With College football out of the picture for the Fall, things are looking pretty grim around Indiana Athletics, however, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
The B1G recently announced that the 2020 football season will be suspended with hopes of returning in the spring. With Football canceled and basketball in serious peril for the winter, spring 2021 may bring us out of our misery.
The B1G is currently planning on having the football season after students return from winter break and are currently looking for options to play out the basketball season. One popular idea for the return of basketball is to play an all-conference schedule and then go straight into conference tournaments and The Big Dance.
If this were to happen, some predict that we may have April or May Madness in lieu of March Madness as the season would begin late. If both basketball and football are played in the spring, it will make for the best semester of sports that Indiana University has ever seen.
I can picture it now. It’s a beautiful spring Saturday in Bloomington, IU football is taking on a Big Ten East powerhouse at the Rock for a matinee game, with IUBB on the slate for a big-time showdown at Assembly Hall that night.
IU students will wake up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for a morning of tailgating by the stadium. The Marching 100 will lead the fans into the stadium as Tom Allen and his staff hype up the team in the bowels of Memorial Stadium.
Michael Penix, Whop Philyor, and company take the field and after 3+ hours of battling on the gridiron, the Hoosiers walk away with a huge upset. Hoosiers across the state rejoice, but we’re not done yet.
Fans pour out of the stadium and take the short hike across some parking lots to Assembly Hall. In The Hall, fans watch on as Trayce Jackson-Davis and company thrash our opponents. Next weekend? The Little 500.
COVID-19 and the perils that students and the University faced, as a result, are in the past. We have made it to the other side.