I never said it would but to say it's a bad idea is stupid. Just look at who's saying it.
There's really no reason to do it.
ISU doesn't really need more games like that.And with the conference trading out 2 of the current buy games for conference games starting next year to go to a 20 game schedule it makes that even more true.
Future schedules will have:
20 conference games
3 neutral tournament games
1 game vs iowa
1 big east game
6 remaining games available to schedule.
But you have to keep in mind that ISU needs a certain number of home games. Before those remaining home games are scheduled, that's as low as 10 home games if Iowa and the big east game are on the road. Even if ISU can get those balanced, that's 11 home games. ISU had 18 home games this year, for reference. So any games scheduled on a home and home or even home and neutral basis will come at a high premium. Drake simply doesn't merit giving up one of those home games