Big Ten basketball preseason poll from Rivals.com

He died at his home in Indiana. He was 83.

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Tons and tons of offers for 5-10 to 6-2 athletes, and very very little action on the DL...is Scruggs not active here or what the heck is the plan....everyone knows they have to upgrade that position. WTH???

Personally, I'm pumped! A giant that we've been lacking......FOREVER!!! Does he go to Purdue? They have a VERY similar player so....

Stay tuned.

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Just curious on opinions in the Den on Iowa's decision to run a 4th down play with 30 seconds to go from the 2 yard line, when they were up by 24 points on Western Michigan. That last TD was meaningless to the outcome of the game. Keep in mind, however, that Brian Ferentz has to average 25 points per game this year, or his contract is terminated and he was under that average through the first two games.

My feeling is that it showed an incredible lack of class, and nine out of ten coaches would have lined up in the victory formation for that last play. And, why risk injury to any player on the field at that point? The fact that the OC is financially incentivized to run up garbage time scores is also classless and assine. The head coach should have been the adult in the room here and showed some decency - but of course he's Brian Ferentz's father, and decided to put his son's financial need over decency.

I know there are other ways to look at this and maybe i'm being overly harsh on Iowa. What do others think?

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Does anyone know if there are tryouts for the Little Badgers? My son saw them at half time of one of the badger games and really wants to try out. He is a 2nd grader (going into 3rd grade soon) and loves basketball. He has already made 5,300 shots this summer (our basketball program has a 10,000 shot club that he joined) and practices dribbling 2 basketballs all the time (can walk around doing crossovers with the two balls). Maybe he isn’t good enough but he wants to try and it will motivate him to put in more effort if he doesn’t make it so not a bad thing either way.

I haven't watched the whole game, but the reality is, there is a talent chasm that players and coaches have to be perfect to win a game like this. They weren't and quite honestly, can't be expected to do so.

Further, Longo may have called a bad game. But Allen is not a kid who can carry the load....it's just not in him. To fumble twice AND ends up injured when the team needed him the most says a lot. Probably are good kid, but not a kid you can ride. And more, literally, Longo is performing without Mordecai, Chez, Allen in the second half and now Dike. There are 1 or 2 teams that have talent enough to overcome the loss of their 4 best offensive players and win a game against the likes of OSU. We all need to take a chill pill and realize, this ain't the year and they are operating with over 30% of their offensive starters (and guys who handle the ball the most) out of the lineup....They played tough, but not perfect....They need more depth, talent and playmakers. And FU Tom Oates....Hinzman was firing his snaps back to the QB, our guy wasn't.....OOOOOPS.

Washington played Stanford this weekend... here's a look at the stands...did not want them in the B10....terrible fans.
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How is Trech Kekahuna doing? Is there any chance he could play at the end of the year? Curious if he is a lot better than the other receivers in the room who haven't seen the field this year but are older eligibility wise. Do players still get to play in 3 games without losing their redshirt status?

Would like to see a spark vs Minnesota and our Bowl game by Kekahuna and any other Freshman that have a spark and talent.

If I missed any articles or posts on this I apologize in advance.

For those who watched the game on TV what were you thoughts on the broadcast on NBC? My first and immediate complaint was the utter lack of ability to tell anything about the crowd noise, they had almost all of the crowd volume completely filtered out. You couldn't hear much of a peep on a first down, interception or touchdown. You watch an SEC game on ESPN and they've got the volume for the crowd cranked up to the max by comparison.

I was also completely unimpressed by the librarian level of enthusiasm of the play by play guy, Noah somebody......Blackledge is good as usual but the Notre Dame broadcast level of excitement was awful. They play by play and sideline reporter also couldn't pronounce Badger player names all game long. They got all the OSU players correct, so good on them for doing 50% of the research.