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This has been discussed elsewhere, and it has been reported that Iowa has discussed legislating the scheduling of its instate D-I schools (such as requiring Iowa State to schedule Iowa, Drake, UNI), but should they?
I found an article essentially calling for the Pennsylvania legislature to require Pitt to schedule Penn State in football.
In the article, football legend Johnny Majors (former head coach of Iowa State, Pitt, and Tennessee) cites a report that the Iowa legislature did indeed discuss forcing schools to play in Iowa.
"Obviously, lawmakers have more important things to worry about -- like whether to give themselves a pay raise -- but they've concerned themselves with less important issues, too.
This is, after all, the same state that has a law which prohibits singing in the bathtub.
Majors knows of one state legislature that forced the renewal of a college football rivalry.
"When I was at Iowa State, Iowa wouldn't play us because we were the underdogs and didn't have any tradition," he said.
In stepped state senator Bill Reichardt, who'd been a star player at Iowa. He sponsored a bill to resume the series, which was dormant from 1934-77. It is alive and well today."
Here is even more proof that ex-NFL player Reichardt did indeed try to force the schools toplay by initiating legislation.
".........the Iowa Senate.
It was there that Reichardt made the motion to get the two instate rivals to play.
"He was a state senator, and he pretty much sponsored that by himself," Duncan said. "There was a joint resolution, a joint House and Senate resolution that they'd play. If they didn't play, they were going to do it by legislative action. They were going to pretty much make it that Iowa had to play Iowa State."
Would anyone like to see the legislature act in Illinois to get UIUC to play BU?
I found an article essentially calling for the Pennsylvania legislature to require Pitt to schedule Penn State in football.
In the article, football legend Johnny Majors (former head coach of Iowa State, Pitt, and Tennessee) cites a report that the Iowa legislature did indeed discuss forcing schools to play in Iowa.
"Obviously, lawmakers have more important things to worry about -- like whether to give themselves a pay raise -- but they've concerned themselves with less important issues, too.
This is, after all, the same state that has a law which prohibits singing in the bathtub.
Majors knows of one state legislature that forced the renewal of a college football rivalry.
"When I was at Iowa State, Iowa wouldn't play us because we were the underdogs and didn't have any tradition," he said.
In stepped state senator Bill Reichardt, who'd been a star player at Iowa. He sponsored a bill to resume the series, which was dormant from 1934-77. It is alive and well today."
Here is even more proof that ex-NFL player Reichardt did indeed try to force the schools toplay by initiating legislation.
".........the Iowa Senate.
It was there that Reichardt made the motion to get the two instate rivals to play.
"He was a state senator, and he pretty much sponsored that by himself," Duncan said. "There was a joint resolution, a joint House and Senate resolution that they'd play. If they didn't play, they were going to do it by legislative action. They were going to pretty much make it that Iowa had to play Iowa State."
Would anyone like to see the legislature act in Illinois to get UIUC to play BU?
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