Greg Sankey reacts to NCAA's decision to cancel fall championships
Earlier Thursday, NCAA president Mark Emmert announced that championships in fall sports have been canceled due to COVID-19.
It’s important to remember that college football bowl games and the College Football Playoff operate outside of the NCAA; so, the NCAA’s announcement essentially affects every sport except football.
“We cannot, at this point, have fall NCAA championships,” Emmert said on a video released from the NCAA’s Twitter account.
This means that men’s and women’s sports can play this fall, but they won’t have championships this fall sponsored by the NCAA.
Following the NCAA’s announcement, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey released a statement on the matter.
“Our soccer, volleyball and cross-country student-athletes are working hard to prepare for their seasons and they have been diligent in taking personal health precautions and following protocols around COVID-19,” Sankey said. “We will support them in every way possible as we evaluate the impact of these cancellations on their fall sports seasons.”
Just saved a bunch of money on beer, only positive thing I can think of at this moment
True. Disappointed for the athletes. Wonder how much impact the b10 and pac whatever had on the decision.
Yeah they had everything to do with the decision. The only reason they cancelled was because they will have less than half of the teams participating in FBS sports. That was triggered the moment the PAC and B1G dropped out. This isn’t proactive or even reactionary by Emmert. He’s just stating what their rules say.
omg, Sankey talkin like a man every dang day now.
College football and the playoffs are not affected by this. Football is the only sport I care about. But I feel for the other athletes.
King Negan
Good post
Almost. He just needs to learn to stop signing his posts as if it doesn’t say his name on the top. Just looks like a King Negan sandwich,
Maybe negan thinks he’s royalty.
This is somewhat interesting. It has been thought that the only reason that the top 32 sports factories have remained in the NCAA just so their non-revenue sports had championship possibilities.
Take this out of the equation, and it opens up the possibility that college football could still do its own thing. Take the top 32 teams in the Big 12, SEC, and ACC, and leave the 6 weak sisters out to join the AAC for the year. Make a super league of the Big 32 and play the schedule from September 26 to December 19, 12 games in 13 weeks.
Then, have an 8-team playoff. January 1, have 4 quarterfinal games, which would be better than what NYD has provided since the old days when all four bowls mattered. The semifinals could be January 16, and the championship on January 30, the week off between the NFC/AFC Championships and the Super Bowl.
Spanish Flu killed 50 million people worldwide in 1918, over 5% of the world population. Covid has killed 500k worldwide, .006% of the world population. Nobody wants COVID and it’s definitely a virus that kills, but geez it’s time to stop being soft and get back to living life, including playing football EVERYWHERE.
*slow clap