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College Football 19-20: Where We Kinda Want Clemson As Champion.

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Jimjamesak said:
The smart thing would be to fold all athletics at UAF and keep most stuff at UAA. UAF sucks hardcore at all sports not named hockey or riflery and trying to keep sports in a tiny market like Fairbanks is a recipe for disaster.

But this is the UA system so they’ll do something stupid.

The one thing to note is that UAA is already at the minimum of sports so who knows.
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There is some precedent with LIU in merging campuses and splitting the hosting duties for sports, but distance throws a huge wrench into that. 350 miles is a lot different than 25.

Do you get the feeling that people would unite behind a single Alaska team, or would whichever town that gets left out be resentful?
 
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alfablue said:
So Michigan President Mark Schlissel has come out and said the elephant in the room- no students = no sports https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...sident-mark-schlissel-coronavirus/5252621002/

Which makes sense, since the athletes are students, not professionals. So they should not be forced to go back w/o other students.

Although, if there are students on campus, Harbaugh is ok playing in front of nobody.

(Get Up this morning also mentioned he pointed out that college football is a small part of the university, less than 10%, and the university would be fine w/o sports for a year- but I can't find a quote. I thought that was interesting because it's been posted many more than once that all sports, including football, is a small part of a University's budget. And for most, it's completely independently funded. So university presidents need to focus on the big picture, not football)
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Everyone is announcing their plans to come back with in-person classes and some schools are even changing their schedule to limit the time students can go home. But I don't know if I've yet seen a school come out with their proposals if there is an outbreak on campus. Shut it down and send everyone home? Quarantine a specific dorm if that's the source? What happens if it's an off campus student or a frat?

If a school has to shut down in the middle of October, is that the end of the season? Forfeit the games? Or is the goal just to start with students and then if something happens try your hardest to keep student-athletes around to continue the season?
 
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I’ve paid for my gopher football season tickets in full fir this coming fall. Not a peep yet from athletic office, which isn’t surprising.

What I’m not going to do is give a cent for hockey tickets until they communicate what they’re doing- I’ll be concerned about what money I get back and sure as heck not sending them more while they hold onto my football money
 
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alfablue said:
So Michigan President Mark Schlissel has come out and said the elephant in the room- no students = no sports https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...sident-mark-schlissel-coronavirus/5252621002/

Which makes sense, since the athletes are students, not professionals. So they should not be forced to go back w/o other students.

Although, if there are students on campus, Harbaugh is ok playing in front of nobody.

(Get Up this morning also mentioned he pointed out that college football is a small part of the university, less than 10%, and the university would be fine w/o sports for a year- but I can't find a quote. I thought that was interesting because it's been posted many more than once that all sports, including football, is a small part of a University's budget. And for most, it's completely independently funded. So university presidents need to focus on the big picture, not football)
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Football is barely a line item on a university’s income statement. Big ten schools get 10-25 times more in grants alone.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I’ve paid for my gopher football season tickets in full fir this coming fall. Not a peep yet from athletic office, which isn’t surprising.

What I’m not going to do is give a cent for hockey tickets until they communicate what they’re doing- I’ll be concerned about what money I get back and sure as heck not sending them more while they hold onto my football money
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We have been told as ticket holders that we would either be reimbursed, moved to the next season, or donated- and it would be up to the ticket holder. So I'll be renewing.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
Everyone is announcing their plans to come back with in-person classes and some schools are even changing their schedule to limit the time students can go home. But I don't know if I've yet seen a school come out with their proposals if there is an outbreak on campus. Shut it down and send everyone home? Quarantine a specific dorm if that's the source? What happens if it's an off campus student or a frat?

If a school has to shut down in the middle of October, is that the end of the season? Forfeit the games? Or is the goal just to start with students and then if something happens try your hardest to keep student-athletes around to continue the season?
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The hard part is how to bring students to campus in a safe way- considering they are coming from all over the world. If you can find a method to bring in students safely, and then keep them among themselves- there can be on-campus learning. I'm sure schools are figuring out ways to test students to find carriers and separate them for some time.

If there are students, then there can be athletics, even without fans.

But the top priority for all schools is to get the research back going again and teaching- that's virtually all of the money on campus.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
There is some precedent with LIU in merging campuses and splitting the hosting duties for sports, but distance throws a huge wrench into that. 350 miles is a lot different than 25.

Do you get the feeling that people would unite behind a single Alaska team, or would whichever town that gets left out be resentful?
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If they merge and put the hockey team in Fairbanks then the UA will never get another dime from me. And I’m someone who also attends plenty of volleyball and basketball games.

And I’m not the only one who feels that way.
 
Jimjamesak said:
To be fair, we both hate the CCHA schools a lot more than each other right now.
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That’s why I asked. I figured if Michigan and MSU merged things wouldn’t be sunshine and roses instantly, but since you guys have been slighted from the beginning of the new WCHA, starting with the proposed permanent Alaska playoff series, I wasn’t sure if an Alaska vs everybody mentality had possibly changed anything.

It appears not.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I’ve paid for my gopher football season tickets in full fir this coming fall. Not a peep yet from athletic office, which isn’t surprising.

What I’m not going to do is give a cent for hockey tickets until they communicate what they’re doing- I’ll be concerned about what money I get back and sure as heck not sending them more while they hold onto my football money
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I renewed my Iowa tickets per normal and haven’t heard anything yet either. They are planning a full go football season, however, are making contingency plans if things need to be adjusted.
 
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All these August/September planned openings are going to look great until every school has mini-outbreaks by late September from their thousands of students.
 
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bronconick said:
All these August/September planned openings are going to look great until every school has mini-outbreaks by late September from their thousands of students.
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Oh yeah, the SEC states are really going to concern themselves with the students.
 
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bronconick said:
All these August/September planned openings are going to look great until every school has mini-outbreaks by late September from their thousands of students.
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They won't admit it, and that's the problem with re-opening. If they stay closed they're OK legally but the instant they re-open when the second wave hits they have to deny and deflect like Dump or they'll get destroyed by law suits. They are going to have to cover up and fight the students and parents every second.

This is so dumb and so obvious. Only the business goons who run universities as profit centers now could miss it or, more likely, not care since they get rich either way.
 
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From SI: Cuts at UConn likely

They are certainly one of the schools with budget issues across the board. They have up to eight sports they could cut, and hockey is one of them. It's an expensive sport, especially for a program renting out an arena 30 minutes from campus, but one of the pros for hockey is that they can bus everywhere. The other sports in the Big East have some close trips to NYC and DC, but half the conference is in the Midwest, as far as Omaha.
 
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CMU received a waiver for the next two years to remain at the FBS level.

Wright State dropped three sports yesterday: men's tennis, women's tennis, and softball. That drops them to 11 sports, three less than the NCAA minimum for D1.

A waiver for being one sport short is reasonable. I don't see them granting a waiver over three sports, but who knows, it's not like there's precedent for mass cuts like this.
 
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