Well. There’s a lot of things going on in the conference office today due to the buffalo sized elephant in the room. One of them being scheduling. I’ll be the first to say that Jeff Jackson and Kyle Grooms are really smart guys as are their teams. I’m guessing this news probably caught them off guard but I trust their leadership for the conference as a whole. They may have their own plan for what they are going to do with the schedule, and I’m sure it’s great if that’s the case. That said I took some time last night and this morning to throw together a 9 team round robin that disturbed the existing conference schedule as little as possible and didn’t upset any of the teams existing out of conference games especially since a few teams need one more game to finalize them. In reality, I only had to move a handful of games, flip home and away for the YSU-SIU game, add the new games to the existing bye week for the conference where possible, and make everyone’s bye when they were supposed to play NDSU. See the table below.
| Team | 26-Sep | 3-Oct | 10-Oct | 17-Oct | 24-Oct | 31-Oct | 7-Nov | 14-Nov | 21-Nov |
| USD | YSU | Ind St | @Murray | @UND | OFF | @Ill St | SIU | UNI | @SDSU |
| Ill State | @UND | @YSU | SDSU | OFF | Murray | USD | @UNI | @SIU | Ind St |
| YSU | @USD | Ill St | SIU | @Ind St | UNI | OFF | @SDSU | @UND | @Murray |
| UND | Ill State | UNI | @Ind St | USD | @SDSU | @SIU | Murray | YSU | OFF |
| SDSU | OFF (EIU OOC) | Murray | @Ill State | @SIU | UND | @UNI | YSU | @Ind St | USD |
| SIU | Murray | OFF | @YSU | SDSU | @Ind St | UND | @USD | Ill St | @UNI |
| Ind State | @ UNI | @USD | UND | YSU | SIU | @Murray | OFF | SDSU | Ill St |
| UNI | Ind State | @UND | OFF | @Murray | @YSU | SDSU | Ill St | @USD | SIU |
| Murray | @SIU | @SDSU | USD | UNI | @Ill St | Ind State | @UND | OFF | YSU |
May come back and add some thoughts later, but enjoy this for now.
Go Jacks!
Alex
