News Article: Time to face reality: ‘No one is playing college football in the fall’ (or are they?)

[B1GTide]

I am glad that the layers are expressing themselves, but didn't Clemson have 43 athletes infected earlier this year?

 

[CaliforniaTide]

I think the reasoning for cancelling isn't consistent with the universities' decision to have students come back on campus, but they don't pay me the big bucks to make that decision. If it is cancelled, it just means more time with my family. We only go to 1-2 games a year in Tuscaloosa anyways, so the money side of it won't hurt us. Now, if this happens, that's going to hurt a lot of college towns, their hotels, restaurants, stores, etc. I'm surprised the university presidents haven't considered that angle more seriously. Maybe the litigation threat is getting to them?

 

[We_are_Bama]

2020 season will be cancelled this week. 2021 season will be cancelled the week after, is my prediction

 

[CoachJeff]

2020 season will be cancelled this week. 2021 season will be cancelled the week after, is my prediction

That second sentence is bat-poo insane.

 

[We_are_Bama]

That second sentence is bat-poo insane.

The loss of the season is making me coo coo

 

[crimsonaudio]

Here we go...

Report: College football expected to be canceled this week

 

[Evil Crimson Dragon]

Here we go...

Report: College football expected to be canceled this week

I figured that was coming..................

 

[We_are_Bama]

Here we go...

Report: College football expected to be canceled this week

Better to go ahead and know now than for the.season to start and then be shut down after just a week or two

 

[LSUgrad2BamaDad]

Here we go...

Report: College football expected to be canceled this week

Looks like it’s working on my other hobbies time.

 

[Tidewater]

I am glad that the layers are expressing themselves, but didn't Clemson have 43 athletes infected earlier this year?

Well, then they have enough to field an offense and a defense.

 

[Crimson1967]

Does the NCAA have the power to cancel the season or would that have to be done by the member institutions?

 

[crimsonaudio]

Does the NCAA have the power to cancel the season or would that have to be done by the member institutions?

Member institutions would decide.

 

[rgw]

Nothing has changed about the virus over the last week. Player organization over health and safety demands is the big change. Schools may be running into a problem where the players are not signing off on absolving the university of liability. In fact, that has been a centerpiece in each of the major organization efforts among P5 players. This has become both a liability and perception problem. The players may be hesitant to sign-off on absolving liability when the schools aren’t putting them in a bubble environment. But creating a bubble is a bright flashing light that student athletes are not like other students which undermines some of the essential litigious framework for amateurism.

I don’t buy that the virus is the sole reason this administrative panic has emerged very lately. It is related to the virus but at the same time not defined entirely by the virus. A circumstance has been created that is particularly troubling for the maintenance of amateurism.

I do think the season can be saved but it involves treating the student-athletes like a special segregated population. To me it seems the choices are: you tell all the student-athletes to stay away from campus and do virtual instruction (maybe some season-long Junction Boys type camp in the middle of nowhere in Tuscaloosa County, etc) - OR - you move all the member institution’s players into a sort of Olympic Park and compete in a bubble.

 

[81usaf92]

I do think the season can be saved but it involves treating the student-athletes like a special segregated population. To me it seems the choices are: you tell all the student-athletes to stay away from campus and do virtual instruction (maybe some season-long Junction Boys type camp in the middle of nowhere in Tuscaloosa County, etc) - OR - you move all the member institution’s players into a sort of Olympic Park and compete in a bubble.

The easiest way to do it is break into 4 conferences and 2 divisions per conference. One division plays at one bubble location for the entire regular season while the other plays at another. Then merge the division champs to decide who plays in the final four in Dallas.

But college football will never do something that prevents travel or fans attending games.

 

[JDCrimson]

There is fear over players organizing over the pandemic. Not sure why they are concerned about. CF player's union is inevitable now that NIL has been approved.

 

[bamacon]

Sounds like the “emergency” was the fact that the BIG 10 has decided to fold up the season. Once that was done the season was caput. Probably a feeble attempt by the others to say “let’s at least try”, but more likely than not they are just trying to decide whether they want to even bother planning to try in the Spring or just give up altogether. I’ve lost all optimism at this point.

 

[81usaf92]

Sounds like the “emergency” was the fact that the BIG 10 has decided to fold up the season. Once that was done the season was caput. Probably a feeble attempt by the others to say “let’s at least try”, but more likely than not they are just trying to decide whether they want to even bother planning to try in the Spring or just give up altogether. I’ve lost all optimism at this point.

With the PAC 12 and B1G facing a players revolt I think both are going to go with each other in what ends up being decided. This was probably more of a meeting to say that there would be no CFP this year, and that everyone else is on their own in regards to potentially fighting the NCAA on this issue.

As for spring, I seriously doubt there is anyway a college football season would ever start past November because there is no way the NFL will ever budge on their playoff and offseason schedule. I never got why people continuously have tried to say that spring football was a realistic option.

 

[81usaf92]

There is fear over players organizing over the pandemic. Not sure why they are concerned about. CF player's union is inevitable now that NIL has been approved.

Well they are going to need more than a union with what is coming. I think the P5 needs to separate from the NCAA and take steps to police themselves. With how Goodell runs the NFL I haven't been ecstatic about the idea of a P5 commissioner, but I think we are starting to see the early signs of a PA forming so if you have one then you have to have the other.

 

[Padreruf]

By, by MIss American Pie -- the day the music died -- keeps running over and over in my brain. I hope CNS can keep his team together, but I am sure that Dylan Moses and Nagee are gone...along with Devonta Smith and Jaylen Waddle...visions of what might have been keep dancing in my brain -- along with the aforementioned song...

 

[rgw]

My gut feeling is that the Big Ten and PAC-12 cancel but ACC, BIG-12, SEC hold tight and hope to god their players don’t organize. I’d recommend being on top of the issue and come up with solutions to virus-related points stated in the Big Ten and PAC-12 players letters.