Why is it such a bad thing that $$$ factored into the decision? My Facebook is littered with people complaining about the decision being focused around money. Isn't that EVERYTHING in this world? I am a teacher and I love my job, but if I wasn't making money, I wouldn't be teaching. Sure, I love the kids, just like I'm sure the universities love their kids, but if you can't make money, you can't justify moving forward.

On point 1, that assumes that games are played in home stadiums. Conferences could also move to a bubble (or multiple bubble) approach focused on domes/warm climates.

I don't think spring ball or much of spring ball can be a thing. And no i don't think all or or none. I think it would be fine if you say NFL go first but couldn't you have NFL start see how it is going and even start your season October 1st. By then we would know how things were going with students on campus what the NFL had learned.

I am going through a situation now with my oldest daughter 22. We just had a argument this morning and my answer to her whining so your just going to quit because it is hard? Because you don't know the complete path or how it is going to end up is a reason to quit?

This is sort of how i see life. I see covid-19 and how we move forward the same way. That is all any of my posts are about. I just don't feel like you give up on something because it is hard. Now if you come up on a point and you say. OK this is the actual danger or this is the stumbling block until we have a fix for this we cant move forward. I totally get it. But most of the answers are there are too many unknowns?

I mean if someone could look forward and say OK we have this model and the model tells us if continue to have football we are going to have 1200 athletes test positive for covid and we think at least 2 are going to die. I would say OK. Let's not play it isn't safe. and if a report like that exists then i have no problem with shutting it down. I just don't think you shut it down without trying or without a medical forecast that spells doom and gloom but everything i am reading says basically we are not playing football because what we don't know.

We are told nursing homes are dangerous places for covid and they certainly are. And one case could kill a lot of people. But there are nursing homes that have had zero cases. so it can be done, My mother is in a nursing home with dementia. I go up and talk to her through her window we have had one outside visit. The nursing home has had zero cases. And they are a big community they have assisted living a rehab a regular nursing home and memory care.

They have taken great care of them and have had all kinds if extra activities where families cant come in.

All college athletes should refuse going into any kind of a bubble (on campus or off) until...
• they are permitted to unionize,
• have a contract in-place providing for financial compensation,
• Are permitted to have outside medical staff and experts to advise them on the Covid and other health concerns.

There are food chain questions in all of this but the MAC is only 1 step up in the food chain from FCS as it is. P5 will try and use the power of the NCAA to mandate measures to save costs because they are the ones with the big bleeding.

College coaching salaries north of 2 million don't seem sustainable and if that is true than assistants can't be north of 1 million. Then it could push the G5 to cap out around 1 million. OU isn't even paying 1 million and where Frank and Boals are in the career cycle they aren't going to get cut for cheaper guys. It could hurt programs like Cincinnati that are paying up to keep up.

What the P5 don't want to do is put themselves in the position where they form their own super division of rules with 55 scholarships with unionized pay while the G5 has 85 and unlimited salaries for players. They need to stay in control of the entire system. 55 schools in FBS have cancelled the season and nobody is going to pay attention to the other 75.

You can always just go down to the YMCA and watch a bunch of people play for the love of the game.

Yeah god forbid the people who are generating $-billions in revenue for everyone else, be allowed a piece of the pie. What a ridiculous idea! Why would they ever be given a seat at the table!

+1

It may be that 95% of athletes don't care about this, but I think your assessment of athletes' leverage at the moment is way off. Schools are currently publicly announcing exactly how much a cancelled football season will cost them, and the financial woes of higher ed are well known.

The players will never have more leverage than they have when play resumes, whether that's this year or next. It's likely they don't care enough to act on it, but if they wanted to, the schools are up against a wall.

Money that they turned around and spent, it’s not like they were making a profit.

Seems extraordinarily unlikely that revenue sports will be eliminated at the P5 level.

If you want to include diving, softball, and most other "Olympic" sports - perhaps. If you look at the revenue sports at the power 5 your number is drastically off. Plus you may want to keep a close eye on Colo St., Fla St., Syracuse, the Pac-12 and more. The concern for their health and the mistrust of the "adults" in the room will move points 1 and 3 forward. Can players look outside for health advice? Yeas, and we all know that such steps do not sit well with their coach nor administration.