For about five months, school football has been wondering how to conduct a classic season while detecting the dubious point of fitness and protection disorders caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Big Ten and Pac-12’s decisions to cancel their fall football seasons can serve as a catalyst for the Power Five convention to come to the same conclusion: despite more productive efforts to create a viable environment for competition, school football is disgraced. COVID-19 victim.
While we await the fate of the 2020 season, what we know about the situation in the Bowl Branch:
On a day when Big Ten and Pac-12 ended their fall seasons, Big 12 presidents took no official action at Tuesday’s meeting.
League officials were about to publish a 10-game schedule that was already in progress, most likely released on Wednesday. But the big 12 can end the season if fitness situations warrant it in the future.
Crownvirus-like health disorders have led Big Ten and Pac-12 to cancel all fall sports, leaving the option to bet open in the spring.
“The physical and intellectual fitness and well-being of our student-athletes has been at the heart of all the decisions we’ve made regarding the ability to move forward,” Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said in a statement.
Dramatic announcements, which took position less than two hours apart, create primary uncertainty as to whether other leagues will advance through the game in a season or be forced to close with nearly a portion of Bowl Branch meetings playing.
The leading medical adviser to the Atlantic Coast Conference said the dangers associated with coronavirus may be a triumph enough to play school football this fall.
The ACC is scheduled to start games on September 10 with a plan to play 10 convention contests and non-convention games this season.
Texas A-M athletic director Ross Bjork said the SEC continued to pontificate his patience even as Big Ten officials canceled the season, a move that would shake school athletics.
“For me, our playbook has been the same process,” Bjork said in an interview Tuesday with the American statesman. “We collect data, pay attention to medical experts, comply with the rules issued through CDC or local fitness authorities. Let’s come up with a plan.”
Bjork noted how much excitement there had been last Friday when the SEC announced its renewed schedule.
“But then move on to the weekend and move the news cycle as it did, there was no new knowledge that we didn’t have Friday afternoon that would have replaced the conversations over the weekend,” Bjork said. “The virus is the same.”
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Penn State coach James Franklin has opened the door to explore the option to gamble this fall, even if the Big Ten cancels its season. Speaking Tuesday on ESPN’s morning show “Get UP!”, Frankin said it will “exhaust all opportunities and options” to play. The comment echoes what Nebraska coach Scott Frost said on Monday.
The way Big Ten systems would be loose to play with other meetings while their own league is closed is uncertain, especially if the league expected to play in the spring.
The Big Ten has had a verbal exchange about the game in the middle of COVID-19 since at least July, when the convention to eliminate the game outside the convention was largely reflected in the rest of the Power Five.
In this case, the Big Ten temporarily followed the Pac-12. These two leagues, blocked for a long time, re-coincide in the impossibility of playing even with a modified schedule this fall in the context of the pandemic.
The warning that has an effect on the Movement of The Big Ten and Pac-12 across the Power Five is difficult to assess. When scheduling games to start in late September, the SEC would likely feel comfortable waiting for more in August before uttering its plans. The same goes for the Big 12 and CCA.
In a series of tweets, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Monday that the convention “has been planned at every step since March.”
“We know that considerations remain,” he said. “Can we play? I don’t know. We haven’t stopped trying. We support, teach and care for students-athletes every day, and we will continue to do soArray … every day.”
On Tuesday, on the Dan Patrick Show, Sankey said the SEC was unlikely to play alone if the other four Power Five meetings did not have football in the fall.
“I don’t think that’s the right direction, really, ” said Sankeyl. “Could we? Certainly. There’s a difference between you can do anything and do anything in life.”
One thing is for sure: by leading the verbal exchange again, the Big Ten will force the rest of the Power Five to consider whether it is imaginable to justify the festival when at least another league has made the decision to play at least during the winter. And if that’s the case, can 3 or even two leagues compete as independent organizations without all the portions that accompany a general season?
The Mid-American Conference and Mountain West already have the cancellation of their fall seasons
There is a high degree of frustration among coaches who feel stuck in a waiting game due to an uncertain season. While practices continue, coaching staffs are unable to provide information to players who have already spent five months largely without any concrete direction regarding the fate of competition.
“We know how things are replaced and how fluid it is,” Louisville coach Scott Satterfield said. “We would like to be definitive, just for our intellectual good.”
“Football is a paradise for many people,” Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence said on Twitter. “We are more likely to get the virus in everyday life than by playing football.”
Lawrence also called for universal security protocols, guaranteed eligibility and the creation of a “College Football Players Association” with player representatives from each of the Power Five conferences.
In a vacuum, spring football will stick to the same plan as a classic season and will likely end with the school football playoffs, this format deserves to redraw the playoff map and potentially replace the venue of the national semifinals.
However, several questions remain unanswered. On the one hand, when would a spring season begin? When would it be over? Could you play non-conference games? What about bowling games? And what would a spring makeup season mean for the classic festival calendar in the fall of 2021?
Playing two full seasons in a calfinishar year is highly unlikely given the inability to give players enough time to rest and between the end of a possible spring season and the beginning of autumn.
We’ve already noticed that some of the most sensible school stars are retiring this season to prepare for the NFL, led by Penn State supporter Micah Parsons. While others have pledged to play in the fall, such as quarterbacks Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields, the equation would replace as the entire FBS festival would move the festival in the spring.
There is a imaginable clash with the NFL draft, which supposedly extends throughout the final stage of a spring season. An injury sustained in the spring would have an even greater effect on a player’s draft due to the proximity of the fall; an injury prospect could possibly not recover in September, for example.
Even if players entering the draft can spend the spring season healthy, the prospect of turning around and entering an NFL education camp would be a physical challenge.
The entire timetable will want to be adjusted to cope with the impact of coronavirus, which has already particularly altered the overall recruitment flow during the 2021 cycle.
If football takes up position in the spring, the NCAA will have to decide whether to allow the first enrollees, who regularly start in the categories in January, participate in the season and retain another 4 years of eligibility. This is in addition to the resolve to move the time of the firm’s national day out of February and further into the spring, which in turn may require adjustments to the 2022 cycle.
Lately, schools cannot accommodate recruits for official visits on August 31. This will be prolonged if the season is closed.