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Post by sfvega on Jan 21, 2020 8:02:23 GMT -5
I know I said it last year, but I'm fr fr this time. We got our QB! Miami gets grad transfer D'Eriq King from Houston. Tate Martell didn't really show anything last season, so he may be done here at least at QB.
Wonder who will be our QB savior next off-season...?
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Post by sfvega on Jan 21, 2020 10:20:31 GMT -5
Also, high on his own hype Felipe Franks is transferring to Arkansas. Franks is like Martell, thinks he's a pro prospect but isn't even a solidified college starter yet.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 21, 2020 16:09:24 GMT -5
They need to just start calling this what it is: College Football Free Agent Season.
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Post by sfvega on Jan 21, 2020 16:36:30 GMT -5
They need to just start calling this what it is: College Football Free Agent Season. I mean, it was always kinda bs to make guys sit out a year when they always said it's more about education and finding the right fit for each "amateur athlete" and then make them go through what is essentially rfa rights when someone like Saban can block your transfer inside the SEC or the NCAA can deny you based on their own criteria. If you wanted to transfer colleges and sign up for literally anything else, they wouldn't give a shit. Could you imagine if someone couldn't join an academic club or a musical because they went to college somewhere else or danced somewhere else last year? It's laughable.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 17:45:27 GMT -5
They need to just start calling this what it is: College Football Free Agent Season. For coaches, it is. For players, it's "Who's able to transfer without waiting a year to play again?" I know that still exists.
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Post by andrew8798 on Feb 4, 2020 15:55:34 GMT -5
Dantonio steps down at Michigan State
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Post by andrew8798 on Jun 19, 2020 21:01:24 GMT -5
Yeah I wouldn't expect a season this year
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 21:07:14 GMT -5
I find it silly to expect players to risk their health for entertainment, especially given they are doing it for no more than endorsements at best. It's not worth it until we get vaccination.
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Post by sfvega on Jun 20, 2020 6:20:33 GMT -5
Yeah I wouldn't expect a season this year It was always going to be almost impossible. The size of the rosters in college are 103 or 105 or something insanely high with like 65-70 people active on game day. So with trainers and doctors and coaching staff and refs and bus drivers and everything, you're talking about in the neighborhood of 275-300 people at minimum intermingling over the course of a week for one game. And there's 130 FBS teams. And zero possibility of a bubble scenario. You're talking about ~17,500 moving parts with travel and almost 14k rostered players, when the NBA and the NHL only hold 280-380 total players rostered on a normal 16-team playoff in a hub. Not to mention they're going to have to finally address the false pretense that these guys are students first and athletes (and cash cows) second. If that were true, they could just can the season and school remotely if their health, safety, and academics were paramount.
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Post by Spider2024 on Jun 20, 2020 7:43:25 GMT -5
^ Also, unlike an NFL team, the players on an NCAA team are also fully a part of a student body. So in a way, their "bubble" is an entire campus, which isn't very safe at all for the other college students there.
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Post by sfvega on Jun 20, 2020 12:10:51 GMT -5
^ Also, unlike an NFL team, the players on an NCAA team are also fully a part of a student body. So in a way, their "bubble" is an entire campus, which isn't very safe at all for the other college students there. I doubt campuses open for the fall semester. That would be the NCAAF logistics x1000.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jun 20, 2020 20:47:04 GMT -5
^ Also, unlike an NFL team, the players on an NCAA team are also fully a part of a student body. So in a way, their "bubble" is an entire campus, which isn't very safe at all for the other college students there. I doubt campuses open for the fall semester. That would be the NCAAF logistics x1000. They are. A very, very large amount of schools would go insolvent if they don't
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Post by sfvega on Jun 20, 2020 21:44:05 GMT -5
I doubt campuses open for the fall semester. That would be the NCAAF logistics x1000. They are. A very, very large amount of schools would go insolvent if they don't I feel like the financial risk is larger if they do open. Colleges already run a ton of online classes and still charge their normal exorbitant prices to attend the school year. They'd only lose out on book, dorm, and cafeteria money. Problem being that a lot of larger schools are set up for auditorium learning and dorms, where people are packed on top of each other. The last thing they want is to open themselves up to lawsuits where they could lose big money if a cluster of cases ends up killing some students. Lawyers don't need extra incentive to go after deep-pocketed colleges, especially when they're at-fault for being negligent. My state college makes over 660 mil a year in tuition alone and to make that while for one semester not having to pay to power X amount of buildings, or to not having to pay cafeteria or janitorial or maintenance workers at all or at a much smaller rate would likely be fine in the financial books.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jun 20, 2020 22:38:17 GMT -5
They are. A very, very large amount of schools would go insolvent if they don't I feel like the financial risk is larger if they do open. Colleges already run a ton of online classes and still charge their normal exorbitant prices to attend the school year. They'd only lose out on book, dorm, and cafeteria money. Problem being that a lot of larger schools are set up for auditorium learning and dorms, where people are packed on top of each other. The last thing they want is to open themselves up to lawsuits where they could lose big money if a cluster of cases ends up killing some students. Lawyers don't need extra incentive to go after deep-pocketed colleges, especially when they're at-fault for being negligent. My state college makes over 660 mil a year in tuition alone and to make that while for one semester not having to pay to power X amount of buildings, or to not having to pay cafeteria or janitorial or maintenance workers at all or at a much smaller rate would likely be fine in the financial books. They'd have to still pay all of those salaries, they can't toss union contracts out like that. I work in a higher-ed adjacent field, and schools are already announcing their plans for the fall. They're throwing caution to the wind even though dorms are going to be Superspreader havens
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Post by sfvega on Jun 20, 2020 23:28:30 GMT -5
I feel like the financial risk is larger if they do open. Colleges already run a ton of online classes and still charge their normal exorbitant prices to attend the school year. They'd only lose out on book, dorm, and cafeteria money. Problem being that a lot of larger schools are set up for auditorium learning and dorms, where people are packed on top of each other. The last thing they want is to open themselves up to lawsuits where they could lose big money if a cluster of cases ends up killing some students. Lawyers don't need extra incentive to go after deep-pocketed colleges, especially when they're at-fault for being negligent. My state college makes over 660 mil a year in tuition alone and to make that while for one semester not having to pay to power X amount of buildings, or to not having to pay cafeteria or janitorial or maintenance workers at all or at a much smaller rate would likely be fine in the financial books. They'd have to still pay all of those salaries, they can't toss union contracts out like that. I work in a higher-ed adjacent field, and schools are already announcing their plans for the fall. They're throwing caution to the wind even though dorms are going to be Superspreader havens Those are salaried positions? That's kinda nuts.
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Post by sfvega on Jun 29, 2020 15:31:08 GMT -5
This long layoff is bad for a lot of programs, but especially for Iowa who has just been exposed for almost the entirety of it. Now a former RB came out and said Ferentz shut off his meal card as a punishment. That's the most slave owner mentality I've heard out of a college coach in a long time, and that's saying something....
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on Jul 9, 2020 19:21:30 GMT -5
The Big 10 has announced that they will not do non-conference football games this year.
There's some serious local impact in my area with that decision because Notre Dame vs. Wisconsin on 10/3 was supposed to happen at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
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Post by andrew8798 on Jul 9, 2020 19:25:02 GMT -5
Add the ACC and Pac-12 in doing the same
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 20:13:37 GMT -5
Ball State's screwed; two of their nonconference games were money games against Big Ten teams. And as an Indiana fan, those non-conference games are a morale boost and to get ready for the harsh reality that is the Four Heavenly Kings of the Big Ten East.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 9, 2020 22:09:37 GMT -5
Add the ACC and Pac-12 in doing the same They're doing small steps before coming out and telling us that the season is canceled. Maybe postponed to the spring.
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