It was the same folks who thought it made sense to put UCLA and USC in the same conference as Maryland and Rutgers.
These are teenage and young 20s highly conditioned athletes. There can easily handle a few hours on a plane. Could be a problem for you and your fellow geezers though.
You had me ROTFL with your original comment lol.Hey Mick, here’s your schedule this year……
Hey there know-it-all, how much flying have you done. I am a 2 million+ frequent flyer. It is never easy, I don't care how old you are. I was upgraded for most of my trips to the coast, at 6' 5", that helped a little. Can't imagine flying if I was taller.
Iowa bb players are many decades, 30-40 years younger, do not fly millions lof miles lol, are well conditioned and highly trained major college athletes who fly with special travel accommodations under well established itineraries which takes into account circumstances which would overwhelm a fat, lazy, out of shape senior citizen. They are flying from Iowa to Los Angeles USA not Beijing, China. Get a clue.
Dude just wanted to brag about his alleged height and importance in the Southwest frequent flyer program.
Thing is with new big 10 it amazes me people are shocked and upset about these long trips back and forth. What did they expect? And it’s not like the conference is looking to screw over a school like ucla or Iowa or go out of there way to make schedule as favorable as they can for them. They have 18 teams to try and pull off scheduling logistics for and multiple schools on different coast. At some point things may not be to a teams liking, just got to nut up and deal with the hand you were dealt. We should least be lucky we are centrally located and not one of the 4 out west or team on east coast like Rutgers or Maryland.
If you bought a clue, you'd have one.
That fact cannot be accepted. One of our brilliant posters has proclaimed college athletes immune to the rigors of coast-to-coast air travel.
"Adjust"? To what? One poster has assured us college athletes are such unique creatures that travel conditions matter not.
No coach or player is required to be in the B1G. There are plenty of college conferences where road games are all a short bus ride.
Ready made excuses for weaklings…. even when travel is completed 40 hours or more in advance of the contest and players get special accommodations. I’ve never heard Ferentz try to blame air travel, I doubt you will ever hear coach McCollum make weak excuses.
And players are physically ready if they follow pre-game protocols. You trust the process and stay mentally prepared.
You guys are a fricking joke. I don't spew BS without experiencing what I talk about. Yes I'm older and actually am 6' 4 1/2". Starting to shrink a bit. And most of my travel was Delta, although I took a short jaunt from Dallas to Houston on Southwest over 40 years ago. I have traveled a lot for business and pleasure. It's good to experience things outside of your basement loser.
Stirtz doesn't agree with your comments. After the game he mentioned how tough it is to play out West. Interesting that the Hawks traveled several days before last nights game, which he said, helped.
Yeah the trip really effected how he played vs. Oregon.
