Except for the video game :/
From the article, "Payments to athletes will not be permitted to be used as recruiting inducements to high school athletes." Hysterical. Is this just to make the NCAA feel good about itself?
I think we are learning more about the minimal impact of this virus on young people, particularly healthy people. As the weeks go by, I am more confident there will be football this fall. How they'll handle fan attendance will need to be figured out.Interesting timing to announce this. I find it ironic that there's no inclination at this point as to when sports will be able to resume or if they'll even be able to play football in the fall. Universities as well as the NCAA would take another huge hit if there's no football season, so I'm very surprised that they'd even consider addressing this now with so much up in the air.
I think we are learning more about the minimal impact of this virus on young people, particularly healthy people. As the weeks go by, I am more confident there will be football this fall. How they'll handle fan attendance will need to be figured out.
Are there any caps on the number of walk ons? I am conceptually fine with the notion of what they want to do, but if there isn't a cap on walk ons, this could usher in an era much like 60's and 70's where basically only two teams had a chance in the Big Ten and SEC (UM/OSU/Bama/UGA). Maybe the SEC can have a little more parity than it did back then and maybe PSU can compete in the B1G, but if there are no walk on limits, it will be a death sentence for programs like Iowa, Wisconsin, MSU, Auburn, etc. that hired good coaches and figured out how to compete in the world with 85 scholarships. Ohio State will be able to take every single kid in Ohio who is a 3 star or above. Georgia and Bama will do the same for all the good kids in the South. Big schools with huge fan bases and deep pocketed boosters will foot the bill for the walk ons to keep them away from other teams.From the article, "Payments to athletes will not be permitted to be used as recruiting inducements to high school athletes." Hysterical. Is this just to make the NCAA feel good about itself?
Nebraska has 150 guys on the roster now, attempting to do what they used to. Maybe that's the limit, I don't know.Are there any caps on the number of walk ons? I am conceptually fine with the notion of what they want to do, but if there isn't a cap on walk ons, this could usher in an era much like 60's and 70's where basically only two teams had a chance in the Big Ten and SEC (UM/OSU/Bama/UGA). Maybe the SEC can have a little more parity than it did back then and maybe PSU can compete in the B1G, but if there are no walk on limits, it will be a death sentence for programs like Iowa, Wisconsin, MSU, Auburn, etc. that hired good coaches and figured out how to compete in the world with 85 scholarships. Ohio State will be able to take every single kid in Ohio who is a 3 star or above. Georgia and Bama will do the same for all the good kids in the South. Big schools with huge fan bases and deep pocketed boosters will foot the bill for the walk ons to keep them away from other teams.
I totally agree. Fan attendance is going to be the biggest question mark. How do you social distance and what measures can you put in place to minimize the risk of an unknown carrier potentially exposing the virus to other individuals he comes in contact with before they are even tested? Do you test at the stadium gates or would you need to test at some other sort of access point in an attempt to minimize the risk before people are shoulder to shoulder in the tailgating lots or as they're walking to the stadium or getting in line to be tested.
I think there's definitely going to a learning curve as it's going to be a form of crowd control that's never been tested.
I really don't see how they are going to have a season unless the vaccine is out. As soon as restrictions are eased up this virus is going to spread exponentially. I work in the hospital and it is hard enough to test everyone here, and keep it from spreading among employees as well. The virus most certainly hits younger people as well as everyone else, granted they are less at risk for death, but they do die as well. It's not feasible to test everyone that comes through the gate as the tests take time to come back. Abott labs has a test that is limited in availability, but the results come back in 5-10 minutes, but not even very many hospitals have it yet. IF there is a season, fans won't be there, or very limited numbers will be.