NCAA discusses playing football season in February

Mother Nature would be a factor for the northern schools with the harsh winters and blistering conditions, but then again that’s something that is expected all seasons considering what can happen in the southern plains in late summer.

I mean, why not? There’s no NFL. It would be different and would draw a lot of attention from the boring periods of the MLB and NBA regular seasons. It would take place during when the Combines and Draft would normally happen. Hell, can you imagine being drafted while still playing ball?

It all sounds enticing. Obviously much easier said than done.

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A February start could be one modification to the season.

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So pro football will continue as scheduled and end with the Super Bowl in February, then CFB picks up right after.

I can dig it.

Whose the decision maker?
COnferences say one thing
Teams say one thing
Is the NCAA going to come in Sept 1st and cancel all games that weekend?

I think Spring football has always been a Plan C that administrators avoided discussing publicly as they all want a normal season and have to plan to play the season as scheduled until such point that it’s obvious it won’t happen as scheduled.

We’re getting to the point, though, where they’ll have to move to PlanB (delayed/altered season), and the Spring football discussions will become more serious and more public.

Once CFB is faced with the choice of either no football or Spring football, everyone will get on board and make it work to avoid a CFB financial apocoplyse.

All that said, I think we’ve still got 2-3 weeks before having to totally ditch the idea of a normal season as scheduled.

That could get real dang cold in Lexington, Knoxville, Columbia and Nashville. Worse than November.

Click bait article.

First, the NCAA has already said that a decision on when to play will be up to the schools and conferences (and subject to the situations in the states where they are situated).

Second, the advisory committee panel member they quote basically made the same point that folks here have made--what will be different in February?

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Adalja discussed that having college football postponed until February could be one modification to the upcoming season. He also mentioned that you could see players wearing face shields as a precaution against COVID-19.

“You might have better control of the outbreak at that time, but we still won’t have a vaccine,” Adalja said of postponing the season until February. “You have to think about all kinds of modifications and that might be one.

“This virus is going to be with us until we have a vaccine, and if we are going to do sports, you have to come up with a way to try and make it feasible. I think pushing it off, you may still have those same problems — I don’t think we have an easy answer to this.”

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