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per ESPN:
So when can we expect to find out how the '16 slate shakes out? Commissioner Jim Delany told ESPN.com that league officials are "working to visualize" how those schedules will work.
"We want to see them as soon as we can," Delany said. "There are some real challenges when we move to nine and try to implement it. My hope is that we get an eyeball on them in the coming months. I don't know when they would be made public or if they'll need to be tweaked."
Delany said one issue with the first nine-game schedule is placing conference games earlier in the year. Of course, conference play will likely have to begin in September for all teams with nine league contests, and Delany said Big Ten games could be played even earlier on an annual basis. The league also has to work around previously scheduled nonconference games.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/78493/big-ten-prepping-nine-game-schedule
Go Gophers!!
So when can we expect to find out how the '16 slate shakes out? Commissioner Jim Delany told ESPN.com that league officials are "working to visualize" how those schedules will work.
"We want to see them as soon as we can," Delany said. "There are some real challenges when we move to nine and try to implement it. My hope is that we get an eyeball on them in the coming months. I don't know when they would be made public or if they'll need to be tweaked."
Delany said one issue with the first nine-game schedule is placing conference games earlier in the year. Of course, conference play will likely have to begin in September for all teams with nine league contests, and Delany said Big Ten games could be played even earlier on an annual basis. The league also has to work around previously scheduled nonconference games.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/78493/big-ten-prepping-nine-game-schedule
Go Gophers!!