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College Football 2020: Buzz about spring football season- “Expect news to break soon”

Have to see if this a a power play for more public health/safety resources or not...
 
Hmmm, wonder if there are one or two big time players now toying to portal out of the PAC-12 to the SEC. The SEC is going to play this fall even if its just themselves....they just dont care. I'm semi-serious about the SEC playing...less serious about the portal...but its not out of the realm.
 
Drew said:
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It's interesting because some of those likely to play have schools in heavier hit areas. Will the AAC allow Temple to not play? What about Cincy or Navy? I don't have the exact numbers on Maryland and Ohio but I recall them being high. Will be intriguing to see how that plays out.
 
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According to Dennis Dodd...this is the listing of the individual universities plans for opening for in person instrucrion in fall...

www.chronicle.com

Here’s Our List of Colleges’ Reopening Models

<i>The Chronicle</i> is teaming up with Davidson College’s College Crisis Initiative, which has collected reopening models for nearly 3,000 institutions, to present a fuller view of the fall.
www.chronicle.com www.chronicle.com
 
The private universities will see financial pressure to return to face to face instruction...

Example....How many parents want to pony up the $53,000 annual tution to Miami for online coursework?
 
I think the announcement by Cal system is the beginning - can’t see there being a season. Feel for the players.
 
huskysupporter said:
I think the announcement by Cal system is the beginning - can’t see there being a season. Feel for the players.
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The Cal System only includes 3 FBS programs...all in the MWC

The system has five branches that compete in Division I football, including three at the highest (FBS) level: Fresno State, San Diego State and San Jose State. All three are members of the 12-team Mountain West Conference.
 
UCFBfan said:
www.newsweek.com

Germany sees new coronavirus cases nearly triple as infection rate rises after lockdown restrictions eased

The nation reported 933 new cases on Tuesday after reporting just 357 the day before.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

This is now an issue too. Germany was one of the countries who had this the most under control. The Bundesliga is coming back this weekend. A triple increase of cases since easing of restrictions doesn't bode well for a possible CFB season.

I hope I'm wrong. I'm not turning this into a debate over COVID, don't start that. I'm staying that these people like the Alabama president, or whoever, who thinks there will be fans in the stands needs to look at other countries who are ahead of us on this timeline to realize the likely reality of what will our pace here.
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I think it is too soon to say whether that number is actually a case of the rate of infection increasing, but it is something to keep an eye on.
 
huskysupporter said:
I think the announcement by Cal system is the beginning - can’t see there being a season. Feel for the players.
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billybud said:
The Cal System only includes 3 FBS programs...all in the MWC

The system has five branches that compete in Division I football, including three at the highest (FBS) level: Fresno State, San Diego State and San Jose State. All three are members of the 12-team Mountain West Conference.
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At least provide the link to where the quote came from:
 
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The county by county differences vary greatly in the US (based on mainly on rural vs metro)...here where I am...there are 4 active positive cases in the county (25,000 population). My brother lives across the lake from Clemson...just one reported positive in his county....
 
I just think this is first domino to fall that will cause no football in the fall - I think other schools will be following suit. I guess in theory a conference where all schools are open can still play conference games?
 
While no hard decisions have to be made yet...some schools have announced that they are making plans to resume on campus instruction in the fall...but decisions will not be made for a month..

Maryland
Georgia
Alabama
Arizona State
Baylor
Texas
Texas A&M
FIU
FSU
Iowa and Iowa State
Kansas State
LSU
Marshall
NC State
NYU
Northwestern
Ohio State
Oklahoma Stat
Oregon State
and on...
 
billybud said:
While no hard decisions have to be made yet...some schools have announced that they are making plans to resume on campus instruction in the fall...but decisions will not be made for a month..

Maryland
Georgia
Alabama
Arizona State
Baylor
Texas
Texas A&M
FIU
FSU
Iowa and Iowa State
Kansas State
LSU
Marshall
NC State
NYU
Northwestern
Ohio State
Oklahoma Stat
Oregon State
and on...
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NYU - LOL
 
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HuskyAlum012 said:
NYU - LOL
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Yep...I thought it odd that Dodds reported them as planning to open...

But the NYU site says...

NYU is proceeding on the basis that it will resume in-person operations in New York City for the fall semester, cognizant though we are of challenges and changed circumstances caused by the coronavirus.

 
billybud said:
The Cal System only includes 3 FBS programs...all in the MWC

The system has five branches that compete in Division I football, including three at the highest (FBS) level: Fresno State, San Diego State and San Jose State. All three are members of the 12-team Mountain West Conference.
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Yeah but LA County ain’t opening until August at best. There goes USC and UCLA. I’m not seeing Washington or Oregon but if you do ok. Michigan and Michigan State? I don’t know about that. OhioState? Governor has indicated no crowds over 50 or something Until after summer. So can’t even meet with your whole team. The SEC is playing. Unless they are shamed into not doing so. Or people die walking into the stadium.
 
freescooter said:
Yeah but LA County ain’t opening until August at best. There goes USC and UCLA. I’m not seeing Washington or Oregon but if you do ok. Michigan and Michigan State? I don’t know about that. OhioState? Governor has indicated no crowds over 50 or something Until after summer. So can’t even meet with your whole team. The SEC is playing. Unless they are shamed into not doing so. Or people die walking into the stadium.
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I have no opinion...just reporting what Dodd says...
 
I think that we will have a hodge podge of educational strategies at the Uni level....and maybe a hodgepodge of football playing.

We'll know more about how that shakes out in July. Some programs will play without fans, if needed to, in order to continue to receive the tens of millions in media contract funds.
 
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If the majority of students are taking virtual classes, but there are still some students on campus like research students, labs, etc, that could fulfill the "open campus" requirement we've been hearing about from all these Presidents to have a football season. So I wouldn't count out the CA schools just yet.
 
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freescooter said:
Yeah but LA County ain’t opening until August at best. There goes USC and UCLA. I’m not seeing Washington or Oregon but if you do ok. Michigan and Michigan State? I don’t know about that. OhioState? Governor has indicated no crowds over 50 or something Until after summer. So can’t even meet with your whole team. The SEC is playing. Unless they are shamed into not doing so. Or people die walking into the stadium.
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There's this. Take it for what it's worth.

sports.yahoo.com

USC AD: 'We have every intention' of playing Alabama as scheduled in Week 1

As the Pac-12 discusses scheduling scenarios for the 2020 season, Mike Bohn wanted to make it clear the school was still prepping to play the Crimson Tide.
sports.yahoo.com sports.yahoo.com
 
Yeah but Alabama is shopping for a replacement so there’s that. I am not sure what will be worse. starting the season then having to shut it down or postponing until March. I think shutting it down will be pretty bad though
 
UCFBfan said:
www.newsweek.com

Germany sees new coronavirus cases nearly triple as infection rate rises after lockdown restrictions eased

The nation reported 933 new cases on Tuesday after reporting just 357 the day before.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

This is now an issue too. Germany was one of the countries who had this the most under control. The Bundesliga is coming back this weekend. A triple increase of cases since easing of restrictions doesn't bode well for a possible CFB season.

I hope I'm wrong. I'm not turning this into a debate over COVID, don't start that. I'm staying that these people like the Alabama president, or whoever, who thinks there will be fans in the stands needs to look at other countries who are ahead of us on this timeline to realize the likely reality of what will our pace here.
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Yeah, that's a bit of a twist there... The 357 number was an anomaly and 933 was normal. We've been steadily declining but for some reason Sundays and Mondays have a big dip and then climb again during the week. But that wouldn't trigger the headline that was desired.
 
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