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Spring Football? Nine-Game Season? ADs Ponder Contingency Plans
Posted on 4/2/20 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 4/2/20 at 5:07 pm
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College football’s 12-game regular season divided over the fall and spring semesters.
The College Football Playoff semifinals and title game held in May – or even June.
A nine-game regular season.
Universities allowing student-athletes – but not the entire student body – back on campus to participate in games played in empty stadiums.
This very well could be the immediate future of college football, according to 112 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) athletic directors contacted by Stadium.
Those are just a few of the options the nation’s FBS ADs are pondering if the college football season can’t start on Aug. 29 because of COVID-19. On Tuesday, Stadium published the results of an anonymous survey of all 130 FBS ADs (in which 112 participated), asking how optimistic they were that the upcoming football season would be played in its entirety.
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One Power Five athletic director asked if schools can’t begin in-person practices until late August or September, when would the season be able to begin? October or later?
“If we have to delay the start of the season, we could split it between two semesters,” a Power Five AD said. “Some bowls may not occur because of this, but we could play a full season, a majority of the bowls and the playoffs.
This post was edited on 4/2/20 at 5:10 pm
Posted on 4/2/20 at 5:11 pm to RLDSC FAN
If they prematurely make a decision on this I’m going to fricking riot and run down I-10 waving my dick at traffic
This post was edited on 4/2/20 at 5:12 pm
Posted on 4/2/20 at 5:13 pm to Ed Osteen
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run down I-10 waving my dick at traffic
We'll need pics
Posted on 4/2/20 at 5:29 pm to RLDSC FAN
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run down I-10 waving my dick at traffic
We'll need pics
From a powerful lens camera
Posted on 4/2/20 at 5:33 pm to miamitiger
Imagine having The Masters and college football on the same day
Posted on 4/2/20 at 5:36 pm to RLDSC FAN
beginning of the end of cfb season
Posted on 4/2/20 at 5:38 pm to RLDSC FAN
Just cancel this thing like everyone else already.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 6:07 pm to RLDSC FAN
Sorry but that would just be an entire frick up. Would be easier to just call 2020 off
Posted on 4/2/20 at 6:28 pm to RLDSC FAN
I think these statements are telling that college football has to be played, or places are going to close down and the athletic directors know it.
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Multiple athletic directors said if a fall football season can’t occur, a last-gasp possibility would be starting the season in January or February. It could mean the College Football Playoff’s semifinals from the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl could be held in May, and the national title game from Miami Gardens might be played in late May/early June around the Memorial Day holiday.
In this scenario, the regular season would get played during the NFL Draft and some bowl games might get canceled, an AD said, but at least the season would be saved.
“Would that be the preferred situation?” an AD asked. “Absolutely not, but the lights have to be kept on somehow.”
By playing in the spring — preferably in front of crowds — it would allow the universities to still recoup the millions of dollars in revenue generated by the football programs that is so critical to the athletic departments and universities.
“I think being open to a non-traditional season is a must for (athletic) departments to survive,” a Power Five AD said.
“If it’s our only option, we absolutely would have to do it in the spring,” a Group of Five AD said. “It would be incredibly difficult for us to survive financially without football revenue. That’s how critical it is to each university. We have to be creative in our thinking on this.”
Posted on 4/2/20 at 6:30 pm to devils1854
That’s right. G5 and FCS programs would begin shutting down.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 6:39 pm to DBG
I don't see how they play because the chances of multiple players and coaches being infected come fall is almost 100%.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 7:19 pm to RLDSC FAN
Someone suggested an Oct. 1 start, with conference games only.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 7:22 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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Someone suggested an Oct. 1 start, with conference games only.
Killer for rent a win teams.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 7:26 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Someone suggested an Oct. 1 start, with conference games only.
Makes sense, but what happens to all these “rent-a-win” games versus directional opponents?
Posted on 4/2/20 at 7:36 pm to GentleJackJones
So start just as flu season is ramping up, that sounds perfect.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 8:00 pm to GhostofJackson
Conference games only cuts down on a lot of travel, except for those Rutgers/Nebraska and WVU/Texas Tech matchups.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 8:07 pm to devils1854
Mid January games in Wisconsin or Minnesota would be epic.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 8:13 pm to DBG
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That’s right. G5 and FCS programs would begin shutting down.
MANY of those teams have no business playing at those levels anyway. There’s been an accelerated trend of new D-1 or FCS programs because everyone wants a piece of the pie. Athletic revenues drive so much, but some people still want to cry about excessive publicity of college football and sports in general.
This might be a sobering reality to some schools that they should stay at lower levels.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 10:11 pm to RLDSC FAN
I could see a school like Duke not even playing this season. They were one of the first to pull out of hoops.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 11:19 pm to BZ504
Lol college-aged athletes are the least susceptible to serious cases much less deaths among our population, they’ll be fine.
This fear mongering and chicken little girl is far worse than this disease. It’s been here since at least December and there weren’t massive amounts of deaths. This is what happens when you have shitty media and politicians who want to play games with peoples lives to accomplish their own goals.
This fear mongering and chicken little girl is far worse than this disease. It’s been here since at least December and there weren’t massive amounts of deaths. This is what happens when you have shitty media and politicians who want to play games with peoples lives to accomplish their own goals.
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