Sports shutdown tracking thread

[Lobot]

Mountain West is going 8+2.

Not sure what the heck BYU is going to do.

[Lobot]

The AAC has now approved a schedule of 8 conference games plus up to 4 Non-cons per SI. IN UC's case this allows us to fill the open date for Nebaraska if we choose to and if we can find a partner. There's a still a ton of fallout left. The FCS governing body is voting today (delayed from yesterday ) on the football season. I still have not seen much from the MAC.

[Lobot]

I wonder if this is the final permanent nail in their coffin for FBS football.

I’m not sure what they are going to do but I tend to think it’s more likely that they axe football entirely. I’ve seen some of their numbers and moving to FCS really does not save them as much money as you would think. Their financial management leading up to now has been scary bad. If they were a company, they would have declared bankruptcy a while ago.

[Bearcats1232002]

UConn becomes the first program to cancel their entire season. I know they couldn’t have forecast Covid when they made the decision to drop out of the conference but everyone saw this coming at some point in their future. Covid just sped up the process for them.

I wonder if this is the final permanent nail in their coffin for FBS football.

[Lobot]

UConn becomes the first program to cancel their entire season. I know they couldn’t have forecast Covid when they made the decision to drop out of the conference but everyone saw this coming at some point in their future. Covid just sped up the process for them.

[swilsonsp4]

Fickell needs to post this anywhere where players might wander:

Chargers DE Joey Bosa, on dealing with COVID during the season: "The most responsible team is going to be the one who wins."

[Lobot]

Was it a COVID party? The hosts have a party and purposely invited a positive tested individual to see who is the next contracted person.

I haven’t seen anything to that effect but you could be right.

[coach]

Looks like they are in a dead heat with West Virginia.

[London 'Cat]

Somebody at Rutgers is in big trouble. They are up to 28 cases on the team now with the whole team quarantined. The reason this happened is because of an off campus party that a player or players attended.

Was it a COVID party? The hosts have a party and purposely invited a positive tested individual to see who is the next contracted person.

[Lobot]

Somebody at Rutgers is in big trouble. They are up to 28 cases on the team now with the whole team quarantined. The reason this happened is because of an off campus party that a player or players attended.

[Lobot]

The Sun Belt is playing a full schedule wherever possible. 8 games + up to 4. Texas St opens the season at SMU on Aug 29 in week 0.

[Lobot]

And the above decision might lead to the breakup of the NCAA .

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...on-fall-sports

[Lobot]

Important NCAA Board of Governors vote today per Chris Vaninni at the Athletic. They will vote on fall sports championship statuses today for the lower divisions.

While this doesn’t directly affect FBS football it could directly effect UC. So far FCS schools were mostly going to try and play but this vote might kill that. We could lose the Austin Peay season opener if that happens.

This would leave us with Miami and Western Michigan in non-conference play pending what the MAC opts to do with its schedule.

I think the MAC will try and keep its remaining buy games intact for financial reasons.

[Bearcat Chris]

My bad you guys.... Big 12 allowing one non conference game. I had in my thick head that Nebraska was still in the Big 12, and not the Big 10.

B.C.

[red_n_black_attack]

Does that mean we can still play them as their one non conference game?

B.C.

It is unlikely any ACC or Big 12 team will need to add teams as much as I wish it were so. They will likely keep one of the teams currently on the schedule.I wouldn't care if we were the visiting team. I would take any Big 12 or ACC team over our current schedule, should a team on current schedule become unavailable.