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Exclamation UCONN Football.. BOOM, OUTTA HERE
UConn becomes first FBS team to cancel football season due to coronavirus
https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...oronavirus

Quote:"After receiving guidance from state and public health officials and consulting with football student-athletes, we've decided that we will not compete on the gridiron this season," UConn athletics director David Benedict said in a news release. "The safety challenges created by COVID-19 place our football student-athletes at an unacceptable level of risk."

Of course, you could argue they didn't compete on the gridiron last year either...
(This post was last modified: 08-05-2020 08:39 AM by aardWolf.)
08-05-2020 08:17 AM
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RE: UCONN Football.. BOOM, OUTTA HERE
(08-05-2020 08:17 AM)aardWolf Wrote:  https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...oronavirus

Quote:"After receiving guidance from state and public health officials and consulting with football student-athletes, we've decided that we will not compete on the gridiron this season," UConn athletics director David Benedict said in a news release. "The safety challenges created by COVID-19 place our football student-athletes at an unacceptable level of risk."

Of course, you could argue they didn't compete on the gridiron last year either...

They are probably saving the athletic department a lot of money by not playing...
08-05-2020 08:31 AM
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(08-05-2020 08:17 AM)aardWolf Wrote:  Of course, you could argue they didn't compete on the gridiron last year either...

I was thinking the same thing. When I read the headline the first thing I thought was "wait, they still HAVE a football team?"
08-05-2020 09:18 AM
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They are going to save a ton of money because they can now cancel a bunch of Female sports as well now.
08-05-2020 09:29 AM
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Well, they're only shutting it down "for the year"
08-05-2020 09:34 AM
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I thought they were dropping football as they moved backed to Big east basketball?
08-05-2020 10:32 AM
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(08-05-2020 10:32 AM)dwash Wrote:  I thought they were dropping football as they moved backed to Big east basketball?

They joined the Big East in all sports except for football, and remained independent in football. They had a season scheduled, but just dropped it.
08-05-2020 11:19 AM
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(08-05-2020 08:17 AM)aardWolf Wrote:  UConn becomes first FBS team to cancel football season due to coronavirus
https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...oronavirus

Quote:"After receiving guidance from state and public health officials and consulting with football student-athletes, we've decided that we will not compete on the gridiron this season," UConn athletics director David Benedict said in a news release. "The safety challenges created by COVID-19 place our football student-athletes at an unacceptable level of risk."

Of course, you could argue they didn't compete on the gridiron last year either...

Nobody will notice if nobody says anything.
08-05-2020 12:25 PM
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It plays well in the media.
But I suspect they had zero choice.
As a new football independent, before COVID they were already struggling to schedule games for this year. They only had a 10-game season lined up.
Now, 3 of those games had already been cancelled, with 6 of the remaining 7 up in the air.
So they cashed it in, saving money and getting some national PR.
This might be the final straw for their remaining 140 football fans.
08-05-2020 02:21 PM
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This could be their lead-in to dropping football altogether.
08-05-2020 05:42 PM
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Can their players transfer and would the Tigers be interested in any
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(08-05-2020 06:01 PM)memphisike Wrote:  Can their players transfer and would the Tigers be interested in any

They probably wouldn't even make football team at Lemoyne Owen.
08-05-2020 07:50 PM
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(08-05-2020 05:42 PM)southpaw1 Wrote:  This could be their lead-in to dropping football altogether.

I think that's exactly what will happen. The pandemic gives them a perfect excuse to drop football for a year, providing the adminstration enough leeway to offer an official statement sometime next year, regarding the changing climate in collegiate sports and the need to redistribute resources into basketball.

The UConn fanbase will celebrate, because they've been begging for this to happen for years.
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(08-05-2020 08:17 AM)aardWolf Wrote:  UConn becomes first FBS team to cancel football season due to coronavirus
https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...oronavirus

Quote:"After receiving guidance from state and public health officials and consulting with football student-athletes, we've decided that we will not compete on the gridiron this season," UConn athletics director David Benedict said in a news release. "The safety challenges created by COVID-19 place our football student-athletes at an unacceptable level of risk."

Of course, you could argue they didn't compete on the gridiron last year either...

Thanks for the memories.
08-05-2020 09:54 PM
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We will miss them and the 126 points we put on them the last two times we played them.
08-06-2020 08:23 AM
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What a freaking joke
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(08-06-2020 08:28 AM)450bench Wrote:  What a freaking joke

Exactly. 03-thumbsup
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A Dude told Ike a linebacker is interested in playing for Tiger Nation
Just a rumor Ike can say no more, don't want to mess something up
Also heard a few Dudes r looking at cuse and umass
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