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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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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The Big Ten really didn’t do the Iowa men’s basketball team any favors when it came to single-play match-ups next year. Last year there were four Big Ten teams with losing records, and Iowa plays three of them only once next year. Iowa’s only single-play against a team with a winning record was league champion [...]
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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 — 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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I’m going to quit complaining about April through August being the Dead Zone when it comes to writing about college sports. There no longer is such a thing. The NFL and college athletics have figured out you can stay in the news every day if you parcel the material out, and if you stage events. [...]
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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 — 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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