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There will likely be some type of bowl partnership with the Pac 12 including a Rose Bowl, but Big 10 and Pac 12 are left out of this years playoff.
The playoff will go forward with the top 4 teams of those conferences playing. So likely Clemson and 3 SEC teams.
Yep. The CFP appears to be all in on Fall, but the AP and Coaches (other officially-recognized National Champion selectors) can wait til whenever they want to name their Champion via vote.Got it.
Well, this could be a bit of a throwback to the pre-BCS days, then. You'll have a fall champion as declared by CFP, but then if the Big Ten and Pac 10 both play in the spring, you'll get an argument that whichever team is on top at the end of that has a claim to being the best team as well. Especially if a lot of the OSU players actually do play in the spring. And I suspect there will be polls conducted during both seasons.
Got it.
Well, this could be a bit of a throwback to the pre-BCS days, then. You'll have a fall champion as declared by CFP, but then if the Big Ten and Pac 10 both play in the spring, you'll get an argument that whichever team is on top at the end of that has a claim to being the best team as well. Especially if a lot of the OSU players actually do play in the spring. And I suspect there will be polls conducted during both seasons.
Unfortunately, there is only one playoff champion though, and that's the big prize. Sure, people could theorize of who is the better team, but it's just talk. You want the playoff championship.
In other news, Ohio State is allowing Fall intramural sports. I hope the Ohio State football team puts together a badass flag football team, and takes down the title.
The graph in the athletic department one is horribly misleading as it makes it appear as if basketball media rights makes more than football.
As I noted before, schools like OSU and Michigan self-fund their athletics programs. For schools that don’t, they’d have to go back and ask for more money from the board to cover not only Covid treatment but even just the normal operational budgets that the school typically covers. To me this was the bigger problem for the Presidents I. This whole situation.
I think that In The Year of Covid, and when two of the power 5 conferences aren't participating, the "talk" will actually matter to a lot of people because we're in uncharted territory. Also, it seems as though the majority of NCAA schools have cancelled fall sports. If those schools play in the spring, it's likely that there will actually be a lot more football in the spring than in the fall. And if that's the case, a lot of people aren't going to so readily accept the idea that the fall champion is truly representative.
No locker rooms, no training facilities, no travelling, no out of town accommodations, no special staff, no stadiums or courts, no bubble....It'll basically be no different than the exact same level contact those kids would get in classes or dining halls.
Completely different animal with completely different considerations.
The information in that article itself is interesting. As you say, presenting the graph by percentage of revenue for each sport by source is really kind of useless.
I think that's a big issue as well. Do you know if the SEC, etc., are going ahead with all fall sports, or just football?
The SEC has postponed fall sports with exception to football.
I can't help but laugh at that. I can completely understand why a whole bunch of other conferences are unwilling to do that.
The chances of these guys playing is incredibly small:
Shaun Wade
Josh Myers
Justin Fields
Wyatt Davis
Chris Olave
So it's disapppointing those guys put all the effort in, and had their last year ripped from them.
I disagree on the intramural point though. These are kids not under testing protocol, using athletic facilities daily, and doing things like making active contact with each-other. They do use athletic courts, there won't be social distancing during games, and because intramural athletes don't get tested on a regular basis, it increases the risks of spread.
I find extremely insulting to the football players, parents, and shows generally where the President's heads are at....I think it's pretty telling.
When football pays for those sports, I think it's an easy sell to the students on scholarship of those non-revenue generating sports.
Imagine being a cross country runner at LSU? "We think it's bullshit the football team gets to play in the fall, and our season is being postponed!!!"
AD: "OK, we'll cancel the football season and drop the cross country team altogether. We can't afford it now".
I just have a really hard time feeling more sorry for those particular football players than for any other college athlete. For many young men and women, this is the very last chance they'll have ever to play their beloved sport competitively. NFL-level talent will get to play again many times. I honestly feel even less sorry for them. I just don't get why their greater ability makes their emotional loss any greater.
College kids will have close contact all the time anyway. Even without big parties, there will still be a lot of smaller get-togethers, people eating at the same table, dating, sex, etc.. A ton of intramurals are outside -- they're not breathing the same aid in a weight room, etc.., except to the same extent campus gyms are open to students in general. In which case, playing intramurals is irrelevant.
I played both intramurals and intercollegiate (rowing) in school, and the amount of close contact/confinement you have as a college athlete is significantly more. Meetings, workouts, travelling in a bus or by plane, etc..
Again, I truly do not understand why the lives and interests of football players should be considered more special or important than anyone else's. They're not.
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