NCAA FB Dominoes Continue to Fall
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I'm relatively optimistic about college football being played this fall, but having fans in the stands has seemed unlikely and unnecessary from the beginning.
I really, really hope we get college football but I'm still skeptical. This all just feels like March Madness where they kept chipping away before finally cancelling the whole thing.
It will take multiple simultaneous outbreaks. A smattering of positive tests aren't going to cancel the season. 20+ positives on 10 P5 teams (maybe 4-5) with a national outcry from media, players, and parents will. The first hurdle to clear will be to keep positives down to their current numbers after classes start. It's going to be very hard to maintain that discipline for four months. It's not going to be pretty.
50% attendance seems unrealistic to me right now, but going to zero fans seems extreme. It would seem that 10-15k could attend games and still social distance in a 60000 seat outdoor stadium. But maybe it isn’t cost effective at 20% attendance. Really I just hope the team gets to play.
My biggest hope at this point is they hold the season without fans. Don’t see fans happening- this seems like the best outcome.
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Penn State current plan is to have no fans but that could change.
I get there aren’t a ton of UConn football fans, but can you imagine if you were? In less than 20 years you go from FCS to a Fiesta Bowl back to having your program fighting for survival.
They dropped down to FCS because MWC stiffed them and they were on a complete island.
UConn went from a BCS bid conference to AAC to independent.
It's easy to forget how vulnerable ISU was pre-Cambpell and pre Big 12 solidifying around a 10 team league. Pac somewhat imploding provided some breathing room too.
As crazy as it is those were the two biggest "Drops" in all of realignment.
Others you could consider...
USF Big East (only 7 years) ended up in AAC
BYU isn't lighting the world on fire as an independent.
Temple someone else mentioned had one season in BCS Big East.
So after all the craziness...only five teams really ended up in possibly lesser football conferences.
A little hard to say UConn was a victim of realignment. They got to join a BCS conference only because the defections to the ACC. Once Miami, VT left and UConn joined it was on borrowed time. SFU only gets in because Syracuse leaves. Everybody knew it was a joke of a football conference.
The only way UConn and SFU could become victims of realignment was to greatly benefit from it first.
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https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/acc/clemson-university/article244771767.html
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You could argue Idaho was the only major victim. They had been in the WAC for decades.
