Still think a Tuesday night MAC game is about the safest place to be during COVID-19...

(04-29-2020 08:44 AM)thanksjim Wrote:  Still think a Tuesday night MAC game is about the safest place to be during COVID-19...

The University of Akron will respond to the pandemic by eliminating six out of 11 colleges.

The university also plans to "significantly reduce" the athletic budget. More detail expected on that in a week or so.

This is a serious question... If Akron is eliminating over half of their colleges, how can they still support a real D-I athletic department while they are telling thousands of students, their degree programs are being eliminated?

Is there a real threat to D-I athletics at Akron?

It's unclear to me whether Akron is actually eliminating programs or just consolidating programs into fewer colleges in order to eliminate administrative jobs. I suspect that this is a consolidation.

(05-05-2020 10:39 AM)BullBoy Wrote:  This is a serious question... If Akron is eliminating over half of their colleges, how can they still support a real D-I athletic department while they are telling thousands of students, their degree programs are being eliminated?

Is there a real threat to D-I athletics at Akron?

If you read up on it Akron appears to be consolidating colleges to reduce administrative costs, not simply removing them altogether.

If the students aren't back on campuses in the fall and allowed in football stadiums, it seems doubtful to me that the MAC will play football or any other fall sport. It is really difficult to justify a student activity fee when the students aren't able to participate in the activity they are paying for. It seems to me all G5 conferences are in a similar position.

Do others see this differently?

(04-28-2020 06:47 PM)toddjnsn Wrote:  

Quote:Football with with social distancing will be fascinating.

Spread offense. MAC will be fine.

How about flag football, with really long flags?

Idk, but they played with fans during the Spanish flue.

Our AD retweeted this from Tony Barnhart of a 1918 Georgia Tech game.

Quote:Here is a photo of an undetermined Georgia Tech home game during the 1918 college football season. That's when the sport was hit by the Spanish flu and the end of World War I. The photo was taken by a student, Thomas Carter. It was provided by Georgia Tech alumnus Andy McNeal.

https://twitter.com/MrCFB/status/1257835680157351938

(05-06-2020 06:10 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  

Idk, but they played with fans during the Spanish flue.

Our AD retweeted this from Tony Barnhart of a 1918 Georgia Tech game.

Quote:Here is a photo of an undetermined Georgia Tech home game during the 1918 college football season. That's when the sport was hit by the Spanish flu and the end of World War I. The photo was taken by a student, Thomas Carter. It was provided by Georgia Tech alumnus Andy McNeal.

https://twitter.com/MrCFB/status/1257835680157351938

As I understand it, the Spanish flu arrived in many places after football season started. Some cities shut down mass gatherings. Others did not. And some handled the situation better than others. This web site offers a look at how 50 different U.S. cities responded:

https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/...anta.html#

Thanks.

A tidbit for Bowling Green and MAC in general. The UMass - Bowling Green McGuirk Stadium game was the first and only sell-out since going FBS. Of course UMass steadily went down hill after the departure of Coach Don Brown in 2006 and a series of bad coaching hires and mis-managing during the move up to FBS.

Back to the subject matter. There was a recent Facebook meeting with our AD and his department has done considerable planning for all out comes. His belief is we will have a fall season because of the money. The media pays for those time slots and my phrase, just follow the money. Can see just a in conference season as the P5 will not have to payout on those pricey buy games. (Will lose 1.9M for the Auburn game if that happens.)

If we have fans in the seats, they will not force social distance with assigned seating, but you are free to move around. If you do not feel safe and a season ticket holder, you will not lose your seat if you chose on skipping this season. We've been in contact with all Independent AD, except for Notre Dame.

(05-07-2020 02:11 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Thanks.

A tidbit for Bowling Green and MAC in general. The UMass - Bowling Green McGuirk Stadium game was the first and only sell-out since going FBS. Of course UMass steadily went down hill after the departure of Coach Don Brown in 2006 and a series of bad coaching hires and mis-managing during the move up to FBS.

Back to the subject matter. There was a recent Facebook meeting with our AD and his department has done considerable planning for all out comes. His belief is we will have a fall season because of the money. The media pays for those time slots and my phrase, just follow the money. Can see just a in conference season as the P5 will not have to payout on those pricey buy games. (Will lose 1.9M for the Auburn game if that happens.)

If we have fans in the seats, they will not force social distance with assigned seating, but you are free to move around. If you do not feel safe and a season ticket holder, you will not lose your seat if you chose on skipping this season. We've been in contact with all Independent AD, except for Notre Dame.

Thanks for sharing the pic and info!

Notre Dame natural wants what is best for the Irish. Conference schedule plus one.
That just seems to be a huge mess as think about all the teams and how they chose the one.

My comment, no thanks to conference schedule plus one.

https://slapthesign.com/2020/05/08/notre...-schedule/

well, professional cornhole has returned. players wearing masks. there is hope, i guess.

Received notification that BGSU plans to have students on campus this autumn. What that looks like remains to be seen but my daughter has dorm room selection this evening.

Daughter is over the moon with this news. Evidently, she can't wait to get out of my house. No, I won't see her off to college; I'll merely detect her smoke trail.

https://www.wxyz.com/rebound/central-mic...7en29yAMiQ

CMU Back to the class room this fall.

https://www.13abc.com/content/news/UT-BG...A6QbKqHMUs

We already knew BG was coming back, but on Monday Toledo says it will be back in class rooms for the Fall Semester.

I don't know what is going to happen in New York as it relates to classes. Buffalo may be ready to go back, but schools closer to New York City may not. As one state SUNY system, I don't know if some schools can do in person and some distance learning. Will be very interesting to see what happens

(05-11-2020 01:45 PM)BullBoy Wrote:  I don't know what is going to happen in New York as it relates to classes. Buffalo may be ready to go back, but schools closer to New York City may not. As one state SUNY system, I don't know if some schools can do in person and some distance learning. Will be very interesting to see what happens

I hope they allow each school to make their own decisions. The county in which Fredonia State is located has had only 44 confirmed cases and 4 deaths. If I spent more time looking, I'm sure I could find a SUNY school in a county with even fewer cases and deaths than that. It would be absurd to keep Fredonia closed just because the virus isn't under control in New York City.

(05-13-2020 10:32 AM)zibby Wrote:  

(05-11-2020 01:45 PM)BullBoy Wrote:  I don't know what is going to happen in New York as it relates to classes. Buffalo may be ready to go back, but schools closer to New York City may not. As one state SUNY system, I don't know if some schools can do in person and some distance learning. Will be very interesting to see what happens

I hope they allow each school to make their own decisions. The county in which Fredonia State is located has had only 44 confirmed cases and 4 deaths. If I spent more time looking, I'm sure I could find a SUNY school in a county with even fewer cases and deaths than that. It would be absurd to keep Fredonia closed just because the virus isn't under control in New York City.

Unfortunately rational thinking is not exactly ruing the day