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Poll: Will College Sports Be Cancelled for the 2020-21 School Year?

Will College Sports Be Canceled for the 2020-21 school year?

  • College sports will not be canceled & will resume as normal in the fall

    Votes: 60 31.6%
  • All College sports will be canceled for the entire school year

    Votes: 29 15.3%
  • Fall Sports will be canceled, Winter & Spring Sports will be played as normal

    Votes: 28 14.7%
  • Fall & Winter Sports will be canceled, but Spring Sports will be played as Normal

    Votes: 33 17.4%
  • All Sports will be played for tv but no fans will be allowed to attend

    Votes: 32 16.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 8 4.2%

  • Total voters
    190
Southern Cal switched yesterday from its original decision to have students on campus to going to a mostly virtual campus for fall semester.

Ivy League is going to make a decision on July 8th whether it is going to have fall sports or not.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...decide-next-week-plan-fall-sports/5355555002/

Also, a Senate hearing yesterday that was designed to talk about name, image, likeness issues in college athletics spent a fair bit of time talking about COVID19 and whether colleges are doing enough to protect student-athletes.
https://www.si.com/college/2020/07/...tioned-coronavirus-pandemic-response-congress
I think this is one of the most important things to watch as we get closer to August. When media coverage ramps up does it create a narrative that colleges are not looking out for the best interest of their student-athletes. That has the potential to turn public opinion against college sports and make it very difficult for Presidents and AD's to move forward with plans to play this fall.

Yep. There was some interesting talk about that yesterday on a couple of Sirius programs I heard yesterday. Not very often you hear college sports and morality being discussed concurrently.
 
Stanford is among the wealthiest schools in the nation. Even though many of the cuts are for fringe sports like fencing and sailing, if Stanford is cutting sports, that speaks loudly that many more cuts are coming from other schools.
 
We talk enough about Stanford athletics that I think it deserves its own thread.
 
Ivy League: no fall sports, no sports at all until January 1 (no basketball, etc.)

 
Ivy League: no fall sports, no sports at all until January 1 (no basketball, etc.)


The Ivies were ahead of the curve when the shutdown basketball before everyone else. If the pandemic allows IVY sports to return in January, will be interesting to see how schools pull off trying to play all of their sports in the January to May window. Facilities and Field space are limited at a lot of schools, particularly urban campuses, such that the Lacrosse team uses the same field and as the Men's and Women's Soccer team, Field Hockey team etc. COVID sucks.
 
That is scary.
 
So far that only impacts soccer, field hockey and maybe another random sport that WF doesn't field. The first ACC football games are set for September 2 -7 (Wednesday to Monday), and they include 3 conference games: State/Louisville, Clemson/GT and Cuse at BC. Also, the ACC has two nationally televise games as part of the Chik-Fil-A Kickoff: FSU v. WV and UVA v. UGA.

FWIW, WF plays at ODU that week. Virginia is currently in COVID Recovery Phase 3, which allows certain sporting activities, but bars all games and practices where the participants regularly compete within 10 feet of each other, which means football is prohibited. Maybe an exception will be made for college sports, but if not and Virginia stays within Phase 3, I don't see how any Virginia-based teams can practice football or play games.
 
So far that only impacts soccer, field hockey and maybe another random sport that WF doesn't field. The first ACC football games are set for September 2 -7 (Wednesday to Monday), and they include 3 conference games: State/Louisville, Clemson/GT and Cuse at BC. Also, the ACC has two nationally televise games as part of the Chik-Fil-A Kickoff: FSU v. WV and UVA v. UGA.

FWIW, WF plays at ODU that week. Virginia is currently in COVID Recovery Phase 3, which allows certain sporting activities, but bars all games and practices where the participants regularly compete within 10 feet of each other, which means football is prohibited. Maybe an exception will be made for college sports, but if not and Virginia stays within Phase 3, I don't see how any Virginia-based teams can practice football or play games.

cross country runners are people too!
 
So far that only impacts soccer, field hockey and maybe another random sport that WF doesn't field. The first ACC football games are set for September 2 -7 (Wednesday to Monday), and they include 3 conference games: State/Louisville, Clemson/GT and Cuse at BC. Also, the ACC has two nationally televise games as part of the Chik-Fil-A Kickoff: FSU v. WV and UVA v. UGA.

FWIW, WF plays at ODU that week. Virginia is currently in COVID Recovery Phase 3, which allows certain sporting activities, but bars all games and practices where the participants regularly compete within 10 feet of each other, which means football is prohibited. Maybe an exception will be made for college sports, but if not and Virginia stays within Phase 3, I don't see how any Virginia-based teams can practice football or play games.

So ODU forfeits and we get our first W!
 
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