(05-13-2020 01:45 PM)doss2 Wrote:  Former Florida WR expects NCAA split from conferences
ByNick Kosko May 12, 11:25 AM

Ever since NCAA President Mark Emmert put out a statement saying no students on campus means no student athletes, many blasted the NCAA leader. Many attribute the NCAA’s ultimate lack of power when it comes to, at the minimum, the Power Five conferences making decisions.
College football commentator Paul Finebaum believes Emmert is speaking out of tongue and thinks a separation of powers, so to speak, is coming soon. Count former Florida Gators wide receiver, turned commentator Chris Doering among those.
Speaking on SEC Radio on Sirius XM, Doering believes Emmert is losing power with the NCAA and that the Power Five conferences are eventually going to do their own thing and make their own decisions.

“Here’s the thing I'm thinking about,” Doering said. “As I’m listening to the sound of Mark Emmert, the visual I’m seeing in my head over and over again is that part of the ‘Wizard of Oz’ where Toto pulls the curtain back and he’s like I'm the great and powerful Oz, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. It's all a facade. I think people will start to figure out this idea that the NCAA and Mark Emmert are all going away. All we’re hearing is power five conference commissioners and athletic directors having their own plan. It really doesn't matter what the NCAA says. I think eventually you’ll see as a catalyst here...a complete break off of the power five from the NCAA. They're already doing their own thing with the college football playoffs. I think the complete separation is very close.”
Emmert’s comments were not received well, and understandably so. While optimism was slowly starting to grow about the 2020 football season, the face of the NCAA did all he could to shoot that optimism down. And it was a move that Finebaum greatly criticized on Get Up! on Monday morning.
“Mark Emmert has no more authority or influence over college football than Bozo the Clown,” Finebaum said. “He is an innocent bystander in all of this and I think that’s why he put out a statement. This wasn’t an interview. He put it out himself because he was listening to all of the things that Laura just got through talking about. We moved, three weeks ago, from no students on campus, no fans in the stands, no football, to a modification of that. Emmert had to be heard, so he was, and he was not heard very loudly, because the five Power Five commissioners don’t give a rip.”
Considering there are a lot of references to clowns and fantasy worlds such as “The Land of Oz,” Emmert caused quite a stir in the college football community.



Emmert’s comments on football raise questions if fans are able to watch the games in person or even if football can be played this season. There are a lot of rumored options for the season, such as a shortened or delayed season, in order to play football. There is an argument for no football unless the campuses are open to all students and not just the student athletes, putting them in harm's way due to the coronavirus pandemic.
However, most major universities will acknowledge the biggest money maker of their athletic departments and one of, if not the biggest money maker for the entire university: the football program. Financially, most of these schools can not sustain a lost football season in 2020.
With states beginning their reopening processes, albeit slowly, the optimism is growing about college football in the fall. However, no concrete decisions were made in regards to the upcoming season, despite downward trends in the coronavirus pandemic as it appears way too early to make a final decision a little less than four months out.

(05-13-2020 05:47 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  AD Cunningham told Fox 19 we will be preparing to play in the fall.

(05-13-2020 05:47 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  AD Cunningham told Fox 19 we will be preparing to play in the fall.

(05-13-2020 09:38 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  I posted the "show me the money" gif from the perspective that ultimately money wins. Make that big money...wins out every time vs financial pain or ruin. If a college football season is not played AT ALL in 2020/21, coupled with the revenue loss of the NCAA tournament just a few months back, then the financial damage would be irreparable to universities. It's already starting to happen to some institutions. Can the universities continue to exist with no football season - yes. But not in their current forms. A reconstitution structurally, administratively, and finanically would be in order. Go one step further - many college town communities that aren't big metro areas are dependent economically on college football. It's no different than beach communities. Close beaches down and all the travel/tourism/employment/tax dollars tied to it goes down too.

I guarantee you short of "marshall law prohibition," they will play a season sooner or later in some way, shape, or form. The worst case scenario is the season will be played in the spring. Many articles I've read [and posted], including comments from our own commissioner, is the spring scheduling option was gaining traction as universities consider different scenarios. America loves its sports - whether that is right or wrong - and it's woven in the very fabric of our souls, our institutions, and our enconomy. There's just too much at stake financially long term to cancel the college football season [and other professional sports for that matter] indefinitely.

(05-14-2020 05:16 AM)Ragpicker Wrote:  

(05-13-2020 09:38 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  I posted the "show me the money" gif from the perspective that ultimately money wins. Make that big money...wins out every time vs financial pain or ruin. If a college football season is not played AT ALL in 2020/21, coupled with the revenue loss of the NCAA tournament just a few months back, then the financial damage would be irreparable to universities. It's already starting to happen to some institutions. Can the universities continue to exist with no football season - yes. But not in their current forms. A reconstitution structurally, administratively, and finanically would be in order. Go one step further - many college town communities that aren't big metro areas are dependent economically on college football. It's no different than beach communities. Close beaches down and all the travel/tourism/employment/tax dollars tied to it goes down too.

I guarantee you short of "marshall law prohibition," they will play a season sooner or later in some way, shape, or form. The worst case scenario is the season will be played in the spring. Many articles I've read [and posted], including comments from our own commissioner, is the spring scheduling option was gaining traction as universities consider different scenarios. America loves its sports - whether that is right or wrong - and it's woven in the very fabric of our souls, our institutions, and our enconomy. There's just too much at stake financially long term to cancel the college football season [and other professional sports for that matter] indefinitely.

Most public and virtually all private Universities must have students on campus in the Fall or they will suffer huge financial losses. When students come back - football will surely follow.

(05-14-2020 07:37 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(05-14-2020 05:16 AM)Ragpicker Wrote:  

(05-13-2020 09:38 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  I posted the "show me the money" gif from the perspective that ultimately money wins. Make that big money...wins out every time vs financial pain or ruin. If a college football season is not played AT ALL in 2020/21, coupled with the revenue loss of the NCAA tournament just a few months back, then the financial damage would be irreparable to universities. It's already starting to happen to some institutions. Can the universities continue to exist with no football season - yes. But not in their current forms. A reconstitution structurally, administratively, and finanically would be in order. Go one step further - many college town communities that aren't big metro areas are dependent economically on college football. It's no different than beach communities. Close beaches down and all the travel/tourism/employment/tax dollars tied to it goes down too.

I guarantee you short of "marshall law prohibition," they will play a season sooner or later in some way, shape, or form. The worst case scenario is the season will be played in the spring. Many articles I've read [and posted], including comments from our own commissioner, is the spring scheduling option was gaining traction as universities consider different scenarios. America loves its sports - whether that is right or wrong - and it's woven in the very fabric of our souls, our institutions, and our enconomy. There's just too much at stake financially long term to cancel the college football season [and other professional sports for that matter] indefinitely.

Most public and virtually all private Universities must have students on campus in the Fall or they will suffer huge financial losses. When students come back - football will surely follow.

I agree. But I was shocked that the Cal State system pulled the plug this early on students returning to campus in the fall. With the exception of San Diego State and maybe Fresno State, few of those schools are competitive in football. But those conferences now have a big hole in their scheduling.

My belief is we should keep an eye on Columbus. Whatever OSU decides, I expect the rest of the Ohio public universities will follow. And I'd be very surprised if OSU shuts down campus and, as a result, Buckeye football. Fans in the stands remains a TBD.

And just think, if fans aren't allowed in the stands, UC would lose it's tremendous home field advantage in Oxford this fall.

(05-15-2020 02:28 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  My wife is a high school guidance counselor and she told me today our school district is considering an option to divide students in two groups to reduce class size and the number of students on each campus at any one time starting in the fall. The idea is something along the lines of student "Group A" is scheduled for classes on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays. Student "Group B" is scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The following week it would be reversed and so on. I don't know how that may translate to higher education due to the variety of class schedules but it seems to be a potential way to reduce risk and have students on campus in the fall.

(05-15-2020 02:44 PM)Dannyboy Wrote:  My kid is scheduled to go to OU next year for her Drama BFA. You can’t do drama online. It’s a major that requires literal hands on instruction. And the BFA means most of her classes are in her art other than a handful of prerequisites. If they decide to do remote learning she may as well not go at all. Hopefully these administrators make exceptions for programs like that.

(05-14-2020 07:37 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(05-14-2020 05:16 AM)Ragpicker Wrote:  

(05-13-2020 09:38 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  I posted the "show me the money" gif from the perspective that ultimately money wins. Make that big money...wins out every time vs financial pain or ruin. If a college football season is not played AT ALL in 2020/21, coupled with the revenue loss of the NCAA tournament just a few months back, then the financial damage would be irreparable to universities. It's already starting to happen to some institutions. Can the universities continue to exist with no football season - yes. But not in their current forms. A reconstitution structurally, administratively, and finanically would be in order. Go one step further - many college town communities that aren't big metro areas are dependent economically on college football. It's no different than beach communities. Close beaches down and all the travel/tourism/employment/tax dollars tied to it goes down too.

I guarantee you short of "marshall law prohibition," they will play a season sooner or later in some way, shape, or form. The worst case scenario is the season will be played in the spring. Many articles I've read [and posted], including comments from our own commissioner, is the spring scheduling option was gaining traction as universities consider different scenarios. America loves its sports - whether that is right or wrong - and it's woven in the very fabric of our souls, our institutions, and our enconomy. There's just too much at stake financially long term to cancel the college football season [and other professional sports for that matter] indefinitely.

Most public and virtually all private Universities must have students on campus in the Fall or they will suffer huge financial losses. When students come back - football will surely follow.

I agree. But I was shocked that the Cal State system pulled the plug this early on students returning to campus in the fall. With the exception of San Diego State and maybe Fresno State, few of those schools are competitive in football. But those conferences now have a big hole in their scheduling.

My belief is we should keep an eye on Columbus. Whatever OSU decides, I expect the rest of the Ohio public universities will follow. And I'd be very surprised if OSU shuts down campus and, as a result, Buckeye football. Fans in the stands remains a TBD.

And just think, if fans aren't allowed in the stands, UC would lose it's tremendous home field advantage in Oxford this fall.