Report: Power 5 conference commissioners hold emergency meeting Sunday
The news surrounding the status of the 2020 college sports season, especially college football, continues to be a rollercoaster for those following the headlines. On Sunday, ESPN published a report about an “emergency meeting” of the Power 5 conference commissioners.
According to the ESPN report, “a vast majority” of Big Ten presidents are ready to call off the fall sports season with hopes of moving the football season to spring. Per the report, the Big Ten entered the meeting wanting to “gauge if commissioners and university presidents and chancellors from the other Power 5 conferences will fall in line with them.”
It was reported Saturday that new Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren favors a spring football season. Sunday’s headlines have varied. Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports reported that a Power 5 athletic director called the cancelation of the season “inevitable.” Phillip Marshall of 247Sports reported that the SEC was not moving to cancel its season after the MAC became the first FBS-level league to cancel the fall football season on Saturday.
The ESPN report references sources saying over the last 48 hours “that the postponement or cancellation of the football season seems inevitable.” The Power 5 conferences are looking to each other to see who makes the first move.
“Nobody wanted to be the first to do it,” a Power 5 coach reportedly told ESPN, “and now nobody will want to be the last.”
Say goodbye to fall college ball.
I don’t think all of this spring ball talk has been very well thought out. You will be asking players to play two seasons in one calendar year. Unless the nfl is changing its calendar, the upcoming juniors and seniors might not play. Some may play just enough to put out some good tape and then quit midseason. The networks already have contracts with basketball and baseball during the spring and into the summer. That would make for a very crowded spring. I think they need to play in the fall or just wait until next season.
You bring up some very good points I hadn’t paused to think about, particularly players quitting midseason to insure their health.
2021.
100% agree just cancel 2020 and restart Fall 2021.
Congrats to the 33% of the country who thinks a virus is a hoax that masks are part of a deep state conspiracy, and that scientists and doctors are part of a Sinister organization and should not be paid any mind. That is why we’re not playing football. Unfortunately, many of them reside right here in SEC land. Enjoy no football this fall cult members
Ridiculous. It’s as if none of these team training staffs every had a young man on the team with a cold, flu, or upper-respiratory infections. Of course all the team training staffs have seen these and know how to keep those players isolated from the rest of the team. It’s not uncommon for a team to have numerous members sick with colds and flu. Sometimes it even effect the outcome of a game, but we don’t cancel games or seasons. We have Major League Baseball going on with C-19 and if it was killing baseball players it would be all over the news, it’s not. Every college football player with risk factors could of course sit the season out if they felt they needed to. If this season gets cancelled there will be no studies or data to support this move, and it that happens I’m not coming back to a football game next year. I can use that time to keep myself better fit and be better off for it. And more importantly not be manipulated by a sport or government that ignores science.
Wolfman: “ignores science”? What science is being ignored? The science that tells us that cases of C-19 is growing? The science that states we don’t know the long term health effects of C-19? The science that relates that the instances of C-19 in minors has increased seven-fold? What reason can a university president, coach, conference, or the NCAA give to the family of anyone who contracts the disease and dies because of it? “We’re so sorry. We did everything we could think of to protect your loved one…except postpone the season.” What exactly are your scientific credentials to make such a statement about ignoring science?
There is only one science. It says that not playing football won’t stop players, fans, refs, vendors, media, or anyone else from catching c-19, or any of the other hundreds of viruses out there that sometimes have unpredictably mild or harsh symptoms compared to any two possible extreme manifestations. It also says that people can be supervised and trained to be more safe than they would be without structure in their lives. In most any virus outbreak we should see a geometric increase in cases and often immunity following. How are you going to apologize for NOT teaching, coaching, training young people whose futures you adopted by offering them an education and athletic opportunity? The only leg you have to stand on is one where a single-strand DNA virus excites the immune system enough for anti-bodies to form, thereby yielding a reliable vaccine. We have been working on that both in human medicine and in animal health for decades, with billions of dollars on the line AND THE SAFETY OF OUR LOVED ONES. It’s not a reasonable gamble to stop activities-with-safety-plans thinking this year is the lottery year. Just one danger of putting life on hold is mutation. If you can acquire immunity from catching c-19 now and the virus does what the Spanish Flu did in 2018, which is mutate and become far more deadly, then we should all hope we catch it sooner than later. If you can show-me it won’t mutate, or that a vaccine is quickly becoming available, THEN i won’t complain about not being able to get into see my doctor for the cancer treatments, screening i need to guard my life because of c-19 grid-lock. You’ve been brain-washed into missing the big picture by a media that only wants to tell unscientific pieces of the real human questions posed by all our health challenges. Why does the media do that?, because they are writers not scientists. I’m a career scientist part of the year. I’m willing to be convinced by real data that we should let our social system break-down for the extreme method of slowing c-19 down even more. Where’s the evidence that football players who had c-19 when they came back to campus but got well under the care of professional doctors and trainers are worse off than those hiding at home and still getting exposed every time they go out in public or someone comes to their door.