BIG needs to post a Winter/Spring schedule

[Morrischiano2]

The Big 10 should get ahead of the current narrative and post a schedule starting in mid-January- allowing for athletes to finish finals and then have a two week camp. Do a 10 game schedule that ends before April. After the SuperBowl, shift games to be played on Sunday. You’ll have over a month to dominate the airwaves before March Madness starts. If the PaC12 joins in the same time period, you can have a championship bowl in April between the two conference winners. Players would have 3-4 months to recover before August summer camp.

This preserves revenue, allows players to develop, doesn’t force the carryover of scholarships, slows impetus for transfers and provides a dispute to the national championship from the ACC-SEC-B12.

Also, it can be totally scrapped if CV-19 blows up the remaining conferences that play in the fall.

 

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

Arctic and subarctic divisions...

 

[Morrischiano2]

Arctic and subarctic divisions...

Football is played in the cold. Play Minnesota’s games in the Vikings dome and Michigan’s games in the Lions stadium for the first few games.

 

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

Football is played in the cold. Play Minnesota’s games in the Vikings dome.

If it is played in the cold, there’s no need to borrow Minnesota’s fancy dome

 

[Morrischiano2]

If it is played in the cold, there’s no need to borrow Minnesota’s fancy dome

Ok you got me.

 

[superfan01]

A season wouldn’t be able to start until March if athletes are first allowed back in January. Would need some sort of training camp.

 

[Morrischiano2]

Yes so start training right after finals and allow a break for Christmas/New Years.

 

[Caliknight]

Square peg round hole. Wait till next year.

 

[dconifer0]

Personally, I really don't think it's possible to know enough about what will be going on by then. For better or worse, enough people in this country have made political choices about how to respond to the virus, and thus it's not going away. I don't see any reason to believe that things will be any different in six months, but more importantly, I don't see any way to know it.

I think it's just a matter of what the consensus becomes with regard to if/how we tolerate the existence of the virus in this country.

 

[Morrischiano2]

Square peg round hole. Wait till next year.

Too much money at stake to not attempt a winter/spring season. Live content is premium in this new normal.

Shave the peg. Make it fit.

 

[Morrischiano2]

OSU HC likes my plan:


https://www.espn.com/college-footba...g-college-football-season-start-early-january

 

[Morrischiano2]

RU will lose 49 million bucks because of this.

The entire conference will lose 950 million.


https://nypost.com/2020/08/12/big-ten-could-lose-up-to-1b-in-revenue-with-no-fall-football/

 

[Trojanlegacy]

RU will lose 49 million bucks because of this.

The entire conference will lose 950 million.


https://nypost.com/2020/08/12/big-ten-could-lose-up-to-1b-in-revenue-with-no-fall-football/

Still surprised they cancelled because of this. Especially so early in August.

 

[Morrischiano2]

Still surprised they cancelled because of this. Especially so early in August.

Two issues spooked the Big 10 & Pac 12:
1) Several BiG and Pac 12 schools will not have students on campus- only athletes. This adds practical weight to the football players arguments that they're just not students, but some some type of essential worker. Workers need to be paid.

2) Reports of myocarditis found in a handful of football players that came down with CV19 made the conferences worried about long term damage to players; and worried about lawsuits.