John M. Bishop
@JohnBishop71
Radio voice of Creighton Bluejays baseball/basketball. Host of @USC1620 on @1620TheZone 2-6pm. Husband, dad & Wrigley's best friend. #FlyTheW #RamsHouse
But Dan, Ton' says teams will be MORE willing to schedule tougher non-con games. Never mind that they'll be glorified exhibitions, at least we'll get them. Isn't that exciting!?!?!?!
This is one problem with the Big Ten 4-4-2-2-1-3 plan (the name is another problem, of course). A team can enter the season with reasonable assurance that if they don't lose more than three conference games they (essentially) are in the playoff. And non-con results are…
Thanks for this non-scientific poll that is so easily dismissed by Manfred's Boy.
If the CFP expands to 16 teams, which of these two formats would you prefer?5
Trash talk between conferences. Given the pathetic nature of folks canceling non-conference series, these might be the best non-con matchups we'll get.
A 6-3 team stumbling in the non-conference:
Cool answer, bro. But you ditched Virginia. Not Alabama, not even North Carolina. But Virginia. We should all be so brave to make the tough choices.
Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti on new Purdue coach Barry Odom criticizing his team’s schedule
Tony Petitti used 8-4 as a bar to make the playoff. Cool. That's what we all want.
At this point, I'd just prefer someone ask Petitti about the passing of Ozzy because his answers on the playoff format are 💩
Great question @slmandel Too bad Manfred's Boy refused to answer it.
Especially the quality microphone. #pops
Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti is at the podium and you can hear it LIVE!
Nice to see the B1G is sparing no expense on a set for their TV crew. Two chairs. Two mics. Guess they won't be losing $40m a year on production.
Not wading into the political wars, my biggest question in this whole saga is how can a talk show LOSE $40 million dollars a year? Were they using special effects that I'm not aware of? Were the cameras disposable? Were they doing bits where they would burn barrels of cash?
Some fellow late-night hosts showed to offer support Monday. Colbert had a pointed, personal message for President Trump journalstar.com/life-entertain…
A) Good. We don't need playoff expansion. B) I missed the part where Petitti's plan guaranteed 4 playoff spots for the Big Eight seeing that they have more national titles since 1950 than the B1G does.
In an interview with @YahooSports, Tony Petitti says he is unmoved by proposed CFP selection criteria changes that he calls “incomplete,” and that the Big Ten remains against a 5+11 format. The industry is barreling toward another expansion impasse. yhoo.it/415Z02H
The American conference debuted its new name (dropped "Athletic") and mascot (an eagle named "Soar") If other conferences had mascots, what would they be? My submission for the B1G:
Hi, ER Doc here. I don’t know who needs to hear this but do NOT even think about it.
Japanese design firm Kenji Abe has designed a glass beer bottle that you can stick into the sand on the beach
Free agent Doug McDermott has agreed to a one-year, $3.6 million deal to return to the Sacramento Kings, Mark Bartelstein and Andy Shiffman of @PrioritySports tell ESPN. McDermott will enter his 12th NBA season after shooting 44% from 3 in 42 Kings games in 2024-25.
Husker Athletics is creating a Special Events department to coordinate other events at Husker facilities (aka, concerts, weddings, other sports) during the offseason. What kinds of big events would you like to see in Memorial Stadium?
Amazing that out of 78 voters who cover the 18-team B1G that there is so much groupthink in the two major preseason polls.
