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re: Bama working to replace USC with TCU.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 8:11 am to CrimsonBoz
Posted on 5/13/20 at 8:11 am to CrimsonBoz
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Let’s face it. If the team we play first isn’t ranked in the top ten at the end of the year, we ain’t played nobody is coming on strong.
Also who would seriously want to play Bama week 1 and take the L?
I dont care about the morons who spout this. Usually the unhinged LSU fans. That said, last two years schedules were a slap in the face to fans. Glad Bama has a real AD now
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Posted on 5/13/20 at 8:28 am to chateaublanc
Yeah I was pretty underwhelmed by our first game the last few years.
The strength of schedule homers were in full force last year especially in the committee.
The strength of schedule homers were in full force last year especially in the committee.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:21 am to UhOhOreo
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I think we'd see a cancellation very late, around August, and the TCU game is a contingency if that happens.
I'm just wondering how USC can play a PAC schedule if a shutdown extends in California? TCU kicks off with Cal-Berkley so I am assuming TCU thinks its a possibility the CAL system may shut down as well. I know USC is private but if CA schools shutdown, how can the PAC have a normal rotation of opponents?
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:28 am to 14&Counting
Exactly. How are they going to play a complete schedule? If the other schools are shut down, then no complete schedule. So, there record isn’t like 3-1? Are they even in the playoff contention? I mean...I get trying to be positive and keep hope alive, but it seems futile. If the state says no sports, then they aren’t playing. Pay them the buyout and schedule TCU.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:54 am to FWBFLlaw
I agree with the SEC commissioner. It doesn't make any sense to make a decision on the season until you have to. Put that decision off as long as possible, because tomorrow you will have more information than today. Its like the Governor of Oregon saying last week that there wouldnt be any sports played in Sept. Why try to project something like that right now? 
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:14 am to FWBFLlaw
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Exactly. How are they going to play a complete schedule? If the other schools are shut down, then no complete schedule. So, there record isn’t like 3-1? Are they even in the playoff contention? I mean...I get trying to be positive and keep hope alive, but it seems futile. If the state says no sports, then they aren’t playing. Pay them the buyout and schedule TCU.
Extrapolating further, how can we have a full season if a P5 conference is shutdown?
Posted on 5/13/20 at 2:24 pm to 14&Counting
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Extrapolating further, how can we have a full season if a P5 conference is shutdown?
Easily, actually. From all I'm reading the SEC, ACC, Big 10 and Big 12 all fully expect to play football this fall--with or without fans in the stands. If the Pac12 panzies out, which I half expect, that still leaves 4 power 5 conferences plus independents like ND. We could easily fill the 4 playoffs spots and play ball. We don't need the Pac 12 at all to crown a champion. Heck, if the SEC is the only conference playing--we crown the SEC Champ as the National Champ. Works for me either way.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 2:29 pm to 14&Counting
None of the PAC 12 schools in California are a part of the Cal State System. Many of the 23 campuses in that system are G5 schools but none are P5 or PAC 12
This post was edited on 5/13/20 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 5/13/20 at 2:35 pm to TideWarrior
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“All of the Division I commissioners and every president that I’ve talked to is in clear agreement: If you don’t have students on campus, you don’t have student-athletes on campus,” Emmert said. “That doesn’t mean it has to be up and running in the full normal model, but you’ve got to treat the health and well-being of the athletes at least as much as the regular students. So if a school doesn’t reopen, then they’re not going to be playing sports. It’s really that simple.”
Saw this Emmert and the NCAA regarding football. It was in response to the CAL State schools going online in the fall and this.
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That does not bode well for the normal return of football in the fall, especially when coupled with recent comments from Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson and NCAA president Mark Emmert. In an interview with the Mountain West Network, Thompson said there would be no athletics taking place until campuses are open and fully operational.
"Unless they're in full mode with dormitories and housing and all of the other facilities are open, we won't have college athletics," Thompson said April 21. "We will not have college athletics until the campuses are open."
Three of those Cal schools play in the Mountain West
Posted on 5/13/20 at 5:58 pm to TideWarrior
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None of the PAC 12 schools in California are a part of the Cal State System. Many of the 23 campuses in that system are G5 schools but none are P5 or PAC 12
I fricking know that....Jesus read my post dude. If the Cal State system shut down, its highly likely the UC system shuts down. If that happens then its likely private schools follow....How is USC and the PAC going play a full schedule if Cal and UCLA are out?
Posted on 5/13/20 at 6:56 pm to 14&Counting
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I fricking know that....Jesus read my post dude. If the Cal State system shut down, its highly likely the UC system shuts down. If that happens then its likely private schools follow....How is USC and the PAC going play a full schedule if Cal and UCLA are out?
Several of the Cal State schools like San Diego have said they are still looking at models. They may create a hybrid class structure.
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Meanwhile, an SDSU official told Stadium’s Brett McMurphy that the school will offer a “hybrid model” for classes with some in-person and some being held virtually. The school is also working through “many scenarios” in athletics, including holding “sports in the fall.”
So no athletics have been cancelled yet out west.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 6:58 pm to TideWarrior
The other issue is the ACC may not start the beginning of September. Depending on what the states allow within they may stagger the start of their season.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:40 pm to TideWarrior
Imaging the tv audience if the only conference playing is the SEC? Record numbers!
Posted on 5/14/20 at 7:20 am to mistaken4193
Posted on 5/14/20 at 8:14 am to TidalSurge1
That article illustrates how so many continue to jump to conclusions. The pandemic has the press coming out with articles that more case then not are rumors and people run with them.
I think the true pandemic is not the virus but the misinformation out there about everything surrounding it directly and indirectly.
I think the true pandemic is not the virus but the misinformation out there about everything surrounding it directly and indirectly.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 10:01 am to TideWarrior
Posted on 5/14/20 at 11:52 am to BamaWins15
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Imaging the tv audience if the only conference playing is the SEC? Record numbers!
It may not be that far fetched to see the SEC and the Big 12 being the only Power 5 leagues playing in September. The Pac 12 issues and California are well documented. Then you have the governor of Michigan who single handledly could screw up things for the B1G, as Cuomo (Syracuse) and Northam (UVA, VT) could for the ACC.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 7:54 am to mistaken4193
I am dumb.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 10:42 am to BamaGradinTn
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Cuomo (Syracuse) and Northam (UVA, VT) could for the ACC.
I find it impossible to believe that Florida State and Clemson would just be okay with this. I think they’d leave the conference sooner than not play football if the SEC is playing football.
Personally I’d be quite happy if a lot of these massive conferences start to dissolve. I hate the large non-regional conferences.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 10:39 pm to mistaken4193
No I want the blue blood battle that Bama vs USC is. But TCU would be better than nothing of course.
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