B1G going Conference Only
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Fall only for right now. Expect the worst
https://bigten.org/news/2020/7/9/big-ten-statement-on-2020-21-fall-season.aspx
Silver lining: if every conference does this, Notre Dame is screwed.
Their fans will say they deserve to be in the College Football Playoff because they’re undefeated.
NBC will air their scrimmage game as the national championship.
Rutger asking for an all non-conference schedule.
Since no one will start playing until late Sept., is BIG giving up a month of TV revenue?
Here's a little more insight, BIG may be looking at 10 conference games and a revised schedule:
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-moving-conference-only-model-all-sports-fall
Here's a little more insight, BIG may be looking at 10 conference games and a revised schedule:
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-moving-conference-only-model-all-sports-fall
Ok, let's see if I got this right. Schools will be restricted to playing only schools in their own conference. What happens when the bowl games come around? Does that mean all Big 10 schools will not be allowed to play bowl games? What if every conference adopts the same rule? Will we go back to voting for the national champion?
The bowls might be the safest games -- all the players can be kept on campus for practice instead of returning home during break. Essentially a 2-4 week isolation period.
I still can’t understand the logic of this. Is the virus less contagious when in an intraconference setting? Of course not. When logical people propose illogical solutions, you can bet that you aren’t being given the truth.
Keeping all games within conference gives a higher level of confidence that certain agreed-upon safety protocols have been adhered to. So, actually, the virus may be "less contagious" in a sense.
Yes, that is actually the easiest part of this announcement to understand. B10 can control it's schools, cannot control others
I was hanging out with a PSU “administrator type” yesterday when the announcement came out. He offered that cancelling the non-conf schedule is a first step. Seems BIG is waiting on NCAA. Two weeks ago I talked to an NCAA a acquaintance in Indy. He related ominous rumblings about the work of various subcommittees. When combined with recent medical information about aerosols ... it seems that we won’t be seeing any 2020 college sports. The pros can afford “made for TV” shows . . . Universities outside the SEC can not.
Politics is the main reason this is happening our "liberal left wing"educators are in lock step with their Progressive leaders.
Controlling 18-23 year olds, regardless of conference? Sweet Brown said it best:
They have a point. The apparent rule is all SEC teams and Notre Dame with fewer than 2 losses must be included in the CFP tournament.
Yes! UFO aliens are doing this, using low-frequency politics waves. Killing NCAA sports is step one in their three-inch-thick “To Serve Man” handbook. Only a great smart handsome hero can stop them.
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I love that Sweet Brown video! Here is the original interview which includes the classic music remix. Enjoy!Controlling 18-23 year olds, regardless of conference? Sweet Brown said it best:
Oh...I do love this tho lol. ND being left in the cold would almost be worth it.
Well it seems the PAC and acc are going the same conference only way. Big 12 says it's too early to decide and I agree. They'll probably be conference only in a day or two lol.
I'm just curious if all these people know youth sports are still going on at this very moment. Everything seems to be "ok". I dunno. Crazy times.
Yes! UFO aliens are doing this, using low-frequency politics waves. Killing NCAA sports is step one in their three-inch-thick “To Serve Man” handbook. Only a great smart handsome hero can stop them.
Damn! First John Lydon, now Rod Serling. You are on fire, man!
Not sure I understand the financial concerns, at least relating to those schools in Power 5 conferences. The TV revenue, even if games are played in front of no fans or very limited attendance, is substantial.
Using youth sports as an example in juxtaposition to "crazy times" doesn't lend much credibility to your post.
Youth sports are financed, run and staffed by dads. That's who is entrusted to make a good decision on what is acceptable for, let's say an 8 year old, in regards to risk while participating in a sport. Do I even need to expound?
They won’t cancel it. At least not yet, it would (probably will IMO) be moved to the spring first, and then they’d have until January or so before they’d decide if it gets cancelled.
Players are already skipping bowl games. How many guys that are planning to get drafted are going to stick around for another semester? THEY DIDNT COME TO PLAY SCHOOL!!
I mean guys don’t normally drop out of school after football season right?
I imagine the majority of guys will want to play in order to improve their draft stock...
Actually, many draftees leave campus after the bowl games to train for the NFL Combine. Such specialty training has been a cottage industry for over a decade.
Some guys will want to play in Spring Football to improve their stock. Others, like Micah Parsons, would be idiots to take on the injury risk when the NFL has plenty of game tape.
Should also note that the NFL Draft would be during a spring season. IIRC underclassmen would lose college eligibility by declaring for the draft. Hiring an agent definitely ends eligibility regardless of senior vs. underclass. Nobody will negotiate an NFL contract without an agent, and nobody will delay the start of their NFL careers (including receiving the playbook) because they'd rather play college ball than negotiate their contract.
Yeah the top 10-20 guys I could definitely see not playing in a spring season.
But I think almost everyone else, including underclassmen trying to improve their draft stock for future drafts will want to play.
The NFL depends on college football for the draft, I can't imagine the NFL not pushing the draft back if the NCAA season is pushed back.
How long do you think the NFL will wait to hold its draft, for a regular season that starts approx Labor Day?
Spring Football realistically can't start until April in most of the country. A 10-week season with no byes goes until at least mid-June, before any playoffs.
Some might play in April to get some this year game tape. The trade-off is not training for the NFL Combine, which affects draft status as much.
Whatever their draft stock is, is useless if they can't make the team. So there is a huge incentive to not play college football so long that it keeps them out of NFL camps. Plus the longer they play spring football, the bigger their injury risk during camp and the full NFL season.
If the NFL waits too long to hold the draft, then very few guys drafted after Round 2 or maybe Round 3 will make any teams. Odds are already long for those guys. Now throw in their lack of time to learn the playbook, and lack of time to impress the coaches ... the odds of making teams will be slanted much more heavily toward veterans.
I think a spring season would be worthless. Any player with a chance to be drafted in the first three rounds would never participate. They need to make every effort to play in the fall, delay the start by several weeks if necessary and take all precautions. Then if the fall is a no go just cancel the season.
If it’s safe to, why couldn’t it start in January, have a National championship in April, and only move the draft back by like 2 months?
You have a point, though I would be shocked if anybody outside the SEC would consider football before at least March. Well, maybe Hawaii ...
If it did happen, that would be all the more reason for potential draftees to skip the year. They'll get zero useful game tape on frozen fields. Only the risk of injury.
