Oso planning to go pro
I wonder if it would be possible for multiple conferences to use the same bubble.
Being considered per Goodman:The Big East and Big Ten are two conferences that have discussed using a bubble for basketball this season, per sources. However, it’s just one of multiple options that has been discussed.Wonder what location would be utilized. If no fans, they probably want to use a gym that a school owns/wouldn't have to rent? Or maybe the would to create more spacing for entry/testing. Have a difficult time envisioning the BE renting MSG for several months without fans. And that doesn't even cover the conversation regarding the student-athletes and coaches.
I still think conference-only will make the selection process a nightmare. How do you compare across conferences without a metric like the NET? That sort of metric is useless if there's no non-con play.
LOL at zero mention as to how these students go to school.Also, if universities insist on in-person classes to collect room and board revenue for their everyday students but then allow student-athletes to participate in a bubble with 100% online classes, it would be the height of hypocrisy, completely about money.
Well, classes for most students will be ending after Thanksgiving and will likely not start up again until February.
Big East v. ACC challenge? That would be fun. Any team that could go .500 versus an all BE & ACC slate would be a hell of a team.
This idea is great, and the perfect spot is Wintrust, it almost makes too much sense.Benefits of Wintrust: -Marriott Marquis literally connected to the arena-McCormick Place utilized for practices-Teams that can bus in: MU, DePaul, NW, UW, Illinois, IU, Purdue, Butler, Iowa, Maybe on XU, MSU, UM, OSU, MinnyThere isn't a better spot for this idea.
Another year - another reason to be happy with a .500 record. Admin really did a number on your expectations.
I would think it would make most sense to play at multiple locations as well. So you could bus over to Northwestern or UIC or whatever on game day. I'd think you'd want multiple games going on at the same time so everyone can play every other day or something.
I was thinking that too. If you played at Wintrust, let's say first game of the day is at 10:30am. I'll go with 2 and a half hours between games, so the next games are 1pm, 3:30pm, 6pm, 8:30pm, so there'd be 5 games per day, 10 teams playing each day at Wintrust, but with 25 teams, you would probably need one additional arena. UIC probably makes the most sense from a pure location standpoint. Northwestern and AllState are too far, I doubt that Reinsdorf/Wirtz would open up the UC for something like this. I agree with you though, they could use UIC/Loyola/UC/Northwestern/AllState/Sears Center (the two latter one's if they only had to). Heck, they could use Moody Bible if they really wanted to.
No...and after reading many many psosts from people on this board that do...I have to say I'm MUCH better off, if this is the type of "intelligence" a degree from MU gets you. It sure is on full display I will say that.
I really doubt that we’ll see bubbles with teams from more than one conference. What would happen to UConn and Rutgers while their conference mates are playing in Chicago? Having 2 or more conferences involved multiples the coordination complications, as well.
Not to mention McPier is desperate for cash after losing all of those conventions. I'm sure they'd cut a nice deal. Great idea Dish.Would women's teams be included in the bubble?
I'm pretty sure Title IX would require it