Anyone give this any chance?

No.

One G5 has already called it quits. Absolutely no reason to be the only ones standing. If the worst were to happen, that school and conference would never recover.

(08-09-2020 09:53 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Anyone give this any chance?

Zero.

In the absence of clear Federal, State, or even NCAA guidance on whether to proceed or not, all we have to look to is the P5.

Even now (before the alleged shut down), those guys, at their biggest, best, best-of-everything because of their wealth, research laden institutions, basically have already told us “you’re too risky to play because you can’t be counted on to meet our gold safety standards”.

Flying completely in their face and forging ahead (as tempting as it may be to steal the spotlight) when even they’ve called it “unsafe”, would bring unfathomable liability.

Can’t see it in a million years.

Well I guess it is over until next Fall. You can t play a full season next Spring and another one next Fall. Spring college football won t happen

(08-09-2020 10:10 PM)Usajags Wrote:  No.

One G5 has already called it quits. Absolutely no reason to be the only ones standing. If the worst were to happen, that school and conference would never recover.

Make no mistake, if ESPN offered us enough money we'd play. That's what this is about in the end on the football side.

My best guess is that we'll follow the SEC's lead. As long as the SEC can justify playing, the G5's will as well. Ditto for the Big 12 and ACC. I expect we could very easily have a geographically split football season.

(08-09-2020 10:12 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Well I guess it is over until next Fall. You can t play a full season next Spring and another one next Fall. Spring college football won t happen

I’m not so sure I agree with this...

If we don’t play in the spring, we face another whole round of talks (ala spring sports from last year) on extending scholarships. How many of the G5 can really afford it? Most have yet to decide on just baseball, and that’s just one class out of the 11.7 total schollies.

Playing spring ball (aside from being post vaccine administration) gets massive numbers of kids through the system, clearing things back to normal for the fall. Gives the schools much needed TV money and revenue. Etc. I wouldn’t pass it off so quickly.

I have seen several unnamed SEC and Big 12 ADs make comments today that makes me think it is at least possible that the SEC and Big 12 may play

I think a spring season, maybe only 8 games, 10 at the most. Just enough to get conference champs. There probably would be no bowls or national champion.

Season is over by May, end the same time spring practice would have normally ended. Then start preparing for the 2021 season.

(08-09-2020 10:18 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  I have seen several unnamed SEC and Big 12 ADs make comments today that makes me think it is at least possible that the SEC and Big 12 may play

And the ACC has already said they'll follow the SEC's lead. MAC has no real effect on anything. the Big 10 creates pause certainly, but Big 10 schools have already seen major outbreaks on their teams and are in states with far stricter health regulations.

There's a ways to go with this, but in the end its going to come down to what the SEC does.

Dan Patrick reporting Big 10/14 and PAC 12 will cancel seasons tomorrow. SEC pushing to have season and trying to convince the ACC and Big12 to join them. Stay tuned. Chiefs fan is right— the season hinges on the SEC

If they do play, they think it's going to put them at an advantage but it's really just going to show kids how little of a damn is given about them at those schools. Must the south be slow when it comes to everything?

(08-10-2020 10:31 AM)AlwaysSunny Wrote:  If they do play, they think it's going to put them at an advantage but it's really just going to show kids how little of a damn is given about them at those schools. Must the south be slow when it comes to everything?

Every single CFB player on a Big Ten or Pac-12 campus is taking a risk, here. Do you really think they're just going to hang out in their dorms all day if there's no season? At least if they play they're going to get frequently tested instead of just being on their own.

(08-10-2020 10:31 AM)AlwaysSunny Wrote:  If they do play, they think it's going to put them at an advantage but it's really just going to show kids how little of a damn is given about them at those schools. Must the south be slow when it comes to everything?

Apparently you haven't seen the #WeWantToPlay hashtag going around Twitter. A large majority of these football players want to play this fall and they're not shying away from expressing that.

Not all college football players think the same way as you describe.

It seems the ACC SEC and Big 12 will try to play

(08-10-2020 11:41 AM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  It seems the ACC SEC and Big 12 will try to play

If so the Sunbelt should as well.

(08-09-2020 10:10 PM)Usajags Wrote:  No.

One G5 has already called it quits. Absolutely no reason to be the only ones standing. If the worst were to happen, that school and conference would never recover.

(08-10-2020 10:31 AM)AlwaysSunny Wrote:  If they do play, they think it's going to put them at an advantage but it's really just going to show kids how little of a damn is given about them at those schools. Must the south be slow when it comes to everything?

You think schools wanting to avoid liability means they must care about their athletes more?

(08-10-2020 10:31 AM)AlwaysSunny Wrote:  Must the south be slow when it comes to everything?

All highways in America have alternating directions and they can handle moving trucks. You're free to move north where they aren't so 'slow'. New York is literally begging for folks to move there. Michigan too.

looks like some of the big ten schools might go Indy if BIG cancels. Might be the only way App gets a P5 game this year.

This could be Nebraska’s re-entry into the Big 12 and Liberty can take ODU’s spot in CUSA, for the season.