Oregon governor cancels all sporting events through end of September
No Oregon Ohio state game at autzen
At least not with crowds
This is stupid. We have no idea what the world will look like in September.
I agree, but at some point these choices need to get made for planning reasons. They can’t just wait and see and expect teams to figure it out on short notice.
Do You realize planning for conference championship games happens with as little as 6 days notice in the pac 12?
bowl games can be as little as 3 weeks notice
that’s a pretty lame excuse sorry
You do realize those games know they will have crowds for an entire year beforehand right? Who shows up to the game has nothing to do with planning for a crowd of 60k people. It’s knowing if there will be a crowd that matters and that involves months of planing. You have to deal with permits, hiring, etc
It doesn’t take 3 months to get those permits.
teams reschedule for hurricanes, other reasons all the time with weeks notice.
remember when Nebraska played Bethune cookman after the Akron game was cancelled?
don’t over complicate an issue to support your narrative. The rest of college football is dealing with the same uncertainty and has not felt the need to make a decision now
I'd split the difference between your argument and the counter. Yes--rescheduling one game can be done, but if a whole bunch of teams are all rescheduling, it really does create a massive cluster.
However, I'd imagine this is much more about budgets and worst-case scenario planning than about. Now the OU program can begin to decide what to do for staffing/budget and work with somewhat more "real" numbers.
Double post. Nothing to see here.
But this isn't a one-off event. If Oregon is going to have crowds at home games, it will sell season tickets, and if it's anything like it is at Michigan, it's pretty complicated stuff that involves seat priority points and whatnot. Fans need time to make that decision because otherwise they lose priority for future seasons. UO needs to know in advance what the seating situation will be. A lot of their athletic budget is probably based on football ticket sales.
Likewise, U-M can't wait until August to know if there will be crowds at Michigan Stadium.
You get it. It might be a bad decision, but we need to collectively come to a decision about how fall is going to look.
But what if that decision is that we don't know?
I'd suggest the best way forward is to assume things take place as normally as possible until we're certain that scenario isn't going to fly. Then you move onto Scenario B (maybe no fans).
It's easier to cancel something than it is to un-cancel something.
I agree it's easier to cancel - which is why they just cancelled attendance at those games.
I'd suggest the best way forward is to assume things take place as normally as possible until we're certain that scenario isn't going to fly.
But then you may find yourself scrambling to create a new athletic budget on short notice (and possibly cut/suspend some sports teams) and refunding a lot of money to fans.
Large spectator events are going to be the last thing to come back. We're highly unlikely to get the kind of medical breakthrough that would allow us to feel secure seating 50-100,000 people in one venue in time for September.
What might be feasible, though, is playing before fans in the spring of 2021.
I understand your point, but forgoing revenue based off guessing wrong is the worst case scenario in my opinion. From the AD's perspective, it's by far your best scenario to have fans and hard to write off. It's not an easy call.
If it were a 50-50 proposition, yes, that would make sense. But I'm afraid you're seriously overestimating the probability of having fans in the stands this fall. I'll be very, very surprised if that happens. To me the big question is whether they play (in empty stadiums) at all.
If you want fans in the stands, I think you've got to postpone the season to the spring. Schedule it for March/April/May and maybe it's doable.
Yeah, I guess we fundamentally have different thoughts on how it could play out. I am still encouraged by how it has played out internationally and since the initial outbreak US. Things change quickly. I don't actually think fans are terribly likely, maybe regionally (SEC), but regardless I would I still plan for it until it is crystal clear.
I think it is trending toward a more regional, state by state call. Oregon and Michigan may not have football, but Georgia, Tennessee and Florida may be playing ball. These are largely not public health decisions being made, they are political ones.
Yeah, according to most medical experts, there's virtually no chance that the harder hit states will allow mass crowds by September. So Oregon is just playing the odds. Also -- and this is important -- it's just fucking football. Only football zealots think it's that important for a school like Oregon to play football games this year. It's small beans comparatively. The school will be fine. Stop seeing it through the eyes of a fan and start seeing it through the eyes of a public-health official. Jeez.
Spring meaning which months? When would that season end and 2021 begin? I don't think you can have a full or near full Spring season followed 3 months later by another full season.
I think we play this fall, with maybe the non-conference schedule cancelled. Masks probably required.
Comparing the logistics between conference championship/bowl games to regular season games is stupid. Come on man.
They cancelled the NBA season with about 5 minutes notice. The NCAA does not need 5 months.
Exactly x 10,000. As soon as I read the thread title, I thought this exact same thing.
This is political posturing at its most face-palm worthy.
It's a pretty safe bet that there won't be a vaccine or even a widely-available treatment by then, and so I can see why a governor would preemptively set expectations that putting 90k+ people in close proximity to watch football is unlikely. If by some miracle that changes then I'm sure this decision will be re-evaluated.
It'll probably still be spherical and mostly covered with water.
There will be pressure to walk this back by late June.
Things may be better in the summer - then may get worse in the fall when temperatures drop. We're going through this pandemic for the first time, we're not going to get everything right. There are a lot of calculated risks.
So in that case, we should ban football during the one warm fall month coming off summer?
And then....reopen but only when temps are dropping?
That sounds like a great idea.
Probably the same reason why lockdowns start out as a 3-week thing and end up a few months. Easier to sell to the public that way.
Read between the lines here. There won't be any fans in Autzen this fall. Whether any football players take the field remains to be seen.
A second lockdown will never be sold to the public. There is 0 appetite for it, now or in a few months.
33,000,000 people without jobs.
Social distancing is the worst thing you can do. You need other people for a strong immune system. Wave 2 is coming because of these policies.
"You need other people for a strong immune system."
So that's what the Pilgrims were selling Native Americans?
I love when 1 wave turns into 2. When that happens and people in the stadium don't know it's coming, they love it. I love when they merge in my section.
There is more noise involved with waves than with anything else...
Do you think that the more you post this nonsense, the more likely you are to be right? Just. Stop.
Or better yet, back up your claim with some science. Short of that, stop being such a snowflake and pretending your opinion matters one single iota when it comes to the current pandemic.
Gotta love the people who WANT wave 1 because they're worried about wave 2.
Someone will probably mention how 2nd waves were often worse in 1918. Except it's not 1918, and lots of countries already avoided wave 1 in the first place and are well prepared to avoid wave 2 as well.
No matter how many times you repeat this completely bugnuts argument it isn't going to be any less bugnuts.
You literally have no idea what you're talking about. No leading medical experts agree with this -- quite the opposite, in fact. If we'd gone with your approach, cities would have been overwhelmed a month ago and the system would already be broken. Put your hand in the sand and keep it there. Your ignorance won't harm anyone that way.
Where is your evidence of this? How come he has to provide evidence for your opinion but you don't have to provide evidence for your opinion?
Double penetration?
September might be ok, but if this thing behaves at all like the flu, things are going to get interesting in October or November.
Word on the street is the Chinese scientist who engineered the damn thing positively HATES football and thinks soccer would be much bigger here in the U.S. if given the chance so look out this fall!
LOL!!! It's a conspiracy to end football as we know it!
Considering how reactive all other people are once one Governor/state does something, I expect to see more of this across the country in rather short order.
Barring a medical breakthrough in the coming month or two, I have a feeling fans wont be at any sporting events if they are held at all...well, except for the south, where foosball>everything.
If teams in the south play and North teams don't will all the Big Ten players transfer? Do we know for certain that this wasn't engineered in a lab in rural Mississippi just to ensure dominance over the North in football?
You lost me at "lab in Mississippi"...
Why would they have to do that?
So dissing an entire state is now racist?
Sure hope you never made any "racist" remarks against those folks from ohio...
Edit: way to remove the part where you called FauxMo a racist.
{Psst, I don't think he got the joke. Just let him be...}
Honestly if I were a college athlete I would be doing everything I could to get GTFO of a state like Michigan right now. I’m sure many are.