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Post by vbcoltrane on Jul 10, 2020 10:47:06 GMT -5
Why bother ? Save the athletes eligibility and try in 2021. Yeah. And I honestly think that's what will happen. We're dealing with just enormous disruptions to "normal" and people naturally want to be positive and push through - try to have the things that we've always had - including college sports. I get it, and I commend people for trying to figure it out. But, I don't think fall sports will end up happening. Conference-only is just a precursor to cancellation of the entire season.
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Post by uncommitted on Jul 10, 2020 10:59:05 GMT -5
Why bother ? Save the athletes eligibility and try in 2021. Yeah. And I honestly think that's what will happen. We're dealing with just enormous disruptions to "normal" and people naturally want to be positive and push through - try to have the things that we've always had - including college sports. I get it, and I commend people for trying to figure it out. But, I don't think fall sports will end up happening. Conference-only was is just a precursor to cancellation of the entire season. Maybe. Or a way to buy some time and see if things improve (which may be wishful thinking, at least on a conference wide basis—more likely some places improve and others worsen). I do know if my kids weren’t athletes we’d probably be taking the year off from college and doing a gap year or something. I go back and forth on the prospect of them losing a year of eligibility for a partial season, but I think both would live with a conference only season and play if at all possible.
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Post by vbfanforever on Jul 10, 2020 11:16:16 GMT -5
Why bother ? Save the athletes eligibility and try in 2021. Unfortunately, I think many seniors will opt out and move on. Makes me so sad to think about it.
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Post by huskerjen on Jul 10, 2020 11:21:50 GMT -5
Why bother ? Save the athletes eligibility and try in 2021. And what happens to the 2021s who are still praying and hoping to be signing their LOI in Nov? Or the classes behind them? Or the girls excited to be going to join the team in January. A cancelled season will impact not just this year, but several years down the road. I would assume that scholarship cap rules will be granted an exception to players already on roster at the time of season cancellation. Specifically for volleyball, players already on roster with a scholarship will be granted an extra season of eligibility and their scholarship protected. That means rosters from 2021 - 2024 may have more than 12 scholarships allocated. However, the NCAA may punt on funding and say that programs/universities willing to foot the bill for extra scholarships will be allowed that provision, but if they cannot due to cost, then players will still be granted an extra year of eligibility but will not have a scholarship and will need to pay for that semester themselves.
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Post by bastianellifan on Jul 10, 2020 11:31:30 GMT -5
Could we see early games held outside? That could be fun.
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Post by gibbyb1 on Jul 10, 2020 11:42:07 GMT -5
Why bother ? Save the athletes eligibility and try in 2021. Unfortunately, I think many seniors will opt out and move on. Makes me so sad to think about it. Free year of grad school
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Post by gibbyb1 on Jul 10, 2020 11:42:38 GMT -5
We do all realize fall sports are ONLY happening for football.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 12:26:49 GMT -5
We do all realize fall sports are ONLY happening for football. I think if football is played, so is everything else. If football isn't played, nothing is.
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Post by oldnewbie on Jul 10, 2020 12:35:09 GMT -5
We do all realize fall sports are ONLY happening for football. I think if football is played, so is everything else. If football isn't played, nothing is. I agree. Volleyball will be used to help justify that football is okay. With no football, the need for justification evaporates.
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Post by oldman on Jul 10, 2020 12:56:41 GMT -5
I think if football is played, so is everything else. If football isn't played, nothing is. I agree. Volleyball will be used to help justify that football is okay. With no football, the need for justification evaporates. Why doesn't football develop a helmet with built in N95 mask in it and require every player to have a face shield.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 13:02:04 GMT -5
Nebraska Football had over $59 million profit last year while volleyball made a small profit. Nice try but completely wrong Profit?! There is no such thing as "profit" in college athletics. That's a dirty word. Schools (especially public) are supposed to be non-profit ventures.
Whatever revenues come in, they find a way to make it look like they spent every last dime.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 13:03:44 GMT -5
I agree. Volleyball will be used to help justify that football is okay. With no football, the need for justification evaporates. Why doesn't football develop a helmet with built in N95 mask in it and require every player to have a face shield.
" “My second year in the league, I thought it would be cool,” Watt said. “I put a visor on my helmet. I was like, ‘It looks so cool, I want to put a visor on.’ I had it on for about three periods of practice and I said, ‘Take this sucker off, I’m going to die out here.’ Just the face one. “So now you want to put something around my mouth? No. You can keep that. If that comes into play, I don’t think you’re going to see me out there on the field.”
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Post by 3ball on Jul 10, 2020 14:29:09 GMT -5
If you keep adding eligibilty years to current athletes what happens to future classes? It is not feasible to keep kicking the can down the road by extending scholarships.
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Post by Phaedrus on Jul 10, 2020 14:39:24 GMT -5
There is no such thing as "profit" in college athletics. That's a dirty word. Schools (especially public) are supposed to be non-profit ventures.
Whatever revenues come in, they find a way to make it look like they spent every last dime.
Have you seen pictures of the Power 5 football team locker rooms? Yeah, every red cent is spent.
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Post by jaypak on Jul 10, 2020 14:48:10 GMT -5
Guess we won’t be seeing Nebraska play Creighton five times, as John Cook had (possibly in jest) suggested was a possibility.
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