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Sources: Power 5 Conferences Moving Toward Canceling Fall Sports
High-level conference meetings are being planned for this week across the college football landscape with the expected resolution of postponing fall sports until 2021, multiple sources have told Sports Illustrated.
Its gotten to a critical stage, one conference commissioner told Sports Illustrated Sunday, after a conference call between the heads of the Power 5 conferences. I think all of us will be meeting with our boards in the coming days. We have work to do that is no fun.
Dominoes started falling in earnest Saturday when the Mid-American Conference postponed fall sports. The Big Ten followed with an announcement that it was pausing its scheduled progression to full-pads football practices. A well-placed source told SI Saturday, I think by the end of the week the fall sports will be postponed in all conferences.
Even that timetable might be accelerated. Sources told SI on Sunday that the Big Ten is moving toward a decision to cancel the 2020 fall season, while engaging other Power 5 conferences on a uniform decision to be announced later this week.
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Stallion
(6,474 posts)in fact I was too young to remember my first game. But I haven't renewed this year on ethical grounds. I was hopeful and willing to see how it played out but here in Texas we have a positivity rate above 20%. Just not a priority now.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Before we see more folks test positive.
jalan48
(13,863 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Should be interesting in the South if they're denied their college football.
Botany
(70,501 posts)And yes when Bubba Joe Jr. doesn't get his 'bama football he is gonna be pissed.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)I'm impressed and applaud their action!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)They cancelled OOC games, but other conferences already did that. (Other conferences cancelled all of their games, like the Ivy League.) It's certainly not like they lead the way.
Botany
(70,501 posts).... football for 2020 but the outcome was already a "done deal." Just a meter of time before the NFL
and MLB shut it down.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... despite how their teams are generally located in less-infected states.
Then the other Power-5 conferences will grudgingly follow suit.
BGBD
(3,282 posts)Four of their teams are in California. Arizona isn't in great shape either.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Arizona indeed had the highest percentage of positive cases at one time, but not California. California has a huge population, so their overall cases will always be relatively high.
Current positive cases as a percentage (new infections) per Covid-19 Projections:
https://covid19-projections.com
SEC:
Mississippi: 20.5%
Texas: 20.4%
Florida: 17.3%
Alabama: 15.6%
South Carolina: 13.7%
Arkansas: 13.0%
Missouri: 12.4%
Georgia: 10.9%
Tennessee: 8.7%
Louisiana: 7.2%
Kentucky: 6.5%
Pac-12:
Arizona: 12.6%
Utah: 8.3%
Colorado: 6.6%
Oregon 6.3%
Washington: 6.2% (last week before they had reporting issues)
California: 5.8%
Big Ten:
Iowa: 9.3%
Indiana: 8.6%
Nebraska: 8.0%
Minnesota: 6.9%
Wisconsin: 6.2%
Maryland: 5.3%
Pennsylvania: 5.1%
Ohio: 5.1%
Illinois: 4.1%
Michigan: 2.5%
New Jersey: 1.5%
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)They did that after other conferences made that move.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)this morning is the BIG news. We are probably looking at NO football this fall. NONE. WOW!!!
The college presidents are concerned about the long term effects of Covid and liability.
Botany
(70,501 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)I think canceling is the correct call. Let's hope that they do in fact make it and are not swayed by the $
maryellen99
(3,788 posts)JI7
(89,248 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)People love their college football. Were not having it this Fall because Trump failed.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)The Ivy League did several months ago, although those schools are not that important in football.
In today's Santa Fe New Mexican there's an article from the AP that the MAC, Mid-American Conference, has cancelled the fall season. It's just a matter of time before all the fall sports are shut down.
Heck, I'm surprised that MLB is still happening.
groundloop
(11,518 posts)The upcoming Cardinals - Pirates series was just cancelled because 17 members of the Cardinals organization have tested positive (10 players and seven staff).
One has to wonder how long before they throw in the towel and give up on the season.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)would last another two weeks. Clearly I was wrong about that timing, but I find it unfathomable that they will actually finish this season, such as it is.
I believe every single day more and more NFL players are opting out. I wonder how many players a team needs to lose before it realizes it simply can't play.
JCMach1
(27,556 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)JI7
(89,248 posts)Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)You should see the sports message boards since this news broke. Everyone involved in the decision is being described as pansies and snowflakes.
I just let them have it on a USC forum. The post will probably be removed.
BGBD
(3,282 posts)We were not going to be allowed to even start practice until after labor day, which was going to cause a lot of issues on its own. Got the word today that we were postponing the entire season with the plan to try to play it this spring.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)where I am. That includes baseball, softball, basketball, AAU with parents/fans in attendance. No outbreaks, or even cases afaik, associated with them.
BGBD
(3,282 posts)This relies on using the schools facilities and we aren't allowed on the property until the day after labor day when schools open here. They made an exception for HS football and they are able to start practice this week.
When you start practice you have to go a certain time, I believe it's a week for us, without pads and then get X number of padded practices in before a player can play in a game. That would have put us at the last weekend in September or may even October before we could hold our scrimmages and another week before we could hold a game. That would have put us finishing up after Thanksgiving. That's normal football time, but out little guys are usually finished by Halloween. We have to wait to use the field until after the Middle School is finished, so we wouldn't even be able to start practice until after dark by that time.
I'm not sure who made the final call, but it came down yesterday.
We missed baseball season last year. It would be nice if they went ahead and let us play that now since football is delayed.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)This is a big deal. College Football is an opiate for the masses int he Fall, people live for this stuff. Trump got it canceled, he's who is to blame, don't let them forget it.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Many people live and breathe Iowa and Iowa State football. It will ruin the fall for them and theyll have plenty of time to think about how Trumps covid actions caused it...if the Dems push it.
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