If winning percentage will determine who wins the big ten as it was posted above as the most likely possibility, do we want to make up that many games really?
The decision on which one to make up seems like what we should care more about (e.g MSU, PSU vs. Illinois types). Just sayin’
You can’t just “not play” games because it’ll help your winning percentage though. The Big Ten makes the schedule.
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Of course, I get that lol. I’m not saying that’s what the coaching staff and the AD should do. I’m saying that’s what as fans we should be looking at
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Based on BQ’s notes, getting the Illinois game rescheduled will be a high priority since the goal is to have every team play at least once. To that end, I’m guessing the return trips to PSU and Northwestern are on the chopping block.
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Ya, my concern is if they try to make up all 5 games in 3 week we could end up with a tired team come tournament time.
A B2B with MSU, maybe one or two Tues/Thurs weeks should get a few of the games back on the schedule. It’s definitely a risk as far as legs go.
I don’t know what Michigan was able to do but if they were in the gym at the end of last week, I’d be pretty peeved if I was Illinois that that game isn’t being played.
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Fit the Illinois game in somewhere. Play MSU in a b2b. That’s 17 games right there. Maybe find one more game if there’s a good spot.
Do we have reason to think the players are doing much of anything in the gym right now?
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Inject a B2B with MSU into my veins, especially if they struggle tonight versus Nebraska.
Last week as in the last week of January? Or do you mean “the last week” meaning this week?
Whenever Larry reported that they were back to workouts. Which was, Thursday right?
Can I request a B2B2B2B2B2B2B against Michigan State?
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I guess I would like to think there have been some preliminary discussions and maybe a skeleton to work off of. If now is the time to start from scratch and everybody has their agenda and politics start happening nothing is going to get done very quickly.
I just think this stuff is all so interdependent that talking about it all doesn’t do a lot of good. Now the Illinois-Michigan game is officially postponed so the Big Ten will make moves. I expect that Illinois will play a game this week, probably Nebraska?
Tricky thing is that UM-Wisc is a CBS game… otherwise moving it to Saturday and then playing next Tuesday would be an easy schedule hack.
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Yeah, I think that’s correct.
I mean I’m annoyed that Michigan isn’t playing just with this entire situation, and I’m sure Illinois fans will be peeved, but I don’t know that it’s warranted.
Best case is Michigan did their “assessment” on Thursday, and has been allowed in the gym since to practice/condition. We don’t know that’s the case, but if we assume best case, that’s 6 days to condition/practice after a 2 week stand still of nothing. When a student athlete gets COVID, there are 7 days of tests/conditioning work at minimum before they can get back to playing. Obviously to this point none of Michigan’s players that we know of have COVID, but how would 6 days of conditioning be enough get an entire team back into playing shape after a 14 day shutdown when 6 days wouldn’t be deemed enough for 1 player after a 10 day shutdown? Obviously there’s the having COVID differentiation, but Michigan’s situation is a full team shutdown vs one player, so it’s not like you can work an entire team back into game shape like you can an individual player.
Also according to this story, link, Nebraska resumed workouts over this past weekend. That’s a week of full workouts before Nebraska has to play another game. In Michigan’s case, best case scenario would be 6 days of time back in the gym before the Illinois game. Nebraska has a bunch of games they need to make up, so the B1G could have easily scheduled them a game this week on Thursday or so to begin that process. If Nebraska gets a week of full workouts before resuming play after their shutdown (resume workouts over the prior weekend, play on Saturday), doesn’t this schedule make sense for Michigan (resume workouts over the prior weekend, play on Sunday)?
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The thing about Nebraska’s timeframe is that there are actual COVID sit-out periods involved and issues where you potentially don’t even have enough players to play. I was just looking at it as – a week should be about enough to be asked to play a game. So if Michigan was coming back on Sunday night, Thursday seems unrealistic. If Michigan could work out on Thursday…
With 3 of the final 6 games scheduled to be on cbs. Those mite be hard to move around. I say if you can get to 17 or 18 games that should be good. Especially if you get to play Illinois.
Right, but if Nebraska was resuming workouts over this past weekend, you would think player availability wouldn’t be an issue this week.
I mean that rough timeline seems fine, but the problem is that there’s an assumption that Michigan has been working out since Thursday night. We know they did an assessment, but an assessment /= a workout. And even if the assessment was done on Thursday, that doesn’t mean workouts were done yesterday or today. For all we know each player did an individual workout quarantined from everyone else and they still can’t get back in the gym as a whole until Sunday.
My larger point was based on what we know about Michigan’s shutdown, compared to Nebraska’s shutdown, the idea of not restarting until Sunday is entirely reasonable. That without a doubt fits the loose timelines/precedents we know.
Now it’s also possible that they started working out in full on Thursday like you said. We don’t know either way. But the Michigan team/doctors along with the B1G know the details, and they clearly have decided that postponing the the Thursday game is the right call. And since that fits a realistic timeline/precedent that we know of, I don’t see what the issue is. To me this just reeks of people trying to make a story out of a non issue because Michigan hasn’t played in 3 weeks and have nothing else to talk about.
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Yeah, we don’t know the specifics and the call was made. I’m not saying it is anything more than that. It will just be interesting to see how many times Michigan goes Tues-Thurs-Sun in the last 3 weeks of the season given the extra postponement.
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Just curious, why is it more difficult to reschedule with CBS?
I think those CBS games are locked in first when the schedule is being done. Another words first dibs so to speak.
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