About west coast trips

[boilerzz]

All the contenders who have made their west coast trip have come home and had an inexplicable loss:

Illinois to USC
Michigan at Minnesota
Purdue to OSU

Good luck Wisconsin and MSU

 

[Boiler Buck]

Just so the B10 makes more $. That is the important thing, right?

The travel stress, while being a student athlete is obviously effecting these kids at all schools.

 

[DwaynePurvis00]

Just so the B10 makes more $. That is the important thing, right?

The travel stress, while being a student athlete is obviously effecting these kids at all schools.

😂 “student athlete” is no more, unfortunately, with NIL.

 

[BBG]

All the contenders who have made their west coast trip have come home and had an inexplicable loss:

Illinois to USC
Michigan at Minnesota
Purdue to OSU

Good luck Wisconsin and MSU

You know before all this happened I didn't think there would be an impact, but there is overwhelming evidence to show that there is... it'd be different if it was sporadic.. but it's consistent among multiple teams.

All for making money and becoming the new NBA...

 

[bonefish1]

Sorry, I don' t buy into the travel argument. We were up by 13 at halftime and then after losing the lead, stretched it out to 6 again late in the 2nd. 59-53.
OSU just got hot from 3. Defense wasn't bad, but these guys just hit shots when they needed to. I do think Smith was pressing late in the 2nd, maybe shot hunting a little too much.

 

[DrEss]

Sorry, I don' t buy into the travel argument. We were up by 13 at halftime and then after losing the lead, stretched it out to 6 again late in the 2nd. 59-53.
OSU just got hot from 3. Defense wasn't bad, but these guys just hit shots when they needed to. I do think Smith was pressing late in the 2nd, maybe shot hunting a little too much.

Agree, as we have seen this Purdue game every once in a while in past seasons, before any WC trip. The Boilers are riding high coming into a game, get way up in the first half, then the opponent gets going and Purdue goes cold. Seems this stinker shows up once a year, every season. Hopefully this will spark the team to tighten things up through the rest of the season.

 

[qazplm]

Agree, as we have seen this Purdue game every once in a while in past seasons, before any WC trip. The Boilers are riding high coming into a game, get way up in the first half, then the opponent gets going and Purdue goes cold. Seems this stinker shows up once a year, every season. Hopefully this will spark the team to tighten things up through the rest of the season.

The issue with the travel argument is not getting anything from Colvin or Heide is not an irregular occurrence.

 

[FiveWeight]

Our teams don’t even have the worst situation. How much sense does it make to send Maryland’s tennis team (random example of a non-revenue generating sport) on 6-hour flights to Washington? If being a student-athlete was inconvenient before, the huge geographical gap of our current conference must be detrimental to classroom continuity.