It is excruciating for ISU to have to play on the road for a non conf right in the heart of Big12 season. I hope this falls on its face and its moved back to December next year.
It wont fail at all. It sucks to have to go on the road, but as long as the home and road flips every year, it wont be bad. The only thing that sucks is that everyone loses their bye-game with this being worked in. You could start conference season a tad sooner to make up for it, but then you run the risk of having up to 3 conference games with no students. It would be nice to have the NCAA move the final four back two weeks, and allow conference season to start the week students are back and go for 10 weeks. Have the championship game in late April, and then have opening day in baseball the following Monday.