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AstroDin wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 28, 2020 8:01 am

This post on Saturday reminded me - we're 8 Saturdays away from kickoff…
I can't find an exact date but practice starts next month.

aqualung wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 28, 2020 9:00 am

Would love to start getting excited but I just can't. Would anyone be surprised if the whole deal gets cancelled? With this slew of rising cases nothing would surprise me.

The Jackal wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 28, 2020 2:38 pm

aqualung wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 28, 2020 9:00 am

Would love to start getting excited but I just can't. Would anyone be surprised if the whole deal gets cancelled? With this slew of rising cases nothing would surprise me.

We may see schedule changes, like many programs. I find, though, that if your priority is to get in a football season, you'll make it work.

What I have not seen is guidance from the SoCon on tiebreaker procedures in the event games are continued/canceled.

The Big10, for instance, used a pretty complicated formula to determine who could play in the title game. I assume the SoCon may have to use something similar in conjunction with deciding the automatic bid. https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/E ... 53768797_2

The Jackal wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 28, 2020 2:38 pm

aqualung wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 28, 2020 9:00 am

Would love to start getting excited but I just can't. Would anyone be surprised if the whole deal gets cancelled? With this slew of rising cases nothing would surprise me.

We may see schedule changes, like many programs. I find, though, that if your priority is to get in a football season, you'll make it work.

What I have not seen is guidance from the SoCon on tiebreaker procedures in the event games are continued/canceled.

The Big10, for instance, used a pretty complicated formula to determine who could play in the title game. I assume the SoCon may have to use something similar in conjunction with deciding the automatic bid. https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/E ... 53768797_2

gofurman wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 28, 2020 9:33 pm

The Jackal wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 28, 2020 2:38 pm

aqualung wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 28, 2020 9:00 am

Would love to start getting excited but I just can't. Would anyone be surprised if the whole deal gets cancelled? With this slew of rising cases nothing would surprise me.

We may see schedule changes, like many programs. I find, though, that if your priority is to get in a football season, you'll make it work.

What I have not seen is guidance from the SoCon on tiebreaker procedures in the event games are continued/canceled.

The Big10, for instance, used a pretty complicated formula to determine who could play in the title game. I assume the SoCon may have to use something similar in conjunction with deciding the automatic bid. https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/E ... 53768797_2

"Guidance from the SoCon' is one of them there oxymorons.. like "jumbo shrimp' or 'alone together' (the last particularly apt this year

Furmanoid wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:20 am

Has the SoCon come out with its protocols for when to cancel games, contact tracing, number of days for isolation, etc.? Seems like games were cancelled based on some arbitrary percentage of positives+ close contacts. Games were cancelled if teams were down 20 players or so leaving them with only about the same number of players as an FCS team or about twice as many as the average high school.

Those rules varied a good bit between fbs conferences. It seems like the Big 10 for some reason decided to out protocol everybody else and made it nearly impossible to play. They’ve now adjusted protocols to get OSU up to full strength. There were also cases in the ACC and Big 10 where teams unilaterally shut down games that would have been played under the agreed upon protocols. I hope the fcs guys have learned from all of that.

They can also at least consider the fact that full seasons were played involving thousands of players, and it doesn’t appear that anyone became seriously ill. Also no conferences or schools have been sued out of existence. So MAYBE slightly less restrictive measures are in order and fewer games will need to be cancelled.

FU3 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 29, 2020 3:04 pm

North Dakota has the 4th and South Dakota has the 7th highest death rates in the US in some of the least dense areas in our country so I am not sure we would want to emulate whatever that “plan”was.