The First Domino Has Fallen

[crixus]

The Empire Baseball League (indy pro ball) is moving their operations to Florida with a showcase season beginning in August. Another league that believes moving to a Covid-19 hot zone to play is a good idea. Ugh...

http://empireproleague.com/news/

[crixus]

Pacific Association of Professional Baseball (Indy league in the Bay Area of Northern California) cancelled their season today. It's been postponed since May.

http://pacproclubs.pointstreaksites....ws/news_531932

[UWFMubbish]

I'm surprised it took this long for the GNAC to suspend football (I know it's fall sports) for the upcoming season. I figured they would be the first....

[laker]

GNAC suspends fall sports.

https://wildcatsports.com/news/2020/...fall-2020.aspx

[SW_Mustang]

Northeastern suspends fall sports

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/...tpones-season/

[SW_Mustang]

NAIA Cascade Collegiate Conference pushes start back to November 1st

https://www.greatfallstribune.com/st...st/5461433002/

[wscsuperfan]

Atlantic-10, Commonwealth Coast Conference, North Eastern Athletic Conference, East Coast Conference, and the Colonial Athletic Association (as previously mentioned) have all suspended fall sports.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael.../#1eb2e09b5560

Per Brett McMurphy, the SWAC will announce Monday it is canceling all fall sports.

The University of Delaware also announcing it will suspend all fall sports.

[Sec10-A-14]

Just wondering out loud. Suppose the D1 power schools play out the season which ends... Oh my gosh this all could be devastating to the Bowl Season & TV revenue for schools), around mid Nov.

Season 2 bowl games (and who knows how many of those will be gone), end January-ish.

A Short recruiting period.

Wow! I only have to suffer about 2 months before most D2 FB games start for the spring.

This could be almost yr round ball.

I just knew there'd be a "Silver Lining" in there somewhere.

Hope all are being safe & healthy

[SW_Mustang]

Atlantic-10, Commonwealth Coast Conference, North Eastern Athletic Conference, East Coast Conference, and the Colonial Athletic Association (as previously mentioned) have all suspended fall sports.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael.../#1eb2e09b5560

[SW_Mustang]

SEC to honor scholarships of student-athletes who opt out of playing this season.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/...ng-coronavirus

[SW_Mustang]

So we can never, ever, ever have football again since every year some kid is seriously hurt or dies. The odds are against a kid dying playing football, but can you imagine the PR nightmare if it happens?

It's a bit different when the cause of the death is a pandemic.

[laker]

D3 NESCAC suspends sports, but leaves the door open for individual schools.

[OPSUALUM77&81]

So we can never, ever, ever have football again since every year some kid is seriously hurt or dies. The odds are against a kid dying playing football, but can you imagine the PR nightmare if it happens?

[laker]

The CAA football conference makes the rumors official- no fall season.

https://caasports.com/news/2020/7/17...n-in-2020.aspx

[SW_Mustang]

Keeping players safe and avoiding a PR nightmare is a win/win, so why wouldn't ANYONE choose that?!

I'm all for doing whatever we have to do to keep our players safe, this "every man for himself" approach is not the right way to do it. Some governing body needs to step in and shut it all down. Money is a powerful thing, and opinions are very much divided on the impact of this virus. Some schools will hold out to the last second, some won't shut it down at all.

Again, that's all just my opinion - but there are more efficient ways to handle the process.