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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 5:36 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 7:19 pm to RLDSC FAN
Someone suggested an Oct. 1 start, with conference games only.
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.
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