Game 8: Jackson State @ UNI

[95UNIGRAD]

Iowa was the first to pull out of it, and they weren't going to play a "Big Three" tournament, so I think laying the blame at Iowa's feet is perfectly fair. And I don't give a rip about ISU.

[BCPanther]

Pollard got to avoid all the criticism and still got exactly what he wanted. Dude is Teflon.

If Pollard wanted anything to do with playing those games, he would have done something to make it happen.

[UNIpanther99]

Des Moines was practically a home game for ISU. They could have kept playing UNI there with a very friendly crowd and a profitable game. They let Iowa be the bad guy and stuffed their schedule with crapola.

I know Jake's said he doesn't want to play his friend, but it's time for him to ask Greg to put his friend hat on and get a game with the Bluejays. Other coaching friends play each other regularly, I've never understood why this situation is different.

[A Fan In Lean Years]

Des Moines was practically a home game for ISU. They could have kept playing UNI there with a very friendly crowd and a profitable game. They let Iowa be the bad guy and stuffed their schedule with crapola.

I know Jake's said he doesn't want to play his friend, but it's time for him to ask Greg to put his friend hat on and get a game with the Bluejays. Other coaching friends play each other regularly, I've never understood why this situation is different.

Good thing he's never wrestled. Friends wrestle friends all of the time.

[BrockLesnar]

I guess we're winning 16 games and are about 6th place Without Phyfe we don't get to enough rebounds, don't score enough in the paint, and have to take crowded perimeter shots due to single coverage in the post. Yes, having Phyfe would add a couple more wins, but our season would still end in St Louis.

[UNIdad]

Not so fast Mr. (mostly) ISU.. As I recall, Fran and Barta were the first to suggest dropping the Big 4, but Hoiberg and Pollard jumped on that bandwagon immediately. UI and ISU killed it together.

For the record, I took UNIdaughter to the ISU/UNI WBB game at Hilton. She proudly wore purple. And I proudly sat next to her. Forget MBB and the Jackson State games. The WBB game was exciting!

[vbfan19]

College basketball would be greatly improved by dropping about 200 teams from DI.

so you're saying that only the P5 schools should have DI athletic programs?

[UNI MadCat]

I heard that he's had scarring of the lung tissue. Likely caused by the bioweapon jab which may have graphene hydroxide nanoparticles designed to act like mini razor blades. There have been literally hundreds of athletes overseas who have collapsed and/or dropped dead from this so-called vaccine.

So we're just going to let dumb a$$ crap like this go on this board now? I thought this was a board about UNI basketball, not Newsmax or OAN. No wonder I rarely lurk/post here anymore.

[unipanthers8907]

so you're saying that only the P5 schools should have DI athletic programs?

How many P5 schools do you think there are? There are like ?358? D1 basketball programs...

[95UNIGRAD]

So we're just going to let dumb a$$ crap like this go on this board now? I thought this was a board about UNI basketball, not Newsmax or OAN. No wonder I rarely lurk/post here anymore.

I took it as being sarcastic and making fun of people who push conspiracy theories. At least I hope so - if not, yikes.

In any case, stuff like that doesn't translate well on a message board, therefore the confusion.

[SteinPizza]

How many P5 schools do you think there are? There are like ?358? D1 basketball programs...

It would be interesting to see what would happen if the exemption for non-scholarship football was eliminated, or lack of football altogether (Wichita State). Force those schools to play DII or below. I’m not saying I’m in favor of doing that, just an interesting thing to ponder what the reaction would be from the affected schools and how it would change the landscape.

[SteinPizza]

So we're just going to let dumb a$$ crap like this go on this board now? I thought this was a board about UNI basketball, not Newsmax or OAN. No wonder I rarely lurk/post here anymore.

Probably sarcasm. If not, you can find plenty of left wing lunatic crap on CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times to balance the right wing lunacy mentioned above.

[UNIpanther99]

It would be interesting to see what would happen if the exemption for non-scholarship football was eliminated, or lack of football altogether (Wichita State). Force those schools to play DII or below. I’m not saying I’m in favor of doing that, just an interesting thing to ponder what the reaction would be from the affected schools and how it would change the landscape.

The non-scholarship schools would just drop football, and if you're talking about requiring scholarship football for D1, you're kicking most of the Big East, Gonzaga and a bunch of other sweetheart programs down to D2. That will never happen.

[ofpantherandman]

It would be interesting to see what would happen if the exemption for non-scholarship football was eliminated, or lack of football altogether (Wichita State). Force those schools to play DII or below. I’m not saying I’m in favor of doing that, just an interesting thing to ponder what the reaction would be from the affected schools and how it would change the landscape.

Less thought about others picking up football and more thought about us dropping football would really benefit us in the long run...

[BCPanther]

so you're saying that only the P5 schools should have DI athletic programs?

No. There are 69 P5 teams when you include the new adds to the Big 12 and the target number is around 150.

It's actually a Jay Bilas idea. The 11 leagues that sponsor FBS Football plus the A10, the Valley, the WCC and the Ivy League.

Imagine a tournament where the 16 seeds are the 4th place teams in the Valley or WCC rather than a Patriot League team with a .500 record. TV ratings would explode and every single game would be competitive.