After deciding to first postpone all fall sports for the 2020 calendar year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Pac-12 is now contemplating hosting a football season that will begin around October 31, according to Jon Wilner of Mercury News.
With this news in mind, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued USC and UCLA authorization to play football as long as they comply with California state fitness rules and NCAA rules, according to ESPN’s Kyle Bonagura.
“We have not imposed any other local restrictions or requirements, which means that whenever the establishment implements its sports program in accordance with all state document rules (which also includes a requirement to comply with all NCAA rules), it is authorized in Los Angeles County,” he said.
Big Ten and Pac-12 in the first place will not play football in 2020, however, the old convention recently announced their goal of playing from the weekend of October 24.
It turns out the Pac-12 follows suit, which means all Power Five meetings can be in action this fall.
Although legal through the Los Angeles County Department of Health, allowing USC and UCLA to participate in football is an impediment that crosses into Pac-12 through the football game, other obstacles remain.
Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott, who spoke to SportsCenter on Wednesday, through Bonagura, described some of them in providing their hopeful agenda:
“Getting local county approvals as soon as imaginable would allow our students-athletes and coaches to start with what we consider general education. So, the best situation is six weeks of education, educational camp and the beginning of the October weekend, early November.
“But it’s still subject to county approvals, which we don’t yet have. So that’s the most productive case scenario. And we’ll do our best to play this fall if we can, play a Pac-12 championship game and have teams. participate in the school’s football playoffs, if possible. “
According to Bonagura, pac-12’s group of CEOs, will meet on Friday to discuss many scenarios for a possible 2020 season and obtain the recommendation of the Pac-12 Medical Advisory Group. A vote would possibly take a position on the convention’s action plan. un guaranteed.
Any vote would be “subordinate to obtaining the green kindness of local governments,” according to Bonagura, as well as “other points similar to public aptitude and the coronavirus pandemic. “
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