Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

If the NCAA holds to "no students on campus, no football", will the P5 tell them to go piss up a rope and kick over the system? Football isn't like hoops, where the contracts and cash flow runs through the NCAA, and no football money is going to make for some desperate AD's.

 

I can't think of a better way for college athletes to successfully argue in court they are professionals than having that happen. Or to be able to sue their schools for zillions if they get sick.

 

What Notre Dame's AD was saying yesterday boiled down to that they plan on playing whoever they can. The only way it wasn't happening is if it were completely forbidden.

As with everything else, it boils down to wait and see how it looks when we get closer. No one knows a damn thing about what June will bring, let alone September.

 

Six feet of social distancing has been the pass defense norm in that conference for years.

 

Gee, Black Zook, only schools I see who may not be able to open with everyone else in the Big 10 would be Rutgers and.......Michigan.

Franklin: Conferences can play without all teams

 

Mike lives in Massachusetts so the parent is at least factually correct.

Mike also wanted some Twitter likes today.

 

Normally, wouldn't athletics-related transfers come under scrutiny in many jurisdictions? If so, I'm guessing this virus will be decent cause for a waiver.
It is an interesting question.

 

About the only thing close to this would be the post-Katrina era. "Friday Night Lights" even had a story line involving Katrina transfers.
Of all the things said about coronavirus, I guess we can now add it's costing a kid a scholarship.

 

At least from my observations after a year in Texas - You have to apply for a waiver, but as long as you can do it with a straight face and maintain the lie that it's about academics or a family member's new job, it seems like it gets approved. Big football power near me had its senior RB graduate without a great replacement on the roster already, and a kid that's already committed to USC or UCLA magically moved in for his senior year. You have to be bad or stupid about it to get a rejection, like Art Briles.