Top 5 NCAA conferences talking about no fall football

[RandySF]

Commissioners of the Power 5 conferences held an emergency meeting on Sunday, as there is growing concern among college athletics officials that the upcoming football season and other fall sports can't be played because of the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN.

No major decisions were made on Sunday night, but multiple sources in several Power 5 conferences have told ESPN the commissioners talked about trying to collaborate if their respective presidents do decide to cancel or postpone fall sports.

Several sources have indicated to ESPN that Big Ten presidents, following a meeting on Saturday, are ready to pull the plug on its fall sports season, and they wanted to gauge if commissioners and university presidents and chancellors from the other Power 5 conferences -- the ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC -- will fall in line with them.

Sources told ESPN that a vast majority of Big Ten presidents have indicated that they would vote to postpone football season, hopefully to the spring. A Big Ten official confirmed to ESPN that no official vote took place during Saturday's meeting.

"It doesn't look good," one Power 5 athletic director said.




https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29629669/power-5-talking-no-fall-football

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. Thank you, Big Ten!

For the safety of the players and others!


Well, I guess it's not official yet.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Wishful thinking....blame Trump.

He ignored the warnings and continued to offer negative help to improve the situation. No sports for you!

[uponit7771]

17. +1,

[dem4decades]

3. Typical. Liberal colleges with their socialists ways trying to destroy Trump.

and if you can't see i'm being sarcastic i'm sorry.

Just trying to sound like a Trump supporting idiot.

[House of Roberts]

4. I hope they follow through and postpone until when Spring football would start,

then re-evaluate if it's safe to play then. I'd rather have safe games in April, than sick players in October.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

5. Republicans made their choice.

Opening everything up, making masks optional, denying science, it all led up to this. You wanted your "freedom" back and you got it. Now enjoy a fall with no college football, probably no college basketball and massive death tolls. Still think it's a hoax?

[NightWatcher]

6. You wanna wear that face mask or go two seasons without NCAA Football?

[RANDYWILDMAN]

7. This should have happened already

But Dabo(clemson) and his 9 million dollar salary need to be payed. I am a pac 12 guy and I can't believe they have NOT pulled the plug Yet, (California and Arizona ) full of Covid....

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. I still can't understand how he's recruiting so well...

... unless there's something very shady happening there.

Do the players actually like his personality?! That seems unlikely!

Edit: At least Pete Carroll seemed bright when he was at USC, and the coaching looked excellent. I didn't even suspect financial shenanigans from them for that reason. Saw some of their Spring practices on ESPN and they looked top-notch.

[Docreed2003]

14. There's been a longtime rumor

About Dabo and some shenanigans that involves a megachurch and recruiting. I don't think it's ever been confirmed but I've heard it a few times.

[calguy]

8. I've seen this coming for quite some time.

The only question was when.

[Yavin4]

10. Every day that you don't wear a mask is another day where you cannot have the things you love.

Like college football.

[Ms. Toad]

11. Great.

Now we're financing the debt on a massive stadium, paying coaches out the ying yang (while laying off 25% of our faculty and staff) - and now we're paying for a stadium no one will use & coaches who will sit around and twiddle their thumbs.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. I keep on wondering if this virus is going to have a permanent

impact on college and pro sports.

I'm not a fan, which means I simply don't know very much, but I do wonder if some teams or sports will go away entirely.

[TexasTowelie]

16. Some of the non-revenue producing sports liike golf and tennis will likely disappear.

Others that don't generate much revenue will survive due to Title IX such as softball and volleyball. Others may become "club sports" not affiliated with the NCAA with competition at a regional basis.

[3Hotdogs]

13. Regional paper this morning described a plan that would lead to a Big 10 season...

Everybody on visiting team flies into the playing area on Wednesday. Not Friday night like they use'ta. Then they get tested. Any tight end having a fever or a loose end, gets sent home.

Now to the problem with this absurdity. Coach (since he's not on curfew) gets infected on Sunday. He flies with the team on Wednesday but by now, he's already infected 20% of the team. They are now capable of spreading the virus..... you get the idea.

But now, the team members are going to lose three days of class on alternate weeks. Unless class for these players was a charade anyway.

[exboyfil]

15. Ding ding ding on classes

Student athletes really.

[Gothmog]

18. There will no college football this fall

[highplainsdem]

19. Good idea.

[Silent3]

20. If this goes on for too long, people might be forced...

...to realize the most important thing about college is supposed to be education, not sports.