Big 12 to move forward with plans for fall football season, sources say
Source: ESPN
The conference's board of directors met for more than an hour on Tuesday to discuss the future of the season in the midst of the Big Ten and Pac-12 decisions to postpone fall sports until 2021.
Much attention was on the Big 12 meeting after the ACC and SEC publicly affirmed their intention to continue moving forward.
The decision now leaves three of the Power 5 conferences intent on playing for now.
The Big 12 athletic directors are set to meet late Tuesday
Read more: Link to sourcehttps://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29642207/big-12-move-forward-plans-fall-football-season-source-says
just punting the cancelation until after classes go 100% online after the refund period, SEC will be last to cancel
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)underpants
(182,883 posts)Baylor
Texas Tech.
underpants
(182,883 posts)Big 10 has 14.
Look at where the Big 12 schools are
Texas including Baylor and Texas Tech
Kansas
Iowa
West Virginia
Oklahoma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_12_Conference_football
Yavin4
(35,446 posts)And Trump will be toast.
VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)Its going to cost some players their health.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Northern states are more concerned about the health and safety of their residents.
Southern ones arent.
pstokely
(10,530 posts)rude NYers with their mask mandates and lack of abortion waiting periods
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)... Alabama a few years ago (so I'd obviously like to see the games played IF it was feasible... which it's not), and the myth about Southern manners was definitely shattered right away. (Unless that city is a bad representative of it.)
The female restaurant employees seemed to think I was flirting with them* just because I was polite and nice. The local men treated them like crap. I'd be concerned about getting spit in my food if I behaved that way here!
* I heard them talking to each other in the distance, giggling and discussing getting together with me.
pstokely
(10,530 posts)Even if they can't have fans at games, they still get the TV $, but many college towns do have mask mandates in capacity limits in place even in the SEC but they're still planning for at least some in person classed and many have begun moving in students
TheDemsshouldhireme
(172 posts)like Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota with what the Big 10 did. This year of continuous crap gets even worse. Lot of football fans that will shave a couple of more points off Trump. I truly believe there is an eroding chunk of his base that can longer ignore the crap show this year continues to be.
pstokely
(10,530 posts)will he lose FL, IA, GA once the SEC, ACC and B12 cancel?
Thekaspervote
(32,794 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,094 posts)mac56
(17,574 posts)oasis
(49,409 posts)SunSeeker
(51,712 posts)The smart ones are opting out. https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-07-06/heres-the-athletes-who-have-opted-out-of-playing-amid-coronavirus-crisis
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)The organ problems after infection isn't a minor issue!
And relying on the athletes and coaches to make the right decision is foolish -- e.g., "They want to do it, so why stop them?!"
Social distancing just can't happen in football. If they're determined to do it, then come up with technology to protect the players from inhaling the droplets and aerosols of the other players.
a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)since the Big 12 only gives a shit about money and not its players, other students, faculty or staff. Im an alum of one school and a professor at another.
I cannot wait to leave this profession behind.
ouija
(398 posts)Very painful and people of my ilk are on suicide watch. Word is from good sources is that the coaches in the SEC know that there will be no college football this year nor in the Spring.
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)until you change it. You can't afford to wait around. This is how the world gets stuff done.
The Big 10 put out a game schedule last week, and practice rules, and a few days later cancelled it all.