Ivy League Looks to Move Football to Spring...What now?

[michaeljordan_fan]

And this.....


At this point they might as well just shut it down.......they are basically holding out for some miracle

Saw that. Sad we might not play each other this year.

 

[Deep Creek]

Many top division schools are cancelling their other sports but maintaining football and basketball...the big money college sports. Of course, this means many of those in baseball, wrestling, soccer, many transfer to lower division schools that are still playing, even though the big schools promised to maintain their scholarship status. In reality, football and basketball are sports that really aren't any safer when it comes to spreading a virus with the possible exception of wrestling. Basketball is indoors and all the players are right next to each other. Baseball...it's an outdoor sport and the players on the field are not that close on average (except the catcher, batter, and umpire), and the dugouts could be spread out (utilize the bullpen or set benches along the right and left field fences like the high schools plan on doing). Of course, the schools could face lawsuits from the players who had their sport eliminated. One could ask if they are cutting the women's sports which do not draw a lot of money, but the schools would probably avoid that so the Title 9 lawsuits wouldn't roll in.

The line of scrimmage in football has to be the worst. It is a tunnel of at least 10 guys in close proximity to each other sharing air!

 

[Gatorchip]

well, we are fucked. This is the first step for all conference cancellations!

Gators were set for another run.

 

[trojanfan12]

I'm not too worried about this.

It's a much easier decision for the Ivy league than for virtually any other conference.

They don't send many to the NFL, so they are unlikely to have guys skip the spring season to prepare for the NFL.

They don't participate in bowl games or playoffs.

They can have a spring season of conference games and likely have more people watching than they would in a normal season. It wouldn't really effect a ton of other schools and those schools that are effected have time to find a replacement team or they get an extra bye week.

 

[Deep Creek]

I'm not too worried about this.

It's a much easier decision for the Ivy league than for virtually any other conference.

They don't send many to the NFL, so they are unlikely to have guys skip the spring season to prepare for the NFL.

They don't participate in bowl games or playoffs.

They can have a spring season of conference games and likely have more people watching than they would in a normal season. It wouldn't really effect a ton of other schools and those schools that are effected have time to find a replacement team or they get an extra bye week.

Yep. Any school that haven't built the vast majority of their athletic budgets on football revenue don't have to make as difficult decisions. But nearly every P5 and most G5s (money games) have built departments on football revenue.