Northwestern Women Forfeit LA Games

[MaxyJR1]

Not the men's side, but interesting to see a precedence set in a team forfeiting make up games from the wild fires. It moves NW to 2-15 and likely there will be tiebreakers needed to make the B1G tournament.

Saving $$ to not travel back to LA to get killed by top 5 teams. Wonder if it would be allowed on the Men's side.

 

[formerlybis]

If the home team canceled the game due to an active catastrophe, why does the away team have to forfeit?

 

[MNVCGUY]

If the home team canceled the game due to an active catastrophe, why does the away team have to forfeit?

Assume because they found a workable makeup date but Northwestern apparently doesn't want to play.

 

[SomeGopherFan]

If the home team canceled the game due to an active catastrophe, why does the away team have to forfeit?

USC and UCLA didn't cancel the games; Northwestern just decided not to travel out there. USC and UCLA played games against Penn State that same week.

 

[Zeppelin Gopher]

Hilarious. Chalk up another unintended consequence of the silly West Coast expansion

 

[Bad Gopher]

Hilarious. Chalk up another unintended consequence of the silly West Coast expansion

For sure. A coast-to-coast league is a costly proposition. This strains the benefit-cost consideration of making long trips. This is why conferences have traditionally been geographic. Even if there's money to do all this, there's an environmental and scholastic cost.

 

[WindyCityGopher]

Why are you a D1 coach or athlete or administrator if you can’t bother to travel to your scheduled games, even if they are makeups? USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington have a significantly heavier travel burden to bear than the Midwest teams, and while there’s been some bitching about it, they’ve gotten on airplanes and traveled cross-country multiple times and answered the bell every time when it rang. This is a bad look for Northwestern.