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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Jul 13, 2020 14:53:17 GMT -6
Not surprised at the Patriot League decision at all -- they usually follow the lead of the Ivy League. I noticed in an article on the Ivy League dropping fall sports that of the 24 non-conference games that were to be played by Ivy League schools, 13 were against Patriot League opponents. I don't know that any Ivy League school was scheduled to play ANY money games in non-conference -- frankly they just don't have to have money games. A D-2 conference - the CIAA- has also announced they will not have any fall competitions as well. The NJCAA announced on Friday that they will move all of their fall sport competitions to the spring. How would that impact ACU? You may have noticed -- ACU prefers to get most of their JC transfers to the ACU campus by the spring semester. Many of the JC transfers who get here in the spring prior to their first fall end up making a difference in their first season. A large majority of the players who do not show up until the fall for their first year end up playing very little. I have an interest in other fall sports -- I have a grand-daughter playing college volleyball at an SEC school. She is currently there going through "voluntary" workouts, but they have no idea if they will be playing at all this fall. SEC AD’s were scheduled to meet this afternoon although they may wait until the end of the month. From listening to the SEC commissioner on Friday, canceling fall sports is a real possibility.
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Post by bogeyman on Jul 14, 2020 15:52:34 GMT -6
JUCO moved the majority of fall sports (close contact sports) to spring. Basketball will begin in January. Not sure when football will begin. I saw some JUCO players tweet about opening their recruitment.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Jul 15, 2020 6:03:31 GMT -6
TF,
The Southeastern Conference announced Tuesday that it will postpone the start of volleyball, soccer and cross country competition through at least August 31. The decision will provide additional time to prepare for the safe return of competition on an adjusted timeline.
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Post by acutrackfan on Jul 15, 2020 7:32:24 GMT -6
Thanks, Oscar. That will not impact SEC volleyball much -- last year, for instance, UGA played 1 exhibition match and 1 tourney before August 31st. This year, August 31 falls on a Monday, so that would give SEC VB teams the option of going to a tournament just 1 week later than their 2019 season. Frankly, I don't expect to see them start tourney play until Sept 12th at the earliest.
The same is true of XC -- most SEC XC teams do not start their meets until the last week of August anyway, so it might shorten their season by a week.
The sport that will be highly effected by this most recent SEC announcement will be soccer. Collegiate soccer typically starts with a heavy slate of August games. If this instance, but August 31 this year, ACU will have already played an exhibition and 4 games. ACU is scheduled to go to Starkville for a game against Miss St on Sept 4, so for the moment that game is safe for ACU. With the announcement this week, the Sept 4 game would be the first game of the season for Miss St and would be the 5th game of the year for ACU.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Jul 16, 2020 11:09:06 GMT -6
The MEAC becomes the third FCS conference to cancel fall sports. The MEAC is made up of HBCU’s.
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Post by acutrackfan on Jul 16, 2020 12:34:57 GMT -6
Yikes! All are FCS conferences in the northeastern U.S. so far and not really good football conferences. If the Missouri Valley or the Big Sky calls it quits for the fall - lights out.
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Post by Outsider on Jul 16, 2020 14:39:52 GMT -6
I think the next two weeks will tell a lot about our regions.
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Post by bucfan on Jul 16, 2020 14:46:05 GMT -6
Unless we see some pretty drastic improvements in numbers in the next two weeks, I'm not real hopeful about the prospects of football this season. MAYBE if we push the first games to October but even then that may be wishful thinking. Just my opinion but I haven't seen much evidence that things are anywhere close to being under control in Texas. I just hope that incoming ACU freshmen can have a halfway normal experience.
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Post by Outsider on Jul 16, 2020 15:04:19 GMT -6
Unless we see some pretty drastic improvements in numbers in the next two weeks, I'm not real hopeful about the prospects of football this season. MAYBE if we push the first games to October but even then that may be wishful thinking. Just my opinion but I haven't seen much evidence that things are anywhere close to be under control in Texas. I just hope that incoming ACU freshmen can have a halfway normal experience. I keep praying...
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Post by SportsWizard15 on Jul 16, 2020 15:56:55 GMT -6
Colonial Athletic Conference just canceled football announcement coming tomorrow
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Post by bucfan on Jul 16, 2020 16:20:47 GMT -6
Part of today's statement from the NCAA.
“When we made the extremely difficult decision to cancel last spring’s championships it was because there was simply no way to conduct them safely,” said NCAA President Mark Emmert. “This document lays out the advice of health care professionals as to how to resume college sports if we can achieve an environment where COVID-19 rates are manageable. Today, sadly, the data point in the wrong direction. If there is to be college sports in the fall, we need to get a much better handle on the pandemic.”
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Jul 16, 2020 17:04:57 GMT -6
Colonial Athletic Conference just canceled football announcement coming tomorrow The CAA is one of the “big 3” FCS conferences, along with the Big Sky and Missouri Valley.
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Post by acutrackfan on Jul 16, 2020 17:25:40 GMT -6
You are right, Oscar. CAA is the biggest domino to fall thus far.
It is interesting to mention that the announcements from the Ivy and Patriot Leagues both said that ALL sports in the fall (and even in the winter sports) since they said that they will not review the situation until Jan 1. The CAA will actually make their announcement tomorrow, but the "pre-announcement" appears to only address football. Will the other fall sports get to compete?
I also wonder why none of the FCS conferences are not choosing to move to a "conference only" schedule model.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Jul 16, 2020 17:41:19 GMT -6
You are right, Oscar. CAA is the biggest domino to fall thus far. It is interesting to mention that the announcements from the Ivy and Patriot Leagues both said that ALL sports in the fall (and even in the winter sports) since they said that they will not review the situation until Jan 1. The CAA will actually make their announcement tomorrow, but the "pre-announcement" appears to only address football. Will the other fall sports get to compete? I also wonder why none of the FCS conferences are not choosing to move to a "conference only" schedule model. 7 of Massey’s preseason top 25 are members of the CAA, including #2 James Madison.
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Post by wildcat1997 on Jul 16, 2020 20:38:32 GMT -6
I just don’t see how we have a football season. It’s one thing to have professional sports teams play but they’re professionals and getting paid exorbitant amounts of money. It’s hard to justify making college kids that aren’t getting paid anything put even more at risk just to play and entertain us. I really want to be wrong though because I don’t want to lose football.
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