Spring football


None.

Our spring game is usually around the 2nd week of April so our JUCO guys are on campus but didn't get the spring game under their belt to gel.
 

If we have a season (I really hope that we do), be it truncated or in whole, it is going to be bad in the beginning.
 
Ohio State AD Gene Smith: Playing games in stadiums without fans is still unsafe

With the COVID-19 pandemic still in full swing, many in the college football world have started to question what the upcoming season this fall will look like.

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To be fair, there are still plenty of variables in play and several months left before the season is supposed to start. Nobody knows for sure what the sports world will look like by then.

While some have floated the idea of playing college sporting events this fall in stadiums without fans present, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said on Friday that he doesn’t understand how that would be safe.
“I struggle with that concept,” Smith said, via ESPN. “When I first heard that, I said, ‘OK, that could work.’ But I figured if we don’t have fans in the stands, we’ve determined it’s not safe for them in a gathering environment. So why would it be safe for the players?”
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Smith isn’t alone in this idea. Several prominent coaches, including UCLA’s Chip Kelly and Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin don’t think playing without fans present is safe, and Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told Yahoo Sports this month that there won’t be any college football if students aren’t allowed to return to campus. After all, college football players are students first.
“Either we’ve made it through this and it’s safe for people to be around or it’s not,” Kiffin said on The Paul Finebaum Show on Friday. Obviously we shouldn’t do anything until it’s completely safe.
“I don’t know how all of the sudden you’re gonna say you can start playing football games with no fans and that’s safe, but it’s not safe for fans. So I think that’s a waste of time.”
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Makes all the sense in the world to me.

If regular students can't come back to August in August then neither should the players

We are still months out from fall camp so we will have to see if the spread of this virus is slowed and what type of treatments are widely available
 
Mace said:
Ohio State AD Gene Smith: Playing games in stadiums without fans is still unsafe

With the COVID-19 pandemic still in full swing, many in the college football world have started to question what the upcoming season this fall will look like.

BB12syZp.img

© AP Photo/Jay LaPrete

To be fair, there are still plenty of variables in play and several months left before the season is supposed to start. Nobody knows for sure what the sports world will look like by then.

While some have floated the idea of playing college sporting events this fall in stadiums without fans present, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said on Friday that he doesn’t understand how that would be safe.


Smith isn’t alone in this idea. Several prominent coaches, including UCLA’s Chip Kelly and Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin don’t think playing without fans present is safe, and Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told Yahoo Sports this month that there won’t be any college football if students aren’t allowed to return to campus. After all, college football players are students first.
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Sports Illustrated had an interesting article that outlined any plans to play games — even without fans — would be difficult (until there is treatments available) because everyone involved in the basic functionality of games could all have to be isolated. That means coaches, athletes, support staff, media, security, food service people, cleaning crews, would have to bequarantined to limit exposure.

I think America has to look at how China has tried to restart its basketball league but been forced to push the dates back several times. South Korea is going to try to start its pro baseball season soon. But there is still a level of uncertainty there how it will go.

Schools should be very cautious moving forward.
 
In_The_662 said:
Makes all the sense in the world to me.

If regular students can't come back to August in August then neither should the players

We are still months out from fall camp so we will have to see if the spread of this virus is slowed and what type of treatments are widely available
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I agree, but to be honest I don't believe the CDC or the Public in general are going to feel confident and safe gathering in large groups or crowds, at least for sporting events, until an effective Vaccine is developed and tested in large scale human volunteer trials, approved by the FDA and ramped up for mass immunization of the general population. The current time frame for all of this to occur is still 12-18 months.
 
Mace said:
I agree, but to be honest I don't believe the CDC or the Public in general are going to feel confident and safe gathering in large groups or crowds, at least for sporting events, until an effective Vaccine is developed and tested in large scale human volunteer trials, approved by the FDA and ramped up for mass immunization of the general population. The current time frame for all of this to occur is still 12-18 months.
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Don't underestimate the power and influence of greed and white people.

If there is ANY way they can get a season in, they will explore it
 
In the 662 would you be comfortable sitting next to someone at a game. I have already purchased my season tickets but did buy the insurance. If we have a season I probably will not attend a game.
 
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