There is no correlation between assistant coaches salaries and where your team sits in the Big Ten pecking order. It just kind of works out that way. I’d lean to the fact that there are schools that have money and there are schools that don’t have as much money. Ohio State and Michigan are the [...]
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Let’s set the scene here: This was the week of Purdue last November. Iowa needed to win two of its next three to gain bowl eligibility. The Hawkeyes were putting on the military uniforms in salute to Veteran’s Day. At this point, Iowa had lost three straight. Purdue was the one most everyone thought Iowa [...]
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As a schedule-maker, you’ll never make everyone happy when you’re scheduling teams to play eight conference games in a 14-team league. You can’t. Unless you give a team eight home games and none on the road. But that probably wouldn’t fly with the rest of the conference. The Big Ten released its 2014 football schedule [...]
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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– Big Ten athletics directors and commissioner Jim Delany were unanimous in their desire to make 7-5 the minimum record for bowl teams, but with so many bowls, they conceded that isn’t possible and accept that 6-6 teams will be bowl eligible in the Big Ten. “We were hoping the 6-6 would go to [...]
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CHICAGO — The buzzwords you hear on the Big Ten’s new bowl lineup are “national,” “diverse” and “recruiting.” The conference has seemingly achieved national with bowl deals from the Holiday Bowl in San Diego to the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium in New York. The diversity stems from the less sexy word, “fatigue.” Many [...]
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CHICAGO – These Big Ten May meetings took on a life of their own in 2010 when the conference was in the midst of expansion. The meetings are still going strong as far as news cycles go, with the B1G’s bowl lineup and future schedules being among the topics on Tuesday. Expansion wasn’t a topic. [...]
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CHICAGO — Five things that have happened since the last time Iowa and Illinois met on a football field (Nov. 1, 2008): 1) Barack Obama was elected. 2) The Chicago Blackhawks ended a 49-year Stanley Cup drought. 3) Craft beer became a thing. 4) A TV show called “Jersey Shore” came and went. 5) Justin [...]
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CHICAGO — You see Wisconsin and Alabama. You see Minnesota and TCU. You see Michigan State and Oregon. And you wonder why you see Iowa and Northern Illinois. Iowa athletics director Gary Barta discussed the parameters for future football schedules during Tuesday’s Big Ten Conference meetings. The Big Ten will release football schedules for the [...]
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CHICAGO – That Big Ten bowl shuffle has so far yielded…not great stuff. According to ESPN.com’s Brett McMurphy, the conference will share tie-ins with the Gator Bowl and Music City Bowl with the ACC during a six-year agreement, so three Big Ten teams would go to Jacksonville and three to Nashville in the span. They’ll face [...]
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