2019 Miscellaneous college football news

[JosephC]

https://www.press-citizen.com/story/sports/college/columnists/chad-leistikow/2020/08/21/leistikow-ripple-effects-no-fall-football-big-ten-conference-iowa-4-sports-eliminated-hawkeyes/3408170001/

[owbc]

The whole college cheating scandal from 2019 is what first turned me onto this, but when you think about it, there aren't exactly a ton of kids from low-income backgrounds mastering sports like tennis or swimming well enough to earn a D1 scholarship.

 

Today, fewer than one in seven students receiving athletic scholarships across all Division I sports come from families in which neither parent went to college. Farrey calls this the slow-motion “gentrification” of college sports.

 

This process starts in youth and high-school sports. Both historically served as a pipeline to flagship universities for low-income kids. But when they’re shut out from pricey travel leagues and the expensive coaching that early specialists receive, lower-income kids are denied not only the physical benefits of playing sports, but also the jackpot that is college recruitment and Division I and II scholarships

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/meritocracy-killing-high-school-sports/597121/

How do you reconcile that with Title IX? Pretty much the only profitable sports are football and men's basketball, on a good year maybe men's hockey. How do you explain 100% of scholarships going to men and none to women?

 

Obviously it has to be a 50/50 split. I'm just saying the whole college scholarship athletics business has gotten way over-inflated, many of the non-revenue sports can be club sports instead of scholarship.

[jerichoholicninja]

I'm just saying the whole college scholarship athletics business has gotten way over-inflated, many of the non-revenue sports can be club sports instead of scholarship.

 

I would agree. I talk with way too many parents of high school kids that just flippantly throw out the hope that their kid gets an athletic scholarship. I don't think it's because they overestimate the athletic ability of their child but because they seem to think scholarships are plentiful and available everywhere. Pretty much none of them know that there are no athletic scholarships at D3 and D2 scholarships don't cover much.

[nate82]

I don't believe the Badgers will be playing in WI if the winter schedule happens. I don't see Miller Park as an option. I think they will be playing in either Indianapolis Minneapolis or Detroit.

 

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-ten-considering-multiple-domed-stadiums-as-sites-for-potential-winter-college-football-season/

[pacopete4]

I wonder if Mark A would do a little construction to make this a reality? Not even sure it’s possible but it wouldn’t be adding a crazy amount of room to really make it work.

[homer]

 

https://www.foxsports.com/wisconsin/story/wisconsin-badgers-big-ten-football-staging-season-2020-082820

[owbc]

 

https://www.foxsports.com/wisconsin/story/wisconsin-badgers-big-ten-football-staging-season-2020-082820

 

the Big Ten will only play if certain benchmarks related to the coronavirus — such as transmission rates, testing capacity and availability, and testing accuracy — are met in each of the 11 states that are home to the league’s 14 schools

 

I'll laugh so hard if Nebraska and Iowa end up being the only states that fail to meet the criteria.

[jerichoholicninja]

 

https://www.foxsports.com/wisconsin/story/wisconsin-badgers-big-ten-football-staging-season-2020-082820

 

Big10 AD's, administrators, and conference officials: "We're going to lose how much money if we don't play!? Well, then I guess we're playing."

[tmwiese55]

I just didn't see the rush to cancel two weeks ago. Should've moved back to late Sept (easy to do with the shortened schedules) and then waited to see what happens once schools start. Really a decision wouldn't need to be made until mid Sept then. The new quick test approved was a big help that could help make this happen.

[HiAndTight]

 

Big10 AD's, administrators, and conference officials: "We're going to lose how much money if we don't play!? Well, then I guess we're playing."

 

 

Do you really believe they were ignorant about the money they'd lose when they announced it initially?

[HiAndTight]

I just didn't see the rush to cancel two weeks ago. Should've moved back to late Sept (easy to do with the shortened schedules) and then waited to see what happens once schools start. Really a decision wouldn't need to be made until mid Sept then. The new quick test approved was a big help that could help make this happen.

 

 

Sure, they could have kept going. But remember...most believed that the Summer would be the time frame when the virus was at it's best and the fall was going to be worse than the initial outbreak.

 

I'm still pretty skeptical that they'll end up playing, even with their reversal(or what appears to be a reversal).

[wildcat83]

The true test will come over the next month and two main events.

 

1. Kids going back to school.

2. Furnaces coming on.

 

Arizona was one of the biggest spikes in summer. Right during peak heat, that causes central air units to work overtime and people to pile indoors. You know, like the opposite reflection of what winter does to Big 10 cities with cold. I don’t see sports maintaining during late fall/winter months in the north.

 

Time will tell, but WINTER IS COMING!

[tmwiese55]

I just didn't see the rush to cancel two weeks ago. Should've moved back to late Sept (easy to do with the shortened schedules) and then waited to see what happens once schools start. Really a decision wouldn't need to be made until mid Sept then. The new quick test approved was a big help that could help make this happen.

 

 

Sure, they could have kept going. But remember...most believed that the Summer would be the time frame when the virus was at it's best and the fall was going to be worse than the initial outbreak.

 

I'm still pretty skeptical that they'll end up playing, even with their reversal(or what appears to be a reversal).

 

Yea I'm skeptical on it too and skeptical on the others too. Just generally didn't see the rush to do it back then, shortened season allowed them to kick the can another month. I'd still guess others get cancelled too, or should be eventually even if they don't actually do it. Take a look at U of Bama right now, this is pretty much what B1G was worried about. But the SEC just wants football so bad.

 

I'd generally take it as the football itself wasn't the big issue. You could test (the new one would be a big help) and massively isolate the team from the rest of campus and make it work. But then they'd be being singled out to allow remote classes when others are in person, or when everyone else eventually gets made fully remote and goes home you'd still be having them on campus. Again singling them out as different. then tack on the liability issues.

[CheeseheadInQC]

I'll laugh so hard if Nebraska and Iowa end up being the only states that fail to meet the criteria.

 

That might not be far from the truth. Iowa has the most cases per capita in the Midwest and the early Chicago outbreak is the only thing keeping Nebraska out of the No. 2 spot.

[nodakfan17]

Apparently, NCAA football players can now wear the jersey number zero. I’m watching Texas vs. Oklahoma right now and had to Google it after seeing multiple players wearing #0. It looks strange.