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The 2020 College Football Season

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SKULL SESSION: JEFF OKUDAH WANTS TO GUARD MICHAEL THOMAS, KJ HILL IS A CRISP ROUTE RUNNER, AND FOOTBALL'S GOING TO NEED UNPRECEDENTED COLLABORATION TO RETURN

WORK TOGETHER. When it comes to getting football back in our lives, there's a hell of a lot more at play than just the looming very bad virus. There are also hundreds – if not thousands – of logistical, financial and medical concerns that have to be overcome, and the only way we're going to do it is with unprecedented collaboration.

Now, the challenge becomes not only cleaning up the game but getting it back on the field. A coach/trainer/medical collaboration is deemed so essential that one prominent Power Five trainer quoted President Abraham Lincoln in this potential battle: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"The unprecedented thing would be the collaboration of coaches, medical folks and trainers on the front side," said Randy Cohen, Arizona's senior associate athletic director for medical services. "There is unprecedented planning ahead. … This is no different than the President and the Congress. The best way is, today, to throw out your agenda and work together."

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At this point, just suiting up to play the 2020 season will qualify as a positive.

"I'm cautiously optimistic we can get a season in," said Hainline, now in his eighth year as the NCAA's chief medical officer. "I look at New York as an example. The city was decimated, but we are actually starting to see some light. But it took exceptionally aggressive measures. It's going to take not relaxing them all at once."

Personally, I think "throw out your agenda and work together" should just be how life works in general, but if it takes a global pandemic and an impending financial crisis to get us there, so be it.

I want football. You want football. The players want football. The coaches want football. Television networks want football. College athletic departments cannot survive without football. We're all in the same boat here.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...s-a-crisp-route-runner-and-footballs-going-to
 
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Not gonna matter. Some of the governors want to open up yesterday, some won't open up until October or later - and there's a spread even within the B1G Ten states as well.

The SEC SEC SEC will have football, as will some of the ACC. Everyone else is probably not going to play this year.
 
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LAWYER UP. Contract lawyers are going to be working their asses off in the coming months if COVID-19 causes any non-conference game cancelations. Because of millions of dollars and the financial well-being of quite a few athletic departments could hinge on interpretations of a signed piece of paper.

The cancellation of the college football season won’t just result in massive revenue losses for athletic departments.

It could spark court cases across the country, pitting the sport’s blue bloods against relative lightweights, arguing the specifics of force majeure clauses in game contracts. At least that’s what one former high-ranking Power Five administrator and an attorney with experience in college athletics believe, telling The Blade that they think a litigation collision course is inevitable if the coronavirus pandemic wipes out nonconference games.

“General counsels all over the country are looking at these contracts,” said Bowling Green State University senior associate athletic director Kit Hughes. “Everybody is looking down the barrel of these guarantee games and the potential that there could be some cancellations.

“But what does that actually mean? Certainly nobody has COVID-19 listed in a force majeure clause, and something as specific as a global pandemic wouldn't be mentioned. I think everybody is looking at those things. We, like [Ohio State], would take the lead from our general counsel’s office.”

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“It obviously would be a huge hit for us with a budget like ours,” Hughes said. “Let’s assume if we don't play Ohio State that we’re also not playing Illinois [Sept. 19]. Our net from our four guarantee games this year is $1.725 million. You look at that net over our operating budget, and that’s a really significant hit."

That sounds nightmarish all around, but it can all be avoided by simply playing football in the fall. So let's just bank on that, please, and thank you.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...akes-it-known-he-dominated-the-game-and-shaun
 
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