My guess is the season gets postponed next week ...

[surly]

I and others here have said spring football makes sense because it gets us to a vaccine. With each development and every day that passes, that seems to be the endgame. 2020 can't end too soon.

The Machinery Is in Motion to Postpone the 2020 College Football Season

After an arduous summer of trying to push the 2020 college football season through a pandemic and toward kickoff, conference leaders are starting to hit the breaks.

www.si.com

Then, the Big Ten released a statement saying that it has halted progress toward full-contact practice. From the statement: “We believe it is best to continue in the appropriate phase of activity referenced above while we digest and share information from each campus to ensure we are moving forward cautiously.” The conference had a regularly scheduled presidents meeting Saturday, with rumors percolating nationally that the wealthiest conference is considering postponing fall sports as well. A Detroit Free Press report Saturday cited league sources saying commissioner Kevin Warren is in favor of a spring football season.

 

[CyCrazy]

This was posted already. Lol Surly. A day late and a dollar short.

 

[Stewo]

At this point, let's hope these vaccines prove to be effective and shoot for spring football.

 

[2020cy]

Boo this man. But likely will happen.

 

[MuskieCy]

Detroit Free Press at noon today, "Big Ten presidents are expected to meet Saturday afternoon to discuss the future of the conference’s fall sports seasons, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation told the USA TODAY Network.

And it’s possible a spring football season could be on the table.

Both sources were briefed about the call but were not authorized to speak publicly about it. The call was previously scheduled, and was not an emergency call, the sources said. However, the topic of conversation has shifted to the college football season.

Going into the call, the sources were told Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren preferred a spring football season, although no decision had been made.

An email to the Big Ten was not immediately returned.

The presidents meeting comes hours after the Mid-American Conference became the first from the FBS to cancel its fall college football season in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic."

If the B1G shuts down, that's all folks.

 

[dualthreat]

Count me as a "No" for spring football. 12 straight months of football gotta be rough on a body.

I would like to see an old fashioned spring game again though. Throw us a bone, Campbell!

 

[isuno1fan]

Also a no for Spring FB here.

 

[clonedude]

So instead of just cancelling the season, they'll just push it back again until spring. I guess that doesn't hurt anything.... but boy.... they just don't get it do they?

 

[Raiders70]

So instead of just cancelling the season, they'll just push it back again until spring. I guess that doesn't hurt anything.... but boy.... they just don't get it do they?

They just can't wrap their heads around losing all those $$$$.

 

[cycloneML]

Funny. When is the first game? Mid February?

 

[rochclone]

They just can't wrap their heads around losing all those $$$$.

I think it is more that they can’t bear to cut 4-8 athletic programs. The “Ice Age” is upon us. Everyone that was cheering for this to happen should rejoice in knowing that 40-60 athletes per/school in non-revenue sports just lost an opportunity to attend college.

 

[isucy86]

It will be interesting how college football's TV partners view spring football.

College basketball conference and NCAA tournaments dominate Thu-Sun programing from early March to early April.

MLB season starts around April 1.

NBA season wraps around April 20 and the playoffs run until approx. June 20.

There is some network overlap, but each sport is chasing basically the same group of people. Gotta believe rating for all 4 sports will drop. If I'm a network I'm looking for a rights fee concession or some financial accomodations in the future.

I also believe most elite college football players eligible for the 2021 NFL draft will skip a spring CFB season. The potential to play nearly 30 games in less than 1 year has to have an impact on the body and increase potential for injury.

Even college underclassman will play 26-28 games in 11 months.

I can't see that being healthy and if players are making a stink about Covid protocol. They will be all over injury, concussion dangers of playing so many games so fast.

 

[Cyched]

I think it is more that they can’t bear to cut 4-8 athletic programs. The “Ice Age” is upon us. Everyone that was cheering for this to happen should rejoice in knowing that 40-60 athletes per/school in non-revenue sports just lost an opportunity to attend college.

Who was cheering for this to happen?

 

[jsb]

I think it is more that they can’t bear to cut 4-8 athletic programs. The “Ice Age” is upon us. Everyone that was cheering for this to happen should rejoice in knowing that 40-60 athletes per/school in non-revenue sports just lost an opportunity to attend college.

NO ONE WAS CHEERING FOR THIS TO HAPPEN. Just because there were some of us who couldn't see how we could play football doesn't mean we wanted them to cancel it.

 

[Raiders70]

I think it is more that they can’t bear to cut 4-8 athletic programs. The “Ice Age” is upon us. Everyone that was cheering for this to happen should rejoice in knowing that 40-60 athletes per/school in non-revenue sports just lost an opportunity to attend college.

Good point. It does seem kinda strange that a site called Cyclone Fanatic has so many people that have strongly advocated for the cancelling of the football season. Wonder if they are happy now that it's actually going to happen.

 

[SCNCY]

Yeah, the way things are going, cancel the fall season and do a spring season. Leave it up to schools if they want to have fall practice, similar to spring practice.

The big key here is a viable vaccine.

 

[Raiders70]

Who was cheering for this to happen?

In the end it doesn't really matter but the tone and narrative of some is "I told you so" as opposed to "I was afraid this might happen, this really ******* sucks. "

 

[Cyched]

Yeah, the way things are going, cancel the fall season and do a spring season. Leave it up to schools if they want to have fall practice, similar to spring practice.

The big key here is a viable vaccine.

If a spring season is the route we go I'm guessing coaches will want to start some sort of workouts this fall to have their guys ready when the season rolls around.

 

[Cyched]

In the end it doesn't really matter but the tone and narrative of some is "I told you so" as opposed to "I was afraid this might happen, this really ******* sucks. "

The latter is how most people on here feel. We all signed up for Cyclone Fanatic for the same reason.

 

[madguy30]

I think it is more that they can’t bear to cut 4-8 athletic programs. The “Ice Age” is upon us. Everyone that was cheering for this to happen should rejoice in knowing that 40-60 athletes per/school in non-revenue sports just lost an opportunity to attend college.

Who was cheering for this to happen?

Or are you referring to people that warned of what would happen if people were dumb about Covid?