doesn't mean much. I assume he'll be back in the fall, unfortunately.

ESPN's College Football Live released their preseason top 25 on today's show and they had Iowa at #8. They mentioned the Arizona game and that the rest of the tough games are at home. It was only about 15 seconds or so. Later they had a 3-4 minutes segment on Notre Dame, who wasn't even in their...

I think you are wrong. Since you are referring in part to a post of mine, I have to note that Merriam-Websters also specifically includes "authoritative" as one definition of "official," which is also the key part of the definition for the word you think we should use. It may be an imperfect...

By all accounts Buonaguro is an excellent coach, and I'm sure he would have been a positive addition to McCaffery's Iowa staff. But I think you're right in that this makes a "Butler Way" situation less likely (in other words, a coach who tries to bring his old school with him; not that I was...