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Small, but significant domino

Ash Joshi said:
I expect a conference schedule and likely not much more, which is frankly pretty good in light of the state of the country.
Can you play a school that doesn't have the same testing resources?
Can you travel across country to or from a hot spot?
All difficult issues
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Probably a pretty decent guess at this point. I read an article last night with Larry Scott (yes, I know he’s a certified dumbass) and he said that he speaks with the other P5 commissioners every morning and they are planning for every scenario, one being conference games only. Certainly wouldn’t be shocked at all if that’s how it wound up playing out. But at this point, I don’t think any situation would be shocking. Everything is completely unknown right now.
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
Of course. But I was asking for your feelings on the subject. What’s a significant development towards whether or not we have a normal season, or any season at all? If a Week 1 OOC game between 2 FBS schools is cancelled tomorrow, just as a hypothetical, is that a significant domino? Or we just pretend nothing is going on until a Miami game is impacted?
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If FBS teams start cancelling games, then it's an issue. I'm in the school that says people are prone to panic, so you and I are probably looking at this the same way. I expect panic and irrational decision making because that's the norm.

No one wants to admit that college kids are going to catch COVID whether there's football or not. So they might as well play in order to save the gigantic economy that relies on football. These kids feel invincible, and they're full of testosterone and raging hormones. They're not going into quarantine if the season gets cancelled.
 
The Franchise said:
If FBS teams start cancelling games, then it's an issue. I'm in the school that says people are prone to panic, so you and I are probably looking at this the same way. I expect panic and irrational decision making because that's the norm.

No one wants to admit that college kids are going to catch COVID whether there's football or not. So they might as well play in order to save the gigantic economy that relies on football. These kids feel invincible, and they're full of testosterone and raging hormones. They're not going into quarantine if the season gets cancelled.
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Agree with this....I’m just waiting for the first athlete to get really sick from it, and then we’ll truly see panic and irrational decision making. Right now it’s kinda being tiptoed around. Clemson has 38 kids who got it (OH MY ******* GOD!!!!!!), but none of them are really sick or showing major symptoms (YAYYYYYY!!!!). Wait till Johnny ****face at Kansas or Colorado gets it and has to be intubated. It’ll be World War III against football.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Probably a pretty decent guess at this point. I read an article last night with Larry Scott (yes, I know he’s a certified dumbass) and he said that he speaks with the other P5 commissioners every morning and they are planning for every scenario, one being conference games only. Certainly wouldn’t be shocked at all if that’s how it wound up playing out. But at this point, I don’t think any situation would be shocking. Everything is completely unknown right now.
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I keep hearing this conference only stuff. It sounds good on the surface, but when you break that down, it's really nonsense. Is Miami playing UNC really any different from a virus standpoint than Miami playing Temple?
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Agree with this....I’m just waiting for the first athlete to get really sick from it, and then we’ll truly see panic and irrational decision making. Right now it’s kinda being tiptoed around. Clemson has 38 kids who got it (OH MY ******* GOD!!!!!!), but none of them are really sick or showing major symptoms (YAYYYYYY!!!!). Wait till Johnny ****face at Kansas or Colorado gets it and has to be intubated. It’ll be World War III against football.
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Very true even though Johnny Fvckface at Kansas would catch it and have the same result whether there was football or not and actually probably caught it away from the football facilities trying to bang Betty Beaverbag.
 
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The Franchise said:
If FBS teams start cancelling games, then it's an issue. I'm in the school that says people are prone to panic, so you and I are probably looking at this the same way. I expect panic and irrational decision making because that's the norm.

No one wants to admit that college kids are going to catch COVID whether there's football or not. So they might as well play in order to save the gigantic economy that relies on football. These kids feel invincible, and they're full of testosterone and raging hormones. They're not going into quarantine if the season gets cancelled.
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The Franchise said:
I keep hearing this conference only stuff. It sounds good on the surface, but when you break that down, it's really nonsense. Is Miami playing UNC really any different from a virus standpoint than Miami playing Temple?
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Of course not. But I think it’s rooted in 2 things, and for the record I’m not saying either is logical or not, just imo this is the thinking:

1. conference games are generally more regionalized than OOC games. Of course not for Miami, who is in the same conference as a team in Boston, but generally speaking. There’s no opposite coast games. So maybe they’re thinking travel would be somewhat limited vs crisscrossing the country.

2. it gives them another month cushion. You could start the season in October and everyone just play 8 conference games. Gives everyone another month to play with, not that it matters, but it’d allow the powers that be to save a little face and get further away from potential spikes, maybe.
 
The Franchise said:
Very true even though Johnny Fvckface at Kansas would catch it and have the same result whether there was football or not and actually probably caught it away from the football facilities trying to bang Betty Beaverbag.
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Exactly what I’ve been arguing with people about for weeks. People really believe we’re going to cancel a football season and the 11,000+ scholarship athletes are going to lock themselves in their closets until January? Insanity.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Of course. But I was asking for your feelings on the subject. What’s a significant development towards whether or not we have a normal season, or any season at all? If a Week 1 OOC game between 2 FBS schools is cancelled tomorrow, just as a hypothetical, is that a significant domino? Or we just pretend nothing is going on until a Miami game is impacted?
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When you start seeing Power 5 cancellations not just postponements.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Exactly what I’ve been arguing with people about for weeks. People really believe we’re going to cancel a football season and the 11,000+ scholarship athletes are going to lock themselves in their closets until January? Insanity.
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Its not a question if the athletes catch it on their personal time. That can happen yo anyone. Playing devils advocate, I can see this backfiring on the NCAA and schools if they’re putting kids at risk of virus once it spreads among players during the season. I’m not a lawyer but I can see serious lawsuits taking place because kids are put in a “dangerous” position. As soon as a player dies because of this virus and it is linked he was infected by a teammate than the **** show begins.
 
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Biggest game to watch right now maybe USC vs Bama. Scheduled for September 5th in Arlington, TX. Right now, USC only able to bring local athletes in for "informal" workouts. This week the University stopped all others from returning to campus. University announced fall classes will primarily be remote. also talk that the PAC12 is talking about spring football.. or conference only games with the season starting late....

there was talk earlier on that Bama had been exploring replacement options if California doesn't play football this spring. I would imagine that kind of decision will have to be made in the next couple of weeks.
 
Hoyacane1620 said:
Biggest game to watch right now maybe USC vs Bama. Scheduled for September 5th in Arlington, TX. Right now, USC only able to bring local athletes in for "informal" workouts. This week the University stopped all others from returning to campus. University announced fall classes will primarily be remote. also talk that the PAC12 is talking about spring football.. or conference only games with the season starting late....

there was talk earlier on that Bama had been exploring replacement options if California doesn't play football this spring. I would imagine that kind of decision will have to be made in the next couple of weeks.
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July 13th is the date being thrown around in making decisions one way or another
 
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