Which is what ISU should pay them if the Big 12 decides to go with a conference only schedule. They are clearly ready to hold up their end of the agreement.
FWIW: The Hawkeyes should reimburse ISU for any lost revenue from the Cy-Hawk game because they canceled.
Edit: Only people that are going to win are the lawyers because conferences and the NCAA can't get their **** together and work together to come up with a solution that protects player safety and still allows the games to be played.
The last thing the Big XII should do is cancel non con. The B1G doing so was selfish and shortsighted.
In practical terms, here’s how it should work:
A. Wait to see how it works for the various pro sports franchises starting play earlier. Watch, learn from their mistakes and make adjustments to your own plans.
B. Play the first non con game, see how that goes. Make adjustments. *note,
no one from an “at risk” demographic should be attending.
C. Play the second non con game, making further adjustments. At this point, you have more than
plenty of leverage to get people in the stands to follow proper procedures.
D. Play the third conference game, and see what happens. At this point it’s a binary solution set—either you’ve got it down, or the conference season is irrelevant. It’s over.
And at the point if the nation knows there isn’t a
conceivably “safe” way to play college football, the B1G isn’t going to get in a single game.
The non conference season is training wheels, trial and error for the process—just like the team on the field.
What the B1G didn’t figure out is that if you’re doing your experimenting in the conference season and
fail, a two or three game conference season is going to do no one any good.
And if everyone else does their experimenting before that and there
is no viable answer—they won’t even get in a kickoff. They’re totally screwed.
Of course, correspondingly, if everyone else “figures it out” and college football is viable, they’re also screwed. A nine game season when others are playing twelve. While the B1G sat and twiddled their thumbs. A lose-lose situation.
Just my opinion. I haven’t read all the articles and threads like some of you.