Sports shutdown tracking thread

[swilsonsp4]

Here's an article from The Athletic ($) that outlines what many schools are doing to make contingency scheduling with teams not previously to be played:

https://theathletic.com/1936040/2020...anceled-games/

[Lobot]

WVU with 28 positives in the football program today. I guess we can rule them out for a regional game

[Lobot]

Something to watch is that the small conferences in FCS are starting to shut down and trying to figure out how to play spring ball. If the OVC shuts down, UC would lose the Austin Peay game.

[Lobot]

IU has shut down workouts after positive tests

[Lobot]

Aresco wants to keep the Non con schedule if possible ($)

https://theathletic.com/1934356/2020...nonconference/

[Lobot]

The A-10 and Big East have shut down for fall sports. Neither play D1 football.

[red_n_black_attack]

Also out of the Orlando Sentinel

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...asm-story.html

[red_n_black_attack]

Second hand information disclaimer so no links. A friend was telling me yesterday that Illinois will be using a saliva test to test all students on campus. From what we discussed, he thinks that any positive tests will be truly positive though a saliva test may give negative results if there are any eating/drinking prior to the test. The thing I lik about this plan is making a somewhat safer environment for all students/staff on campus and ability to isolate small groups before a widespread spike. I am curious and also like widespread testing to catch assymptomatic carriers. Not sure if this is feasible at other universities, but it gives me hope that college can resume with a semblance of normalcy. No idea if this will catch on with the rest of the Big Ten much less other schools/conferences.

[Lobot]

Houston is going for 60% capacity which based on how bad Houston Metro's COVID numbers look is just crazy IMO.

SMU is going season ticket ticket holder only. They operate at 50% capacity on a good day at Ford Stadium anyway but I would expect Dallas County to shut them down no matter what they do.

UCF just issued this: https://ucfknights.com/news/2020/7/1...ht-nation.aspx

I have not seen anything from the other AAC members so far. If you did, post it.

[Lobot]

Good job by Aresco to get out in front of this announcement by the P5/NCAA. Puts the AAC on the same plan and makes us available for regional scheduling if need be.

[Greg7173]

AAC Covid-19 Test Plan

https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireSt...-ncaa-71822604

[Carin's Dad]

Philadelphia Eagles will play in an empty stadium.

[Lobot]

Bowlsby's going to hold out on making a decision for the Big 12

https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/te...sports-season/

[Lobot]

This article has some interesting atheltic financial info it for those who are subscribers:

https://theathletic.com/1926692/2020...ing-fall-2020/

The highlight is that all 5 G5 conferences were granted money from the federal PPP loan program and this saved multiple jobs. The AAC's loan was somewhere between 350K and 1M. I have no idea if any of that trickled down to UC or not.

[Lobot]

Positive note: tOSU has resumed workouts