dacomeup
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OFFICIAL 2020 COLLEGE FOOTBALL OFFSEASON THREAD
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There's ways it can be done sensibly and reasonably. It only doesn't make sense if the goal is to avoid changing the fall 2021 season at all.
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K-State was approved for just under 15k in attendance. I have to imagine KU will be the same or under. So a normal crowd for KU standards.
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Yeah, Georgia got a very favorable schedule. The SEC is protecting Georgia, Alabama and LSU and screwing over the bottom feeder teams. Under the old schedule, Georgia was supposed to play Alabama for the season opener. Arkansas is a lot easier, I predict Georgia will play Alabama and Week 2
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What’s the incentive on changing the fall? Especially given the NFL not really wanting or showing a desire to tinker with their schedule. Pushing the fall back could like to a lot of stars next year opting out.
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The incentive would be being able to play two, albeit somewhat altered, seasons and planning and preparing for that now instead of skipping 2020/21 outright and stubbornly pretending you’ll have a full 2021 fall schedule with OOC games and full stadiums like a lot of people are doing. Forget playing football this fall, people need to start considering that the pace the country is on with everything the fall 2021 season might be altered as well whether they intend it or not. Plan and prepare for that now and hope you’re wrong rather than plowing ahead, pretending Spring is impossible, when it very well could be done.
Spring can be done. Many of people, outside this thread, insisting it can’t have ulterior motives for doing so. It’s all part of this dumb political and culture war; and yes I realize some would say the same about my opinions on the fall, though I think I’ve expressed the opinion that fall football can definitely and should happen with a bubble, so maybe a little different.
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There’s absolutely no way they’ll play this coming season (in its altered state) and then have 2021 completely fine IMO
Eventually the conferences that canceled need to stop the spring football charade ESPECIALLY if those other conferences end up playing
Eventually the conferences that canceled need to stop the spring football charade ESPECIALLY if those other conferences end up playing
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Cade Mays went through all that trouble of concocting a story of him being mad that his dad lost his finger on recruiting visit to Georgia (even though he still committed after that). He went through all that trouble and still got his waiver request denied.
dacomeup
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If it were that simple, don’t you think the other leagues would’ve been with that plan? I think you’re massively trying to simplify this thing. There’s nothing simple about planning for two seasons in one calendar year, with so many different considerations for scholarships, eligibility, NFL, etc.
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Spring football in Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado, Utah, etc sounds like a ****in nightmare.
They’re going to have to start playing in January or February to give kids a long enough break between the two seasons.
Then factor that’s flu season on top of whatever concern you already have about COVID.
Good luck.
They’re going to have to start playing in January or February to give kids a long enough break between the two seasons.
Then factor that’s flu season on top of whatever concern you already have about COVID.
Good luck.
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Even the way they staggered the schedules screams WE WENT OUT OF OUR WAY TO PROTECT THE BIG DOGS. 
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I think if the SEC and Big 12 play a full fall, that will make it more likely the PAC and B1G play spring. They’d try to keep pace as much as possible, even if it’s only a division only or otherwise shortened schedule which is what id anticipate and suggest.
The PAC had planned for a 9 week training camp leading into the start of the regular season. Why can’t you do away with that, and just have a shortened season stretched out so there’s flexibility with scheduling?
Likewise, every year schools do 8 weeks of spring camp with 3 full contact sessions a week. In desperate times you can replace that with games that count.
I also think the “they’ll play too many games in a calendar year!”argument is overblown. Alabama and Clemson have been playing 15 games a calendar year for the past 5 seasons. Why can’t you shorten the spring and fall season to match that? Play a division only 6 game schedule and a conference championship game in the spring, then do likewise in the fall with the Playoff (though that’ll be the following calendar year) and kids are actually playing less games than they normally would.
There’s a difference between saying playing spring football can’t happen and just not wanting to think of a way to make it work.
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Nobody is planning a spring season around the assumption this far ahead of time that fall ‘21 gets shortened or cancelled.
You think if fall seasons go off without any major issues the ADs in these other conferences are gonna say “yeah let’s get 6 games in and call it a day”?
Not a chance.
You think if fall seasons go off without any major issues the ADs in these other conferences are gonna say “yeah let’s get 6 games in and call it a day”?
Not a chance.
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Schedule is really manageable should UF end up playing. I'm not a big believer in A&M, but that looks like the game in the first half of the schedule that will set the tone.
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What I’m saying is how would the B1G/PAC play in the spring if those other conferences are already done with their seasons? Have their own mini playoff? If you don’t have them all (the P5 at least) competing at once it’s never going to work
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I’m not trying to over simply it, but I think you’re underestimating the fact that there is political pressure from the Executive branch and governors pushing the decision for the leagues playing.
Duke was the first school to pull out of the NCAA tournament. You think they want to be playing mother ******* football when their state active case count is worse now than in March? But publicly they’re putting on a different face.
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Are teams practicing?
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Starting this week in the SEC I think.
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Mond is trash for the most part.
