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huskymedic said:
Pending SEC decision (Ole Miss).


You can only laugh @ this point:
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
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.
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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.
 
JohnFSilver said:
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.
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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.
 
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>>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.<<
 
Huge money at stake with these Big football programs-Unfortunately it’s at the expense of many other sports at schools. When Stanford cuts volleyball you know it’s not about the student athletes
 
This is a baby step toward reality.

Cancelling OOC games allows them to delay the start of the season in a hail mary attempt that future developments allow them to play enough games to satisfy TV. Fans attending these games is alreadyba lost cause.

Shortening the season also allows them to end it before Thanksgiving, which they have already identified as a contagion spread risk in which they want no part.

It also allows them to shuffle games in the event of outbreaks, by adding bye weeks and rescheduling games.

Can the play? They can likely play some games if they follow strict protocols and hope there isn't a league wide outbreak. Geography will be important. B1G/P12 is better off than the B12, ACC or SEC.

Expect a huge surge in cases in South Bend sometime in October.

Should they play? Heck no. They missed out when SEC/B12 land decided wearing a mask and listening to scientists was a personal affront. Keeping thousands of FB players tested, isolated, and virus free is a pipe dream and a rather cruel thing to attempt seeing as they aren't paid.

You can easily see a team like say LSU not being able to field a team. Does Alabama vs the LSU training staff fill the college footbal void? Doubtful.

It's taken half the country this long to see the pandemic as a problem. It will take CFB a little while longer to decide they are in an untenable postion and cancel.
 
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>>In keeping with public health guidance, each of our institutions has put in place physical distancing protocols, limits on travel on and off campus, and limits on the size of on-campus gatherings. Consistent with these policies, the NESCAC Presidents have decided unanimously, though with great reluctance, that NESCAC conference competition for fall sports must be canceled for fall 2020. <<

Amherst College
Bates College
Bowdoin College
Colby College
Connecticut College
Hamilton College
Middlebury College
Trinity College
Tufts University
Wesleyan University
Williams College
 
Can't see any kind of college football happening this season - no way logistically they're gonna be able to make it happen. Shaving the schedules down to conference-only is just a step towards the inevitable shutdown. Can't put student-athletes at risk as well as staff, student body & fans alike. One outbreak anywhere and it would stop on a dime anyway. Heck, they're still scrambling trying to make all schools safe enough to attend in the fall.

Wish it weren't true - had my season tix for the Rent this year - but it's not gonna happen.
 
Geography will be important. B1G/P12 is better off than the B12, ACC or SEC.
They missed out when SEC/B12 land decided wearing a mask and listening to scientists was a personal affront.

Nothing like painting with the largest brush in the world - The ACC folks all wore masks and listened to scientists so they are exempt from your list? No gatherings, no protests/rioting in B1G and P12 land - got it.
Those damn flyover state folks are all idiots
LOL
I doubt anybody plays this fall
 
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>The Pac-12 CEO Group announced today that the fall season for several Pac-12 sports, including football, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball, would schedule Conference-only games, and that it is delaying the start of mandatory athletic activities, until a series of health and safety indicators, which have recently trended in a negative direction, provided sufficient positive data to enable a move to a second phase of return-to-play activities.<<
 
Is there enough reason to get out of paying the guarantees?
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This is the big question. Is this a cancellation being forced by an act of god, or is this conference policy. Frankly if they ended up playing conference games in the fall.. I would think that would be enough to say if it was safe enough for this game, why wasn't it for the non-conference game and start to make these schools have to pay out the guarantees.. which at least would help to keep from the G5 schools whole.
 
ScottVib said:
This is the big question. Is this a cancellation being forced by an act of god, or is this conference policy. Frankly if they ended up playing conference games in the fall.. I would think that would be enough to say if it was safe enough for this game, why wasn't it for the non-conference game and start to make these schools have to pay out the guarantees.. which at least would help to keep from the G5 schools whole.
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Some thoughts from others...
 
huskymedic said:
Some thoughts from others...
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This makes sense to me. The MAC and G5 schools will need the P5 even more so in the coming years. I doubt they’ll take the Blumenthal approach. Way too short sighted. They’ll renegotiate. Like reasonable parties do
 
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What happens to the student athletes who won’t play due to the higher risk Profile? Do they lose their scholarship? It’s a lot of pressure on young people and grossly unfair.
 
Stinger92860 said:
What happens to the student athletes who won’t play due to the higher risk Profile? Do they lose their scholarship? It’s a lot of pressure on young people and grossly unfair.
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I’ve seen multiple conferences reference (B1G/PAC12 for recent examples) that student-athletes will maintain their scholarships if they decide not to compete in the fall.

(Here is the PAC12 statement: “Pac-12 student-athletes who choose not to participate in intercollegiate athletics during the coming academic year because of safety concerns about COVID-19 will continue to have their scholarships honored by their university and will remain in good standing with their team.”)
 
The Big schools are hoping for a miracle due to the volume of money involved but the smaller ones like Trinity and Wesleyan etc do not have the cushion to waste money trying to put on their sports seasons this fall. Conserving funds to fill drops in revenue and increased expenses resulting from covid-19 makes the most sense rather than holding out hope. Live to fight another day financially basically and have less headaches to plan for and manage once students try and come back for classes.
 
huskymedic said:
I’ve seen multiple conferences reference (B1G/PAC12 for recent examples) that student-athletes will maintain their scholarships if they decide not to compete in the fall.

(Here is the PAC12 statement: “Pac-12 student-athletes who choose not to participate in intercollegiate athletics during the coming academic year because of safety concerns about COVID-19 will continue to have their scholarships honored by their university and will remain in good standing with their team.”)
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Yeah there is no other way to do this. Playing is an option... has to be.
 
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