College Football in the Spring.
Herbstreit says that's a contingency. March, April, May. How would that work? Would the NFL push the draft back until June? Would players that are potential high picks sit out? I know I would watch no matter when it is played.
Surely, there will be weeknight MACtion to compete with.
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I have a lot of questions about this. Does this also means students won't return to campus until spring? Does this mean all other sports are postponed until spring? If MLB, CFB, CBB, NFL, NHL, & NBA are all going on at the same time how would TV deals work? I'd guess there would have to be a significant amount of restructuring and cooperation between the powers that be in all these sports. That seems unlikely. Everyone will want their piece.
WILL. NEVER. HAPPEN.
I can't believe I am even taking time to type my thoughts around this, but you CANNOT start a CFB season in March, and then immediately role into a new season in August.
DUMB. DUMB. DUMB.
What if they only have half seasons in each season. For example:
Spring 2021: 6 games (only divisional games (& 1 nonconf game for teams in divisions with only 6 teams)) + Conference Titles + Bowl games
Fall 2021: 8 games (only divisional games (& 3 nonconf games for teams in divisions with only 6 teams/2 nonconf games for teams in divisions with 7 teams) + Conference Titles + Bowl games
You wouldn't need to start Fall 2021's season until October with that schedule.
Why not just forgo the entire 2020 season and then hopefully by the time Fall 2021 comes around, things would be back to normal.
Sorry, but a 6 game regular season does not appeal to me. Especially knowing that the next season would only be 8 games. It's all or nothing in my mind.
Well that’s it everyone, scrap everything because uofmchris1 isn’t interested!
Pass out 100k N95 masks with M logos ...or just skip the season. I'm more interested on started to work again. This is leisure.
I want football but could easily find other things to do in the Fall. Plus there would be a zero letdowns with expectations and time & financial investment NOT matching reality.
It's not leisure for the whole service industry that revolves around football games. For them, it is about getting back to work. (Yes I understand the irony that the players on the field are not getting paid but that's a separate conversation).
It's not a good enough reason on its own to put on games, but the economic benefit of holding live football games has to factor into the calculus.
I don't understand what's going to be different between this fall and next spring.
Not sure why the negative votes, this is a reasonable question. There are a few answers. While a vaccine likely won't be ready until later 2021, the differences would be a more effective treatment is more possible by next late winter/spring than september. We also may see more of a herd immunity if this gets passed around by younger people who get mild, or no, symptoms.
Also, there are no assurances that students are going to be on campus for fall 2020. That would really make a case to push sports to spring.
Spring could be a short season, like 6-7 games, ending by April, then start camp in August.
At this point though even that may be too soon.
I think it would be interesting. A real throwback: Michigan's first game was played in May of 1879.
This is the NCAA, Mark fracking Emmett we're talking about. As the NFL goes, NCAAF will go. My prediction? Fall all around. Fans will depend on local governance/optics.
The top players would sit out. No way they would risk injury by playing and they don't want to play in the spring then have a short off-season before rookie mini-camp to ramp up to the NFL season. Their body would not have time to recover from it.
Fall or Spring, Michigan will still lose to OSU.
Once it gets to say December or January, it would be very hard to have a full season and start the next season on time.