Chris Fowler on CFB Season Start

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Spring football sounds good to me. Theres just zero chance this starts at the end of August at this point and screwing with the games and the playoff structure seems like a mess.
 
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In a 3 sport school year, football, basketball, baseball, it's always made sense for it to be baseball, basketball, football. Full blown college football in the spring would work fine.
 
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ksgovols said:
In a 3 sport school year, football, basketball, baseball, it's always made sense for it to be baseball, basketball, football. Full blown college football in the spring would work fine.
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Yeah it would work fine but what are they going to do finish the season in June and then turn around and start the new season 12 weeks later? Doesnt seem likely
 
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Football has to be played in the upcoming fiscal year. Get through that and then worry about the next year. Maybe it's a shortened season in the spring. 8-10 games? I don't know the answer, but spring football wouldn't be awful if we're not ready to go by September or October of 2020.
 
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If they do move the 2020 football season to spring 2021, what happens to the 2021 season? There's no way it would/could start in September 2021, right? How would they get the calendar synced back up? Have like a 6-8 game regular season in spring 2021 to allow for enough time to have a normal season in fall 2021?

I totally agree with Fowler and others that the 2020 season will be played in some form or fashion; there's too much at stake not to; but I'm confused as to how you'd get a normal calendar back. Spring football on a permanent basis?
 
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I am just thinking out loud. There is normally about four weeks between regular season and the bigger bowl games. Providing the virus recedes enough, "Why not just push the beginning of the season till Oct.1st?" Everybody seems to be dissatisfied with the waiting period between regular season and bowl season anyway.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Yeah, starting football games in the coldest month of the year in the middle of flu season seems super-likely.
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Agree. This is absurd -the 2nd wave of COVID-19 will be in full swing by then and we will be in the middle of quarantine #2. The best opportunity is a shortened Sept-Nov timeframe. Wrap it up before COVID resurfaces again, which it definitely will.
 
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preacherrandy said:
I am just thinking out loud. There is normally about four weeks between regular season and the bigger bowl games. Providing the virus recedes enough, "Why not just push the beginning of the season till Oct.1st?" Everybody seems to be dissatisfied with the waiting period between regular season and bowl season anyway.
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That makes a ton of sense, but I think admins are skittish about doing that due to the possibility (probability?) of a spike in cases in the fall as the weather gets cooler.

Ultimately, what seems most likely at this point is a shortened season that begins in the Spring semester, perhaps February or March.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Yeah, starting football games in the coldest month of the year in the middle of flu season seems super-likely.
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Not to mention ending a season in June only to start back again in August? That would be really hard from a physical stand point and wouldn't allow for off season surgeries etc.
 
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05_never_again said:
If they do move the 2020 football season to spring 2021, what happens to the 2021 season? There's no way it would/could start in September 2021, right? How would they get the calendar synced back up? Have like a 6-8 game regular season in spring 2021 to allow for enough time to have a normal season in fall 2021?

I totally agree with Fowler and others that the 2020 season will be played in some form or fashion; there's too much at stake not to; but I'm confused as to how you'd get a normal calendar back. Spring football on a permanent basis?
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I really have a hard time wrapping my head around Spring football on a permanent basis. Once maybe, but not full time. I would be for taking a one time hit of an abbreviated season if you could right the calendar for the following season .
 
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2020 football will not happen there is no way it can safely happen without a vaccine. I just hope we get a treatable vaccine for this before the 2021 football season.
 
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There won’t be a season this year no matter what they do. It doesent seem to be slowing down and some have made it political.

When it comes to football Tennessee just had bad timing. That OL could have been special to watch
 
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Does Fowler have AIDS or the virus? he doesn’t look well.
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There won’t be a season this year no matter what they do. It doesent seem to be slowing down and some have made it political.

When it comes to football Tennessee just had bad timing. That OL could have been special to watch
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Would our seniors be allowed to come back for another year ?
 
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BigOrangeAl 1979 said:
Does Fowler have AIDS or the virus? he doesn’t look well.

Would our seniors be allowed to come back for another year ?
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Probably not, and you’d have to look at what they did for both basketball teams. It would most likely just be the end of the road for the seniors. Really unfortunate and I hate it.

To many variables to figure out not just from the current players but incoming freshman too.
 
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Dudleys87 said:
Probably not, and you’d have to look at what they did for both basketball teams. It would most likely just be the end of the road for the seniors. Really unfortunate and I hate it.

To many variables to figure out not just from the current players but incoming freshman too.
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. Well crap
 
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