Power 5 optimism dwindling for on-time start to season

[WeBallinBoyz]

I think it's more likely we see a spring season; eliminating football entirely would signal a disaster for many athletic programs

 

[Miami[]_[]Smoke]

I don’t see any way that we start practices in a couple weeks which is needed to give us the 6 weeks before games the NCAA is talking about. I see a delayed season. There are professionals opting out of millions of dollars to not have to play this year and you think the ncaa is going to force these kids to play? If they do, that will probably be the thing that brings down the NCAA s amateurism rules

 

[Miami[]_[]Smoke]

The Actual Fatality Rate From Covid Is No Different Than Mosy Other Flu - This Insanity & Buffonary - There's Tangible For All This Absurd Monkey Traing Exercises - Idiocracy Is Here To Stay ???

funny how icu‘s never max out or go over capacity during flu season. Don't forget the Potential Permanent lung, heart or other organ damage along with the strokes and pulmonary embolisms. Sounds exactly like flue symptoms...

 

[Barry's Pan Is Filled]

funny how icu‘s never max out or go over capacity during flu season. Don't forget the Potential Permanent lung, heart or other organ damage along with the strokes and pulmonary embolisms. Sounds exactly like flue symptoms...

What ?? It Is A Global Economic Revamp - Social Distancing Is Insane H*rsh*t

 

[Barry's Pan Is Filled]

This Covid Spike In Miami Is Fabricated B*llCr*p

 

[UMinati]

 

[AtlAtty]

Serious question about a delay.

Do we have any assurance that the virus situation will be any better in the spring? If not, then what difference does it make when they play?
Treatments have improved dramatically over the past 4 months such that the mortality rate is dropped to 1% or lower. Young people are at a low risk of serious medical issue, and whether football is played or not in the fall, a LOT of college students will have the virus at some point once schools open.
So again I ask, unless we are guaranteed a vaccine before spring football, what practical difference does it make to postpone the season until the spring?

 

[The Franchise]

Serious question about a delay.

Do we have any assurance that the virus situation will be any better in the spring? If not, then what difference does it make when they play?
Treatments have improved dramatically over the past 4 months such that the mortality rate is dropped to 1% or lower. Young people are at a low risk of serious medical issue, and whether football is played or not in the fall, a LOT of college students will have the virus at some point once schools open.
So again I ask, unless we are guaranteed a vaccine before spring football, what practical difference does it make to postpone the season until the spring?

It's called kicking the can down the road, and that's what bureaucrats do. If they delay the season they'll be doing it in the hope of a cure or that people will eventually get desensitized to the VID and realize that kids are going to catch it.

My guess is they'll delay the start of the season in the hope that the current spikes will calm down and in the hope that once the current spikes calm that people will get more comfortable with the idea that college kids are going to catch it whether there's football or not and that the sequela of the infection in young people is incredibly minor.

 

[SCarolina Ibis]

That's The Legend Model. College kids are going to catch this VID whether there's football or not. Might as well have football.

They sure are.
Even IF someone figures out how to test every player & coach on every team in the FBS, AND every single person tested goes into the season virus free.. What are they gonna do to prevent them from catching it after that? Guilt trip players out of leaving campus for 4 months?? Yeah.. That's the college experience every athlete is looking for.

If Miami destroys FSU, how would the NCAA or UM or any of the coaches stop players from going out & celebrating that victory? A scholarship doesn't give a university that level of control over student athletes.

I'm not even picking a side here. But there's no way to prevent them from catching it. If a season IS played, success is going to come down to WHEN each team's key players test positive. Because they will.

 

[The Franchise]

They sure are.
Even IF someone figures out how to test every player & coach on every team in the FBS, AND every single person tested goes into the season virus free.. What are they gonna do to prevent them from catching it after that? Guilt trip players out of leaving campus for 4 months?? Yeah.. That's the college experience every athlete is looking for.

If Miami destroys FSU, how would the NCAA or UM or any of the coaches stop players from going out & celebrating that victory? A scholarship doesn't give a university that level of control over student athletes.

I'm not even picking a side here. But there's no way to prevent them from catching it. If a season IS played, success is going to come down to WHEN each team's key players test positive. Because they will.

Yep. I think the only way we can play college football any time before a vaccine/cure will be if everyone understands and accepts that college players will continue catching the VID just like they are right now before football even starts.

The bureaucrats need to be honest and open and just say, "We're going to try our hardest to keep the numbers as low as we can while understanding that zero infection rate is impossible. We will give every player the option of reporting to the team or not, and the guys who opt to not report will remain on scholarship. In the event of infections, we feel like the players are in a better place to receive treatment here as part of the team than they would be on their own away from the team. There's no reason to believe that football will cause more infections among college kids than there would be with no football."

 

[Dwinstitles]

It would be just our luck that a once in a lifetime pandemic shuts down our chances of being relevant in college football again.

Everything was setting up perfectly:

- Top 10 QB in the country, maybe top 5.
- High octane offense that no one is prepared to defend.
- Laughlably easy schedule.
- An experienced defense.
- Recruiting momentum.

I swear, man, this program is ******* cursed.

This is why I get so triggered by people on this board shoving COVID-19 in our faces every second. We get it. It’s a big deal. I just want my Canes to play.

All those points u made up have been factors every season except the QB part.....every year we have easy schedules ACC wise if Clemson isn't on it.
Top 5 QB I wouldn't go that far cause new faces will emerge out of nowhere around the country.

 

[AtlAtty]

It's called kicking the can down the road, and that's what bureaucrats do. If they delay the season they'll be doing it in the hope of a cure or that people will eventually get desensitized to the VID and realize that kids are going to catch it.

My guess is they'll delay the start of the season in the hope that the current spikes will calm down and in the hope that once the current spikes calm that people will get more comfortable with the idea that college kids are going to catch it whether there's football or not and that the sequela of the infection in young people is incredibly minor.

I agree brother that this is meaningless from a health standpoint and seems to be done more for a PR standpoint. Kind of like "see, we are taking it seriously".

 

[Miami[]_[]Smoke]

Serious question about a delay.

Do we have any assurance that the virus situation will be any better in the spring? If not, then what difference does it make when they play?
Treatments have improved dramatically over the past 4 months such that the mortality rate is dropped to 1% or lower. Young people are at a low risk of serious medical issue, and whether football is played or not in the fall, a LOT of college students will have the virus at some point once schools open.
So again I ask, unless we are guaranteed a vaccine before spring football, what practical difference does it make to postpone the season until the spring?

it’s mostly about the optics of it, but football In the fall and football in the spring aren’t the only optionS. Not playing at all until 2021 is still an option, even though I’m sure no one will admit It. Like I said, when you have pros Not playing when they get Paid millions to do it, basically forcing or pressuring amateurs to play seems especially negligent. it probably won’t be portrayed on ESPN like that though, since they have money in the game.

 

[D-anon]

It would be just our luck that a once in a lifetime pandemic shuts down our chances of being relevant in college football again.

Everything was setting up perfectly:

- Top 10 QB in the country, maybe top 5.
- High octane offense that no one is prepared to defend.
- Laughlably easy schedule.
- An experienced defense.
- Recruiting momentum.

I swear, man, this program is ******* cursed.

This is why I get so triggered by people on this board shoving COVID-19 in our faces every second. We get it. It’s a big deal. I just want my Canes to play.

 

[Genghis Cane]

All those points u made up have been factors every season except the QB part.....every year we have easy schedules ACC wise if Clemson isn't on it.
Top 5 QB I wouldn't go that far cause new faces will emerge out of nowhere around the country.

We haven’t had a quarterback as good as King in decades, and we’ve never had the kind of up-tempo, spread offense that Lashlee runs.

 

[CFLCane]

Best Quote of the article.

The Ivy League is expected to announce Wednesday a shortened season or delayed start in the spring, but the FCS conference’s decision will not serve as a guide for the Autonomy 5 as the Power 5 conference’s commissioners work together on contingency plans for the season, sources tell 247Sports.

"I don't think people understand how that (decision) simply doesn't affect us," an administrator said.

The picture of some fat redneck SEC admin wearing a plaid shirt while thumbing his nose at the ivy league is pure gold.

 

[jw410]

Optimism for an on-time start to the college football season has sunk in recent weeks as conference administrators are now seriously grappling with the possibility of delays.

Cases continue to rise (along with hospitalizations and positive test rates) as COVID-19 grabs hold of the country at the start of the second half of the calendar year, and with the rise in infections has come an increase in belief among Power 5 conference administrators the season will not start in late August and early September, multiple industry sources tell 247Sports.

“Everyone is pessimistic,” in regards to an on-time start to the season, one Power 5 administrator told 247Sports this week.

A spring season is the last resort for the Power 5, a conference administrator tells 247Sports, but a delay almost seems inevitable, another source said.

The biggest issue is uncertainty. The Southeastern Conference and many others have targeted late July or early August as the last hour to decide whether to start the season on time.

IVY LEAGUE DECISION WON'T SWAY POWER 5

The Ivy League is expected to announce Wednesday a shortened season or delayed start in the spring, but the FCS conference’s decision will not serve as a guide for the Autonomy 5 as the Power 5 conference’s commissioners work together on contingency plans for the season, sources tell 247Sports.

"I don't think people understand how that (decision) simply doesn't affect us," an administrator said.

FBS conferences followed the lead of the Ivy League in mid-March, when the league was the first to cancel its postseason basketball tournament. The real-time decision in March amid a new growing threat, however, is much different in circumstance and scope than the impending decision Wednesday concerning football in the Ivy League. Power 5 commissioners have discussed the need to wait and not follow the Ivy League in meetings this week.

Conference commissioners, athletic directors and head coaches have tried to remain positive in the public spotlight and when meeting their teams on the ground, but behind closed doors they are just as anxious as millions of college football fans.

“Nobody knows” what will happen, one Power 5 athletics director admitted.

“We said from the onset of this pandemic that circumstances around the virus would guide our decision-making, and it is clear recent developments related to COVID-19 have not been trending in the right direction,” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said. “There are important decisions to be made in the coming weeks and by late July there should be more clarity about the fall season. In the meantime, our athletics programs will continue to effectively manage the health and safety of our student-athletes as they continue voluntary activities on their respective campuses.”

Power 5 conferences previously moved their annual media days to virtual-only formats. The ACC and Big 12 have set dates for online-only events, but the SEC will not make a decision on when it will conduct its media days until a decision on the first week of the college football season is reached in late July or early August, an SEC source said.

PR 'NIGHTMARE' WEIGHING ON OFFICIALS

Of concern among decision-makers is the potential for a publication-relations nightmare should they push forward with a season if case numbers — and deaths — rise across the country. Health and safety is paramount, but backlash from the media and fans as science mixes with politics is also weighing heavily on the minds of administrators, one industry source said. A hope among one administrator: The climate on how the public views the virus changes from one of hopelessness to acceptance that the virus is here for the foreseeable future and a return to normalcy is needed on college campuses.

Much of that relies also on presidents and chancellors as they decide whether to allow students on college campuses or utilize a hybrid model that includes in-person and online-only instruction. Harvard University made waves this week when it announced all classes will be conducted virtually during the 2020-21 academic year, though it will allow up to 40% of undergraduates to remain on campus.

"We have made clear that in order for student-athletes to be on campus, our campuses must be open on some basis to students, including on a hybrid basis,” Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said.

TIMELINE FOR CONFERENCES: THE 11th HOUR

Several conferences will utilize as much time as possible before making decisions throughout the fall. The SEC is expected to make a decision on whether to continue the season as planned in late July or early August, but they are not expected to entertain a full cancellation of fall sports as early as August, a source said. Most Power 5 conferences are willing to wait until the 11th hour and re-evaluate circumstances on a week-to-week basis through the fall, though many within the conference offices, particularly in the ACC, Pac-12 and SEC, have questioned the logistics of keeping players on campus if the season is delayed more than once.

“As it relates to thresholds of numbers of teams to conduct a season, we have modeled out many different scenarios for conducting a season but have not set thresholds in this regard,” Scott said of the Pax-12

Meanwhile, on the ground, FBS schools continue to fight the virus on campuses that resemble ghost towns without student populations. Some athletic programs have been successful maintaining a bubble (Notre Dame has one positive test among 252 COVID-19 tests conducted within its athletics department since mid-June) while others shut down team activities (Kansas, Kansas State, Houston and Boise State) amid small outbreaks.

Optimism ebbs and flows.

“It depends on the week,” said a Power 5 head coach requesting anonymity. “I’m trying to stay positive and keep our guys safe and healthy right now.”

Inconsistencies in testing protocols and guidelines across conference offices in the FBS continue. The NCAA’s lack of action and enforceable guidelines has frustrated some, particularly outside the Power 5.

“With the policies and guidelines we have in place now, I don’t know how we could play,” an FBS head coach told 247Sports. “We have very few kids who are symptomatic but the contact tracing and asymptomatic quarantining guidelines would kill us during the season. And I still worry about the kids who are missing training now in order to prepare their bodies for practice and the games.”

I say a straight ACC schedule 10 games! I hope they don't cancel but absolutely nothing surprises me.

 

[Dwinstitles]

We haven’t had a quarterback as good as King in decades, and we’ve never had the kind of up-tempo, spread offense that Lashlee runs.

Yea I'm very low key excited the closer September gets....I may turn in my mope license for a few

 

[bambam]

The Actual Fatality Rate From Covid Is No Different Than Mosy Other Flu - This Insanity & Buffonary - There's Tangible For All This Absurd Monkey Traing Exercises - Idiocracy Is Here To Stay ???

Hey Brother, no hate but if you're going to use buffoonery in a sentence it is the one word you want to spell correctly. Otherwise you come off looking like one. And what's with the caps for every word? It's as bad as misspelling buffoonery.
Go Canes!

 

[Bird4um]

I believe there was a mandate that school for kids must open in the fall. Full time. I think grown as men can go to class if a 6 year old can.