postpone is cancel with 2 more letters

A few more conferences and NCAA will cancel fall championships. It will be hard to re-organize those championships in the spring.

(08-10-2020 12:15 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-08-2020 12:10 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(07-27-2020 08:10 PM)bullet Wrote:  Other thread links MAAC cancelling fall sports. That's 7 of 32 Division I.

Edit-with Big West out, its now 8 of 32:
America East
Metro Atlantic
Atlantic 10
Ivy
Patriot
MEAC
SWAC
Big West

And the northern half of the Colonial is out.

MAC cancelled all fall sports. So that is 9 of 32. Big Sky hasn't decided on other fall sports yet.

Northeast has cancelled. 10 out of 32.

Colonial is for all practical purposes out making it 11 out of 32. JMU and W&M have cancelled, leaving just Elon, UNCW and College of Charleston. (edit remaining 3 cancelled on 8/10).

MWC cancelling makes it 12 out of 32. Getting close to a majority of Division I. Suspect WCC, Horizon and MVC will soon follow. Southern Conference meeting TH and ETSU president has said fall sports are "virtually impossible."

Summit is 13/32.

Big 10 out-#14
Pac 12 out-#15

Big South out now-#16
Big East out now-#17

Eastern Washington dumped the remainder of its fall sports. Rest of Big Sky will evaluate the fall sports other than football on Wednesday. Football was already eliminated from the fall schedule.

So we're nearing the 50% threshold for the fall sports championships to be cancelled/postponed. I wonder if that will be the flanking move that will cause the hardcore football conferences to quit?

Scenario:
By the end of this week or start of next week, enough conferences will have cancelled all of their fall sports that the volleyball, soccer, cross country, etc. championships are cancelled. So now the Big 12(and others) faces a choice. Do they commit to all fall sports knowing that there won't be a championship or they might be giving up on playoff eligibility for a spring championship, do they cancel all fall sports except football and open themselves up to even greater liability, or do they cancel everything?

I suspect I know which way things are going to go, but I'm really interested in seeing if I'm right or wrong. The next ten days will see the conclusion to all of this, one way or the other.

FCS independent Dixie State just postponed their football season until spring.

https://www.deseret.com/sports/2020/8/12...the-spring

https://www.upr.org/post/what-postponed-...businesses

USU needs football revenue. SUU just breaks even:


'...John Hartwell, the athletic director at USU, said they can afford to push games to spring, but he thinks the department might run into financial trouble if the season is cancelled all together.

“We had already trimmed back our budget by about $3 million,” Hartwell said. “We will continue to drill down to see where we can save, but part of the challenge is if we will be able to recoup some of those revenues.”

The department’s financial burden would be tied in-part or fully to the lack of revenue from football games, according to Hartwell. He said they make a profit from ticket sales, television contracts, corporate sponsorships and donations.

In a letter to fans, the University of Utah acknowledged the decision by the Pac-12 “presents a significant disruption to so many of our student-athletes across multiple sport programs.”

University of Utah officials said they have been working for months with medical experts but ultimately determined the data doesn’t support fall seasons.

But for Southern Utah University, it generally doesn’t profit on football seasons, according to Nate Esplin, the associate athletic director for finance.

Esplin said most years the department aims to break even. He said now that games are cancelled, there are no operating expenses tied to the season, and they can defer expenses like equipment purchases...."

https://fbschedules.com/big-south-confer...ring-2021/

Big South delays all fall sports.

https://depaulbluedemons.com/news/2020/8...ement.aspx

Big East out.

Seems pretty certain all the NCAA fall championships will be cancelled. Question is whether they try to have them in the spring. Over half the conferences (17/32) have postponed or cancelled fall competition for all sports. Several addition ones seem likely in the coming days.

1. America East
2. Metro Atlantic
3. Atlantic 10
4. Ivy
5. Patriot
6. MEAC
7. SWAC
8. Big West
9. Colonial (left to the schools, but all have cancelled)
10. MAC
11. Northeast
12. MWC
13. Summit
14. Big 10
15. Pac 12
16. Big South
17. Big East
18. Southland-8/13
19. WAC-8/13
20. Big Sky-8/13
21. West Coast-8/13
22. Southern-8/13
23. Horizon-8/13
24. Atlantic Sun-8/14
25. Missouri Valley-8/14
26. Ohio Valley-8/14

Southland expected to make an announcement postponing at 10 today.
https://www.click2houston.com/sports/202...urces-say/

Now official

WAC as well. That makes it 19:
https://wacsports.com/general/2020-21/re...0813fsehjo

https://katv.com/sports/content/southlan...ds-to-play

"UCA is working with schools in the Missouri Valley, Ohio Valley, Southern and Big South conferences to move forward with fall competition in all sports, Athletics Director Dr. Brad Teague said.

"We are confident we can do this safely and provide a healthy space for [our student-athletes to compete]," Teague said, citing the school's partnership with the Conway Regional Health System...."

https://theeagle.com/sports/big-12-s-cha...a9975.html

"...Guerrieri said he would be in favor of cobbling together a postseason between the SEC, Big 12, Atlantic Coast Conference, Sun Belt, American and Conference USA, should the NCAA abandon its championship.

“What we want is our players to have a meaningful experience,” he said. “That hopefully means playing as many games as we’re able to play safely and play for some sort of prize at the end...."

(08-13-2020 11:01 AM)bullet Wrote:  https://katv.com/sports/content/southlan...ds-to-play

"UCA is working with schools in the Missouri Valley, Ohio Valley, Southern and Big South conferences to move forward with fall competition in all sports, Athletics Director Dr. Brad Teague said.

"We are confident we can do this safely and provide a healthy space for [our student-athletes to compete]," Teague said, citing the school's partnership with the Conway Regional Health System...."

In addition to Central Arkansas, several other Southland Conference universities have expressed similar plans to attempt to play some games in the fall. So far, based on statements on the athletic sites, Abilene Christian, Lamar, and Stephen F. Austin are exploring playing in the fall.

So far, Northwestern State, Southeastern Louisiana, New Orleans, and Incarnate Word are out until the Spring.

As of this post, I didn't find a statement one way or the other by the remaining universities on their respective athletic sites.

Big Sky postpones in full:
https://bigskyconf.com/news/2020/8/13/fo...-2021.aspx

https://wccsports.com/news/2020/8/13/gen...ition.aspx
West Coast postpones, although they will allow schools to seek competition on their own.

That makes it a clean sweep in the western U.S. Pac-12, MWC, WCC, WAC, Big West and Big Sky have all cancelled fall sports.

Status quo Mongoose.

It all atarted with D2 CCC of all California public schools that sparked all of this.