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Message: [QUOTE="undersized, post: 4221145, member: 11260"] Does anyone have concrete knowledge about how the Big Ten (or other conferences) went about rescheduling postponed games? I'm asking about the B1G specifically because the race was so close at the top and it's the conference I follow the most closely. However, I'm interested in other conferences, too, if anyone cares to share. Context: Some B1G coaches (Teri Moren, Kim Barnes Arico, maybe Brenda Frese also?) expressed frustration with "the conference" for not getting in all of their makeup games and/or not rescheduling them to their liking. For example, Indiana did not like having their makeup games so close together, and Michigan was upset they didn't get to play Illinois. Yet I've read elsewhere that the Big Ten let the teams involved in each postponement work out a date amongst themselves -- which, if true, sort of seems like the conference shirking responsibility? So who exactly is to blame for Michigan not getting in their game against Illinois, for example? The "conference"? Does that refer to conference policy or a specific administrative official/person in charge of overseeing this? The Illinois coach for not wanting to play? The Illinois AD? The Michigan AD (for not pushing enough to get the game back on the books)? On the other side of the coin, Lisa Bluder has effusively praised Iowa's Assistant AD Barbara Burke for successfully getting all 18 conference games on the books for Iowa. I'm curious how much of that is purely about Burke's diligence versus her influence in being able to lobby the B1G to prioritize Iowa's games over others. [I][I]Disclaimer: I am not starting this thread out of insecurity that Iowa's (and OSU's) titles are less meaningful because there were discrepancies in number of games played among the top teams. I fully recognize that there would be a >99% chance of Maryland and Michigan also being co-champs had they had a chance to play their missed games, or even Indiana, who had to play Iowa twice instead of Iowa once and Rutgers once. I'm simply curious about the "behind the scenes" of it all.[/I][/I] [/QUOTE]

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