College Football's Collapse is Complete!

Given the Covid-19 outbreaks among Big 10 schools, they'll have to do a lot better with safety protocols. They also need fast, accurate testing; much better testing; and some "podding" mechanism to ensure the students, coaches and staff aren't circulating among the regular mass of students and everyone else who'll be on campus. Can they pull it off. If they want to spend the money and effort, they can. Will they? I doubt it, and then you have numerous liabilities on your hands if the student athletes contract the virus and any get seriously ill or die. Why are they even risking it?

MONEY!

I don't think that most universities will even have students on campus in the Fall, R1.

At this point, they should just let the football players live on campus, and no one else.

In stadiums, it's still possible to space people six feet apart.

I think that having a football season is still do-able, but it's looking like some schools don't have the stomach for getting blamed, if there is an outbreak.

Also, if Major League Baseball is any indication, even a minor Covid outbreak in one school can affect the scheduling, and bring the whole season to an abrupt end.

I think that officials are weighing this possibility, to determine if starting the season is even worth it.

[quote] At this point, they should just let the football players live on campus, and no one else.

But then you’re asking the football players to take risks that regular students aren’t. Plus even pre-rona there was the very questionable morality of making big money off these kids who are still AFAIK not being compensated.

There was a good WaPo column this week about how much money is thrown around by university football departments. For example, Alabama has a waterfall in its locker room.

What I really want to see is what will happen with high school football. You just know the last state to cancel it will be Texas.

Ohio already cut high school football to six games instead of ten.

I work at one of those Pac-12 schools mentioned above. The start of classes was moved up from August 24 to August 17, in order to finish before Thanksgiving. In June they expected us to be able to welcome back all students in August. By July, they announced that no more than 20% of classes would be in person. Last week, we learned that all classes will be online for the foreseeable future.

Over one thousand students have been living on campus since we shut down in March – mostly international students and LBGTQ students whose families were abusive and to whom they feared returning. Football players moved into a "bubble" two weeks ago, but when the Pac-12 announced that the season would start on September 26, they were sent home.

I am confident that if all classes remain solely online leading up to September 26, the season will, at least, be postponed.

Then there is the whole Pac-12 (and now Big-10) players pact about racism and financial equity.

If college football went away, it would be a good thing. Let the NFL have a real training league, like baseball’s minor leagues, and stop the farce of “student athletes”.

A lot of people are going to lose a lot of money.

Athletic programs, sponsors, advertising, casino betting.

This is nuts.

It’s terrible. But since they won’t have success on the athletic field perhaps they’ll need someone to blow them who doesn’t care.

[quote] Mountain West becomes second FBS conference to cancel season over COVID-19 concerns

A second FBS conference has pulled the plug on sports this fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Mountain West canceled its football season and other fall sports on Monday over coronavirus health and safety concerns. The conference is considering playing football in the spring instead, according to Stadium’s Brett McMurphy, though no decision has been made.

The Mountain West is the second FBS conference to make that move, joining the Mid-American Conference — which canceled its season on Saturday. Both Old Dominion and UConn canceled their seasons individually, too, bringing the total number that will not play this fall to 26 of 130 possible teams.

The Mountain West had announced just last week that it had planned to play an eight-game conference schedule with two non-conference games starting on Sept. 26.

[quote] “Since the start of the pandemic, our membership and staff have been working diligently to prepare for a fall sports season,” Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson said in a statement. “We were hopeful we could carefully and responsibly conduct competition as originally scheduled with essential protocols in place. However, numerous external factors and unknowns outside our control made this difficult decision necessary.

[quote] “I fully understand the impact of this outcome on our student-athletes, coaches, administrators and staff who work so hard daily to play the sports we all love, and I share in their disappointment. We will continue to navigate this pandemic together, overcome the obstacles and return to intercollegiate athletics at the earliest opportunity.”

The Mountain West’s decision marks the latest in a chaotic day in the college football world.

Big Ten conference leaders met on Sunday to discuss the future of the fall season, and a majority of presidents and chancellors are reportedly in favor of not playing this fall. Several coaches, both in the Big Ten and out, have since called for the season to go forward as planned. A group of prominent Power 5 conference players all called for a players union and pushed to play the season in a coordinated effort on social media late on Sunday night, too.

President Donald Trump, along with several other politicians, even joined in on the calls to hold a season this fall.

The NCAA’s Division II and Division II announced last week that they won’t have fall sports championships, and more than half of teams at the FCS level have already said they won’t play this fall, too.

Both Big Ten and Big 12 officials are set to meet on Monday night to continue discussions on the coming season, and Pac-12 officials have set a meeting for Tuesday.

Bye, football!

R2 lives in a college town and just bought a new caftan.

What are those muscular, virile, testosterone-fueled athletes in the prime of their lives going to do with all of that extra energy?

R4/R5 Virginia postponed the fall sports season about a month ago.

R3, In conferences such as the Big 10, those "uncompensated" student-athletes are very often on full athletic scholarships, saving their families a pretty penny.

They should be careful of what they might wish for. Get NFL pay, get your academic work more scrutinized.

So why don't the coaches and other staff work for the "glory"?

Did anyone see the dumbfuck coach from Nebraska whining about how there better be football and if they cancel it they'll just look elsewhere to play? You could tell he just fell right out of Trump's ass. Even the local sporstcaster here laughed at him and said, "Oh yeah, where? Good luck with that. Maybe they can play themselves!"

"Big Ten cancels fall football season, hopes to play in spring"

The Big Ten presidents voted on Tuesday to cancel the fall football season, sources told Yahoo Sports. The league is going to attempt to play the season in the spring, sources said.

The Big Ten’s decision marks an important one in the college football landscape, as it marks the first major conference to decide to cancel fall football. The Big Ten joins the MAC and Mountain West Conference in canceling the fall football season.

The Big Ten decision came while Pac-12 presidents were on a call to discuss the fate of their season. With the virus inhibiting numerous Pac-12 schools’ ability to practice, it’s expected that the Pac-12 will follow the Big Ten’s lead.

This leaves all eyes on the Big 12, which has a call later Tuesday. The question around college football will be if the Big 12 aligns with the ACC and SEC to attempt to play or follows the lead of the Big Ten.

The Big Ten hinted toward this decision Monday night. On a call with coaches, league administrators engaged with the coaches for the first time on their preferences of how a fall without football would look.

The decision comes after a day fraught with mixed messages and uncertainty, as coaches publicly lobbied to play a season this fall. Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh and Nebraska’s Scott Frost both spoke publicly about the desire to play in the fall. Those thoughts were echoed by Ohio State’s Ryan Day and Penn State’s James Franklin. Both Frost and Day mentioned seeking other alternatives.

“The mental and physical health and welfare of our student-athletes has been at the center of every decision we have made regarding the ability to proceed forward,” Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren said in a statement released later Tuesday. “As time progressed and after hours of discussion with our Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee, it became abundantly clear that there was too much uncertainty regarding potential medical risks to allow our student-athletes to compete this fall.

The decision to play in the spring means that many of the league’s top players are expected to defect to the NFL draft. Already, Minnesota’s Rashod Bateman, Purdue’s Rondale Moore and Penn State’s Micah Parsons have opted out of the season to prepare for the draft. Teams like Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State, who have numerous pro prospects, are bracing for what could happen to their rosters.

Football in the spring? Yeah, good luck with that.

Who says that Covid and "social distancing" will be gone by the Spring.

It won't be. This thing is going to go on forever. So will those stupid masks and the six feet apart nonsense.

Large stadium sports are never coming back again.

[quote]Large stadium sports are never coming back again.

I don't know about that. Maybe if Bubba n' 'em are deprived of a season of football, they'll finally stop congregating at Redneck Beach and infecting each other?

Anyway, the Pac-12 is on board now, too.

AP Source: Pac-12 Conference cancels fall football season, postpones all sports until Jan. 1 because of COVID-19

bullied kids by high school jocks everywhere are cheering

That's it then, R20.

It's a done deal.

There's no way the SEC can't postpone or cancel the season, because there's no one left to play, except each other.

College football's collapse really is complete.

[quote]There's no way the SEC can't postpone or cancel the season, because there's no one left to play, except each other.

Ahem!

[quote]What are those muscular, virile, testosterone-fueled athletes in the prime of their lives going to do with all of that extra energy?

Sean Cody, Chaturbate, OnlyFans ... there are SO many options these days.

SEC will probably play regardless. Since it’s the best division anyway, playing its own teams is fine with them. We can survive hurricanes, floods,& heatwaves, but if you take away college football.......it won’t be pretty.

There's going to be a lot of horny college athletes locked down in virtual classes with roommates and nowhere place to release their frustration.

The SEC would have kids out there in iron lungs playing. "It's only a flesh wound!"

College football will never be president.

Having grown up in Ohio State territory, I imagine this was driven in part to start all-day Saturday gatherings in bars, at tailgates, in homes, etc.

Even if they play without fans, mass gatherings are inevitable

I'm curious what might've gone on in some frat houses, campus apartments and and other all male shared college spaces during lockdown. Wonder if some hard up dudebros took blow jobs from dudes for the first time.

[quote] There's no way the SEC can't postpone or cancel the season, because there's no one left to play, except each other.

Well, that’s like half the top ten. Why not?

Physical distancing among American deathfats is next to impossible. Six feet are never enough for them. No wonder the virus is spreading like wildfire in the US. Obesity kills.

my college had one player who turned pro; he stood out like a stallion among the players who were never going to go onto the pros.

he was HUGE 6 '5" + 220 lbs +

I would have loved to have been his roommate.

R15, Same reason professors are paid and students are not. Capisce?

R34 Except the entire point of universities is to provide an education, not provide a sports league.

The NCAA profits from the likeness of its players. Meanwhile it tells those same players they're not even allowed to accept freebies from a restaurant. It actually makes them sign over their rights to their likeness so it can profit from them in its video games, without sharing a cent with the players themselves. It's indefensible, and as someone else in this thread said, the sooner the entire system collapses and the NFL is forced to pay for its own developmental league the better.