The First Domino Has Fallen

[SW_Mustang]

Not COVID related but I saw this as I was digging. I don't have time to pass it on to the proper board, so I'll put it here. D'Youville College approved for move up to DII (East Coast Conference). They are a non-football school.

http://athletics.dyc.edu/general/201...I_Announcement

[SW_Mustang]

NEC (DIII) to delay start of season

https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus...-pandemic.html

[SW_Mustang]

Florida State making a 20% athletic department cut.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/...ng-salary-cuts

[GrifFan]

This is now official. Big Ten will have conference play only this fall.

42 non-conference games, 9 against other P5 conferences (plus 1 vs Notre Dame).

[SW_Mustang]

Worth noting, for anyone who didn't click the link... this is the D3 Middle Atlantic Conference, not the D1 Mid-America Conference

Good catch - I should have paid more attention.

[ccmoney8]

MAC is now conference only. Not something anyone should lose sleep over, but for the sake of sharing...

https://cumberlink.com/sports/local/...c5be99539.html

Worth noting, for anyone who didn't click the link... this is the D3 Middle Atlantic Conference, not the D1 Mid-America Conference

[SW_Mustang]

It seems like a moot point now, but buried in this document somewhere is a revision for Bowl Eligibility. FBS teams are now allowed to count two wins over FCS teams. I believe it's only for 2020.

https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/com...uly9Report.pdf

[SW_Mustang]

[QUOTE=crixus;n519394]

Are you guys interested in updates on the small offshoot conferences and associations that aren't NCAA/NAIA/NJCAA? I've been keeping an eye on them.

The NWAC is shifting their seasons around. As I understand it, Golf and Cross Country are to begin in the fall under a modified schedule. Volleyball and Soccer move to a February start date, and fall baseball/softball has been cancelled.

So many dominoes have fallen that it's hard to keep up with all the cancellations and postponements, but I think we (all of us who have posted in this thread) are doing a very good job. When I started it I had no idea it would get anywhere near this far. 2020 is a year that none of us will ever forget.

It went from "my weekend plans to see the Gophers Spring Game have been cancelled" to "all of my plans have been cancelled for the foreseeable future."

I've literally just typed in "college sports" on Google News, set it to search for the previous hour - and I refreshed it every 10-15 minutes. That's how fast a lot of this news is coming in, and I know there's no way we are getting it all. I really think the B1G decision was the catalyst for everything else - even though they weren't the first to make changes.

I may start work on a tracker thread so we can clean up the information that's coming in and bundle it all together - I haven't decided yet. Probably won't happen until next week though.

[crixus]

Are you guys interested in updates on the small offshoot conferences and associations that aren't NCAA/NAIA/NJCAA? I've been keeping an eye on them.

The NWAC is shifting their seasons around. As I understand it, Golf and Cross Country are to begin in the fall under a modified schedule. Volleyball and Soccer move to a February start date, and fall baseball/softball has been cancelled.

So many dominoes have fallen that it's hard to keep up with all the cancellations and postponements, but I think we (all of us who have posted in this thread) are doing a very good job. When I started it I had no idea it would get anywhere near this far (25 pages and counting). 2020 is a year that none of us will ever forget. And by the way, the thread is about all levels of sports. So yes, keep those updates coming. Some of them may seem obscure, but all high school, college and pro sports are inter-related in the big scheme of things.

Thanks everybody!

[SW_Mustang]

NJCAA to vote next week on moving the football season to spring:

https://www.thetelegraph.com/sports/...g-15399991.php

[cwfenn]

I think college athletics departments will eventually agree to a tentative restart date of sometime early next year, and I have a bad feeling football will end up taking the year off. Having football in the Winter/early Spring and then back in the Fall could be a hard thing for students, particularly with the increased focus on head injuries. Basketball could see a lot of players who are on the fence about going pro making the decision to go pro instead of staying, even if staying would benefit them.

Also, I'm disappointed in the NCAA that they don't seem to be taking an active leadership role on this issue since (for the most part) there is some interplay between the many conferences and between the three divisions. They're letting the conferences decide, and right now it's all over the place. Not sure the pro sports leagues will all run their seasons, but at least they all have plans for what to do to complete uncompleted seasons and are discussing the next seasons this year. Well, baseball's commissioner forced a season on the players - not looking forward to what I think will be a players' strike or lockout in 2021.

[SW_Mustang]

Here is the NAIA return-to-play guidelines that were released today.

https://www.naia.org/covid19/files/F...7.10.20_v2.pdf

The tl;dr: Schools need approval from local authorities to play. Once 50% of the schools have been cleared to play in each given sport, the season can begin. It does not appear as if golf is affected by this.

[SW_Mustang]

New Mexico High School Football and soccer has been cancelled. If there is a delay in opening, all fall sports will be cancelled.

https://kvia.com/news/new-mexico/202...irus-briefing/

[SW_Mustang]

Looks like we missed the CIAA. All sports cancelled for fall, looking at the possibility of moving them to spring.

https://www.capitalgazette.com/sport...zy4-story.html

[SW_Mustang]

Are you guys interested in updates on the small offshoot conferences and associations that aren't NCAA/NAIA/NJCAA? I've been keeping an eye on them.

The NWAC is shifting their seasons around. As I understand it, Golf and Cross Country are to begin in the fall under a modified schedule. Volleyball and Soccer move to a February start date, and fall baseball/softball has been cancelled.

https://nwacsports.com/general/2019-...20200709t0zmsn

For those unaware, the NWAC is an independent JUCO conference (not affiliated with the NJCAA or CCCAA). It's located in Washington and Oregon, and one school in BC. Actually looks like a decent feeder system to DII and DIII. They do not sponsor football.