Would this work for an SEC season only?

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Previous 2020 schedule canceled.
New schedule has 13 week conference round robin.
All teams are housed in different hotels in Atlanta.
When classes resume, all are done online with tutoring available.
August is practice month for all 14 teams.
13 game season goes from Sept - November. No bye weeks.
No fans.
Teams, officials, and TV network crews only at games.
Games are played at all available high school/college stadiums in Atlanta.
All games televised in newly negotiated financial package of ABC/Disney/ESPN networks.
All games played on Saturdays only with noon/4pm/8pm eastern starts.
All teams are tested weekly for Coronavirus. A positive test sends that player home until re-testing negative.
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Previous 2020 schedule canceled.
New schedule has 13 week conference round robin.
All teams are housed in different hotels in Atlanta.
When classes resume, all are done online with tutoring available.
August is practice month for all 14 teams.
13 game season goes from Sept - November. No bye weeks.
No fans.
Teams, officials, and TV network crews only at games.
Games are played at all available high school/college stadiums in Atlanta.
All games televised in newly negotiated financial package of ABC/Disney/ESPN networks.
All games played on Saturdays only with noon/4pm/8pm eastern starts.
All teams are tested weekly for Coronavirus. A positive test sends that player home until re-testing negative.
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No, unless players are paid you cannot force them to do something similar to what MLB is getting ready to do. Especially when all the TV Networks and Schools are doing it for profit. I think there will be Football this fall, it just wont have any fans for the first bit.
 
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This morning on the Today Show, some Doctor/Epidemiologist said there would be no fall sports. I am not sure how much I believe this but I could very well see no college football. Pro football is another story. All of those owners are billionaires and will never let a year worth of revenue get away. The NFL owners have far too much pull in the government circles to let a year go by without NFL football.
 
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Vfl2407 said:
All teams are housed in different hotels in Atlanta.

13 game season goes from Sept - November. No bye weeks.

All teams are tested weekly for Coronavirus. A positive test sends that player home until re-testing negative.
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If you were to do these three in combination, you're begging for guys to get sick. And not just one, a bunch. If one gets it, and is stuck in a hotel for 3+ months with a bunch of other dudes, a large percentage will get it. If a positive test sends a guy home, you'll have several teams that will be forced to forfeit a chunk of their seasons.

This is only one glaring example of the impracticality of this idea.
 
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VolBricks said:
This morning on the Today Show, some Doctor/Epidemiologist said there would be no fall sports. I am not sure how much I believe this but I could very well see no college football. Pro football is another story. All of those owners are billionaires and will never let a year worth of revenue get away. The NFL owners have far too much pull in the government circles to let a year go by without NFL football.
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The NFL wouldn't sacrifice a season. They'd simply move it to early 2021.
 
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VolBricks said:
This morning on the Today Show, some Doctor/Epidemiologist said there would be no fall sports. I am not sure how much I believe this but I could very well see no college football. Pro football is another story. All of those owners are billionaires and will never let a year worth of revenue get away. The NFL owners have far too much pull in the government circles to let a year go by without NFL football.
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Agreed. They have the means to play games in other locations. ( London, or South America, Mexico City) if the United States is unwilling to allow them to proceed with televised games. That said, if that happened there might be a shortened season, I don't think you could play all 32 teams every week in Mexico City, but you could play 5-6 games there and another 5-6 in London and then have the other teams not playing have travel weeks and then alternate. Just a thought though.
 
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Chris Fowler through out the idea of starting the season in February. I could see this as a possibility (though this would be middle of flu season). Similar to the XFL this pst year.

I just don’t see having sports with no fans.
 
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VolBricks said:
This morning on the Today Show, some Doctor/Epidemiologist said there would be no fall sports. I am not sure how much I believe this but I could very well see no college football. Pro football is another story. All of those owners are billionaires and will never let a year worth of revenue get away. The NFL owners have far too much pull in the government circles to let a year go by without NFL football.
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Here's the issue, College Football won't go down without a fight because many of those Athletic Budgets depend on Football. If no Football is played this fall I can see UT doing away with a lot of sports and trimming it down to Football, Mens & Womens Basketball, Softball and Baseball. I can see other schools trimming it down further to just Football and Basketball
 
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BP4Prez said:
Chris Fowler through out the idea of starting the season in February. I could see this as a possibility (though this would be middle of flu season). Similar to the XFL this pst year.

I just don’t see having sports with no fans.
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IMO this is the absolute worse solution, how can you play a Spring Season and end in say June. Then you ask those kids to come back to August camp, scrapping Offseason surgeries etc. Too much risk, if thats the case then just scrap it all together.
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
IMO this is the absolute worse solution, how can you play a Spring Season and end in say June. Then you ask those kids to come back to August camp, scrapping Offseason surgeries etc. Too much risk, if thats the case then just scrap it all together.
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Very good point.
 
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VolBricks said:
This morning on the Today Show, some Doctor/Epidemiologist said there would be no fall sports. I am not sure how much I believe this but I could very well see no college football. Pro football is another story. All of those owners are billionaires and will never let a year worth of revenue get away. The NFL owners have far too much pull in the government circles to let a year go by without NFL football.
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Also on this, the PGA is coming back June 11th ( No fans at first ), NBA is putting things in motion for a return, MLB will be back this summer ( No fans at first but eventually there will be ), Nascar will be back, UFC is coming back so I'm not sure how he's coming to this conclusion. If you can't have fall sports then you can't have school which goes against everything Dr. Fauci has said, he also agreed that there may be a Fall wave of this stuff but he did say we would be better equipped to handle it then. So, somewhere along the line the chicken little stuff has to stop. Will life be normal at first? No but there will be sports fans or no fans and I also believe there will be high school sports this fall.
 
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VolBricks said:
This morning on the Today Show, some Doctor/Epidemiologist said there would be no fall sports. I am not sure how much I believe this but I could very well see no college football. Pro football is another story. All of those owners are billionaires and will never let a year worth of revenue get away. The NFL owners have far too much pull in the government circles to let a year go by without NFL football.
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I can see NFL playing because payed to play. College kids no.
 
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JettVol said:
Agreed. They have the means to play games in other locations. ( London, or South America, Mexico City) if the United States is unwilling to allow them to proceed with televised games. That said, if that happened there might be a shortened season, I don't think you could play all 32 teams every week in Mexico City, but you could play 5-6 games there and another 5-6 in London and then have the other teams not playing have travel weeks and then alternate. Just a thought though.
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Regardless of where they play, the potential liability issue would likely be too great to risk.
 
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If someone tests positive that very likely means multiple others are infected too. 1 positive test would likely shut the whole thing down.
 
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The problem we are going to have is if there is not a vaccine, when one player/coach/trainer gets virus a lot of the other players on the team will get it. It will be similar to what happens in a nursing home. Not saying that players will pass away but they will have virus. Then what happens when you don’t have enough players to field a competitive team.
I’m not being doom and gloom, I’m just being a realist.
 
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I don't think anyone knows for sure what's going to happen. One thing we know for sure without a doubt...America MUST get back to work... fairly soon. And I think that will happen slowly at first with a lot of adaptations involved and once that gets going then everything else will be blended in over time. Now that is JUST MY opinion and it means absolutely nothing but its probably as good as anyone else. And I have very little trust in what someone said on NBC. So I guess we can just keep hanging on and see what historical thing happens...again JMO....
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
Here's the issue, College Football won't go down without a fight because many of those Athletic Budgets depend on Football. If no Football is played this fall I can see UT doing away with a lot of sports and trimming it down to Football, Mens & Womens Basketball, Softball and Baseball. I can see other schools trimming it down further to just Football and Basketball
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Title IX isn't going to allow for that.
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
IMO this is the absolute worse solution, how can you play a Spring Season and end in say June. Then you ask those kids to come back to August camp, scrapping Offseason surgeries etc. Too much risk, if thats the case then just scrap it all together.
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They'd have to shorten the season. Start in February, play only 8 or 9 conference games, title games, a reduced number of bowls and the playoff. You could be done by late April / early May.
 
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Whose finances?
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The schools, while the government does provide financial assistance I don't believe that will be enough to offset the cost of losing a Football season. Do you really think Women's Soccer could make it at a place like Alabama if it weren't for the Football Program?
 
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