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CFB Season could be Delayed to January 21

hoops156 said:
and with Fauci saying it may return in the fall (IF the summer months end up killing it or slowing it down) with no vax makes fall sports unlikely. the issue isnt this summer anymore bc we all know the realities leading up to it, but in the event fauci and the experts are correct in that it comes back with no vax. well be better prepared in that scenario after messing it up the first time, but w no vax makes it hard to justify guys sweating all over each other and isolating just those guys for 6 months. at best, we get maybe 1-2 months of football (november, december start) and then kids just start sitting out to prepare for the combine and draft. in that case, do you really care that much? if i were king or Greg, i wouldn't play for a month and risk injury right before draft prep. just prep on your own and stay healthy for the pay day.
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Agree 100%. So many unknowns. Have to hope the thousands of brilliant minds in this country and around the world trying to find a viable medical option for us to beat this thing find a way sooner than later.
 
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hoops156 said:
OSU cancelled it for the entire summer tho. they could've just said its done for the first summer semester and possibility of opening up campus for summer 2. they just ended all in person stuff until july 31. the hope is we get a vax by the end of 2020 imo. that makes the diff bc its hard to justify large groups together again or even teams together (let alone STUDENTS) without a vax even with wide testing. it sucks we may not get a 2020 season but sports is a luxury and these college kids are still kids. if schools aren't open by fall then no football player (CFB) should be forced to show up either. obviously, a lot can change but the timeline with the vax is pretty clear in that after all trials and stuff, it will be at least early 2021 before we get one. hoping its earlier than that though. the other thing is which state will allow those things happen since they'll run on their own schedules and timelines depending on their issues.
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The vaccination is answer in the end.
Developments in testing and treatments will determine when we'll be back on track.
 
Go Canes!! said:
Agree 100%. So many unknowns. Have to hope the thousands of brilliant minds in this country and around the world trying to find a viable medical option for us to beat this thing find a way sooner than later.
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I've said this from the beginning and I'm confident that will be the case.
A vaccine is way out.
A possible treatment though, will hopefully be here soon.
 
Go Canes!! said:
34 states in this country have less than 100 deaths from this virus.

Another 7-8 are at 200 or less.

Imo we as a country are doing a good job of avoiding a massive national spread. This has become a New York/New Jersey centric outbreak with another half dozen hotspots that need to be controlled.

Let's see what the combination of further isolation, massive amounts of additional testing, the hot summer months and a larger sample size of people treated with the anti-malaria drug and other therapies does before deciding we won't be gathering 5 months from now.
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A voice of reason amongst the orange bad man haters.....
 
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hoops156 said:
LOL trump is a moron w this ****. OSU already announced no on campus classes this summer (which means no students). it wont happen this fall without a vax. one kid gets it, the entire sport is done again. your kids leagues are dumb as **** if they havent cancelled yet either. i dont think a jan season will happen either bc if the NFL doesnt move their deadlines, no junior/senior should even think about playing a spring season w the possibility of getting hurt right before draft day.
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Hey drama queen, go put a tampon in. Did you ever think maybe you aren’t so smart?
 
90scane said:
Play in the fall with no fans. All kids, refs, coaches... are tested day of to prevent mass infections of the group.
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Unrealistic, if you ask me.
You can’t just show up and play on saturdays. You need to train all summer and practice daily.

Your scenario suggests testing all those stakeholders you just named for **** near daily for 7 months. And that’s what’s it’ll take....almost daily testing of players, coaches and refs to wall off the risk contagion. Not only is that impractical and unrealistic, who pays for all that?

Also, let’s assume someone were magically crazy enough to sign off on that, what about the optics? Namely, you’re wasting all those tests and resources to play a **** game while folks are sick, with no vaccine, while 10s of millions remain out of work because of the economics?

I would be really shocked to see college football in 2020, especially since kids are playing the have for free. ****, college kids might not even be on campus in 2020-2021. Campuses might still be shut down. I think that scenario is absolutely in play.
 
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90scane said:
Play in the fall with no fans. All kids, refs, coaches... are tested day of to prevent mass infections of the group.
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I don't believe colleges will consider that one of their options, unless the only other option left is canceling the season.
A couple of months back I did the math on what OSU and michigan bring in in gross ticket sales.
Average ticket $ x 105,000 x 7.
The number was around $90 million.
IF the season is played, the schools will make sure there will be fans in the seats.
No season is far more likely than what you suggest.
 
NJshoreCane said:
I don't believe colleges will consider that one of their options, unless the only other option left is canceling the season.
A couple of months back I did the math on what OSU and michigan bring in in gross ticket sales.
Average ticket $ x 105,000 x 7.
The number was around $90 million.
IF the season is played, the schools will make sure there will be fans in the seats.
No season is far more likely than what you suggest.
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Students don’t pay for tickets to games. They get free game tickets. You’d need to deduct the amount for the number of student tickets allocated for each game
 
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The Svengali said:
Students don’t pay for tickets to games. They get free game tickets. You’d need to deduct the amount for the number of student tickets allocated for each game
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Do not the tickets come out of a student activity fee...one of those gradually escalating costs for students?
 
GojiraCane said:
Do not the tickets come out of a student activity fee...one of those gradually escalating costs for students?
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Yes, but the cost is different for each school. And it’s cheaper for P5 schools

For example, my niece attends an ACC school they only pay $90 per semester for the activity fee.
 
The Svengali said:
Students don’t pay for tickets to games. They get free game tickets. You’d need to deduct the amount for the number of student tickets allocated for each game
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I did a few searches.
Average ticket price and students ticket prices. According to this students do pay, and not all are guaranteed a seat:
I'm assuming those numbers {$20-$30 per game) are figured in to the average ticket price.
The band doesn't pay (228 students) but that number is offset by the 3-4 thousand additionally they pack in for the Meechigan game.
 
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Could just jump into 128 team playoffs.

#1 seed versus #128, #2 versus #127 etc.

Or start with 64 teams!

Do the whole thing in maybe six weeks. Done.

Nobody will know WTH to expect!
 
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NJshoreCane said:
I did a few searches.
Average ticket price and students ticket prices. According to this students do pay, and not all are guaranteed a seat:
I'm assuming those numbers {$20-$30 per game) are figured in to the average ticket price.
The band doesn't pay (228 students) but that number is offset by the 3-4 thousand additionally they pack in for the Meechigan game.
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Wow, that’s really, really strange. The big 10 is wild. That’s crazy and greedy. Students and parents already shell out a lot for tuition

I’ve never ever seen students pay for tickets. I attended 3 universities (albeit early, mid 90s and early 2000’s) and never once paid for a ticket to a game in the student section

And I’ve got a niece at Duke and a nephew at Sanford and I’m 100% sure they don’t pay for tickets. They go to games all the time. I could be wrong but I don’t think Miami charge students for tickets either (I can’t vouch for Miami, though)

The activity fee for athletics and beyond is added to your tuition for both semesters. Students usually wait in line for their free student tickets
 
The Svengali said:
Wow, that’s really, really strange. The big 10 is wild. That’s crazy and greedy. Students and parents already shell out a lot for tuition

I’ve never ever seen students pay for tickets. I attended 3 universities (albeit early, mid 90s and early 2000’s) and never once paid for a ticket to a game in the student section

And I’ve got a niece at Duke and a nephew at Sanford and I’m 100% sure they don’t pay for tickets. They go to games all the time. I could be wrong but I don’t think Miami charge students for tickets either (I can’t vouch for Miami, though)

The activity fee for athletics and beyond is added to your tuition for both semesters. Students usually wait in line for their free student tickets
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If you are paying an athletics fee, then your tickets aren't free by definition. Schools are basically selling tickets to revenue sports to students at cost(via a athletics fee), but packaging all sports into the fee. Private schools(IE Stanford, Miami, Duke, etc.) usually have enough seats available to where merely paying the fee will get you a seat, provided you show up. I remember having to fight UMiami on this topic, because I invested in Basketball & Football season tickets throughout undergrad. grad and law school(Still have the seats to this very day, despite living on the other side of the country), and them insisting that I continue to pay the fee. I told them that I refused to pay for something that I was NEVER going to use, and every year, they would cave and take the fee off of my invoice(Yes, I had to have the same fight with them year after year, you'd think someone would have made a **** note in my file)

Larger state schools don't even do that at this point. Schools like Arizona and others still charge their students for season tickets(IE a student booster club) along with having them pay the athletics fee. In order to have a chance at student tickets, you have to pay the athletics fee AND win a lottery to purchase season tickets at some schools. Here are some examples.

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