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So what does an all Independent schedule look like?

This might be one thing I agree with Emmert on. Big-time football operates outside the NCAA, why can't they come up with something on their own? The problem is the P5 conferences spends all their time working against the other conferences.
 
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EASTFLA said:
I know playing spring football is the "sexy" last option. I just don't see schools going up against their basketball programs in many cases. TV conflicts abound. If the season ends in the spring, how is spring football possible, which means incoming freshman are way behind. It is a nice thought, but not at all very practical.
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basketball is an afterthought for many P5 schools, I don't see any potential scheduling/tv conflicts being a huge speed bump.
 
Another whack coming?
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Governor asks UNM, NMSU to suspend fall contact sports

Move urged as escalating danger from coronavirus cited for younger people
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>> Citing the rise of positive COVID-19 cases among young people in the state, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday sent a letter to the leadership of the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University strongly urging both to suspend contact sports this fall, including football and soccer.

In the letter reviewed Tuesday by the Journal, Lujan Grisham, who earlier this month ordered the New Mexico Activities Association to postpone all fall contact sports at the high school level until 2021, is now urging the governor-appointed regents and university leadership at UNM and NMSU to take similar steps. The letter states it is “critical that you postpone collegiate athletics in this moment of escalating danger,” saying there is potential they could be resumed in late 2020 or early 2021.<<
 
This might have been said before, but I just don’t see a path forward for football. Travel restrictions aside, say your OG rests positive - don’t you have to quarantine entire OL and maybe O? No one has to die, u just need one positive test and now you don’t know if team can travel, play, field a squad, etc. Suppose center at Clemson tests positive - u think qb might have doubts about putting his career at risk? Hows any of this going to work?

Don’t get me wrong, I want this to work, I just can’t imagine how - for anyone.
 
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Coach J said:
We can probably still keep Maine play H&H with the rest of the independent's and maybe at ND or another P5 stuck for a game to fill it out.
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Only conference games *except Notre Dame
 
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Guess this got Randy's attention...he just started following Mark moments ago.
 
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At this point what the independents do will be interesting. Army? UMass? UConn? We dont have the peer pressure the others have.
 
Exit 4 said:
At this point what the independents do will be interesting. Army? UMass? UConn? We dont have the peer pressure the others have.
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I really hope we play home and holes with army and UMass and the other independent teams at least once.

also- who knows what the other G5’s do. I’m in to play as many as we can.
 
Drew said:
I really hope we play home and holes with army and UMass and the other independent teams at least once.

also- who knows what the other G5’s do. I’m in to play as many as we can.
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Buddy, Let's see where we are in a few days. Word is its rather likely we are shutting down.
 
On the plus side, if there was ever a season to not play the planned schedule, this was it. Because of the last minute nature of schedule agreements as a newly independent, athletics was actually going to be at a net loss just to play the games...about $380k to be exact. No significant (or in some cases any) guarantee money from UNC, UVA, or Ole Miss. And since none of these opponents were coming to the Rent, it's not like it would help with attendance to offset the payment.

Fortunately the pay games are back starting in 2021 and thereafter (Clemson, Michigan, Tennessee, Ohio State) that will help the program look better on the balance sheet and seem to be helping on the recruiting trail.
 
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huskymedic said:
Scratch Syracuse...
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These are reasons why any of this is just dumb. MLB clearly has shown that playing outside of a bubble is walking an insanely fine line. So let's say they pull it off for awhile longer....CFB decides to try and make a go at it. Why would a school in NY play a school from a southern state where cases are still high? Why wouldn't they want to figure out a way to play a school like Army or UConn where COVID is more under control like it is in NY? I guess when you're playing an ACC schedule that will take you to SC and GA, who cares?
 
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