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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Jul 25, 2020 9:33:43 GMT -6
Interesting decision for the ASC -- basically mirroring the NJCAA. I found this interesting quote in the announcement: "Action by the Council of Presidents to delay the ASC fall championship sports seasons does not preclude individual institutions from engaging in athletics-related activities, including non-conference competition" Does this give someone like UMHB the opportunity to play a completely non-conference season this fall in order to still make the D-III playoffs (if the playoffs are even held at all this season)? This will impact track and field, since I don't think it makes any sense to field a XC team in the spring -- it would run concurrent with indoor track and outdoor track seasons. Some of the ASC schools only field XC teams and run track at all -- it might give someone like Schreiner (XC only) a chance to win the ASC if there is only 1-2 teams competing. Also, I read this morning that the NCAA Board of Governors has kicked the can down the road and will make their decision on playing fall sports at their next meeting in August. By that time all D-1 and probably most D-2 schools will already be fall practices. What a mess that will be if they cancel all fall sports 2-3 weeks into fall practice. SEC presidents meet July 30 and are expected to make a decision about how they will proceed.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Jul 25, 2020 10:22:09 GMT -6
In an interesting turn of events FBS LA Tech is pressing FCS Prairie View for the $500,000 cancellation penalty in their contract.
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Post by acutrackfan on Jul 30, 2020 7:49:51 GMT -6
The Northeast Conference has announced that they are postponing all fall sports to the spring and they have left open the option of playing football in the spring as well. The NEC has teams like Central Connecticut (FCS Coaches Top-25 poll); Bryant and Holy Cross (both have been FCS top-25 in the past few years) and Duquesne, which is in the Atlantic-10 in all other sports but football. That makes 6 FCS conferences who have said they will not play Fall sports - Ivy, Patriot, MEAC, SWAC, Colonial and now, the NEC. It looks more dire all the time.
On the FBS front, the ACC said they will play fall sports, with football playing a Conference-only schedule, PLUS 1. They will play 10 conference games and Notre Dame has been included in their conference game schedule. They can play 1 non-conference game, but the caveat is that the 1 non-con game must be within their own state. That leaves in-state rivalry games like Florida-Florida State safe, but scuttles games like UVA-UGA. I could definitely see the SEC going to a similar system since they are so interlocked with ACC when it comes to football scheduling. The SEC has been really dragging its feet about making a decision, wanting to keep some semblance of a football season intact for economic reasons.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Jul 30, 2020 10:07:16 GMT -6
The Northeast Conference has announced that they are postponing all fall sports to the spring and they have left open the option of playing football in the spring as well. The NEC has teams like Central Connecticut (FCS Coaches Top-25 poll); Bryant and Holy Cross (both have been FCS top-25 in the past few years) and Duquesne, which is in the Atlantic-10 in all other sports but football. That makes 6 FCS conferences who have said they will not play Fall sports - Ivy, Patriot, MEAC, SWAC, Colonial and now, the NEC. It looks more dire all the time. On the FBS front, the ACC said they will play fall sports, with football playing a Conference-only schedule, PLUS 1. They will play 10 conference games and Notre Dame has been included in their conference game schedule. They can play 1 non-conference game, but the caveat is that the 1 non-con game must be within their own state. That leaves in-state rivalry games like Florida-Florida State safe, but scuttles games like UVA-UGA. I could definitely see the SEC going to a similar system since they are so interlocked with ACC when it comes to football scheduling. The SEC has been really dragging its feet about making a decision, wanting to keep some semblance of a football season intact for economic reasons. Sports illustrated reported yesterday that the SEC AD’s had already approved a 10 game conference only schedule, although they might delay pulling the trigger on a public announcement just yet to see if the numbers look more promising,
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Post by acutrackfan on Aug 5, 2020 12:53:50 GMT -6
The NCAA Board of Governors met yesterday and the results of their meeting were announced today. Basically, every sport at every NCAA level will be able to decide if their sport goes forward. All championships will be scaled back. A sport must have at least 50% of eligible schools competing at that level or the championship will be cancelled. For instance, reading on the Twitter fee for Craig Haley (one of the FCS gurus), there are 127 schools playing FCS football and right this minute, there are 70 schools that have indicated they will play this year. If that number drops below 64 teams, the FCS playoffs are off. Schools will have until August 21 to make their final absolute decision whether to play in 2020. Of course, I guess a FCS school can move forward with their season if there are no playoffs.
I read an interesting note about the XC championships. In D-1 XC, the selection process goes through region meets. There are 9 regions (ACU is in the South Central Region - actually one of the weaker regions in the country). The top 2 teams from each region go to nationals, plus 6 at-large teams, plus any athletes who finish in the top-5 in their regional meet, but whose team does not go to nationals. The Northeast Region is one of the best regions historically. There are 43 schools who can go to the Northeast Region meet and at this time, only 5 schools have said they will field a team this year! Do you go ahead and have a Northeast Region meet?
So, ACU football might still be in a state of limbo about the fall season until August 21.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Aug 5, 2020 13:20:13 GMT -6
TF, Not all 127 FCS schools are eligible. McNeese, SFA and Prairie View aren’t eligible because of low APR scores. North Alabama, Tarleton, and Dixie State are in transition limbo. The Ivy League (8 schools) doesn’t participate in the championship playoff, Nor do the champions of the MEAC and SWAC. That’s at least 16 of 127 that aren’t part of the equation.
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Post by acutrackfan on Aug 5, 2020 13:44:52 GMT -6
I read about that on-line as well. So, maybe 50% of 111 is the magic number.
I also read on Twitter just now that the FCS Championship is meeting this afternoon to discuss plans for going forward. Hopefully, they will come up with a plan for a bracket more quickly than the Board of Governors came up with this overall championship plan. Maybe a 16 team bracket or even an 8 team bracket? That is, if there are not anymore conference defections.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Aug 5, 2020 13:50:30 GMT -6
I read about that on-line as well. So, maybe 50% of 111 is the magic number. I also read on Twitter just now that the FCS Championship is meeting this afternoon to discuss plans for going forward. Hopefully, they will come up with a plan for a bracket more quickly than the Board of Governors came up with this overall championship plan. Maybe a 16 team bracket or even an 8 team bracket? That is, if there are not anymore conference defections. At this point I’d be happy to see us get in a money game (hello, TCU) and a home game opener against UCA.
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Post by bogeyman on Aug 5, 2020 14:41:06 GMT -6
We might be the favorite vs UCA in a "hims" (hymns) game.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Aug 5, 2020 15:08:23 GMT -6
We might be the favorite vs UCA in a "hims" (hymns) game. I’m limited to touch screen keyboards these days, which I find hard to work with. I kept spilling coffee or getting crumbs down between the keys of regular keyboards.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Aug 5, 2020 15:10:02 GMT -6
I read about that on-line as well. So, maybe 50% of 111 is the magic number. I also read on Twitter just now that the FCS Championship is meeting this afternoon to discuss plans for going forward. Hopefully, they will come up with a plan for a bracket more quickly than the Board of Governors came up with this overall championship plan. Maybe a 16 team bracket or even an 8 team bracket? That is, if there are not anymore conference defections. We need our Global Monitor to do the math here. He’s the stats guy.
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Post by acutrackfan on Aug 5, 2020 15:14:10 GMT -6
The NCAA just announced that D-2 is not going to have fall championships. Our old conference, the LSC, had already announced that they would not start football game until Sept 21. So, do D-1 teams go ahead and play some kind of conference schedule even though they are not playing to make a playoff? Tarleton is playing an independent schedule this year as they start to transition to D-1 FCS and they have 4 LSC games on their schedule. Playing as an independent just got harder than ever.
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Post by jCat on Aug 5, 2020 16:38:40 GMT -6
I'm hoping online degrees improve in the future. I'm not impressed with many I've seen earn an online degree. I also wonder if ACU's growth as a respected general Christian university has hurt HSU some. Baptists that want the strongest theology classes may be drawn to ACU for its reputation more than to a "Baptist" school like HSU. Just a thought. I think ACU is setting high standards for their online classes, and they'e providing quite a bit of support to help faculty reimagine online learning. That all seems positive to me.
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Post by OscarWildeCat, Admin on Aug 5, 2020 19:02:06 GMT -6
In the absence of the Tude’s math prowess, Twitter posters are saying 58 is the number of FCS schools that need to play this fall to play for a championship.
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Post by bogeyman on Aug 5, 2020 19:25:10 GMT -6
Has the Missouri Valley made any determination yet?
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