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

[BugsyCT]

Will Indiana and Illinois have to pay us for breaking their contract?

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

 

[whalerfan]

Will Indiana and Illinois have to pay us for breaking their contract?

That was my question as well. If the ACC does the same then Virginia and North Carolina are off the schedule as well. Adding the following, were Illinois and Indiana "buy games"? Also, there's revenue lost on the Indiana game because it was on CBS Sports Network. Will there be compensation for that? One last tidbit. Since CUSA is so spread out, if they follow suit would they do divisional only games or could that open the door for some other games.

 

[Exit 4]

I really don’t see what any of this in conf only stuff does for the meaningful issues which is the contagion issue.... but anyway

 

[polycom]

Sounds like there isn’t going to be football unfortunately. Today is a sad day.

 

[polycom]

I really don’t see what any of this in conf only stuff does for the meaningful issues contagion issues.... but anyway

Easier to tear away the bandaid slowly than doing it fast

 

[huskymedic]

LOL...

 

[huskymedic]

Big “if” in there...

 

[Jimdish255]

I really don’t see what any of this in conf only stuff does for the meaningful issues contagion issues.... but anyway

Neither do I. Seems like a "feel good" measure to say you're doing something. There are risks in traveling and risks in staying close to home. But in the end we just need to sit tight and not spin our wheels to much because it might be futility at this point. A radically amputated schedule holds little or no interest to fans and bowl games and determining a playoff would be off the charts subjective if they could even schedule them.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Jimdish255]

LOL...

We'll travel here but not there. OK guys it's getting really strange.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[ZooCougar]

Well, there won't be a season.

First they will go to conference only and then those will get canceled too.

 

[polycom]

Lol @ conferencing saying these are difficult choices. These are there only choices. If they played and there was an outbreak people would be jobless.

 

[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.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]