California moves HS football to spring semester.
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If they can’t figure out a way to play it in the fall, I don’t know if they’ll be a season. Right now I don’t think they’ll be a season, which will be financially devastating to college athletics, not just college football. There is no bubble they can go stay at and complete the season. You have the all angle they are students first and amateurs. It’s just a mess for college athletics.
If it were me... Im not canceling any seasons if I have an option of moving to the spring. Having a hard deadline now doesnt make sense. Im going to push the decision to cancel or not as far down the road as I can. For a spring season that prob means October 1 to give people enough time for a January camp date.
Agree completely, and my hunch is the NCAA does as well. It's not a preferred option, but it's absolutely doable. The P12 could easily start a 3-month season in February, and with some creative scheduling, make it so the most weather adverse programs don't host games until March. WSU, Colorado, and Utah could play a couple of road games in CA, OR, LA or AZ to start the season if extreme weather is a concern. Other conferences would have similar weather issues; the B10 in particular, but there are solutions to be had.
If you play the season between Feb and May, it still would allow the 2021 to kickoff ontime or close to ontime. At worst case, you move the 2021 openers to October.
Money talks, and I'll be shocked if the season gets scrapped altogether.
I won't be shocked if the seasons gets scrapped altogether, because we're talking about unprecedented actions in modern television history. It's all about TV and the networks, and not sure they can be flexible with pulling off deferred live college football broadcasts.
Sure it can be done, but I would think it's more difficult to pull off, than most realize.
I was hearing Washington was going to shift the less contact sports (baseball, track, tennis) to fall and football, girls soccer etc to Spring. Not perfect but made sense to me. Now it’s looking more like nothing in the fall.
