They aren't even going to be allowed in-person classes. But let's have them travel from city to city Friday-Saturday every week. Return home to some parties and do it again next week. Give them their scholarship money and let them get their learn-on, online.imo.

They don't have to be. For the purposes of this issue, the team just has to be more isolated in season then they would vs a cancelled season. And everybody knows the kids will spend their newly acquired free time on Tinder, Chipolte, house parties or whatever.

Well we’re all armchair epidemiologists now. I guess it’s better than despair. I have to admit in the grand scheme of things Dead’s infuriating guess is as good as mine.

SEC announced medical protocols including mandatory bi-weekly testing, plus sideline masks and enforced distancing. So, looking on the bright side, maybe those front row seats at Auburn will finally be worth a ****! Can we also require the players to sit (seems safer for COVID)?

MAC lost all the guaranteed $$$ games and are eyeing a spring season. Seems to me if you’re the MAC this is the smart way to play it out; watch, learn, let the big boys stick their necks out and throw their money at it and see what works. Plus they might actually start to get mindshare in the Spring (XFL, ha!).

Dead; we tinder with masks now. It feels the way I like it; a little, I don’t know, dirty or something.

MAC is probably holding out hope for fans to be allowed in the stands come spring...can't say i blame them.

MAC basically canceled the equivalent of college football pre-season games. Can we do this every year please

And all you people predicting other conferences to follow willing to put money where your mouth is? I’ll put up $500 that the SEC doesn’t cancel

I'll do $250 the season gets cancelled before week 1

Additional $250 the season gets cancelled some time after week 1 (basically that the season doesnt finish)

I’ll escrow if necessary. dozens of long time 2+2 posters can vouch for me.

That seems too rational to me. I'd say it more likely to go down that they play week 1, on Monday two players in Oklahoma test positive with no symptoms, and the Big Ten immediately cancels the season.

Whelp

lol, kid is good at throwing football, knows what is best for all student athletes


So his argument is:
Football season = players will be responsible
No football season = players will be irresponsible and spread it more

Massive LOL at Trevor Lawrence

As a player Lawrence has a 1st hand pov of their free time. I'd like to hear more about it from that other Lawrence @Clemson.

last three #1 picks if the prior season to the draft get cancelled are backup QB's right now or playing baseball. the top QB the draft before wouldn't have been drafted. Maybe both QB's the year prior to that don't go that high either likely.

hmmm, the list of guys who would've been picked high but completely fell off instead is another interesting list but I ain't doing it.

I love college football just as much as the next guy but there's definitely a silver lining for Michigan fans. This was an 8-4 transition/rebuilding year at best and there's no way in hell we're coming within 4 TDs vs Ohio State. Michigan is ranked like 125 in %returning starters. We lost too many players and we'll be starting a QB who has shown zero evidence that he's even a college level quarterback. So yeah it sux that we're gonna have no college football but this reality should be easy to deal with for Michigan fans.

That said, no college football has gotta be pretty tragic for diehard Ohio State fans. Man were they set up to easily cruise through the conference and win it all, and of course in 2021 Justin Fields will be gone, so this was THEIR YEAR. I'm sure Clemson fans feel the same way. No way Lawrence will be back in 21. Other than that there's only one other team with serious natty equity, obviously Bama. Those 3 fan bases will be suffering the most. And I'm sure all the other fan bases rooting for teams with effectively 0% national title equity will at least enjoy that schadenfreude. It won't come close to numbing the pain of a lost season but at least it's something positive.

Do you think they schedule Saturday NFL games all season if CFB gets canned?

Has Trevor even asked his own teammate who is out for the year with CoVid after affects whether he thinks it’s a good idea?

100 percent yes. My guess would be a least one game at 1, 4:30 and 8:30.


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I’m sort of surprised at the strong support here for shutting down the season. Doesn’t make much sense to me.

If kids are already going to physical classrooms then playing football really doesn’t represent much more of a risk than they are already taking.

The one silver lining is the moron Bama/SEC/Clemson fans who have nothing else to live for besides their school being really good at football are now seeing the direct consequences of voting for trump. I will miss seeing my school play but not nearly as bad as they will miss theirs.

In person learning will be cancelled as well imo

On the bright side, if the conferences all get billion $ loans to cover costs we might end up with some banks owning the teams. Yay capitalism.

Ok that makes more sense.

I can't forsee a way that banks would end up owning the teams, but the banks could end up owning the conferences. And that could be the end of the conferences and possibly the NCAA.

At least that gets rid of the middleman for paying players

Well I’d really have to see the loan terms and don’t want to get bogged down in semantics, but for a billion $ (or 5) you generally need to be on the hook to, at some point, lose everything. I mean, conference buyouts ain’t cheap but they wouldn’t cover the billy if all your schools opted to leave and start a new conference. Gonna need some collateral.

Could the same schools that give Willie Taggart a $17M buyout make such a dangerous agreement?