How does the Michigan win affect Hilton Scheduling?
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You know your thread is a fail when you have to change the title five hrs later so people stop ripping you a new one...
You do realize teams knew Hilton was tough to play in before the Michigan game. With the program on the rise it will be easier to get teams like this to come to Ames. It really pads a their NCAA resume if they win and if they lose its an earily season loss to a good team on the road. While when the program was down it looked really bad to lose to ISU.
I drove home from Auburn Hills that night in 2000. Sun came up about Wolcott. I really like to get a shot at Izzo in Hilton.
Maybe??
Trying to give the lineman a football enema. Yes, the Jets again. Wiggling, bobblling, sliding their way to football infamy.
This isn't true. If it was, why do we not have major non-conference games? We had to have basically the Johnny Orr connection and we played on a mid day Sunday on ESPN2 just to get this one.
Playing ISU in Hilton is a hard sell. You'll probably lose, and there isn't the buzz, and if you win you don't get major upside. More importantly the fact is most major teams play very few road games during the non-conference. Usually is either rivals or a game the coach guarantees "we'll play a game in your hometown" to a recruit.
Duke is playing zero. KU is only playing two. UNC is playing one outside of the BIG10/ACC challenge. (they are playing Texas at home, but if you remember Texas's home game was in Jerryworld) Louisville is playing two, but one is a rival game with Kentucky, and the other is FIU. Kentucky is playing one at UNC and a neutral site with Baylor.
I think we're still not major news makers, and will need Hoiberg to become Izzo in order for us to change classes to elite. Even then it maybe gets us one high profile home game. However, I do think we have the opportunity to play more high profile neutral site games like we did with Duke a few years ago, but in order to negotiate these games we will likely have to make a return trip as Texas is doing for UNC. Again maybe one a year (not counting tournaments).
You really think Cal and Pitino and Matta and their ilk say to themselves, "**** it, let's go there, I don't give a **** if we lose".
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The fact of the matter is that elite teams will not be knocking down our door to get a shot at Hilton Magic. To them it is a major deturent. To elite teams coming to Ames is a loose-loose situation. One one hand the elites are suppose to win wherever they go, and if they loose it's a black eye on their resume for later in the season. One other reason elite teams come to small town Iowa to play a game would be for recruiting purposes. Last I checked Iowa is a once every 5 year "big time" recruiting area. The elites would rather play in Chicago, New York City, Washington, D.C., Dallas where they highly recruit people from and where the big arenas are. Face it- elites will never be willing to come to Ames unless they are getting something vauable in return- I just don't see small town Iowa recruiting and Hilton Coleseum as deal makers for the elites.
