The confusion from that anarchy would work in Iowa United's favor. Somebody stop me before this gets silly. So we can make excuses about why our Big Ten and Big 12 teams have a combined record of 1-13 in conference games this year. But there's still basketball, where you only have 13 scholarships to fill instead of 85. Iowa and Iowa State have gone to the NCAAs in the same year several times, and may do so often under current coaches Steve Alford and Larry Eustachy.
Basketball is a less savage sport than football, so it better suits our well-educated ways.