Quote:The Big Ten Conference celebrated its 106th class of recipients who earned the esteemed Big Ten Medal of Honor earlier this year. Twenty-eight students from 18 different sports were honored with the prestigious award, which was established in 1915 and was the first award in intercollegiate athletics to demonstrate support for the educational emphasis placed on athletics.

Quote:2019-20 Big Ten Medal of Honor Class

Illinois
Men: Michael Paradise, Gymnastics
Women: Taylor Edwards, Basketball/Softball

Indiana
Men: Jake Kleimola, Wrestling
Women: Emily Powell, Water Polo

Iowa
Men: Nate Stanley, Football
Women: Hannah Greenlee, Rowing

Maryland
Men: Jared Bernhardt, Lacrosse
Women: Kaila Charles, Basketball

Michigan
Men: Thomas Cope, Swimming & Diving
Women: Guadalupe Fernandez Lacort, Field Hockey

Michigan State
Men: Cassius Winston, Basketball
Women: Gabriella Douglas, Gymnastics

Minnesota
Men: Carter Coughlin, Football
Women: Ivy Lu, Gymnastics

Nebraska
Men: Luke Siedhoff, Track & Field
Women: Sierra Hassel, Gymnastics

Northwestern
Men: Jared Thomas, Football
Women: Kirsten Mansfield, Field Hockey

Ohio State
Men: Kollin Moore, Wrestling
Women: Jincy Dunne, Ice Hockey

Penn State
Men: Stephen Nedoroscik, Gymnastics
Women: Kaleigh Riehl, Soccer

Purdue
Men: Jaret Carpenter, Cross Country/Track & Field
Women: Janae’ Moffitt, Track & Field

Rutgers
Men: Jordan Pagano, Wrestling
Women: Amanda Visco, Soccer

Wisconsin
Men: Zach Lorbeck, Track & Field
Women: Beata Nelson, Swimming & Diving

Quote:Rutgers, which earns approximately $750,000 per home football game and relies on its annual Big Ten payment for nearly half of its operating budget, is facing a nearly $50 million loss in revenue if the 2020 college football season is canceled, the NJ Advance Media analysis reveals.

Quote:We may not have a college football season in the Big Ten,‘' Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren told the BTN last week after the conference eliminated non-league competition for all fall sports — a move that was followed by the Pac-12 the following day.

Quote:Combined, the 14 schools in the Big Ten could face a potential loss of more than $950 million, an analysis of the NCAA 2019 fiscal year reports of the league schools shows.

The calculus for determining the potential losses is simple: add the projected Big Ten distribution with the profit each school earns from playing a full season (ticket sales plus parking/concessions minus travel costs and game expenses) and you get a number that ranges from roughly $49 million (Rutgers) and $104 million (Ohio State).

Quote:On Monday afternoon, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order limiting outdoor gatherings to just 500 people, meaning that Rutgers Football along with New York Giants and New York Jets football will go on as planned beginning in Fall, but they will do so with only limited spectators in attendance.

(07-21-2020 04:50 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Rutgers only allowing 500 fans per game. What's that, only about a 50% decrease from last years attendance? Sorry, I had to say it, just a joke!

Quote:On Monday afternoon, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order limiting outdoor gatherings to just 500 people, meaning that Rutgers Football along with New York Giants and New York Jets football will go on as planned beginning in Fall, but they will do so with only limited spectators in attendance.

https://rutgers.rivals.com/news/rutgers-football-set-to-play-with-limited-fans-this-upcoming-season

(07-21-2020 05:27 PM)GE and MTS Wrote:  

(07-21-2020 04:50 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Rutgers only allowing 500 fans per game. What's that, only about a 50% decrease from last years attendance? Sorry, I had to say it, just a joke!

Quote:On Monday afternoon, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order limiting outdoor gatherings to just 500 people, meaning that Rutgers Football along with New York Giants and New York Jets football will go on as planned beginning in Fall, but they will do so with only limited spectators in attendance.

https://rutgers.rivals.com/news/rutgers-football-set-to-play-with-limited-fans-this-upcoming-season

I think the away fans are more disappointed!

Quote:Noel Jenke, one of the most versatile athletes in the history of Minnesota and the Big Ten Conference, has passed away. He was 73 years old.

Quote:On Sunday, the University of Minnesota announced the passing of their legendary three-sport star. Jenke played football, baseball and hockey for the school during the 1960s. He earned first-team All-Big Ten honors in football and baseball in 1968 and 1969 respectively.

Quote:Jenke was so good at his three sports that he became the first player in Big Ten history to be drafted in three separate sports. He was a first-round pick by the Boston Red Sox in the 1969 MLB Draft, a 12th-round pick by the Minnesota Vikings in the 1969 NFL Draft, and was later taken by the Minnesota Fighting Saints in the World Hockey Association’s 1972 draft.

(07-21-2020 04:50 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Rutgers only allowing 500 fans per game. What's that, only about a 50% decrease from last years attendance? Sorry, I had to say it, just a joke!

Quote:On Monday afternoon, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order limiting outdoor gatherings to just 500 people, meaning that Rutgers Football along with New York Giants and New York Jets football will go on as planned beginning in Fall, but they will do so with only limited spectators in attendance.

https://rutgers.rivals.com/news/rutgers-football-set-to-play-with-limited-fans-this-upcoming-season

(07-27-2020 02:27 PM)megadrone Wrote:  

(07-21-2020 04:50 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Rutgers only allowing 500 fans per game. What's that, only about a 50% decrease from last years attendance? Sorry, I had to say it, just a joke!

Quote:On Monday afternoon, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order limiting outdoor gatherings to just 500 people, meaning that Rutgers Football along with New York Giants and New York Jets football will go on as planned beginning in Fall, but they will do so with only limited spectators in attendance.

https://rutgers.rivals.com/news/rutgers-football-set-to-play-with-limited-fans-this-upcoming-season

Who needs Covid when you had Chris Ash?

(07-28-2020 01:09 PM)Transic_nyc Wrote:  Ohio State talking about reducing capacity to 20 percent. Season ticket holders have already been informed.

https://www.whio.com/sports/ohio-stadium-capacity-likely-reduced-20-percent-capacity-football-games/7M6PLVSUKBHCRLBJWYHQMOUDLM/

Quote:Hall of Fame basketball coach Lou Henson died at his home in Champaign, Illinois, on Saturday, July 25. He was 88 years old.

Henson retired in 2005 as the winningest coach in program history for both Illinois, where he coached from 1975-1996, and New Mexico State, where he coached from 1966-1975 and 1997-2005. His retirement in the midst of the 2004-05 season was prompted by a battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Henson won 423 games with Illini and 289 with the Aggies, and he was enshrined in the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015. The basketball court at the Pan American Center at NMSU is named in his honor, as is the State Farm Center's floor at the University of Illinois.

Quote:Iowa athletics director Gary Barta said Thursday that no additional personnel changes will be made to the Hawkeyes football staff following the investigation of racial bias within Kirk Ferentz's program.

Quote:Husch Blackwell’s report said according to several players, issues within the culture were “not just a Chris Doyle problem.' Those players said the culture problems are systemic and cannot be fixed simply by getting rid of one coach. Several former players commented that Coach Doyle should not be a 'scapegoat' for the systemic issues in the program.”

The report, released early Thursday, revealed that Black players often felt they were treated harshly, but it largely exonerated Ferentz of being the root of the problem.

Its findings were consistent with the complaints raised in the past two months by many Black former Hawkeyes — namely that they felt the need to conform to an "Iowa way" of doing things that "was built around the stereotype of a clean-cut, White athlete from a midwestern background."

Quote:CHAMPAIGN — Big Ten Freshman of the Year Kofi Cockburn (13.3 points, 8.8 rebounds) has withdrawn from the NBA Draft and will return to Illinois for his sophomore season, he announced on Saturday, just a day after All-Big Ten guard Ayo Dosunmu announced he will return to the Illini for a junior season.

(08-04-2020 06:33 PM)cubucks Wrote:  A good article on Kevin Warren's approach to a decision on the 2020 season.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-big-ten-football-kevin-warren-covid-19-20200804-ld3pjbnjdjbulileysm6yp5njy-story.html

(08-05-2020 11:25 AM)TerpsNPhoenix Wrote:  #BigTenUnited TLDR : We make reasonable demands unlike the Pac12 and aren't threatening to sit out.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/big-ten-covid-19-football-season

(08-05-2020 11:40 AM)cubucks Wrote:  

(08-05-2020 11:25 AM)TerpsNPhoenix Wrote:  #BigTenUnited TLDR : We make reasonable demands unlike the Pac12 and aren't threatening to sit out.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/big-ten-covid-19-football-season

That is a great article. Everything looks to be pretty damn fair in their demands/wishes.

Quote:CHICAGO (KCRG) - One of college sports’ biggest conferences issued a statement on Saturday indicating that football programs from its member universities will not be able to progress to the next phase in its rollout of football preseason camps.

The Big Ten Conference said that teams will not be able to go on to full-dress workouts, involving pads and other normal equipment, until further notice. Players can wear helmets during practices, but no other protective equipment, to limit contact during drills. The move comes amid concerns about player health and safety amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

“Each new phase of activity provides new intelligence and experience and allows us to evaluate the implementation of our Conference and institutional medical protocols in real-time,” the conference said, in the statement. “In order to make the right health and safety decisions for our student-athletes, we believe it is best to continue in the appropriate phase of activity referenced above while we digest m.h share information from each campus to ensure we are moving forward cautiously.”