I've been curious about the long distance games and their impact on performance. The Cats play Washington on March 8 and Oregon the 11th. Do you think they will just stay on the west coast?
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I think they do, and looking at other schools, the schedulemakers were nice enough to the "original" (cough, cough) 14 teams in a similar way:
Michigan is at USC on 1/4 and UCLA on 1/7
Illinois is at Oregon tonight and Washington on Saturday
Maryland is at Washington tonight and Oregon on Saturday (so a reverse of Illinois)
Michigan State is at USC on 2/1 and UCLA on 2/4.
Purdue does Washington and Oregon later this month
Iowa does USC/UCLA later this month
and so on. Seems that game are always two or three days apart
The west coast teams are not as fortunate as they have more trips, but at least they usually put two together (for example, USC is at Maryland on 2/20 and Rutgers on 2/23 - I'd imagine those guys don't get to hang out in DC or New York much so they'll get a day off in between for sightseeing in addition to practice).
Michigan is at USC on 1/4 and UCLA on 1/7
Illinois is at Oregon tonight and Washington on Saturday
Maryland is at Washington tonight and Oregon on Saturday (so a reverse of Illinois)
Michigan State is at USC on 2/1 and UCLA on 2/4.
Purdue does Washington and Oregon later this month
Iowa does USC/UCLA later this month
and so on. Seems that game are always two or three days apart
The west coast teams are not as fortunate as they have more trips, but at least they usually put two together (for example, USC is at Maryland on 2/20 and Rutgers on 2/23 - I'd imagine those guys don't get to hang out in DC or New York much so they'll get a day off in between for sightseeing in addition to practice).
I don't know for sure but would be very surprised if they don't plan to stay on the west coast in between those two games. It's not coincidence that the road games were scheduled back to back. The Washington game looks to be at 9:30pm central on Saturday, February 8 (not March). If they flew back after that one, even on charter, they wouldn't get home until late morning on Sunday. Then they'd need to fly back to Oregon the next day. No reason to do that.
On the other hand, I'm guessing that NU will fly home late tonight after the game at Penn State and will then fly (or bus) to Purdue on Saturday in preparation for Sunday's game there.
I believe this will be the case.
I don't recall where I read it, but I do recall reading that the B1G intends to schedule the colleges games such that the teams (especially the coastal teams) only have one major travel week per season in order to accommodate that whole 'college student' thing.
The PAC 10 used to have a ‘travel partners’ structure where teams always played back to back road games.
Arizona / ASU
Cal/Stanford
USC/UCLA
Washington/State
Oregon/State
It was usually a Thursday-Sunday schedule.
West Coast teams in the B1G are going to struggle on the road.
Arizona / ASU
Cal/Stanford
USC/UCLA
Washington/State
Oregon/State
It was usually a Thursday-Sunday schedule.
West Coast teams in the B1G are going to struggle on the road.
First, it is FEB not March. Regardless, I would sure guess so. I mean one game is on Sat and even if they came home they would still likely travel on MON so they would miss two days of classes regardless. Pretty hard to go back and forth. For that trip very short turnaround
Eanet told Collins that he's "see him on the charter" during the post-game interview on WGN
I am old enough to remember the old Big Ten schedule that was very academics / travel friendly. Paired teams were: MSU/UM. IU/OSU, Purdue/Illinois, NU/Wisconsin, Iowa/Minnesota. Thursday / Saturday games. One trip every two weeks.
Getting on my soapbox, please don't be mad about players getting paid. The Universities decided a LONG time ago that football and men's basketball were big business, and that the players were students subordinate to being television product.
Getting on my soapbox, please don't be mad about players getting paid. The Universities decided a LONG time ago that football and men's basketball were big business, and that the players were students subordinate to being television product.
The in and out of PSU and then Purdue is likey far harder than those WC trips where they stay out there