Will There Be a 2020 Football Season?

[commando]

this isn't a good sign

 

https://www.al.com/news/2020/08/university-of-alabama-reports-more-than-500-confirmed-covid-19-cases.html

[84HuskerLaw]

NCAA announcing cfb playoff and starting basketball seasons this fall says f-u to the Big Ten !   This forces Big Ten to rethink their cancellation of all fall semester sports which now effectively includes BB.   Big Ten going to have explain allowing BB but not VB somehow.  lol. 

And AP poll including Big Ten teams is a direct teaser to the Big Ten by stirring the fan reaction for all those rated teams who dont get to play out a promising season nor compete for anything in the spring.  Heck AP may not have polls for spring teams - effectively saying that spring fb means nothing.  

[knapplc]

30 minutes ago, commando said:

this isn't a good sign

 

https://www.al.com/news/2020/08/university-of-alabama-reports-more-than-500-confirmed-covid-19-cases.html

 

Yeah. You gotta wonder about all these plans to play games in these hot spots. Doesn't seem like a really smart thing to do, does it?

[Enhance]

11 hours ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

I am getting alerts for that forum but don't have permission to view it. 

 

ND nearing 450 cases.  https://here.nd.edu/our-approach/dashboard/

PM any mod or admin to request the Woodshed's password and we can send it to you.

[Huskers93-97]

2 hours ago, 84HuskerLaw said:

NCAA announcing cfb playoff and starting basketball seasons this fall says f-u to the Big Ten !   This forces Big Ten to rethink their cancellation of all fall semester sports which now effectively includes BB.   Big Ten going to have explain allowing BB but not VB somehow.  lol. 

And AP poll including Big Ten teams is a direct teaser to the Big Ten by stirring the fan reaction for all those rated teams who dont get to play out a promising season nor compete for anything in the spring.  Heck AP may not have polls for spring teams - effectively saying that spring fb means nothing.  

Pretty much. The big 10 has a national title contender in football (Ohio State). National title contender in volleyball (Nebraska) Possibly others since our volleyball conference is stacked. 

[gossamorharpy]

14 hours ago, Omaha fan said:

Yes that may have been very true in the last couple of years, but the pac12 is a joke now and from a long term perspective football is going to be in Texas and Oklahoma for a long time, California. Oregon, Washington, Colorado-not so much. That limits options a bit and the big 10 isn’t letting in an Oklahoma state, Kansas state etc 

lol, wtf does this even mean?  I can guarantee you, football is going to be in these states long term just as much as any other state lololol

[gossamorharpy]

Just now, gossamorharpy said:

lol, wtf does this even mean?  I can guarantee you, football is going to be in these states long term just as much as any other state lololol

I also wouldn't call the PAC 12 a joke.  Sure, they could certainly adjust how they broadcast their team's games... I don;t think Friday night pacific time zone and being relegated to 5 pm/ 7pm pacific time zone games is best for the competitiveness and exposure to the nation and they certainly need to change this.... but as a conference, the Pac12 has been pretty damn stable and made up of very large universities- many in very large and influential population centers in the country

 

Perhaps the participation of football at the youth level is declining relatively faster than other states but most of the schools that matter in PAC12 are already relying on the Texas, floridas of the world to get talent on top of having california (most populous state?!?!) right in their backyard

 

Lack of elite football success doesnt necessarily mean a mess of a conference

[knapplc]

38 minutes ago, Huskers93-97 said:

Pretty much. The big 10 has a national title contender in football (Ohio State). National title contender in volleyball (Nebraska) Possibly others since our volleyball conference is stacked. 

 

Just as a quick point of clarity, Nebraska isn't the only title contender in Volleyball.

 

Wisconsin is the odds-on favorite, Nebraska is in the mix, as is Minnesota. And you can never really count Russ Rose out in Penn State, although this doesn't appear to have the hallmarks of his classic national championship teams.

 

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

4 hours ago, Omaha fan said:

It’s just an absolute fact that  in some areas of the country football just isn’t important and is now considered to be part of a bygone idealistic Americana that many would like to see go away. 

 

This is your idea of an absolute fact? 

[Undone]

4 hours ago, commando said:

this isn't a good sign

 

https://www.al.com/news/2020/08/university-of-alabama-reports-more-than-500-confirmed-covid-19-cases.html

 

Most people will probably ultimately be exposed to coronavirus in the U.S. There's no vaccine.

 

A virus runs its course and then either dies off when herd immunity sets in within a population and/or it mutates into a new strain.

[Omaha fan]

Several states have taken the first steps in banning youth football before the age of I think 12 or 14. Very predictable who the states are California,  Illinois, New York etc 

https://brainlaw.com/youth-tackle-football/
 

These are one of the first steps to making the game less popular and take the numbers down 

[Omaha fan]

Don’t take my word for it, Forbes says the data says football is declining and the decline is accelerating, also the future for football is as a regional sport 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/01/28/the-decline-of-football-is-real-and-its-accelerating/amp/

[Undone]

2 minutes ago, Omaha fan said:

Don’t take my word for it, Forbes says the data says football is declining and the decline is accelerating, also the future for football is as a regional sport 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/01/28/the-decline-of-football-is-real-and-its-accelerating/amp/

 

Well, you have to admit that long-term concussion trauma is a pretty huge deal. We all love the sport dearly and that part will probably never change for any of us - but the CTE stuff is real and if you're the parent of a young man there are some decisions to be taken seriously there.

 

One of the hard parts is that when you're a professional you get paid to do it and you're of consenting age to sign up for that damage. But getting to that point, and the fact that hardly anybody goes pro? Kind of a difficult hurdle.

[suh_fan93]

 

 

[jaws]

4 hours ago, 84HuskerLaw said:

NCAA announcing cfb playoff and starting basketball seasons this fall says f-u to the Big Ten !   This forces Big Ten to rethink their cancellation of all fall semester sports which now effectively includes BB.   Big Ten going to have explain allowing BB but not VB somehow.  lol. 

And AP poll including Big Ten teams is a direct teaser to the Big Ten by stirring the fan reaction for all those rated teams who dont get to play out a promising season nor compete for anything in the spring.  Heck AP may not have polls for spring teams - effectively saying that spring fb means nothing.  

 

Again, NCAA != CFP. The NCAA has moved all their fall championships for D1 to the spring (this includes vball). BB is a winter sport and they will determine the winter championships at a later date. The P5 schools made this mess for football long ago. They could have actual NCAA championships for FBS but the P5 schools and conferences are greedy.