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The 2020 College Football Season

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The release of this season's Big Ten schedule will be delayed at least one day.

The conference was initially planning to release its schedule on Tuesday, along with medical guidelines and protocols, but that release has been delayed until at least Wednesday, according to ESPN's Adam Rittenberg and Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune.



The delay comes after news broke of a COVID-19 outbreak within the Rutgers football program in which the program's total positive cases doubled.

As a result, Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren is "reconsidering" the conference's next steps and speaking to students from each Big Ten school before making a decision regarding fall athletics, according to Greenstein.
 
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ScriptOhio said:


The release of this season's Big Ten schedule will be delayed at least one day.

The conference was initially planning to release its schedule on Tuesday, along with medical guidelines and protocols, but that release has been delayed until at least Wednesday, according to ESPN's Adam Rittenberg and Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune.



The delay comes after news broke of a COVID-19 outbreak within the Rutgers football program in which the program's total positive cases doubled.

As a result, Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren is "reconsidering" the conference's next steps and speaking to students from each Big Ten school before making a decision regarding fall athletics, according to Greenstein.
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Go look at what the new Captains are saying about how much they want to play this season. I hope Kevin Warren is listening to that as much as to all of the other noise out there.
 
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MGMT said:
I didn’t see a thread about Colorado State which isn’t surprising because — why would there be? If this isn’t the best spot for this I apologize in advance.

Either way, no bueno:

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/ne...ing-up-coronavirus-health-threats/5572625002/
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As Colorado State football players and staff reportedly claim COVID-19 cover-up, others dispute allegations
CSU players and staff members claim that coaches told them not to report symptoms

"We had a player who definitely had coronavirus symptoms coughing at practice and he wasn't wearing a mask and I was next to him, touching him and there was spit and sweat," a player said. "I told him he needed to get tested but he really didn't want to because then he would be out. The next day he is not at practice. [If he tested positive] he already had spread the virus. That's why a lot of players don't feel safe at football practice."
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An unnamed staff member, who was one of 10 total players and staff members interviewed, also raised concerns about the state of the program.

"There are some red flags in the athletic department but the common denominator with this administration is to protect the coaches before the student-athletes and that makes them feel more like cattle than student-athletes," the staffer said.

Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...covid-19-cover-up-others-dispute-allegations/

If true, stuff like that sure isn't good. However, some players (in the article) posted it wasn't true.

Voluntary workouts were paused on July 29 after 27 players missed practice due to COVID-19, according to the report. Those numbers spiked after a number of football players, as well as players in other sports, attended a party over July 4th weekend. Parker agreed that the incident likely led to the increase in positive cases.
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Just like at Rutgers, there was a spike in COVID-19 cases when a number of football players "attended a party".
 
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UCONN first FBS team to drop out of 2020 season (then again, i thought they dropped football some years back)
The University of Connecticut Department of Athletics today announced that its football program will cancel all competition for the 2020-21 school year.

"After receiving guidance from state and public health officials and consulting with football student-athletes, we've decided that we will not compete on the gridiron this season," director of athletics David Benedict said. "The safety challenges created by COVID-19 place our football student-athletes at an unacceptable level of risk."
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https://uconnhuskies.com/news/2020/...on-due-to-risks-associated-with-covid-19.aspx
 
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Trevi said:
UCONN first FBS team to drop out of 2020 season (then again, i thought they dropped football some years back)

https://uconnhuskies.com/news/2020/...on-due-to-risks-associated-with-covid-19.aspx
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Guess what happens when you drop out of a Power 5 conference, go "independent", and the conferences are now just playing games within their conference?

Answer: You can't find enough opponents to fill out your schedule so you have to cancel your season and blame it on the virus.
 
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