Heard Bama - LSU off this weekend. Not sure if this is true, not on the news yet.
Heard Bama - LSU off this weekend. Not sure if this is true, not on the news yet.
In other C-USA news, next week's UAB-UTEP game will be played next Friday night. In Midland.
The school to the east isn't playing this week.
Sets the stage for the inevitable for next week.
Maryland now has the covid, cannot play Ohio State this weekend, sorry. Also the game is cancelled, not postponed, again sorry.
This was inevitable.
I really wonder what the average number of games played per team will be this season. CUSA is trying to make up as many as they can, but as we've discussed the Big 10/MAC/Pac 12/MWC really didn't build any wiggle room into their seasons. It seems pretty short-sighted but I really think so much of this stuff has been made up on the fly that it's hard to tell. They (especially the Big 10) clearly thought everyone would cancel and they'd come off looking good by leading the way. Then they looked up and the SE conferences were getting games in to some degree and didn't want to get left out. I mean, nobody knew what to do, so I get that.
I wonder what the extremes are going to end up being for games played.
I know HD is convinced that teams are using this to dodge losses (which doesn't work for the rescheduled ones too well), but one good theory I saw (which would be hard to distinguish from HD's idea) is that for the players, once the season is looking like a let-down, the motivation to follow protocols and be extra careful is out the window. So maybe you're less likely to skip that Halloween party or stay away from that big Thanksgiving dinner, which will skyrocket cases - and contact tracing, etc. It could be that teams with less to play for actually do end up getting more cases of COVID in some cases as their players lose motivation to be careful.
But I also predict that you could find a pretty close correlation between community spikes in positive cases and football team spikes.
Ivy Legue cancels winter sports and delays spring sports.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/...ay-sources-say
Here in the HS ranks, athletics and fine arts (band) are the root of most of the positive cases and contact tracing quarantine for students. I have had several students that ended up contact traced because they are friends with someone or in a class with someone that meets the 2 criteria in my first statement.