penn nation
Professor
Posts: 21205
Reg: 12-02-04
|
02-10-18 10:14 PM - Post#247411
In response to dperry
Before the advent of the IL tourney, the 2nd Princeton game was that Tuesday, but that was it--no five games in nine days. The IL bid was usually among the very earliest of the NCAA bids, and there was a nice week+ break before the next game to be played.
No longer.
Actually, now that IL tourney has done away with Penn-Princeton being the last IL regular season game of the year (which, God forbid, they would never do with Harvard-Yale Football), I'm actually all for precisely what you suggest since there's no longer any special status attached to P-Pr games.
Penn and Princeton SHOULD play each other early on twice, before the rest of the IL games take place. Otherwise they get into the kind of situation they just faced--5 IL games in 9 days--that no other IL team has to contend with. Both Penn and Princeton suffered from this, especially Penn with that ridiculous 4 pm start today.
We won 2 out of 3 games this week, which is basically what we needed to do. That's a tough assignment playing 5 games in 9 days--we're looking at you, Princeton University scheduling.
In fairness, the second Princeton game has always been in the middle of some week, and always will be regardless of Princeton's academic schedule, unless you really want to play them both times at the beginning of the league season like the other three pairs do, which I sure don't.
|
