SEC announces extension of sports suspensions, including football practices and meetings
We aren’t any closer to the return to normalcy in the Southeastern Conference. In fact, we just took a step further away from it.
While that’s unwanted news, the league is doing what it believes is best for all involved in announcing the league’s suspension of all sporting activities has been pushed back to April 15. This suspension now includes spring football across the SEC as practices, meetings and everything in between are now prohibited for the next month.
Here’s the statement released by the SEC on Friday afternoon:
“The SEC today announced that all organized team activities, including competitions, team and individual practices, meetings and other organized gatherings, will be suspended through Apr. 15. The SEC had previously announced all competition was suspended through Mar. 30.”
This news comes a day after the SEC announced all sporting events were to be pushed back until March 30. The school’s 14 ADs held a teleconference on Friday to discuss their next steps with several league ADs set to hold press conferences around the SEC to discuss the latest news Friday evening.
Ooof
Ooof indeed
That…is a long time.
Ugggggggggg the world has lost its collective minds.
Time to move Spring football practice to April 16th.
This might be the year Georgia wins the Title in football- shortened season will require an * by it.
Winning the SEC will never carry an asterisk.
I understand the need to keep the virus from spreading but our Commissioner also needs to protect our league from being put at a competitive disadvantage since it appears that other conferences (like the ACC) haven’t curtailed recruiting or visits by recruits to their schools.
mudragon the SEC is a leader not a follower. Our commissioner took the prudent course of action and the other conferences will soon follow our lead.
SEC prohibiting any recruiting at all, while teams in other conferences continue? What about taking reasonable measures such as allowing contact with recruits by phone, text or email, etc? You know those recruits we are pursuing and are still undecided? They are on campus visiting u of Miami this weekend. Fair?
They can still have contact by phone, text or whatever.
Does this mean those teams who have already started spring practices will only have “X” number of spring practices remaining, or everyone gets a restart on spring football?
Everybody is losin their minds over somethin that has existed forever. Check your lysol cans. This is nothin but an effort by the media to blow in out of proportion to tank the stock market and wreck the economy so Trump’s not reelected. I guess i’m just a conspiracy theorist
It’s amazing how they got the Chinese, Italians, Koreans and the rest of the world to cooperate!
“I guess I’m just a conspiracy theorist.”
No kidding, sunshine.
Biscuit…I haven’t seen your name on this site much previously….you seem to be on the wrong site…as a site that deals with “worldwide conspiracy’ would be more appropriate for you. Unless I misunderstand…this is a site devoted to SEC Football, not political anything.
The Lysol can misinfo is one of the dumbest things going around. How dumb of you to believe it.
“Coronavirus” is a TYPE of virus. It does NOT mean the COVID19 has been around forever Nor is it simple thing. – SARS and MERS were coronavorisues too— this thing is a killer.
You need to lay off believing Infowars or Jim Bakker magic cures, and not risk spreading it to those at risk.
Last week it was a hoax, but now it’s actually being taken serious by those who should’ve done better earlier…. don’t be douche.
Oh.. and you ARE a freakin conspiracy nut to think otherwise.