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And so it begins
guinpen:
7 leagues have canceled the fall season so far, writing is on the wall folks!
guinpen:
Read the report on WKBN this morning, it clearly states that the fall league schedule has been canceled but schools can opt to play non-conference games in the fall. Would that even be a consideration for YSU?
guinpen:
Guess that we will not be playing akron after all.
Sources: MAC postpones all fall sports, including football
10:37 AM ET
Adam Rittenberg
ESPN Senior Writer
The Mid-American Conference is postponing all fall sports, including football, sources confirmed to ESPN on Saturday.
League presidents met Saturday morning and voted for the postponement. The MAC is the first FBS conference to opt not to play this fall. Earlier this week, FBS independent UConn became the first FBS program to cancel its season.
An official announcement will be made later Saturday. Stadium first reported on the MAC's decision.
The MAC presidents initially met Thursday morning to discuss the season but could not reach a decision. Northern Illinois and other league members expressed reservations about playing football and other sports safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic, sources said.
A spring season is likely for football and other fall sports but has not yet been determined.
guinpen:
The end is near.
Sources: Power 5 talking about no fall football 6:09 PM ET ESPN
Commissioners of the Power 5 conferences held an emergency meeting on Sunday, as there is growing concern among college athletics officials that the upcoming football season and other fall sports can't be played because of the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN.
Several sources have indicated to ESPN that Big Ten presidents, following a meeting on Saturday, are ready to pull the plug on its fall sports season, and they wanted to gauge if commissioners and university presidents and chancellors from the other Power 5 conferences -- the ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC -- will fall in line with them.
Sources told ESPN that a vast majority of Big Ten presidents have indicated that they would vote to postpone football season, hopefully to the spring. A Big Ten official confirmed to ESPN that no official vote took place during Saturday's meeting, but the presidents are set to meet again Sunday night.
"It doesn't look good," one Power 5 athletic director said.
Notre Dame has close ties to the Power 5, deciding to join the ACC in football this year instead of remaining independent due to the challenges of the pandemic. Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick verbalized one of the central issues with altering the season.
"My view is if we change course, we better be able to articulate the reason for doing so to our student-athletes," he told ESPN.
The Mid-American Conference on Saturday became the first FBS league to postpone the fall sports season, including football.
Presidents and chancellors of the Pac-12 universities are scheduled to meet on Tuesday.
Several sources have told ESPN over the past 48 hours that the postponement or cancellation of the football season seems inevitable. Many of those sources believed it ultimately will take a Power 5 conference to move things in that direction, and that either the Big Ten or Pac-12 would probably be the first league to do it.
"Nobody wanted to be the first to do it," a Power 5 coach told ESPN, "and now nobody will want to be the last."
A Power 5 administrator added: "It feels like no one wants to, but it's reaching the point where someone is going to have to."
The ACC, Big 12 and SEC have wanted to wait to see what happened after thousands of students returned to their campuses this month, but they might be forced to act if the Big Ten and/or Pac-12 take action this week, the sources said.
IAA Fan:
--- Quote from: guinpen on August 08, 2020, 08:29:23 AM ---Read the report on WKBN this morning, it clearly states that the fall league schedule has been canceled but schools can opt to play non-conference games in the fall. Would that even be a consideration for YSU?
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I know this sounds bad, but I hope not. Just cancel it. The sooner we get back to normal the better. You know they will never cancel basketball, yet it starts only 3 weeks after football. Cancel this spring season game schedule as well. Let's just let our team have spring practice sessions and a nice spring game to welcome the new coach. Keep the money as is, and apply it to next year. Why complicate matters?
The ones I feel the most sorry for are the 2021 HS grads (recruits). The NCAA has to let the players have another year (or they will be sued with just reason). This leaves the school without much in the way of scholarships funds for anyone new. Maybe the NCAA will allow some adjustments, but we still need to come up with the money. Is suspect there will be some top recruits "without a home" this year. Would be nice to have the open scholarships to take advantage of this.
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