College football 2020 offseason thread

Per Thamel

Quote: Sources: The NCAA Division I Council decided today that fall sport student-athletes can compete in any amount of competitions this year and it will not count as a season of eligibility. This still needs to be approved by NCAA Board of Governors on Friday.

 

For those that enjoy message board rumors -

BREAKING: OHIO STATE’S A.D. WORKING ON PLAN TO GET FIVE OTHER BIG TEN TEAMS TO PARTICIPATE IN 10-GAME SCHEDULE THIS FALL

BY JEFF SNOOK

No matter what has been stated publicly, Ohio State’s hierarchy hasn’t yet given up on playing football this fall.

Athletic Director Gene Smith, with the full support of school president-elect Kristina Johnson, has been working behind the scenes for the past six days to organize fellow Big Ten conference athletic directors in convincing at least five other university presidents to move forward with a 10-game season to be played among six teams, a source familiar with the movement told me today.

In this proposed format, each team would play the other five Big Ten teams who are participating twice -- once at home and once on the road, beginning on either Sept. 26 or Oct. 3. The season would conclude by mid-December and there would no Big Ten title game in Indianapolis.

As of Tuesday night, the source claimed that Penn State President Eric Barron, Nebraska President Walter “Ted” Carter and Iowa President Bruce Harreld are on board with the new plan. The group hopes to convince two other universities, notably the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan, to join them.

“They really need to flip Wisconsin and Michigan to get to six schools and make this thing work,” the source said. “And they have only so much time to do it. They need to make progress and get it done in the next seven to 10 days.”

 

Of course it’s relevant.

 

The Daily Caller??? LOL Yeesh.

 

Master Plan to Save CFB Being Considered

 

That story suggests to me that several schools are considering an alliance in which they agree to kick students off campus based on whether the students play football. Maybe I'm getting it wrong.

 

Honestly, between Clay Travis having a different Republican official on each day to talk about the importance of football and NPR fetishizing the suffering of marginalized communities - it's hard for me to find a radio station to listen to in the morning.

 

The Athletic reported Tulane is spending $40,000 a week on testing. Sounds like play ball or die trying.

 

That's three tests per week for every player, coach and staffer, I'm guessing.

 

I heard someone doing the math the other day and they said it's probably $15,000 to test everyone each time. That's a big part of the players' concern. The players at Stanford and Oregon are confident in what they're doing... but they also know damn well that Washington State isn't shelling out $45,000 a week for testing, so everyone's at risk.

 

for the rest of 2020, that’s $500,000. Seems like a lot of cost for whatever revenue Tulane is chasing. Imagine what they could do for enrollment if they showed that commitment to every student’s health. Reminds me of the parents who spend out the ass for travel ball “to get a scholarship” when they could’ve just used that money for tuition.

Seriously, does Tulane even break even on football in a normal year?

 

From my younger kid’s school (she will not be on campus this semester):



So, regular students, y’all are on your own, but we’ll spend half a million dollars to test the football team.

(and yes, I know C of C doesn’t play football. But the higher education’s commitment to safety, generally speaking, needs to be called into question at this point.)