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Big 10 Plan for Winter Football

They need to admit they screwed this up and plan for a October 1 kickoff. Gives them enough time to cancel again if necessary and enough time to play something resembling a season.
 
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Few observations on first Covid-19 game;

1) Those mountains were real pretty - played Colorado College once and they faced us visitors with a view of Pike's Peak. Then they had all the signs about being sure you had Oxygen on the sideline.

2) That #9 for Herriman started out like a house afire, then gave up the TD, the longest catch of the game, missed a key tackle, and took a personal foul. Cat was a little too amped up.

3) The QB from Herriman fancied himself a duel threat QB.

4) It was so great to see some **** football.
 
Hoyacane1620 said:
NOT OFFICIAL - first proposal

The Big Ten Conference is beginning to put together a plan for both basketball and football going forward. After postponing their football season but still allowing student athletes to remain on campus and workout with their teams, football is now being discussed as a winter sport.

The current working plan, which has not been put up for a vote with the university presidents or finalized by medical personnel, is for Big Ten schools to play eight league games beginning at, or near, the beginning of the New Year.

By starting around Jan. 1, the thought is that the league would be able to play eight league games over the course of January and February with a potential Big Ten Championship Game taking place in early March.

By finishing around March 1, it would leave six months for athletes to recover in time for the next football season, which is being approached as medically acceptable recovery time between two seasons.

As of now, according to a league wide call, a spring season is seen as untenable even in a shortened form because of the fall of 2021, and the desire of the league to keep that season fully intact.

Within this plan, the Big Ten would use domed stadiums in St. Louis, Minnesota, Indianapolis and Detroit, as well as possibly one other site, to host the games.

Multiple games would be hosted per day at each site, so that the travel would be limited. This applies to not only players, but to television crews who would be at those sites to potentially broadcast NFL games the next day.

The Big Ten told the conference's coaches that they feel competition is possible due to advances in testing, notably SalivaDirect, which would allow day of testing for all athletes involved in the competition.

Along with football, men’s basketball is also beginning to discuss options, but the first priority is figuring out how to handle the football season, and the games that come with it.

Options for men’s basketball include playing in late-November, though that is not likely to happen, at least of now.

A concurrent January start with football is seen as more likely. This would again be possible due to the rapid testing. No specifics on games and where they would be hosted have been discussed in a formal manner for men’s basketball, but that is set to be discussed coming up.

As long as football happens in the winter, basketball is going to be set to play as well. Big Ten basketball head coaches, who all were a part of a two plus hour phone call Thursday indicated that ultimately the NCAA and what parameters they set for the NCAA Tournament will make the call, and the league will have to follow their lead.
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Liberty City El said:
Them trying to pull this off all revolves around recruiting...

Recruiting is the lifeblood of College Football & the B1G realizes they made a grave mistake by cancelling Fall football.

Winter/Spring ball especially for the B1G is going to be a completely 2nd class product that looks like trash on the field, because the majority of the star players will opt-out & unless they agree to play all their games in an enclosed stadium, Winter time football in B1G country is going to be horrid.

All the Big 3 has to do is hold firm for 3 more weeks & The Big WEAK 2 conference will look like the biggest idiots in College football history.
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As Saban said, JV football.
 
Tad Footeball said:
At this rate they'll end up scheduling Ohio State vs Michigan in an empty dome in Minnesota on Super Bowl Sunday. The spring idea was always going to be a tough pull but trying for essentially a winter season really makes zero sense.
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TV brass: "hey that would a great warm up game for the super bowl."
 
Hoyacane1620 said:
NOT OFFICIAL - first proposal

The Big Ten Conference is beginning to put together a plan for both basketball and football going forward. After postponing their football season but still allowing student athletes to remain on campus and workout with their teams, football is now being discussed as a winter sport.

The current working plan, which has not been put up for a vote with the university presidents or finalized by medical personnel, is for Big Ten schools to play eight league games beginning at, or near, the beginning of the New Year.

By starting around Jan. 1, the thought is that the league would be able to play eight league games over the course of January and February with a potential Big Ten Championship Game taking place in early March.

By finishing around March 1, it would leave six months for athletes to recover in time for the next football season, which is being approached as medically acceptable recovery time between two seasons.

As of now, according to a league wide call, a spring season is seen as untenable even in a shortened form because of the fall of 2021, and the desire of the league to keep that season fully intact.

Within this plan, the Big Ten would use domed stadiums in St. Louis, Minnesota, Indianapolis and Detroit, as well as possibly one other site, to host the games.

Multiple games would be hosted per day at each site, so that the travel would be limited. This applies to not only players, but to television crews who would be at those sites to potentially broadcast NFL games the next day.

The Big Ten told the conference's coaches that they feel competition is possible due to advances in testing, notably SalivaDirect, which would allow day of testing for all athletes involved in the competition.

Along with football, men’s basketball is also beginning to discuss options, but the first priority is figuring out how to handle the football season, and the games that come with it.

Options for men’s basketball include playing in late-November, though that is not likely to happen, at least of now.

A concurrent January start with football is seen as more likely. This would again be possible due to the rapid testing. No specifics on games and where they would be hosted have been discussed in a formal manner for men’s basketball, but that is set to be discussed coming up.

As long as football happens in the winter, basketball is going to be set to play as well. Big Ten basketball head coaches, who all were a part of a two plus hour phone call Thursday indicated that ultimately the NCAA and what parameters they set for the NCAA Tournament will make the call, and the league will have to follow their lead.
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So has anyone figured out yet that the 'salivadirect' test is 100000% as accurate as all of the other tests that are given, but this one is faster.

But wait, has anyone followed the $$$ behind and forward on this test?

Good stuff.
 
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Canes Legacy said:
They need to admit they screwed this up and plan for a October 1 kickoff. Gives them enough time to cancel again if necessary and enough time to play something resembling a season.
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Hate to be the contrarian but with multiple teams in our league not practicing right now it seems to me our season is on the brink. I hope things turn around soon. Also these schools need to send students home that can’t adhere to social distancing and responsible behavior.
 
GojiraCane said:
Big 12 and PAC-10:
It won't happen this fall.
It's untenable to happen in January and February. Many players will opt out, many more will bypass directly to the NFL.
It's questionable if it will happen next fall, barring an effective vaccine

Imagine the effect on recruiting and team strength if these teams fail to play for two consecutive years.
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If we dont play football next fall America will have collapsed economically.
 
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itsacanething said:
Hate to be the contrarian but with multiple teams in our league not practicing right now it seems to me our season is on the brink. I hope things turn around soon. Also these schools need to send students home that can’t adhere to social distancing and responsible behavior.
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Unfortunately, the “season on the brink” feeling is going to be there all year.
 
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Hoyacane1620 said:
NOT OFFICIAL - first proposal

The Big Ten Conference is beginning to put together a plan for both basketball and football going forward. After postponing their football season but still allowing student athletes to remain on campus and workout with their teams, football is now being discussed as a winter sport.

The current working plan, which has not been put up for a vote with the university presidents or finalized by medical personnel, is for Big Ten schools to play eight league games beginning at, or near, the beginning of the New Year.

By starting around Jan. 1, the thought is that the league would be able to play eight league games over the course of January and February with a potential Big Ten Championship Game taking place in early March.

By finishing around March 1, it would leave six months for athletes to recover in time for the next football season, which is being approached as medically acceptable recovery time between two seasons.

As of now, according to a league wide call, a spring season is seen as untenable even in a shortened form because of the fall of 2021, and the desire of the league to keep that season fully intact.

Within this plan, the Big Ten would use domed stadiums in St. Louis, Minnesota, Indianapolis and Detroit, as well as possibly one other site, to host the games.

Multiple games would be hosted per day at each site, so that the travel would be limited. This applies to not only players, but to television crews who would be at those sites to potentially broadcast NFL games the next day.

The Big Ten told the conference's coaches that they feel competition is possible due to advances in testing, notably SalivaDirect, which would allow day of testing for all athletes involved in the competition.

Along with football, men’s basketball is also beginning to discuss options, but the first priority is figuring out how to handle the football season, and the games that come with it.

Options for men’s basketball include playing in late-November, though that is not likely to happen, at least of now.

A concurrent January start with football is seen as more likely. This would again be possible due to the rapid testing. No specifics on games and where they would be hosted have been discussed in a formal manner for men’s basketball, but that is set to be discussed coming up.

As long as football happens in the winter, basketball is going to be set to play as well. Big Ten basketball head coaches, who all were a part of a two plus hour phone call Thursday indicated that ultimately the NCAA and what parameters they set for the NCAA Tournament will make the call, and the league will have to follow their lead.
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Big 10 country in February is pleasant.
 
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S.CarolinaCane said:
So has anyone figured out yet that the 'salivadirect' test is 100000% as accurate as all of the other tests that are given, but this one is faster.

But wait, has anyone followed the $$$ behind and forward on this test?

Good stuff.
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IT's only 90% accurate, but at a cost of only $4, a patient will be given two tests, which will result in 99% accuracy.
 
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