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Commissioners Tell Pence No Sports Until Students return to Campus

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Story was picked up in the Herald today, too.

Florida’s decision to deem professional sports as “essential business” could open a pathway for the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS or NASCAR to return to action in some capacity, but the ruling likely won’t have any bearing on college sports’ potential return.

The commissioners for the 10 major college football conferences, plus Notre Dame Fighting Irish athletic director Jack Swarbrick, met with Vice President Mike Pence via teleconference Wednesday to discuss a possible return of college sports in the fall. Those 11, who comprise the College Football Playoff management committee, reportedly told the vice president a return from the COVID-19 shutdown would not be possible until students are back on campuses.

On April 1, the NCAA extended an ongoing dead period for recruiting through the end of May, meaning coaches can’t go out on the road to recruit or bring prospects to campus. Meanwhile, colleges are beginning to cancel in-person summer classes and weigh the possibility all in-person classes will be canceled until at least 2021. If this happens, the college football season won’t be able to go off as planned.

If colleges opt to suspend in-person classes for the fall semester in 2020, it will become the only possible course of action with the season moving to the winter and spring.
 
Fall college sports won’t start until fall?!?!

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Canedog said:
I wood be more in favor of letting a limited number of students back on campus and going forward with football. I think universities should open campuses with say no more than 85 students this Fall and see how it goes.
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Canedog said:
I wood be more in favor of letting a limited number of students back on campus and going forward with football. I think universities should open campuses with say no more than 85 students this Fall and see how it goes.
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your master plan is to have entire universities running with a maximum of 85 students? I see common sense was not your strong suit
 
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Canedog was speaking with tongue in cheek. Canedog thought that specifying "85 students" - the number of a full football roster, wood make that obvious two fellow football fans. Guess knot.

On serious note, if these commissioners stick with the: students return to campus or no sports position, Canedog fears that we really may not have a Fall season. Students back on campus and living in dorms es no bueno sin pruebas generalizadas o una vacuna.
 
College football economics are such that the gate receipts are very important, more so than they are in the NFL. And frankly the bigger issue is that colleges won’t be opening in the fall if the country doesn’t get its head out of its *** in regards to testing.
 
Makes sense...You can't keep up the sham of amateurism in CFB & CBB if you allow the players back into competition without opening campuses back up
 
Keeping schools closed this fall is the dumbest thing I've heard yet. It's the economy stupid and the number of virus cases by May shouldn't warrant closures in August. Businesses should be reopened NOW. Look at the stats; 358 cases in Collier County out of 450k+ people? Newsflash: people get the flu every year and people die from the flu every year. Total knee-jerk based on Fauci's recommendations who said a few months ago that "the virus wasn't anything for the U.S. to worry about".
 
the storm said:
Keeping schools closed this fall is the dumbest thing I've heard yet. It's the economy stupid and the number of virus cases by May shouldn't warrant closures in August. Businesses should be reopened NOW. Look at the stats; 358 cases in Collier County out of 450k+ people? Newsflash: people get the flu every year and people die from the flu every year. Total knee-jerk based on Fauci's recommendations who said a few months ago that "the virus wasn't anything for the U.S. to worry about".
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Come on partner, I'm Damm sure no democrat but even I can see the ridiculous thinking in your post. Study up on the data and risk involved in your plan here then share back with the group.
 
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Canedog said:
Canedog was speaking with tongue in cheek. Canedog thought that specifying "85 students" - the number of a full football roster, wood make that obvious two fellow football fans. Guess knot.

On serious note, if these commissioners stick with the: students return to campus or no sports position, Canedog fears that we really may not have a Fall season. Students back on campus and living in dorms es no bueno sin pruebas generalizadas o una vacuna.
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Some of us got it.
 
Canedog said:
I wood be more in favor of letting a limited number of students back on campus and going forward with football. I think universities should open campuses with say no more than 85 students this Fall and see how it goes.
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Lucky for Alabama, their entire football program is deemed an essential service. Their season will go on, and they will claim yet another national title. Largely because everyone else doesn't show up to play.
 
I struggle to believe students in private schools (like UM) will shell out 20-30k for a semester of remote learning. Many will take it off and return in the Spring. The last thing colleges and universities want is for the schools to be shuttered in the fall.
 
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