So apparently all BIG teams play a 13-game schedule, even if they don't make the Conf. Title game ?#@?? Folks, unless he plays in a Bowl game, he's coming back next year:
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"....the language in Article 12.8.4.3.6.2
within the NCAA handbook states that the computation "shall be rounded to the next whole number." Because VandeBerg would have played in four of the scheduled 13 regular-season games
(the Big Ten Conference title game counts, regardless if Iowa plays in it), he is at, but not over, the limit. For NCAA purposes, 30 percent is equal to 3.9 games and would round up to four.
Based on this language (H/T
@mred53), Iowa's Matt VandeBerg should qualify for medical hardship. (30 percent = 4 games max)
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NEWS: Without commenting on specific case, B1G confirms that injured player w/ 4 games in 1st half of season qualifies for medical hardship.
— Chad Leistikow (@ChadLeistikow)
September 27, 2016
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said Tuesday that the Hawkeyes "might have a chance, bowl-game time" to get VandeBerg back on the field. But if he doesn't make it back,
Ferentz indicated that the native of Brandon, S.D., would apply for a fifth year.