College football 2020 offseason thread

Addazio is about to join George O'Leary and Mike Price on the list of coaches who got whacked before coaching a game at their schools.
The AD's statement is a little different in tone than the blame-the-messenger character assassination bit he tried the other night.

 

Peak Addazio.

 

Laramie deserves better.

 

Oh, come on. It’s at least nicer than Rawlins.

(Not nicer than Lander, though.)

 

Laramie already has better. Bohl is a pretty solid coach.

 

SEC sets conditions on what would cancel football games

Football is classified as a high risk sport.

- Inability to isolate new positive cases, or quarantine high risk contacts of cases of university students.
- Unavailability or inability to perform symptomatic, surveillance or pre-competition testing when warranted.
- Campus-wide or local community positivity test rates that are considered unsafe by local public health officials.
- Inability to perform adequate contact tracing consistent with local, state or federal requirements or recommendations.
- Local public health officials indicate an inability for the hospital infrastructure to accommodate a surge in COVID-19 related hospitalizations.

First, it is arguable that they're failing at three or four of those now. Second, they're subjective as hell. Third, I suspect that they would pressure the state to overrule the local public health authorities if it gets to that point.

 

Eight conference games and up to four non-conference.


DALLAS – The Conference USA Board of Directors has approved the league's timeline and scheduling format for football competition for the 2020 season, as well as operational protocols for return to play.

The 2020 C-USA football schedule continues to call for each of the league's teams to play eight conference games on their originally scheduled dates. The first conference game is scheduled for September 12. Non-conference games may be played at the discretion of the individual schools, with the ability to play up to four non-league contests. The C-USA Championship remains scheduled for Dec. 5, with the flexibility of possibly moving later, depending on the need to potentially reschedule regular season games.

The Board approved return to play safety measures for fall sports and adopted the NCAA Resocialization of Collegiate Sport: Developing Standards for Practice and Competition with required testing standards for Conference USA schools and the requirement that opponents operate by the same standards. The Board also committed to ensuring the accountability of all athletic programs and affirmed their commitment to follow and actively monitor testing and safety protocols and accurately report testing results.

 

Never understood what Colorado State was doing with that hire. All these young coaches searching for opportunities and they bring in a 60-year-old retread that runs a ground-and-pound offense designed to grind out 14-10 victories. The whole search was odd. They decided to get into bed with Urban Meyer for the decision and he basically recommended Addazio, Kevin Wilson (who was fired from Indiana after trying to convince the team doctor to commit medical fraud) and Tony Alford, who seems like he might've been an interesting hire, but he didn't have the experience of going .500 at Boston College to lean on.

I was wondering why Urban has such an interest in the results of the Colorado State job other than he was a grunt assistant there in the early 90s and then I read that his son-in-law was given a staff job by Addazio. So it definitely makes sense.

 

Well, Addazio works relatively cheaply. Colorado State only gave him a contract for 1.5 million a year. Colorado started their retread coach, Karl Dorrell, at 3.2 million dollars a year.