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Only redshirt if they don't play league schedule in the spring, presumably anyone good enough to contribute in those games would be useful in league play.

Anyone want to start a pool on how many players turn up to have a congenital heart issue that only got diagnosed because of the greater scrutiny?

No U and ESPNews

There was already a void in programming thanks to the conference networks and Fox picking up some added rights. Sun Belt had 8 Saturday games picked up mostly on U but one or two 2 as the season went on last year. ESPN+ is going to have much less FBS content this year.

Delay is smart. Get the guys past last day to enroll and they can’t do immediate transfer.

Unless NCAA steps in with an emergency rule players at schools not playing get a free transfer as long as they don’t miss last day to enroll at the new school

Probably only reason haven’t changed their name.

Makes sense. PAC-12 isn’t playing non-conference. Big Sky pulled the plug. That left BYU, UTEP, and NMSU as only possible FBS opponents in the region. Newcomer Dixie State is the only FCS. Lot of flying in the MWC including all games involving Hawaii. Outside the front range of Wyoming, CSU, AFA not many bus trips

If Texas extends sovereign immunity to cover contracts I’m surprised anyone does business with the government. Usually only applies to torts not contracts.

Yes the governor of Florida told everyone to evacuate Miami so instead of coming to Jonesboro they just released the team and wished them well. AState was going to sue once time passed for them to pay up so Miami sued to declare contract invalid. We ended settling for around 2/3rds

AState sued Miami. Hasn’t seemed to create any problems Actually they sued us before we could file but we did file

Always comes down to language of the contract. Central Arkansas likely SOL based on Mizzou contract language. AState probably OK based on contract with Michigan. Personally if one were to sue one of these P5 teams I’d go ahead and add their conference and sue for tortious interference with contract. Politically you might get grief suing another state school but who cares if you sue the whole SEC? Rumor is many schools are negotiating rescheduling their buy games and paying part but not all of the guarantees this year.

NCAA rules require you to play at least 5 home games which UConn looked to meet when they cancelled BUT they also have to play at least 9 games meaning they needed three more. Only one of the two added games could be FCS so given the improbability of scheduling the minimum requirements they sat Here’s what concerns me about the virus. There are two studies, small studies though, where younger individuals with mild symptoms were looked at and 3/4ths showed cardiac damage similar to a heart attack.

Late to the game. Sure they could pack up and leave but it presents anti-trust risk, it eliminates about 290 schools who lose money and can’t afford paying players like pros that can be used in arguing players shouldn’t be paid. It invites Congressional scrutiny as prominent schools get left out and states get left without a top division hoops team. What I told a friend was if they bolt, I don’t care as long as they leave without AAC and MWC. Takes off a lot of pressure to keep up with salaries and facilities while turning the heat way way up on them to pay players and if they do they can’t impose salary caps unless there’s a collective bargaining agreement and can’t have a CBA without a union. They’re welcome to have that fun if that’s what they want.

Cancel TAMU and owe them $1.2 million or whatever it is. That’s expensive leadership

Makes no sense to get ahead of the power curve. You really think the presidents want to pre-emptively cancel millions in guarantee games and have to defend that call when they can wait for the P5 schools to cancel and then argue they should be paid because TAMU is still playing, just not playing UNT?

That or they want the flexibility to move their games around and adjust if Penn State has several players get sick 3rd week in September.

I figure if Junior Samples does well as coach and they get back to mediocre in the SEC they'll be calling.

Typical G5 is going to lose about 5% of their budget from game guarantees. Even if crowds are allowed with no social distancing restrictions ticket sales will be down everywhere I imagine if we have games the national average attendance will be lowest of most of our lifetimes. Sponsors going to want a break if crowds are restricted and fewer games played. Radio networks same thing. Enrollment is going to be down as well so schools will have to cut expenses. The B1G and presumably soon ACC and Pac12 are in asset protection mode. ESPN and Fox don’t shell out those bucks for South Dakota State at Nebraska, they know little to nothing about the non-conference slate when they bid. They are paying for intra-conference games. B1G can spread 9 games over 14 weeks to meet obligations and have rescheduling flexibility. B1G will get 100% or close to it of their TV if they can play the league season

They opened the door by playing system schools. UALR beat the tar out of their national power baseball program. This just adds AState and UCA. They’ve been spending a bundle in non-revenue sports because most pre-ban available schools have fairly stout travel expenses. Once you get past Missouri State, Tulsa, and Oral Roberts not a lot of schools that can visit without a long ride and hotel stay. More than doubled the pool

70,000 or so online students will pay for a lot of stuff. Liberty learned what Memphis and FedEx's Fred Smith learned. University presidents don't look favorably on schools trying to buy their way into association. It looks like taking a bribe and isn't well received. University presidents have to make the call on conference affiliation and who gets to be an equity partner. They have to balance the wants/needs of students, faculty, staff, alumni, the board, and if public, the government. As a general rule, university CEO's don't go around seeking trouble and being in partnership with an institution that requires all faculty to affirm that they believe in young earth creationism and refuses to grant tenure (a strongly held principled decision they backed off of to get the law school accredited, then the principle wasn't so strongly held). Their policy toward gay students is the most severe in FBS without question now that BYU has changed it's code of conduct. Hiring a discredited AD and football coach doesn't help perception either.

What if ODU and MTSU don’t huff and stamp their foot and demand JMU be added when Bankowsky wanted to help UAB cut costs by moving UAB East by adding AState and ULL to get to 16 to create the possibility of a future mitosis style split.

Had to open this to figure out what y’all call SOW. On the AState board it means School Out West.

This one caught my attention because it’s the first one not from a CUSA AD or CUSA market. I have probably posted my theory of close but not too close. At the FBS level lacking P5 money you want opponents you can bus to. Maybe sell a few more visitor tickets but mainly cut your bills for flights and hotels and player meal allowances. BUT. You don’t want someone so close you are competing for attention from your local TV reporters, radio talk hosts, newspaper space and casual ticket buyers. That might not matter in DFW where the pros, UT, TAMU, and OU suck the air out of the room but it matters in the Monroe media market and may matter in San Antonio, it matters in El Paso. Until I see it happen, I don’t believe a neat clean and orderly realignment can happen. Sun Belt commissioner owes a fiduciary duty to members he faces personal liability if he negotiates a shuffle that leaves UTA and UALR out of the mix. Likewise if MTSU ends up worse off because the commissioner brokered a neat clean realignment, she’s at risk of breaching her duty. Either the eastern schools break away or USM and UAB do a Mountain West organizing their own mid-south league but coordination is improbable.

I think we’ve seen the photo of people at Georgia Tech in 1918. If masks get us there I’m in.