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IOWA CITY — Iowa sent Iowa State a check for $609,775 earlier this year, the final payment under an old provision in the annual Cy-Hawk series. In 2008, the non-conference rivals agreed on a 10-year deal where through 2012, the host school paid the visitor 20 percent of gate receipts after taxes. Beginning in 2013 through [...]
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The Big Ten’s seemingly perpetual wheel of expansion has decimated the league’s football scheduling process. The 2011 and 2012 schedules vanished with the addition of Nebraska. Three seasons worth of schedules, two of which were released with great interest last spring, also went up in smoke when the league chose to add Rutgers and Maryland [...]
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Big Ten expansion has brought rivalry football back to its final weekend. Each school received a season-ending rivalry assignment for the 2014 league schedule, which was released today by the league office. The schedule was revamped to accommodate newcomers Rutgers and Maryland, who join the Big Ten in 2014. The league also shifted into East [...]
continue »Iowa football administrative assistant Tyler Barnes has accepted a position with Vanderbilt University, Iowa associate sports information director Matt Weitzel confirmed Wednesday. The Gazette reported on March 6 that Barnes, who is engaged to coach Kirk Ferentz’s daughter Joanne, had been working as an administrative assistant for the football program since January 2012. The Iowa Athletic Department reassigned Barnes [...]
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CHICAGO — Expansion talk has dulled to a whisper at the Big Ten meetings, a complete flip from the recent past. After adding Nebraska in 2011 and accepting Maryland and Rutgers as new members in 2014, the Big Ten appears content at the moment to stay at 14 members. It’s possible the rest of the [...]
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CHICAGO — Any changes to the Big Ten’s basketball foundation will be subtle, not forceful, Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said Wednesday. “There’s no appetite for regional divisions in basketball,” Delany said. “I think 18 games is about right. I thought this year, as enjoyable as the season was, as competitive it was and as [...]
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CHICAGO — Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta won’t discuss the future of Iowa baseball coach Jack Dahm until the season is completed. Dahm, who is in his 10th season as head coach, has compiled a 232-302 record. He has two winning seasons in his tenure: 31-23 (2007) and 30-28 (2010). “I think my common response, [...]
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CHICAGO — The Jell-O mold of the Big Ten’s future football lineup is taking formation by the minute. An industry source said the Holiday Bowl and Big Ten are close to finishing a six-year agreement. The bowl will pick second in the Pac-12 and third in the Big Ten after the playoff and access bowls make [...]
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CHICAGO — Iowa will face one of the toughest Big Ten slates next year based on its single-play rotation. Coach Fran McCaffery said this morning Iowa’s single-plays include Penn State (road), Indiana (road), Purdue (home) and Nebraska (home). Only Indiana qualified for the NCAA tournament of that four-team group. – It seems the league will [...]
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CHICAGO — Iowa freshman guard Pat Ingram has elected to transfer, Iowa’s sports information department announced today. Ingram, an Indianapolis native, averaged six minutes, 0.9 points and 0.6 rebounds in 19 games last season. “He wanted to be closer to home and obviously he wants to play more,” McCaffery said this morning at the Big [...]
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