Any thoughts about how eligibility and scholarships might be affected? I guess if the entire season is cancelled those players would get an extra year of eligibility? Would the number of allowed scholarships be increased accordingly?
No way the SEC cancels. Their good old boy doners would lose their minds. Football is more important than Grandma here...and Grandma would agree. If the NCAA forces it, they probably leave the NCAA.
The problem with taking the "conservative" approach of cancelling is that, realistically, until a vaccine is developed and distributed, things don't stand to get much better. If the same criteria is used, spring is a Longshot.
Unless this completely backfires in The South, the ACC and SEC are going to see a windfall of recruits (above and beyond their current haul).
The prevailing culture in the southeast and south, including west into Texas & Oklahoma, has a different tolerance for, and acceptance of, risk, both short and long term, (among other things) than the west and northern tier, generally speaking. That corresponds pretty closely with the footprint of the conferences, P5, G5, and lower divisions, which have made early decisions to postpone.
I was going to write a longer winded post about the continued hysteria and misinformation that still somehow surrounds covid at this point..but f it. Let's just keep shutting down everything when we already know the highest risk people (by miles) are 80+. Let's keep unemployment going up and have business everywhere shut their doors. Let's see where that leads us.
Yep certain stocks are doing well, that's forsure. I mean, financially I'm not negatively effected by this, in fact it's the opposite. But many people with small businesses are being crushed (restaurants for example), and as far as fall sports...all those affiliated with them and making a living (or supplementing their income) through working with those sports no longer have that option.
Oh well. But it was the right decision to make considering the Covid-19 trajectory. I just hope by Jan. 1 that conditions will have changed. But it's also possible that this highly contagious phase could last a couple of years without a vaccine.
Any thoughts about how eligibility and scholarships might be affected? I guess if the entire season is cancelled those players would get an extra year of eligibility? Would the number of allowed scholarships be increased accordingly?
No way the SEC cancels. Their good old boy doners would lose their minds. Football is more important than Grandma here...and Grandma would agree. If the NCAA forces it, they probably leave the NCAA.
The problem with taking the "conservative" approach of cancelling is that, realistically, until a vaccine is developed and distributed, things don't stand to get much better. If the same criteria is used, spring is a Longshot.
Unless this completely backfires in The South, the ACC and SEC are going to see a windfall of recruits (above and beyond their current haul).
The prevailing culture in the southeast and south, including west into Texas & Oklahoma, has a different tolerance for, and acceptance of, risk, both short and long term, (among other things) than the west and northern tier, generally speaking. That corresponds pretty closely with the footprint of the conferences, P5, G5, and lower divisions, which have made early decisions to postpone.
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
#42 in national ranking, #1 in our hearts #GoBears
For selfish reasons, I hope we have the 6-year seniors like Luc Bequette and Zeandre Johnson on the team whenever we play our next games.
I was going to write a longer winded post about the continued hysteria and misinformation that still somehow surrounds covid at this point..but f it. Let's just keep shutting down everything when we already know the highest risk people (by miles) are 80+. Let's keep unemployment going up and have business everywhere shut their doors. Let's see where that leads us.
Well apparently it leads to some great rallies on Wall Street because so far Wall Street has shrugged off all the unemployment numbers.
Yep certain stocks are doing well, that's forsure. I mean, financially I'm not negatively effected by this, in fact it's the opposite. But many people with small businesses are being crushed (restaurants for example), and as far as fall sports...all those affiliated with them and making a living (or supplementing their income) through working with those sports no longer have that option.
And will people ever stop with that nonsense about the Earth being round?
Did you mean "nonsense about the earth being an oblate spheroid?"
Fall or spring, fan attendance or not, I just hope we will have a football season.
Also: Hopefully, this postponement becomes the context for Larry Scott to move on...
I think it’s gonna take years for college athletics to recover from this year
Probably means Cal will have to permanently drop a lot of non revenue sports. Men’s gymnastics, T&F, rowing, etc may never be back.
Soccer, too. As recently as 2017, Cal looked into "relocating" or cutting soccer.
I think rowing may be safe. The crew team has almost half a million dollars in endowments and scholarships every year.
On the bright side, Cal gets to potentially play after December 31st for the first time in a looong time.
Oh well. But it was the right decision to make considering the Covid-19 trajectory. I just hope by Jan. 1 that conditions will have changed. But it's also possible that this highly contagious phase could last a couple of years without a vaccine.
I think we al suspected this was going to happen. Hopefully we'll actually have a Spring season.
We keep the Axe!
This season is already a success 😁
Naturally. And WBB's flock of rookie posts get even fitter.
P.S. "The student-athletes have been working too hard for their season to be cancelled." What would IQ45 know about hard work?
I agree.
If SEC/ACC can finish a season, then we will play football in spring.
If SEC/AC encounter a problem during the season, then we will get to avoid that trouble.
I think it's a winning scenario.