Although the Patriot League is cancelled, there's already reports that Army and Navy are planning to still have their non-football fall sports by being temporary affiliates of the Big Ten.

ACC is gonna scramble a bit since FSU-Syracuse (amongst others) probably won't happen. It's gonna be interesting to see the conference try to reschedule on the fly.

(07-14-2020 07:49 AM)whittx Wrote:  ACC is gonna scramble a bit since FSU-Syracuse (amongst others) probably won't happen. It's gonna be interesting to see the conference try to reschedule on the fly.

I wouldn’t be so sure. Let’s see if the rules will allow the New York Mets to host the Atlanta Braves on Friday, July 24th. The Yankees are supposed to get the Tampa Bay Rays at home on August 31st.

Colleges might have to admit that student-athletes are “essential workers,” so I’m not sure if that’ll cause them any problems.

(07-14-2020 07:49 AM)whittx Wrote:  ACC is gonna scramble a bit since FSU-Syracuse (amongst others) probably won't happen. It's gonna be interesting to see the conference try to reschedule on the fly.

That's a real issue -- how do you handle a college football schedule when some states are imposing 14-day quarantines on anyone arriving from a state where the virus is spreading rapidly.

This is the current New York rule, which if enforced would require FSU's football team to quarantine in New York for 14 days before playing at Syracuse:

Quote:All travelers entering New York from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents, or higher than a 10% test positivity rate, over a seven day rolling average, will be required to quarantine for a period of 14 days consistent with Department of Health regulations for quarantine.

The season won't happen. This is all window dressing to the inevitable cancellation.

(07-14-2020 12:12 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  If certain states are going to continue with these asinine quarantine requirements for out of state travelers college football is going to be tough to play. Schools in those states aren’t going to be able to play period.

You didn't criticize Florida in April when they were quarantining people arriving from New York.

If Texas gets to the point of quarantining out of state visitors, the 12 fbs schools can just play each other for 1 year. But the season likely won't be played in the fall anyway. Spring season of 8 games, champ games and then call it a day. Or a season.

Pat Forde and Pete Thamel now predicting that the entire season will be cancelled.

https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-coming-gri...39231.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/time-to-face-re...34809.html

(07-14-2020 03:35 PM)orangefan Wrote:  Pat Forde and Pete Thamel now predicting that the entire season will be cancelled.

https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-coming-gri...39231.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/time-to-face-re...34809.html

Looks like this is quoting unnamed athletic department officials, rather than the sportswriters themselves saying it.

Quote:“Right now, I don’t see a path in the current environment to how we play,” said a Power Five athletic director. “I’m confident we’ll get back to what we all think of as normal, but it may be a year before that happens.”

Here’s the cruel truth about how college football leaders approached football this fall: The entirety of their plan to return was based on hope. Hope that the COVID-19 would go away. Hope that college campuses wouldn’t be a petri dish for the virus. Hope that they could figure out a way to play a contact sport in a time of mandatory social distancing. Hope for a vaccine to keep players healthy and seats full.

A strategy of hope isn’t much of a strategy, and a half-dozen coaches and officials told Yahoo Sports this weekend that hope is being vanquished. It’s all over in the minds of many coaches and athletic directors, as the sport will keep pushing back to buy time until the inevitable happens.

“Ultimately, no one is playing football in the fall,” said a high-ranking college official. “It’s just a matter of how it unfolds. As soon one of the ‘autonomy five’ or Power Five conferences makes a decision, that’s going to end it.”

(07-14-2020 04:01 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(07-14-2020 03:35 PM)orangefan Wrote:  Pat Forde and Pete Thamel now predicting that the entire season will be cancelled.

https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-coming-gri...39231.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/time-to-face-re...34809.html

Looks like this is quoting unnamed athletic department officials, rather than the sportswriters themselves saying it.

Quote:“Right now, I don’t see a path in the current environment to how we play,” said a Power Five athletic director. “I’m confident we’ll get back to what we all think of as normal, but it may be a year before that happens.”

Here’s the cruel truth about how college football leaders approached football this fall: The entirety of their plan to return was based on hope. Hope that the COVID-19 would go away. Hope that college campuses wouldn’t be a petri dish for the virus. Hope that they could figure out a way to play a contact sport in a time of mandatory social distancing. Hope for a vaccine to keep players healthy and seats full.

A strategy of hope isn’t much of a strategy, and a half-dozen coaches and officials told Yahoo Sports this weekend that hope is being vanquished. It’s all over in the minds of many coaches and athletic directors, as the sport will keep pushing back to buy time until the inevitable happens.

“Ultimately, no one is playing football in the fall,” said a high-ranking college official. “It’s just a matter of how it unfolds. As soon one of the ‘autonomy five’ or Power Five conferences makes a decision, that’s going to end it.”

Well if the P5 cancel, maybe the AAC will stay open and legitimately claim the national championship.

(07-14-2020 04:31 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(07-14-2020 04:01 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(07-14-2020 03:35 PM)orangefan Wrote:  Pat Forde and Pete Thamel now predicting that the entire season will be cancelled.

https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-coming-gri...39231.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/time-to-face-re...34809.html

Looks like this is quoting unnamed athletic department officials, rather than the sportswriters themselves saying it.

Quote:“Right now, I don’t see a path in the current environment to how we play,” said a Power Five athletic director. “I’m confident we’ll get back to what we all think of as normal, but it may be a year before that happens.”

Here’s the cruel truth about how college football leaders approached football this fall: The entirety of their plan to return was based on hope. Hope that the COVID-19 would go away. Hope that college campuses wouldn’t be a petri dish for the virus. Hope that they could figure out a way to play a contact sport in a time of mandatory social distancing. Hope for a vaccine to keep players healthy and seats full.

A strategy of hope isn’t much of a strategy, and a half-dozen coaches and officials told Yahoo Sports this weekend that hope is being vanquished. It’s all over in the minds of many coaches and athletic directors, as the sport will keep pushing back to buy time until the inevitable happens.

“Ultimately, no one is playing football in the fall,” said a high-ranking college official. “It’s just a matter of how it unfolds. As soon one of the ‘autonomy five’ or Power Five conferences makes a decision, that’s going to end it.”

Well if the P5 cancel, maybe the AAC will stay open and legitimately claim the national championship.

LOL. Though, the last guy quoted above is almost certainly from a G5 conference, because no one employed in a P5 conference says "autonomy five".

If travel restrictions in the northeast continue, it's hard to imagine how eastern schools belonging to conferences with a large number of southern schools can even play a conference schedule. Big Ten members is the east (and Buffalo of the MAC) may be ok given that there are no current restrictions for visitors from the midwest. However, I wonder if it might be wise to have a contingency plan for a one year conference that includes northeastern ACC, AAC and independent schools of Syracuse, Pittsburgh, BC, Temple, Navy, Army, UConn and UMass

Season this fall will happen. 10 games over a 4 month period, maybe even a 4 and a half month period if they can move up the games. Spring football is not happening. NFL is having it's season on time and they already said they aren't moving it's draft back from April.

I hope the Big12 and SEC let Texas vs LSU happen in September, but if they don't a 10 game season makes sense. Gives conferences an additional two weeks to sort out a last minute flair up or maybe even have a CFP style system to determine it's champion.

CFB is going to happen.

(07-15-2020 07:23 AM)Thiefery Wrote:  Season this fall will happen. 10 games over a 4 month period, maybe even a 4 and a half month period if they can move up the games. Spring football is not happening. NFL is having it's season on time and they already said they aren't moving it's draft back from April.

I hope the Big12 and SEC let Texas vs LSU happen in September, but if they don't a 10 game season makes sense. Gives conferences an additional two weeks to sort out a last minute flair up or maybe even have a CFP style system to determine it's champion.

CFB is going to happen.

We’ll see what Gov. Abbott says.

(07-14-2020 05:13 PM)orangefan Wrote:  If travel restrictions in the northeast continue, it's hard to imagine how eastern schools belonging to conferences with a large number of southern schools can even play a conference schedule. Big Ten members is the east (and Buffalo of the MAC) may be ok given that there are no current restrictions for visitors from the midwest. However, I wonder if it might be wise to have a contingency plan for a one year conference that includes northeastern ACC, AAC and independent schools of Syracuse, Pittsburgh, BC, Temple, Navy, Army, UConn and UMass

I just don't see this happening as I don't think Conferences will splinter based on a moving target of where the COVID-19 infections are spiking at any given point in time. The logistics and economics just don't work. IMO, the Conferences will likely either play a modified conference-only schedule or they will postpone the season until the Spring (when it appears increasingly likely that a vaccine will be available).

The other thing to consider is that we don't know what the landscape will be in a couple of months. Remember that two months ago it was the Northeast that was a disaster and the South, by comparison, was doing much better. Posters in these threads were then talking about the southern schools playing a season and the northern schools possibly sitting it out.

I think it is a fools errand to project too far into the future on this. I think the Conferences are doing the correct thing in preparing to have some kind of season and then assessing in late summer just where we are at and making decisions accordingly.