https://twitter.com/larrylage/status/1357523467223109634
This tweet was directly under the one about men’s Basketball. So I assume the men’s bball team is allowed to enter facilities which I would assume allows for some type of activity.
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Yeah – cleared to enter facilities to conduct some sort of athletic testing or cleared to resume practice? That’s what I don’t completely gather from those tweets.
Either of them sounds like a direct contradiction to what Martelli told Norlander, FWIW.
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I’m trying to imagine the method by which far-flung B1G decision-makers, via Zoom, arrive at a decision about these issues. Maybe they develop an array of possible approaches, lobby for them and vote. Or maybe they say heck with it and opt for the simplest scenarios, knowing that there will always be complaints.
I’d bet they just crown the regular season champion based on winning percentage after letting teams do their best at rescheduling and play the tournament. It’s their cash cow, and they will protect it. They’ll pressure teams to play, likely, but if any opt out they’re probably already be teams that are definitely in the NCAAs.
I value the regular season over the darned tourney, but if I’m Michigan I don’t want to play a million games in a few days, even in pursuit of a regular-season crown; that’s risking illness and exhaustion at NCAA tournament time. Also, I may be different from other viewers, but once Michigan is out of the tourney I just kinda watch out of one eye. I’d rather keep watching my team play basketball and drop the tourney, but I don’t see that happening.
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This is sort of the whole point with why the Big Ten will want to play a tournament. If you just play make up games, you are reducing it to a week about 2 or 3 teams instead of every team in the league.
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I think there are difficult questions either way. If a tournament is sacrosanct, and it’s not on the table to play a similar number of games but branded differently and generating the same financial flows, then the next question becomes how to seed the tournament.
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Determining regular season champ and seeding by win percentage is probably the easiest. I suspect they’ll wait to announce it in case there’s something off dramatically (i.e. Michigan didn’t play another regular season game).
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I hope the league dosen’t overload anyones schedule just to get to 20 games. Because they can’t make everyone happy no matter what they do. Even in non covid times somebody was always unhappy because of the unbalanced regular season schedule. I also think they’ll play the full btt regardless how many regular season games a team plays.
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This has always made the most sense to me. Sorry, Illini fans
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Would be great if the B1G came out and released a plan for the end of the regular season. Right now a lot of fans, and I’m sure teams, are anxious about how this is going to work out.
We’re entering the final 4 weeks of the season. Not much time to keep pushing everything back.
What exactly are they pushing back? Tiebreakers?
Schedule wise… I assume they are trying to get some clarity on Michigan’s return to play and we’ll see an update with a lot of rescheduled games coming shortly. For example, if Michigan-Illinois doesn’t play, Illinois will play someone else then and games will start getting pushed all over the place.
Then more games will get postponed and they’ll move more games around.
I’d basically plan for Michigan to play every 3 days for the rest of the season once they come back.
I was asking more for clarity regarding the schedules and remaking games. I’m counting 13 games that need to get rescheduled.
Some sort of announcement about what the conference is prioritizing and how they’re achieving it. Meaning, are we just trying to remake as many of those 13 games as possible, trying to ensure that every team approaches 18 games played, prioritizing reschedules between the tier 1 teams, etc.
A lot of fans of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and OSU are wondering how they’ll catch Michigan if we don’t play games and they don’t get a chance to play us. I’m sure players are in the same boat.
A press release with a handful of reschedule games and their dates would go a long way imo. Even if more adjustments have to happen
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Yeah, I expect there will be plenty of updates moving forward as teams start coming back but they will be around the games that move.
We’ve already had a bunch:
1/26/2021 Big Ten Announces Adjustments to Men’s Basketball Schedule
1/22/2021 Big Ten Announces Adjustments to Men’s Basketball Schedule
1/13/2021 Big Ten Announces Adjustments to Men’s Basketball Schedule
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I intentionally said basketball activities (and not practice) to include anything done with team staff.
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Yeah, I guess I’m just hoping for more than the 5 total rescheduled games in those 3 announcements combined.
The more you announce ahead of time, the more you have to change. Think it’ll be a week-by-week thing more than “okay here’s the new master schedule”
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What incentive does the Big Ten have to announce more than the games that are rescheduled? They will just have egg on their face again if they need to contradict themselves as they are constantly changing the plan with the ever-evolving and unpredictable covid times. More games will be postponed in February, changing the information and factors at play. They won’t paint themselves into a corner and announce more than that until absolutely necessary no matter how much people would like some clarity
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I mean I get it from that perspective. It will just be interesting when we’re entering the final week of the season and OSU, Illinois, and Wisconsin fans are like “Gee, I hope the B1G reschedules 3 of Michigan’s games this week instead of 1 so we can have a chance to win the conference”.
I assume games will be rescheduled as they fit and teams won’t be given 2 days notice. And I really don’t care what other fan bases think.
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