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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
 

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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. <<

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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.
 

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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
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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.<<
 
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Is there enough reason to get out of paying the guarantees?

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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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.

Some thoughts from others...
 
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Some thoughts from others...

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.
 
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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.

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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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.
 

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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.”)
Yeah there is no other way to do this. Playing is an option... has to be.
 
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Would YOU go to Arizona today? Even guys who deal in serious money are telling their employees to stay home. Too dangerous to travel to Florida, Texas, Arizona California, Georgia. And what do you do if your starting lineup test positive after you play ASU? I’d say there are 2 realistic options. A. Just cancel the season. Or B. Postpone until Spring
 

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All of this conversation is a huge waste of time. No college sports this fall. Assume for the moment that one CFB player gets Covid and, heaven forbid, dies from it. Regardless of whether this occurred from a football setting or not; there is no way of telling anyway). The lawsuits would bankrupt that school, and probably any others in the same conference. Not the preferred way to look at this, but you can bet this type of conversation is taking place at every school that is even thinking about sports this fall.
 

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This was yesterday. Regular football game + what looks like great attendance.
 
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