Day 1 of 2024 B1G Football Media Days kicked off with conference commissioner Tony Petitte, a man whose name I consistently misspell by misplacing the “t’s”, extolling the conference’s football prowess…by talking about Caitlin Clark and Iowa putting 55,000 souls in Kinnick for a women’s basketball game. It was truly the most impressive showing for a womens’ sport since -
Well, to be honest, that happened a month after the Huskers volleyball team drew 92,000 for a pair of games, but coming up just under 35,000 short of the Huskers was impressive nonetheless. (Since Petitti did not make this announcement from his knees with arms held skyward, Iowa fans quickly took to social media to profanely blame Angel Reese for rising egg prices and the impending fall of humanity.