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What will happen with the 2020 college football season?
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:38 pm
by BDKJMU
Could put this under the NFL thread or here, as it seems both the NFL and NCAA will be in the same boat...Herbstreit thinks NFL and college football won’t be played in 2020.
“I’ll be shocked if we have NFL football this fall, if we have college football. I’ll be so surprised if that happens. Just because from what I understand, people that I listen to, you’re 12 to 18 months from a [coronavirus] vaccine. I don’t know how you let these guys go into locker rooms and let stadiums be filled up and how you can play ball. I just don’t know how you can do it with the optics of it. Next thing you know you got a locker room full of guys that are sick. And that’s on your watch? I wouldn’t want to have that.”
As much as I hate to say it, I think we’re scratching the surface of where this thing’s gonna go. You don't all of the sudden come up with something in July or August and say, 'Okay we're good to go' and turn 'em loose!
https://www.tmz.com/2020/03/27/kirk-her ... l-college/
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:02 pm
by dbackjon
Good possibility.
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:35 pm
by kalm
I’d be very surprised. There are places that will be ahead of the curve but others where hot spots will fire back up. Unless we have cheap and available testing and effective anti-virus development (which could be just few months away), I’m thinking no.
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 6:30 pm
by Ivytalk
Good call!
Maybe one long-term effect of this thing will be a reduction in the huge salaries that many pro athletes get. The long-term trend isn’t sustainable.
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 6:52 pm
by SDHornet
Shutting down the NCAA tourney is one thing, but I don't think the Notre Dame's, Texas', and Alabama's of the world will go a season without their University's cash cow. We'll see how this plays out.
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 7:31 pm
by BDKJMU
Another thing- who said football has to be played Sept-Dec? I imagine the season could be delayed 1,2,3 or even 4 months..
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:19 am
by bluehenbillk
I can see a season where they play but many places allow no fans in the stadiums to personally watch...
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:38 am
by 89Hen
dbackjon wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:02 pm
Good possibility.
I think it's a terrible possibility.
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:24 am
by Silenoz
NDSU finally meets a worthy foe
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:28 am
by Pwns
The worst-case scenario is that crowds won't be allowed at games. The NCAA bends over backwards to be seen as being socially responsible, so they could do that. Remember that Power 5 TV networks and CFP money from ESPN is where the serious money is made, not ticket sales.
If we're in a situation where a football season cancellation could happen, we've got much, much bigger problems than the pandemic.
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:53 am
by 89Hen
Silenoz wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:24 am
NDSU finally meets a worthy foe
POTY nominee
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:00 am
by Gil Dobie
89Hen wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:53 am
Silenoz wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:24 am
NDSU finally meets a worthy foe
POTY nominee
Something to stop the run. Hopefully our QB still gets 3 more years if the season is cancelled.
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:02 am
by UNI88
Gil Dobie wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:00 am
89Hen wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:53 am
POTY nominee
Something to stop the run. Hopefully our QB plays another year before he transfers to a P5 program.
FYP
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:07 am
by Gil Dobie
UNI88 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:02 am
Gil Dobie wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:00 am
Something to stop the run. Hopefully our QB plays another year before he transfers to a P5 program.
FYP
One site even mentions possibility of entering the draft early.
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:56 am
by BDKJMU
89Hen wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:53 am
Silenoz wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:24 am
NDSU finally meets a worthy foe
POTY nominee
Yeah, that would make 2 seasons this decade they didn't win the NC..
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 3:50 pm
by SuperHornet
I highly doubt this given the way free agency has gone crazy....
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:32 pm
by BDKJMU
2020 college football season reportedly could be played in spring 2021
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb ... li=BBnba9I
I do think college football will somewhat mirror the NFL as to what happens...
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:08 am
by GrizMadman
If fans required to wear face masks & players when not on the field?
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:38 am
by kalm
Silenoz wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:24 am
NDSU finally meets a worthy foe
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:44 pm
by BlackFalkin
Won’t happen! These businesses are losing big money, and it won’t be long before the powers that be say “it’s time to cut the crap!”
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:12 pm
by BDKJMU
P5 drives the Div I bus, and frankly, the entire NCAA sports bus. Whatever P5s will do, G5s will do, which I-AA will do, which Div II and III will do. From last week, rather lengthy SI article:
Power 5 public universities made an average of $28.2 million in profit last year on football, according to self-reported financial documents SI examined. The discrepancy between football and all other sports is severe across the country. Even in the basketball-crazed ACC, football outperforms hoops. The average ACC football program made $15.9 million, while the average basketball school pulled in $6.1 million. Among the 65 Power 5s and Notre Dame, just four schools had a men’s basketball team make more than its football team: Syracuse, Duke, Kentucky and Louisville.
..football is such a financial force for athletic departments and universities that one Group of Five athletic director says, “If they have to start football in a blizzard in January, they’re going to do it.”
https://www.si.com/college/2020/04/08/c ... oronavirus
Me thinks that sometime between Sept and Feb, college football is going to have its opening weekend...
Re: What will happen with the 2020 college football season?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:21 pm
by BDKJMU
Momentum builds for a February-to-May college football season in 2021
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... on-in-2021
Re: What will happen with the 2020 college football season?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:56 pm
by Gil Dobie
Tough sledding for the February & March games. Really happy NDSU has an indoor stadium. 4 hour drive each way, in winter weather won't be fun.
Re: Possibility of 2020 season being cancelled?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:56 pm
by SDHornet
BDKJMU wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:12 pm
P5 drives the Div I bus, and frankly, the entire NCAA sports bus. Whatever P5s will do, G5s will do, which I-AA will do, which Div II and III will do. From last week, rather lengthy SI article:
Power 5 public universities made an average of $28.2 million in profit last year on football, according to self-reported financial documents SI examined. The discrepancy between football and all other sports is severe across the country. Even in the basketball-crazed ACC, football outperforms hoops. The average ACC football program made $15.9 million, while the average basketball school pulled in $6.1 million. Among the 65 Power 5s and Notre Dame, just four schools had a men’s basketball team make more than its football team: Syracuse, Duke, Kentucky and Louisville.
..football is such a financial force for athletic departments and universities that one Group of Five athletic director says, “If they have to start football in a blizzard in January, they’re going to do it.”
https://www.si.com/college/2020/04/08/c ... oronavirus
Me thinks that sometime between Sept and Feb, college football is going to have its opening weekend...
Would be a boon for heavy run offenses the longer the season is pushed back into winter.
And I figured the dollars FB brings in would ensure a FB season would happen eventually. Thank you capitalism!
Re: What will happen with the 2020 college football season?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:27 pm
by Silenoz
It's official, Montana State can't smoke us in 2020. Streak. Over.
