Ready for 10 conference games to balance the schedule?

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uihawk82

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I would love to see it. One, you dont have those problems of the years a team has only 4 home games and their 5 road games line up as very difficult. Time to get some balance back.

Two, we get to dump ISU at least a lot of the time and get into some good home games with Colorado St, some ACC and SEC teams that usually load up their home schedules but might want to have a road game out of their state. Is Notre Dame looking for an away game, Texas A&M, who knows, some team who is loaded up with home games but needs to fill out a saturday on the road.

And three, Big 10 games are just great, they have such a big feel to them, especially when you go back like me to the hawks playing these big rivalries for so many years that matter in the standings. Like I always say I would rather take any and all decent to big wins in the conference to beating ISU.

Who else is up for 10 conf games and what are your reasons?
 
I would like to see 10 conference games with the understanding that all Big 10 ten teams will be switching to 6 home games total and will also be playing 2 P5 OOC teams every year. This means Iowa will still play Iowa St every year and 1 other random P5 team ooc every year.

The cross-division schedules will be set up so that iowa plays at least 2 of the Big 4 in the other division every year.
 
I think the NCAA should mandate that every team go to a 10 game conference schedule and dump all OCC games. If teams want to have OCC "exhibitions" or I believe in the soccer world they call them "friendlies" to jack up your revenue, great but they don't count toward your record. This would open the door to having a larger playoff field which could possibly lead to actually have a national champion in the sport.
 
Xerxes said:
I think the NCAA should mandate that every team go to a 10 game conference schedule and dump all OCC games. If teams want to have OCC "exhibitions" or I believe in the soccer world they call them "friendlies" to jack up your revenue, great but they don't count toward your record. This would open the door to having a larger playoff field which could possibly lead to actually have a national champion in the sport.
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What??? That's not the NCAA's job......

Do you know how many D1 NCAA football national champions there are.....ever? IT'S ZERO

guffus said:
I would like to see 10 conference games with the understanding that all Big 10 ten teams will be switching to 6 home games total and will also be playing 2 P5 OOC teams every year. This means Iowa will still play Iowa St every year and 1 other random P5 team ooc every year.

The cross-division schedules will be set up so that iowa plays at least 2 of the Big 4 in the other division every year.
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A 10-game conference schedule might make it easier to swap MSU and Purdue between east and west divisions.

That way, an MSU team in the West could still play Mich every year and still play OSU and PSU 50% of the time.
 
uihawk82 said:
I would love to see it. One, you dont have those problems of the years a team has only 4 home games and their 5 road games line up as very difficult. Time to get some balance back.

Two, we get to dump ISU at least a lot of the time and get into some good home games with Colorado St, some ACC and SEC teams that usually load up their home schedules but might want to have a road game out of their state. Is Notre Dame looking for an away game, Texas A&M, who knows, some team who is loaded up with home games but needs to fill out a saturday on the road.

And three, Big 10 games are just great, they have such a big feel to them, especially when you go back like me to the hawks playing these big rivalries for so many years that matter in the standings. Like I always say I would rather take any and all decent to big wins in the conference to beating ISU.

Who else is up for 10 conf games and what are your reasons?
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1. You clearly have an agenda to "dump" ISU.

2. Going to 10 conference games would be literally the dumbest thing to do unless EVERY P5 conference does it at the same time. Annnnnnnnnd that will never happen. The effing SEC won't even go to 9.
 
You get another conference on board. Then.......
you can balance your top tier teams in conference cross overs and...... you send your lower tier teams to play one if not both ooc games with the other conference.
This could work out very well from several stand points, but I have not given it a bunch of thought either.
 
The NCAA might someday require it for all P-5 conferences, but then the B12 would have to expand. I could also see them goi
pythagoras said:
1. You clearly have an agenda to "dump" ISU.

2. Going to 10 conference games would be literally the dumbest thing to do unless EVERY P5 conference does it at the same time. Annnnnnnnnd that will never happen. The effing SEC won't even go to 9.[/QUOTE]
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And seeing how the Big 12 only has ten teams, it's not going to happen unless they expand.
 
NCAA doesn't require a minimum now. There is a maximum of 12 regular season games rule, but no rule exists for conference games nor will it ever.
 
pythagoras said:
NCAA doesn't require a minimum now. There is a maximum of 12 regular season games rule, but no rule exists for conference games nor will it ever.
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That's because everything is about the SEC. The pansies that can't even play a 9-game conference schedule.
 
Xerxes said:
I think the NCAA should mandate that every team go to a 10 game conference schedule and dump all OCC games. If teams want to have OCC "exhibitions" or I believe in the soccer world they call them "friendlies" to jack up your revenue, great but they don't count toward your record. This would open the door to having a larger playoff field which could possibly lead to actually have a national champion in the sport.
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Excellent idea.
 
pythagoras said:
1. You clearly have an agenda to "dump" ISU.

2. Going to 10 conference games would be literally the dumbest thing to do unless EVERY P5 conference does it at the same time. Annnnnnnnnd that will never happen. The effing SEC won't even go to 9.
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I do have an agenda to dump ISU or not play them as much, I have been watching these games since the renewal in the late 1970's and the familiarity of the program/game and the teams makes it more boring of a game to me and others I have talked to than if the hawks scheduled other home and home games with a lot of other teams.

I would love to see the Texas A&M band in Kinnick if they might bring them and then the next year the hawks play in Texas. So cool and a better probability chance for the hawks to make a statement early in the season with a win.
 
There are fourteen BT teams. We should drop the conference down to eleven. Then we could play everyone, every year. Oh, I thought you would never ask! - Penn State - Rutgers - Maryland. See how easy that was?
 
HuckFinn said:
There are fourteen BT teams. We should drop the conference down to eleven. Then we could play everyone, every year. Oh, I thought you would never ask! - Penn State - Rutgers - Maryland. See how easy that was?
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LOL, they'd probably kick out Iowa and Nebraska bince we have the fewest cable subscribers.
 
There is the ability for a B1G conference member to schedule another B1G member not on the conference schedule. There could still be 9 conference games and then one that is treated as an out of conference game. My question would be which team/s from the east division would you like to play when not on the set schedule? And then would that conference member want to agree to it?

I would like to see some scheduling changes though. I would like the conference to consider some conference games during the second and third weeks of the season. Another idea is placing the three cross division games as the first three games of the conference season and the last six as division opponents. I would also consider placing a non-conference game late in the season which is what teams in the SEC do.
 
eyekwah said:
I would also consider placing a non-conference game late in the season which is what teams in the SEC do.
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I wouldn't do that - it works for the SEC because the weather is pretty good down there in November. Bringing North Texas into IC the week before Thanksgiving to watch that garbage in 26 degree weather will royally infuriate the fanbase.
 
pythagoras said:
1. You clearly have an agenda to "dump" ISU.

2. Going to 10 conference games would be literally the dumbest thing to do unless EVERY P5 conference does it at the same time. Annnnnnnnnd that will never happen. The effing SEC won't even go to 9.
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For the most part, I agree. Until 9 conference games becomes the norm nobody is going to try 10.
 
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