I've been closely following the college ball situation daily. This as been the longest "bargaining" phase for coming to any sort of Covid "new normal" acceptance that we've seen yet. For lots of teams, fall camps are starting right now. Yikes.

They may try to play D1 football, but it won't last - IMO. I'm like 98% positive on this.

About 2 weeks ago, I had wrote up a good long new thread about my thoughts on "sportsball going forward" with a healthy section on college and pro ball, but I ended up deleting it. The chicken bones have already been cast.

I'm wondering if we should even try to do a college pick em' this year? We've run it for 6 years straight and have probably given (or where supposed to give) a couple grand to Children's Hospital.

This Covid stuff is lame.

I mean...we should still try Dwat, I just don't know how. Could possibly do it as we've always done, and if they stop the season, the person with the best record wins. OR something else / different / fun? Happy to help figure it out. I believe the first games are on August 29th, but that some conferences won't even start until late September.

You guys should do women's basketball.

You should get back into the kitchen and make supper. Us men are talking here.

I’m a proud Oregon Duck. Quack quack stam

Grown men sitting around watching others achieve their goals in life on TV while their own goals fall short.

Powerbait.

If there's no in person college classes happening, hard to justify football.
Well except for the money part.

Here's the PAC12 position as of July 31.

Following the Pac-12 CEO Group’s July 10 decision to move to a Conference-only football schedule, the Pac-12 today unveiled a 10-game Conference-only schedule (available below as well as on Pac-12.com) structured to maximize flexibility, including the following features:

Season to commence on September 26 (normally Week 4), with the flexibility if necessary to commence on a later date if the situation warrants;
Each team will play five home and five road games;
Games that are unable to be played on their scheduled date can be made up in their bye weeks or in Week 12 (December 12), with the Pac-12 Football Championship Game, presented by 76®, now slated for December 18 or 19; and
The Pac-12 Football Championship Game, presented by 76®, will be held in a home-hosted model for 2020, with the Pac-12 and partners Allegiant Stadium and the Raiders, Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority (LVCVA) and MGM Resorts International agreeing to commence hosting of the Championship Game at Allegiant Stadium in 2021 for its two-year run in Las Vegas in order to ensure a successful launch of the inaugural event.

There isn't going to be a college football season this fall.

Which is fvcked.

But I don't see it happening.

But I don't see it happening.

In a word: Liability.

Covid completes a pass to some athletes. Said athletes have long term health problems or die, and the conference, uni's and all related parties are joined in litigation....

Hard to justify forcing kids to play football for free so sponsors can make money.

Hard to justify forcing kids to play football for free so sponsors can make money.

PAC12 cancels/postpones 2020 season.

Hoping the SEC follows suit.
Would love to see my Razorbacks to go undefeated in my lifetime!

Ducks suck.......

Keith

I’m a proud Oregon Duck.

Yep - it's official official now.

I'd like to personally thank all of the non-mask wearers for the gift that just keeps on giving.

We only had one job to do these past several months. Some of us showed up to work and apparently, some of us did not.

Good going anti-masker Idiots.

You know how pissed I am at all the deniers. Here's one family of 14 that believed the fuckheads like trump and abbott. Now look at them. I feel bad that they believed all that bullshitt.

14 family members believed the lies

And it's not just the deaths. You know how much it sucks to be on a ventilator for weeks?

Looks like there is a least one dumbfuck in this thread that doesn’t enjoy coming home from fishing in the fall, grabbing some good grub and drinks and watching some college ball.
He likely got cut from the middle school JV flag football team....
sF

Who the [Bleeeeep!] is that....What a loser





.....it's not me is it?

Shooting a deer, getting it gutted and hung, while the Huskies are on in the background...that is fall to me :-(

Fish on...

Todd

Not you BM
SF

I feel for the kids.
Not so much for the people who sit around and complain because the kids aren't out risking their lives to entertain them on a Saturday afternoon.

No Apple Cup. No WSU football for the first time in 75 years.

No Apple Cup.

Is this the beginning of the end of sports/sports stars being the center of the universe? I'm okay with it, the sports culture seems like it's gotten outta hand with the hungry heifers that prowl between Starbucks and Walmart decking out in team gear and facepaint and the tone of their week is set by the outcome of Sundays big game.
Never been on a horse, but My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboy's....

Where do you 'spose paid athlets come from?

Where do you 'spose paid athlets come from?

Maybe you'll have your way and there will be no money in sports. Then you can afford to go to a game. Although I'm sure Mariner tickets will be pretty cheap.Especially after what the Giants did last night,and we looked terrible. I think there were 8 walks and 2 batters hit,and it was 9-3 SF.

Montlake, Eugene, LA.

I really don't see why the pro leagues don't have their own developmental systems like in European Futbol. Leave college to fully enrolled and active students.

I really don't see why the pro leagues don't have their own developmental systems like in European Futbol. Leave college to fully enrolled and active students.

Leave college to fully enrolled and active students.

I believe that the colleges with "small" programs outnumber the Big Dogs, and manage to survive. And I do believe that football games are Fridays for HS, Saturdays for College, and Sundays for Pros. Basketball is a weekend (Fri-Sat), (Fri-Sun) exercise for colleges.

So? Go back to Sundays. Give everybody a week tp recover/prepare. Just because you're doing something one way now doesn't mean it needs to continue that way.

There won't be a full B1G season with the way they set up the COVID rules. I.e. if 5% of a team tests positive, the entire team is shut down from competition and has to forfeit their next 3 games. All positive players are to quarantine for 21 days (instead of normal 14). No bye weeks in the schedule.

They can start playing football, but they won't finish a full season - IMO. I bet they don't make it 4 or 5 weeks with those rules.

I'm throwing you a Dawg Bone here....

Sometimes, these paid athletes even come out of Pullman.....

And Arkansas got hosed.
SF

Nick Saban and the Alabama AD both tested positive for Covid.
SF

Sark will coach Bama this weekend.