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Well, it can't be changed now.You and every other mod on this forum!I on the other hand had been rendered speechless from numerous rage-strokes in the month-plus since it was first posted.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Division III Bowdoin College cancels football and rest of sports this fall due to COVID-19 pandemic
The Polar Bears won't be playing football, or any other sports, this fall, the college announced Monday
The uncertainty surrounding the 2020 college football season is swirling, and one small school made big waves on Monday morning. Bowdoin College, an NCAA Division III school located in Brunswick, Maine, announced it will not participate in intercollegiate sports during the fall semester. The Polar Bears play in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).
The decision comes on the same day that the school released a detailed plan on how students will return to campus. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors will participate in remote learning classes during the fall semester, with a few exceptions. Freshmen, transfers, students who can't take classes remotely, senior honor students who can't properly participate with their work online, and residential life staff will be allowed on campus.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...of-sports-this-fall-due-to-covid-19-pandemic/
Not sure they had much of a football program anyway.
The Polar Bears won't be playing football, or any other sports, this fall, the college announced Monday
The uncertainty surrounding the 2020 college football season is swirling, and one small school made big waves on Monday morning. Bowdoin College, an NCAA Division III school located in Brunswick, Maine, announced it will not participate in intercollegiate sports during the fall semester. The Polar Bears play in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).
The decision comes on the same day that the school released a detailed plan on how students will return to campus. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors will participate in remote learning classes during the fall semester, with a few exceptions. Freshmen, transfers, students who can't take classes remotely, senior honor students who can't properly participate with their work online, and residential life staff will be allowed on campus.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...of-sports-this-fall-due-to-covid-19-pandemic/
Not sure they had much of a football program anyway.
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starBUCKS
BPCFFB League #2 League Champion 2008 & 2010
Ivy league is making announcement on their plans on Wednesday. They spoke to some Ivy Coaches who feel their going to push to Spring. While they're sub division, Hollnger feels this is the "first domino" because other schools/conferences don't have the balls to do it yet.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Big Ten football: Non-conference opponents feel 'dramatic' loss of revenue in millions of dollars
The Big Ten Conference’s announcement that its schools are limiting any fall sports competition to games against conference opponents will have financial ramifications not only for Big Ten schools, but also for schools across the country – especially in the Mid-American Conference.
Big Ten football teams had been scheduled to play 33 non-conference games at home. USA TODAY Sports has been able to obtain contracts for 26 of those games – and they had been scheduled to have total payouts to the visiting teams of nearly $22.2 million. That figure includes payouts connected to single, one-off games and games that were to be parts of series.
Most of this money was headed to schools in conferences outside the Power Five – schools that could be significantly impacted by the loss of revenue.
“I know the impact that these guarantee games have for these programs — and it's dramatic,” said Big Sky Conference commissioner Tom Wistrcill, who worked as Akron’s athletics director from 2009 to 2015. “It certainly sends a shock through the system. And I certainly feel for those programs, especially in the (Mid-American Conference) … that has a lot of games with those Big Ten schools and rely heavily on that income.”
Altogether MAC schools stand to lose more than $10.5 million from games against Big Ten teams.
Central Michigan, Bowling Green, Ball State and Northern Illinois each had two games this season against Big Ten teams.
Bowling Green was due $2.2 million — $1.2 million for playing Ohio State on Sept. 5, and $1 million for playing Illinois on Sept. 19.
Central Michigan, which has dropped two teams and gotten a temporary waiver from the association’s minimum sport-sponsorship requirements for Football Bowl Subdivision membership, was set to get $2.15 million — $1.3 million for playing Nebraska on Sept. 12 and $850,000 from Northwestern for a game the following week.
Arkansas State and Buffalo each were set to receive $1.8 million for games against Big Ten teams on Sept. 19 – Arkansas State for playing Michigan, Buffalo for playing Ohio State.
Kent State and San Jose State each were set to get $1.5 million for playing Penn State – the Golden Flashes on Sept. 5, the Spartans on Sept. 19.
Central Michigan, Appalachian State, Florida Atlantic and Toledo also had been scheduled for guarantee games against Big Ten teams worth more than $1 million.
What could become an issue, however, is whether the language of the various contracts will result in the games being canceled with no payment due, or whether the Big Ten schools will have to either make payments for canceling the games or make arrangements for a future game.
For example, Ohio State’s contracts with Buffalo and Bowling Green state: “If it becomes impossible to play the football game for reasons of power failure, strikes, severe weather conditions, riots, war, or other unforeseen catastrophes or disasters beyond the control of either party, this Agreement may be terminated by either OSU or the Visiting Team, the football game shall be cancelled, and neither party shall be responsible to the other for any loss or damage.”
It would seem that the pandemic would qualify as a disaster “beyond the control of either party,” but there potentially is room for interpretation.
If Ohio State were deemed in breach of either the agreements, according to the contracts, it could owe the full guarantee amounts. The contract says the visiting teams would be owed the difference between the guarantee amount and the amount the visiting teams receive for the game scheduled to replace the game against Ohio State with Bowling Green and Buffalo each recognizing “its legal obligation to mitigate its damages in the event of OSU's breach.”
Meanwhile, Illinois’ contract with Bowling Green specifically covers an epidemic. The agreement says: Neither party shall be held liable “failure in performance or shall be required to pay liquidated damages … for a canceled or defaulted game resulting from events or acts which are beyond the control of such party, including events of limitation, such as: acts of God, athletic program termination, strikes, lockouts, riots, acts of war, epidemics, governmental or NCAA or other controlling athletic conference failures, earthquakes or other disasters.”
Entire article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...antee-games-millions-lost-revenue/5409321002/
The Big Ten Conference’s announcement that its schools are limiting any fall sports competition to games against conference opponents will have financial ramifications not only for Big Ten schools, but also for schools across the country – especially in the Mid-American Conference.
Big Ten football teams had been scheduled to play 33 non-conference games at home. USA TODAY Sports has been able to obtain contracts for 26 of those games – and they had been scheduled to have total payouts to the visiting teams of nearly $22.2 million. That figure includes payouts connected to single, one-off games and games that were to be parts of series.
Most of this money was headed to schools in conferences outside the Power Five – schools that could be significantly impacted by the loss of revenue.
“I know the impact that these guarantee games have for these programs — and it's dramatic,” said Big Sky Conference commissioner Tom Wistrcill, who worked as Akron’s athletics director from 2009 to 2015. “It certainly sends a shock through the system. And I certainly feel for those programs, especially in the (Mid-American Conference) … that has a lot of games with those Big Ten schools and rely heavily on that income.”
Altogether MAC schools stand to lose more than $10.5 million from games against Big Ten teams.
Central Michigan, Bowling Green, Ball State and Northern Illinois each had two games this season against Big Ten teams.
Bowling Green was due $2.2 million — $1.2 million for playing Ohio State on Sept. 5, and $1 million for playing Illinois on Sept. 19.
Central Michigan, which has dropped two teams and gotten a temporary waiver from the association’s minimum sport-sponsorship requirements for Football Bowl Subdivision membership, was set to get $2.15 million — $1.3 million for playing Nebraska on Sept. 12 and $850,000 from Northwestern for a game the following week.
Arkansas State and Buffalo each were set to receive $1.8 million for games against Big Ten teams on Sept. 19 – Arkansas State for playing Michigan, Buffalo for playing Ohio State.
Kent State and San Jose State each were set to get $1.5 million for playing Penn State – the Golden Flashes on Sept. 5, the Spartans on Sept. 19.
Central Michigan, Appalachian State, Florida Atlantic and Toledo also had been scheduled for guarantee games against Big Ten teams worth more than $1 million.
What could become an issue, however, is whether the language of the various contracts will result in the games being canceled with no payment due, or whether the Big Ten schools will have to either make payments for canceling the games or make arrangements for a future game.
For example, Ohio State’s contracts with Buffalo and Bowling Green state: “If it becomes impossible to play the football game for reasons of power failure, strikes, severe weather conditions, riots, war, or other unforeseen catastrophes or disasters beyond the control of either party, this Agreement may be terminated by either OSU or the Visiting Team, the football game shall be cancelled, and neither party shall be responsible to the other for any loss or damage.”
It would seem that the pandemic would qualify as a disaster “beyond the control of either party,” but there potentially is room for interpretation.
If Ohio State were deemed in breach of either the agreements, according to the contracts, it could owe the full guarantee amounts. The contract says the visiting teams would be owed the difference between the guarantee amount and the amount the visiting teams receive for the game scheduled to replace the game against Ohio State with Bowling Green and Buffalo each recognizing “its legal obligation to mitigate its damages in the event of OSU's breach.”
Meanwhile, Illinois’ contract with Bowling Green specifically covers an epidemic. The agreement says: Neither party shall be held liable “failure in performance or shall be required to pay liquidated damages … for a canceled or defaulted game resulting from events or acts which are beyond the control of such party, including events of limitation, such as: acts of God, athletic program termination, strikes, lockouts, riots, acts of war, epidemics, governmental or NCAA or other controlling athletic conference failures, earthquakes or other disasters.”
Entire article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...antee-games-millions-lost-revenue/5409321002/
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It seems hard for me to think they can not pay Bowling Green, but turn around and prove its safe for them to play an out of state team.
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The thing that will suck most across any sports that try to play is what happens if your star RB or QB gets sick during the season? I highly doubt that any college or pro athletes will have major complications from COVID, but losing an important player for 2-3 weeks might ruin some seasons.
Most Mid-Majors rely on a couple big football paychecks to support their whole athletic program for the year. Is there even a point of the MAC having a season if you have to limit capacity of a 25K stadium to 10K and rake in a whopping $200K per home game. Maybe add in 1 mil per school for a TV deal, but that will likely go down with decreased games. We're definitely going to see which colleges have their balance sheet in the best shape over the next year.
Most Mid-Majors rely on a couple big football paychecks to support their whole athletic program for the year. Is there even a point of the MAC having a season if you have to limit capacity of a 25K stadium to 10K and rake in a whopping $200K per home game. Maybe add in 1 mil per school for a TV deal, but that will likely go down with decreased games. We're definitely going to see which colleges have their balance sheet in the best shape over the next year.
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It appears that the Illini had some sharper lawyers at some point than tOSU's Athletic department. Gene Smith's legal team didn't have 'epidemic' included in that list of disasters, as in the Illini contracts, which would have removed any room for debate about cancelling this year's OOC games.
I'm sure all future contracts wil have that wording included.
I'm sure all future contracts wil have that wording included.
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Onebuckfan
classof76
Say your star QBs had a test before the CFP semifinal and that test was positive .,he sat out and you lost. Then three days later he tests negative. CFP committee says sorry that first test was a false positive or worse the sample was mishandled.
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Say your conference cancels football in August and October rolls around and numbers are well below epidemic levels
Say your conference doesn’t cancel football and November rolls around and people are dropping like flies
Unless your thing is having power over people (which describes all of DC and if you think there’s an exception please PM me, I have a great business opportunity for you), then power has always been a no win proposition. 2020 has turned that dial up to 11
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