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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
99% of these kids want to play. They're not going to skip out on playing the game they love because they could come down with flu symptoms...NOT calling COVID the flu, but lets be serious. If a kid has an underlying illness then by all means they can opt out. COVID isn't going to kill 1 single athlete - heard it here first. I doubt it'll critically harm any athletes either and the NCAA and power conferences know this.

I know I'll catch some hell with this post and I'm not trying to undermine COVID, but 18-22 year old kids are not worried about it. I'd imagine the ones who sit the season out are using this as a great reason to not risk injury, and can hide behind COVID and not look like bad team players. There may also be parents forcing some kids to sit out.
 
CreamyGoodness said:
99% of these kids want to play. They're not going to skip out on playing the game they love because they could come down with flu symptoms...NOT calling COVID the flu, but lets be serious. If a kid has an underlying illness then by all means they can opt out. COVID isn't going to kill 1 single athlete - heard it here first. I doubt it'll critically harm any athletes either and the NCAA and power conferences know this.

I know I'll catch some hell with this post and I'm not trying to undermine COVID, but 18-22 year old kids are not worried about it. I'd imagine the ones who sit the season out are using this as a great reason to not risk injury, and can hide behind COVID and not look like bad team players. There may also be parents forcing some kids to sit out.
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Creamy, no doubt that the risks for healthy college athletes are very low. But the concern is that sporting events with close contact could be super-spreader events that then lead to coaches, parents, grandparents, professors, staff, etc getting sick and potentially dying. What the NBA, WNBA, NWSL, etc are doing - creating a bubble - is likely to work. College sports are not able to take the bubble approach.
 
To follow that up, the obvious, these kids aren't just playing a game - they're playing for their future. Many of these young men don't have backup plans and they NEED football.
 
Rafi said:
Creamy, no doubt that the risks for healthy college athletes are very low. But the concern is that sporting events with close contact could be super-spreader events that then lead to coaches, parents, grandparents, professors, staff, etc getting sick and potentially dying. What the NBA, WNBA, NWSL, etc are doing - creating a bubble - is likely to work. College sports are not able to take the bubble approach.
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I do agree this is THE problem. These kids need to be in a hotel or similar setup for the next 4 months and only surround themselves with each other. With disciple, which I know could be difficult for college age kids, they could pull this off without harming their elder family members. The older coaches are at the most risks because it should be easy for these young men to steer clear from their families for the season, IMO.
 
CreamyGoodness said:
I do agree this is THE problem. These kids need to be in a hotel or similar setup for the next 4 months and only surround themselves with each other. With disciple, which I know could be difficult for college age kids, they could pull this off without harming their elder family members. The older coaches are at the most risks because it should be easy for these young men to steer clear from their families for the season, IMO.
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There are other issues as well. Outbreaks on teams are going to happen, so then they'll need to quarantine for 14 days. This could quickly take entire teams out of commission. Some programs may have great discipline, but you know there are teams and players out there that won't. I won't name names, but we all know those programs.
 
CreamyGoodness said:
I do agree this is THE problem. These kids need to be in a hotel or similar setup for the next 4 months and only surround themselves with each other. With disciple, which I know could be difficult for college age kids, they could pull this off without harming their elder family members. The older coaches are at the most risks because it should be easy for these young men to steer clear from their families for the season, IMO.
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I don't think this is realistic. They are student athletes. They'll attend class, socialize, etc.
 
Since it's obvious the NCAA is doing everything possible to play then it should be a no-brainer for these kids to all be set up with nothing but virtual learning until 3 weeks after football season. The success of this working is all in the hands of 18-22 year old kids and I realize that is a challenge. It's just one of those things that can be controlled if executed properly.
 
Rafi said:
There are other issues as well. Outbreaks on teams are going to happen, so then they'll need to quarantine for 14 days. This could quickly take entire teams out of commission. Some programs may have great discipline, but you know there are teams and players out there that won't. I won't name names, but we all know those programs.
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cough UNC cough STATE

Rafi said:
I don't think this is realistic. They are student athletes. They'll attend class, socialize, etc.
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I don't disagree with this but the reality of this is we either have football and the kids have no life outside of football, or we don't have football. I'm agreeing that with normal, everyday life as a college kid, there is no way this would ever work. This would have to pulled off to perfection, which is a lot to ask. None of it is impossible, though.
 
No one has any idea how this is going to turn out.

College football seems the most dicey of all of the sports trying to return. It does appear that, like society as a whole, leagues/teams are getting smarter about how to test, isolate and treat COVID over time. That said, college sports, and specifically college football has greater issues to overcome than every other sport due to the size of the roster and the support staff. Seems like an huge ask for colleges to be able to get over the hump and make it through football season, but they are going to try. Will be shocked if every college team makes through the season without stopping. The question is: what will the sport do when some colleges are forced to stop? Does the ACC shutdown if Pitt and Miami have to suspend play or will the conference plow through with the remaining schools and adjust the schedule accordingly?
 
CreamyGoodness said:
To follow that up, the obvious, these kids aren't just playing a game - they're playing for their future. Many of these young men don't have backup plans and they NEED football.
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You gotta think that some of the many college football players across the country come from not so great family/neighborhood situations. I'd argue that the absence of football for months on end along with boredom due to the varying restrictions could lead to some not so great incidents and accidents. Which is more dangerous? Young athletes having to stay in a tough situation back home for a long period of time or an escape to a place of primarily football with the risk of covid (3-7 deaths potentially. https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...s-projected-by-data-analysts-if-fbs-plays-in/) ? It's definitely a double edged sword.
 
cheeseheads12 said:
You gotta think that some of the many college football players across the country come from not so great family/neighborhood situations. I'd argue that the absence of football for months on end along with boredom due to the varying restrictions could lead to some not so great incidents and accidents. Which is more dangerous? Young athletes having to stay in a tough situation back home for a long period of time or an escape to a place of primarily football with the risk of covid (3-7 deaths potentially. https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...s-projected-by-data-analysts-if-fbs-plays-in/) ? It's definitely a double edged sword.
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Yep, couldn't agree more.
 
The big issue is that you just can’t restrict the movement and freedom of college students on athletic scholarships the way you can professional athletes. A bubble won’t work. Many will just redshirt instead. I looks bad to scholarships because young people don’t want to spread a virus or don’t want to be trapped between a dorm and practice and games.
 
The writing seems to be on the wall, only conference schedules and cancelling of all kickoff games, Moving openings till late September, the wheels will completely fall off as soon as multiple teams end up with outbreaks like the Marlins.
 
CreamyGoodness said:
To follow that up, the obvious, these kids aren't just playing a game - they're playing for their future. Many of these young men don't have backup plans and they NEED football.
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The college students?
 
UConn cancels its 2020 football season

cue the "tree falling in the forest" jokes

they were scheduled to play Illinois, Indiana, UNC, UVA, Mississippi, and those games in all likelihood weren't going to happen (B1G/SEC for sure wouldn't have happened)
 
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thatguy2016 said:
UConn cancels its 2020 football season

cue the "tree falling in the forest" jokes

they were scheduled to play Illinois, Indiana, UNC, UVA, Mississippi, and those games in all likelihood weren't going to happen (B1G/SEC for sure wouldn't have happened)
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UCONN claimed the decision was made to ensure the safety of the student athletes, but with no conference affiliation and no football TV money guaranteed, the move was made to save money.
 
Pilchard said:
UCONN claimed the decision was made to ensure the safety of the student athletes, but with no conference affiliation and no football TV money guaranteed, the move was made to save money.
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UCONN's president also sent a letter to all faculty early in the summer to expect furloughs and pay cuts this fall because they had just suffered a university wide $20 million shortfall in the spring semester, and were estimating another $50 million shortfall in the fall semester alone due to expected declined enrollment and the dorms standing mostly empty. Such a cluster that these universities are going to be completely dependent on sports revenue but they will have to risk the lives of coaching staffs and faculty to get the revenue.
 
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