Interesting scenario.....thoughts?

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The Original Fade

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I have a close friend with a son set to play baseball for an SEC team in 2020/21 that is telling me there is a strong possibility that D1 athletic programs across the country are nearly at a consensus to flip sports for this year and 2021, meaning playing baseball in the fall since social distancing and close contact can be more controlled, and football in the Spring so that programs have more time to prepare and mitigate virus spread with the possibility of a vaccine being available.

Honestly, I would be ok with this. There was no mention of how to deal with basketball yet.

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College baseball regular season is 3 1/2 months plus conference tournaments plus college world series. Also add a couple of weeks before for practice.

If they plan on doing that, better start soon or the schools in the northern and mountain states will be playing in the snow not to mention Omaha isn't known for sun and warmth in late fall/winter .
 
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norrislakevol said:
Just play the damn games and stop being weak kneed sissies. Time to get back to life.
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Are you one of those people constantly getting arrested on video at a Home Depot or Target for screaming at everyone that you don’t have to wear a mask and then coughing and spitting on people who ask you to wear one?
 
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Honest question - If you're a legit first round draft pick, do you play a January-April football season? Pride and the love of the game isn't really top priority anymore. From a business and financial standpoint, I cannot think of any good reason for top draft picks to play, under this scenario.
 
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TennesseeFan07 said:
Honest question - If you're a legit first round draft pick, do you play a January-April football season? Pride and the love of the game isn't really top priority anymore. From a business and financial standpoint, I cannot think of any good reason for top draft picks to play, under this scenario.
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Agreed. The question is how deep does this go b/c there are many who will not be 1rst rounders, who think they are, or have a chance to be, even 2nd rounders...you get the drift.
 
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The Original Fade said:
Are you one of those people constantly getting arrested on video at a Home Depot or Target for screaming at everyone that you don’t have to wear a mask and then coughing and spitting on people who ask you to wear one?
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Nope. If forced to I will wear a mask. I am forced to at work.
 
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TennesseeFan07 said:
Honest question - If you're a legit first round draft pick, do you play a January-April football season? Pride and the love of the game isn't really top priority anymore. From a business and financial standpoint, I cannot think of any good reason for top draft picks to play, under this scenario.
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No, you don’t play. If there’s football in the spring it will be without most of the top talented Jrs and Srs.
 
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TennesseeFan07 said:
Honest question - If you're a legit first round draft pick, do you play a January-April football season? Pride and the love of the game isn't really top priority anymore. From a business and financial standpoint, I cannot think of any good reason for top draft picks to play, under this scenario.
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Nope, if a player is projected to go in the first 3 rounds they shouldn't play a spring season.
 
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The Original Fade said:
I have a close friend with a son set to play baseball for an SEC team in 2020/21 that is telling me there is a strong possibility that D1 athletic programs across the country are nearly at a consensus to flip sports for this year and 2021, meaning playing baseball in the fall since social distancing and close contact can be more controlled, and football in the Spring so that programs have more time to prepare and mitigate virus spread with the possibility of a vaccine being available.

Honestly, I would be ok with this. There was no mention of how to deal with basketball yet.

Thoughts?
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We will have football this fall. My son plays for a D2 school and they start practice this coming Monday. The NCAA is allowing coach's to work with them and to have meetings since there was no spring practice. They go straight into start of fall camp on Aug 5th. We have less than 1% of the US population with the virus so stop with all the doom and gloom just do your own research and do the math the panic is more political than anything in my opinion.
 
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With cases surging across the south, having a fall season for college sports seems almost impossible. Player safety has to come first. The Ivy League has already moved the fall sports to spring with others to likely follow suit. I totally get that having a spring season makes starting the fall 2021 difficult as best. My recommendation would be to play a conference only schedule in the spring with no post season play. Expand the rosters temporarily for the spring and fall to accommodate the schedule slip and the overlap of recruiting classes. The fall season would be played as a regular season. Once the fall 2021/22 season is completed, roster sizes and recruiting limitations would be partially reinstated. The spring would bring a total glut of sports being played, but what choice do we have.
 
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RFlynn said:
We will have football this fall. My son plays for a D2 school and they start practice this coming Monday. The NCAA is allowing coach's to work with them and to have meetings since there was no spring practice. They go straight into start of fall camp on Aug 5th. We have less than 1% of the US population with the virus so stop with all the doom and gloom just do your own research and do the math the panic is more political than anything in my opinion.
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A lot more than 1% of LSU and Clemson’s football rosters have been infected since June.
 
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TennesseeFan07 said:
Honest question - If you're a legit first round draft pick, do you play a January-April football season? Pride and the love of the game isn't really top priority anymore. From a business and financial standpoint, I cannot think of any good reason for top draft picks to play, under this scenario.
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if I was trey smith or Justin fields or Trevor Lawrence I wouldn’t play
 
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