Pessimism grows in college football over season starting on time (update: it’s crumbling):

[Skiblets]

Or maybe reschedule the games a few years down the road?

Those contracts have the 'Force Majeure' clause in them and a pandemic certainly would qualify so they would not have to pay. Think Bugsy is right though, would probably be rescheduled..

 

[huskymedic]

Pending SEC decision (Ole Miss).


You can only laugh @ this point:

 

[ZooCougar]

Best thing to do would be to postpone the season. Maybe do something in the spring and play the 2020 schedule in 2021.

 

[phillionaire]

So do we play UMass and army 6 times each?

 

[JohnFSilver]

There isn’t going to be a season.

If there is, 6-7 games .

if uconn isn’t getting guarantees, what ya gonna do? Just bad luck.

 

[huskymedic]

Good for you Bob

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Exit 4]

with BCC to Pat Forde

 

[ScottVib]

I'm curious to see if the buy-out clauses are enforceable. Could be the most profitable football season in history if everyone else's conference forces them to cancel games.

 

[huskymedic]

Alternate access link here<

>>The Big Ten is the first Power Five conference to make such a massive decision concerning football. Within this week alone, the Ivy League announced sports won’t be held in the fall semester, and ACC said it is delaying the start of Olympic sports competitions. Fordham also canceled the first three games of its football season.

The Husky football team is also scheduled to face two ACC teams (Virginia and North Carolina), two Conference USA teams (Old Dominion and Middle Tennessee), one SEC team (Ole Miss), one CAA team (Maine) and one Mountain West team (San Jose State).<<

 

[huskymedic]

>>Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren announced Thursday the league is moving the football schedule to conference-only in the fall, saying he’s “very concerned” about the potential of the season.

Warren called it the “next logical step” in hopes of having a college football season. “The biggest thing is that this affords us an opportunity to be nimble and agile in an uncertain time,” Warren said in a phone interview. “It all ties back to the health and safety of our student-athletes. It’s easy for us to manage operations, the schedule and logistics when we’re focused on the Big Ten conference.”<<

>>The move underscores the tenuous nature of this season, which coaches have been pessimistic about for weeks as large COVID-19 outbreaks have disrupted workouts from coast to coast. “I am very concerned about the season,” Warren said. “I’m an optimistic person, but I am very concerned. We want to take one step at a time.”<<

 

[huskymedic]

>“We have not changed our plans at this point and we’re evaluating things and we’ll see what happens down the road and we’ll continue to monitor and we’ll make our decisions at some point,” AAC commissioner Mike Aresco told the Orlando Sentinel Thursday afternoon.<

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Rewster]

Good for you Bob

The decision will be made for him if every other conference plays within their conference.

 

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[DarthGrumpy]

Pending SEC decision (Ole Miss).


You can only laugh @ this point:

Even if there is a season, which is highly doubtful, and if if UConn was still in the Ameican, it wouldn't matter as nearly every single opponent in the American is on the State's quarantine list. What are they going to do, play SMU and then wait 14 days to play the next game with anyone who did not test positive and then do the same thing with Central Florida, Tulsa, South Florida, etc.? Even that assumes that UConn can find flights to those locations.

 

[Skiblets]

It’s over Johnny

 

[MilliniumPrince]

If the snowflake survives the flames of hell and there is some type of season, we should ask the AAC for a "Last Dance". Well, we should cancel the season to protect our program. Short of that, time send Aresco an edible arrangement.

But that wouldn't be possible without television partner permission.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

A "conference only" schedule does not really solve the problem. The problem is isolating a team if there is an outbreak. If you have 12 teams linked through a conference schedule that are playing every weekend, a handful of infections will shut down the season for everyone. The ONLY way college football will work is to have an 8 game home-and-home against 4 other teams, with frequent weekends off that will effectively work as quarantines.

College football leadership can't help being exploitive, mercenary scumbags, even in a pandemic.

 

[JohnFSilver]

A "conference only" schedule does not really solve the problem. The problem is isolating a team if there is an outbreak. If you have 12 teams linked through a conference schedule that are playing every weekend, a handful of infections will shut down the season for everyone. The ONLY way college football will work is to have an 8 game home-and-home against 4 other teams, with frequent weekends off that will effectively work as quarantines.

College football leadership can't help being exploitive, mercenary scumbags, even in a pandemic.

by going conference only the schools essentially punted a quarter of the season. They are hoping for a miracle. Season won’t start uOctober.

here is why college football will fail this fall. The big ten did this unilaterally with no regard to other schools. Other schools follow suit.

it is not manageable.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

by going conference only the schools essentially punted a quarter of the season. They are hoping for a miracle. Season won’t start uOctober.

here is why college football will fail this fall. The big ten did this unilaterally with no regard to other schools. Other schools follow suit.

it is not manageable.

The Big 10 is trying to hold together some kind of schedule for their conference TV contract. If they gave a crap about the athletes, they would take a year off from the conference TV contract and completely change their scheduling. They don't.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

LOL...

Of course. No rules or laws or requirements apply to that school from the movie in the 90s

 

[huskymedic]

>>To hell with you, Ball State.

Hey, it’s not me saying that. It’s the Big Ten Conference, which announced on Thursday that it will play conference games only, across the board, in all fall sports. Assuming there are, you know, fall sports. I have a lot to say on that. Hang with me.

First, let me say this: The bigger schools are about to kill off the smaller ones, like condors devouring a flock of cardinals. Like vultures, really, picking at the dying, making sure they’re dead. This is the immediate fate facing smaller schools around the country, Ball State being just one of them.

You can see where this is going, of course. What started with the Big Ten will soon be adopted by the other Power 5 conferences, because that’s how it works in college sports. The five biggest conferences — the Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, ACC and Big 12 — follow each other around, sniffing each other’s rear end, making up the rules as they go and forcing the other 250-plus schools in Division I, not all of which play football, to fall in line.<<