The First Domino Has Fallen

[crixus]

Six members of the New England Patriots have opted out of the 2020 season. Other NFL teams have had one or two players opt out, but the Pats lead the way.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...pt-2020-season

[crixus]

RMAC will start practices on Aug. 24. So the Conference Presidents gave themselves until then to make a final decision. The Miami Marlins just had 12 players test positive! Makes ya wonder if even a RMAC conference only schedule helps.

It's now up to 17 positive tests with the Marlins players and coaches.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/m...es-among-team/

[laker]

NAIA moves fall sports to spring- except football, which decision is expected on Friday.

https://www.naia.org/general/2020-21...ment_7_28_2020

[crixus]

Here's the latest on the SEC, Big 12 and ACC, as of 07/28.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...on-ahead/live/

[crixus]

The World Chess Championship was cancelled and the World Series of Poker was postponed. I don't remember seeing it posted, so I'm adding them to the list.

[laker]

Big West calls off sports for the calendar year.

https://bigwest.org/news/2020/7/29/g...mpetition.aspx

[crixus]

Big West calls off sports for the calendar year.

https://bigwest.org/news/2020/7/29/g...mpetition.aspx

That's too bad, I was looking forward to the debut of the UC San Diego Tritons in the Big West. I live about 8 miles from their campus. And Cal State Bakersfield (home of the Roadrunners) just joined that conference too.

[laker]

D3 football teams still playing.

[crixus]

Just want to note that it was great to see the Dodgers sweep those Cheatin' Astros in their 2 game series before the Covid 19 cardboard fans at the Juice Box.

[cwfenn]

NCAA President calls the FCS playoffs a round robin tournament with 20 teams:

https://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/mar...und-robin.html

[crixus]

NCAA President calls the FCS playoffs a round robin tournament with 20 teams:

https://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/mar...und-robin.html

The FCS playoffs are great. Emmert is clueless and needs to be replaced.

[Wildcat Khan]

The FCS playoffs are great. Emmert is clueless and needs to be replaced.

Agreed. Even on pay to play he isn't thinking about what it would do to the majority of NCAA schools. Not everyone is Clemson or Alabama with the cash that football brings in.

[Wildcat Khan]

Six members of the New England Patriots have opted out of the 2020 season. Other NFL teams have had one or two players opt out, but the Pats lead the way.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...pt-2020-season

It should be noted Seattle's player planning to opt out would most likely be on the Practice Squad. I heard something about New England that could explain this though, most of their players already have Super Bowl Rings so getting another may not be as big for them as say someone on Green Bay, San Francisco, or New Orleans.

[laker]

From Reddit CFB as of 1 PM CDT. D3 is pretty bare. The UMAC dropped out but did say that if schools wanted to play OOC games that they still could. They would have to play NAIA schools. Here I was hoping for Martin Luther in New Ulm to become national champs like UCF.

[cwfenn]

The SEC looks to go with a silo schedule, PAC-12 will announce tomorrow:

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...tball-schedule