Here's how it could be relevant.
After all this time dickin around, Iowa stays quiet and let's the NCAA come out with their decision. If granted, move on. If denied, relentless media blitzkrieg. Ratchet up the court of public opinion to, 1) expose all the hypocrisy, inconsistency and blatant idiocy of the NCAA and 2) keep the attention of college football nation on Iowa as the powder keg of the revolution.
Come this fall, Iowa suits up Ott, anyway. Whadda they gonna do, send the suits to
physically stop him from playing? Call out the national guard? Oh, no, they might expunge the games from the records and pretend they never occurred
(except to the 100 of 1000's of fans attending their games and the millions of eyeballs on TV -- every one would be televised -- all supporting the resistance.) Iowa should mock every edict, threat or penalty the NCAA tries to throw at them and just keep playing.
I know this comes with challenges. For starters, we're tasking the Iowa sports marketing and pr departments to have the balls and smarts to pull this off. We also have to get the rest of the B14 in our corner (perhaps with a very lucrative and powerful opportunity for Delany to head up the new governing body after the overthrow.) If I have any say, all you level headed guys in this thread could have a seat at the table to contribute toward the reformation. Your posts already demonstrate more fair and rational decision-making capability than the NCAA has shown in 30 years.
In the end, even if you stand alone, you still have to have the courage to right wrongs and, sometimes, that requires anarchy and revolt to take down a worthless bureaucracy.
What say you Hawkeye Nation? The end of the NCAA is nigh!
