Can we Start Football too?

[phillionaire]

Alabama is moving forward, CT is falling behind. You have accidents on the interstate going to work, tgey clear them and you take alternate routes. Life goes on, you deal with it.

Alabama is moving forward with over 1200 positive cases on campus

 

[Chief00]

Alabama is moving forward with over 1200 positive cases on campus

How many have died? How many are asymptomatic.

 

[phillionaire]

How many have died? How many are asymptomatic.

Death isn’t the only negative outcome with Covid

 

[huskyrob1]

Massive problem for UConn as an independent. They have no schedule as most of their formerly listed opponents are playing in conference only games. This season is lost & Benedict would have to pull a Houdini act to even get a set of spring games on the docket. There is also the factor of UConn being the first team to pull the plug on the season for player safety. I don't think that the players are even considering rethinking the decision.

The players would play, they want to. Benedict could put together home & home games with Umass and Army for starters. A vaccine is coming around January anyway.

 

[UConnJim]

The players think the decision stinks.

Of course the decision stinks, but there really was no choice. Even if you think football can be played (and I think it can), who was UConn going to play? As of now, there would only have been 3 games on the original schedule, Army, Liberty, and Middle Tennessee. Maybe they could have scratched together a few more games, but no where near a satisfactory schedule.

We’ll see how the college football season goes, but the early signs point to a disruptive year.

 

[huskyrob1]

Alabama is moving forward with over 1200 positive cases on campus

Out of 175,000 people total. The undergrad population, graduate population, support services, citizens of Tuscaloosa, etc.

 

[Nostical]

Maybe they could have scratched together a few more games.

The limited schedule options were discussed with the players, such as playing UMass and another team twice. The players concurred after much discussion that playing a full and more robust schedule next year was preferable to the mishmash that might be cobbled together this year, especially given the uncertainty at the time as to whether this year would actually move forward despite everyone's best efforts.

 

[phillionaire]

Out of 175,000 people total. The undergrad population, graduate population, support services, citizens of Tuscaloosa, etc.

They had more positive cases than the entirety of the country of Canada

 

[Huskygrad88]

Out of 175,000 people total. The undergrad population, graduate population, support services, citizens of Tuscaloosa, etc.

Genuine question. Why would you post that when anyone can easily look up legitimate news sources in 30 seconds indicating this represents students, not any of the other population you are trying to jam in there to get this fictitious 175k number. We can all disagree on the impact, whether they should play football, etc., but what is the point of making up random numbers? I really am interested.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

The players think the decision stinks.

The players would play, they want to. Benedict could put together home & home games with Umass and Army for starters. A vaccine is coming around January anyway.

I will trust the official statement by the players over anecdotal comments from posters on here. Of course there will be a few players who want to play, but the majority made the decision to not play.

UConn was going to struggle to cobble together a season and schedule. The risk wasn't worth it. Add in difficulty in testing (slow turnaround time, fake positive, etc) and unknown long term impacts of the virus, and it's easy to see playing football this fall isn't worth the risk.

 

[businesslawyer]

I'll make one additional point, and it has nothing to do with whether you're viewing this with red or blue glasses.

We couldn't afford to play football. With no revenue from attendance, and minimum TV revenue playing a revised schedule no one would care about, and an Athletic Department that is seriously in the red anyway, would someone who thinks we should be giving this a go explain where the money was going to come from not just from travel but the constant testing and quarantining that would have been required to make this work?

The SEC TV contracts allow Alabama to take that money and spend it on the extra costs of playing during the pandemic. Where do any of you who think we should be playing think the money was coming from for UConn to absorb all these extra costs with almost zero revenue? Were the players and their parents who want to be playing going to pay for it?

 

[gioff2323]

The kids are practicing - are they not getting routinely tested? Who’s paying for that?

 

[HeGotGame]

You couldn't catch the As game because it was virused out by one positive player test. Good for Cubbies. My Yanks swept the Mets.

You are only making my case and it is kind of cringe worthy that you do not get that. Let me know when the season is "viriused out". Until then I will keep watching baseball and enjoy the fact adults were able to figure out how not to be derailed by Covid and positive tests within the sport. You keeping praying the season is cancelled.

 

[Exit 4]

The kids are practicing - are they not getting routinely tested? Who’s paying for that?

The school....but if we were gearing up to play games and travel and set up travel to account for social distancing we'd be look at a lot more testing costs than the current testing schedule we are doing now.

 

[Exit 4]

You are only making my case and it is kind of cringe worthy that you do not get that. Let me know when the season is "viriused out". Until then I will keep watching baseball and enjoy the fact adults were able to figure out how not to be derailed by Covid and positive tests within the sport. You keeping praying the season is cancelled.

Basketball is going to benefit from watching what is learned from large team sports played in Sept and October (ie college and pro football).

 

[cohenzone]

You are only making my case and it is kind of cringe worthy that you do not get that. Let me know when the season is "viriused out". Until then I will keep watching baseball and enjoy the fact adults were able to figure out how not to be derailed by Covid and positive tests within the sport. You keeping praying the season is cancelled.

Wrong. I’m just not a fool about sports. I made your case because a game had to be called off on one day notice? You have no clue. SUNY just closed its Oneonta campus to in person classes due to several positive tests.

 

[HeGotGame]

Wrong. I’m just not a fool about sports. I made your case because a game had to be called off on one day notice? You have no clue. SUNY just closed its Oneonta campus to in person classes due to several positive tests.

Yes, you did. One positive test, game was postponed, and will be made up and the season goes on. Just like the PGA tour, MLB figured out a plan to travel around hold games and tournaments without the world collapsing and the sport being cancelled. My bet is CFB does too.

Cool beans about SUNY, too bad it is irrelevant to the topic. If the CFB season or MLB is cancelled you can do a victory lap, until then keeping scouring the news for more fear.

 

[cohenzone]

Yes, you did. One positive test, game was postponed, and will be made up and the season goes on. Just like the PGA tour, MLB figured out a plan to travel around hold games and tournaments without the world collapsing and the sport being cancelled. My bet is CFB does too.

Cool beans about SUNY, too bad it is irrelevant to the topic. If the CFB season or MLB is cancelled you can do a victory lap, until then keeping scouring the news for more fear.

You really think colleges can just reschedule? Andvthatbpeople are doing victory laps over cancellations? Idiot.

 

[HeGotGame]

You really think colleges can just reschedule? Andvthatbpeople are doing victory laps over cancellations? Idiot.

No, never could do a postponement in college, never, be too impossible. For your sake please do not look up the amount of games that have been rescheduled due to hurricanes or other storms in recent years, it would blow your mind that adults can figure out how to utilize a calendar and the millions of dollars they have to make things happen.

 

[cohenzone]

No, never could do a postponement in college, never, be too impossible. For your sake please do not look up the amount of games that have been rescheduled due to hurricanes or other storms in recent years, it would blow your mind that adults can figure out how to utilize a calendar and the millions of dollars they have to make things happen.

And they all quarantine after the storm.

 

[John Greene]

I'll make one additional point, and it has nothing to do with whether you're viewing this with red or blue glasses.

We couldn't afford to play football. With no revenue from attendance, and minimum TV revenue playing a revised schedule no one would care about, and an Athletic Department that is seriously in the red anyway, would someone who thinks we should be giving this a go explain where the money was going to come from not just from travel but the constant testing and quarantining that would have been required to make this work?

The SEC TV contracts allow Alabama to take that money and spend it on the extra costs of playing during the pandemic. Where do any of you who think we should be playing think the money was coming from for UConn to absorb all these extra costs with almost zero revenue? Were the players and their parents who want to be playing going to pay for it?

Unfortunately, this is the 'elephant in the room' for UConn FB. Will the revenue be there when this is all over. Most here hope and pray it will be. However if the P5 and their media partners end up liking their conference heavy schedules with just a couple of marque OC games it may put UConn's revenue stream from FB in question.

 

[HeGotGame]

And they all quarantine after the storm.

For 14 days? No, and neither did MLB players after a single test. Nor NFL players.

 

[UConnJim]

Unfortunately, this is the 'elephant in the room' for UConn FB. Will the revenue be there when this is all over. Most here hope and pray it will be. However if the P5 and their media partners end up liking their conference heavy schedules with just a couple of marque OFC games it may put UConn's revenue stream from FB in question.

I'm not worried about schools playing more conference games. Why? The big schools make money by having home games and they currently (generally) play 7 home games. If they played 10 conference games, they would probably get reduced to 6 home games per year and take a financial and fan hit.

What I am worried about is the competitiveness of UConn football. If UConn football starts winning games and being competitive in most games, fans will come out and support the team. Remember, in 2014, Diaco went 2-10 and the team scored more than 21 points once in a game and the team averaged 23k per game. In 2015, UConn went 6-6 in the regular season and averaged 28.2k fans with a home slate of Villanova, Army, Navy, USF, ECU, and Houston.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

Also, if the players are tested regularly please tell me why they cannot go visit "ma and pa for four months"? You seem to be missing what the schools that are playing are doing and some basic facts about testing and important stuff like that.

You have far more faith in the process than I do. I doubt CSU is the only school lying about testing given the amount of money on the line. Some of the coaches would do anything, in my jaded opinion.

Colorado State Football Players Claim COVID Coverup

Colorado State University football players and staff claim coaches applied pressure to continue practice and cover-up player symptoms amid a COVID-19 spike.

www.athleticbusiness.com

 

[huskyrob1]

I'll make one additional point, and it has nothing to do with whether you're viewing this with red or blue glasses.

We couldn't afford to play football. With no revenue from attendance, and minimum TV revenue playing a revised schedule no one would care about, and an Athletic Department that is seriously in the red anyway, would someone who thinks we should be giving this a go explain where the money was going to come from not just from travel but the constant testing and quarantining that would have been required to make this work?

The SEC TV contracts allow Alabama to take that money and spend it on the extra costs of playing during the pandemic. Where do any of you who think we should be playing think the money was coming from for UConn to absorb all these extra costs with almost zero revenue? Were the players and their parents who want to be playing going to pay for it?

Open your checkbook counselor.

 

[huskyrob1]

I will trust the official statement by the players over anecdotal comments from posters on here. Of course there will be a few players who want to play, but the majority made the decision to not play.

UConn was going to struggle to cobble together a season and schedule. The risk wasn't worth it. Add in difficulty in testing (slow turnaround time, fake positive, etc) and unknown long term impacts of the virus, and it's easy to see playing football this fall isn't worth the risk.

Only fake positive is you.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

Only fake positive is you.

What does that mean?

 

[John Greene]

I'm not worried about schools playing more conference games. Why? The big schools make money by having home games and they currently (generally) play 7 home games. If they played 10 conference games, they would probably get reduced to 6 home games per year and take a financial and fan hit.

What I am worried about is the competitiveness of UConn football. If UConn football starts winning games and being competitive in most games, fans will come out and support the team. Remember, in 2014, Diaco went 2-10 and the team scored more than 21 points once in a game and the team averaged 23k per game. In 2015, UConn went 6-6 in the regular season and averaged 28.2k fans with a home slate of Villanova, Army, Navy, USF, ECU, and Houston.

You are absolutely correct that the biggest programs love the extra home games but only if they can force feed the cupcakes to season ticket holders and fill the stadium for those games. That said, I have heard that at least one media partner has suggested to the SEC that the only way they can hope to keep their current payouts is by having more product that fans actually want to watch. Not saying this means that current contractual obligations are in question but going forward who knows. The point is that they may have to make some hard decisions that were not necessary in the past between an individual school's take on the buy opponent home game and the conference take on media rights.

 

[DoctorWho85]

You couldn't catch the As game because it was virused out by one positive player test. Good for Cubbies. My Yanks swept the Mets.

Excuse me the Mets won the first 2 games so most definitely wasn’t a sweep

 

[Huskygrad88]

No, never could do a postponement in college, never, be too impossible. For your sake please do not look up the amount of games that have been rescheduled due to hurricanes or other storms in recent years, it would blow your mind that adults can figure out how to utilize a calendar and the millions of dollars they have to make things

I do expect some can be rescheduled. Many of the hurricane impacted games were moved a few hours or a different day on the weekend though. Truly rescheduling for weeks/months later to account for infections will certainly be more of a challenge. College football Teams also face missing a couple of weeks due to a singular shutdown (potential quarantine). So, while some will be rescheduled, my guess is many more will be cancelled than in your hurricane comparison. Baseball is just a complete non-comparison...not a lot of day/night double header makeups in football.