College Football in the Spring?

[cocky0]

“What’s most sensible is the spring,” one Power Five athletic director said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “I understand the desire to have it in the fall, and there are challenges if you move all of your fall sports into the spring with all of your spring sports. But the argument here is: We will learn from the NFL experience. To put big-time college football in the spring, in likely an abbreviated season — maybe it’s only a conference format, eight- or nine-game season — we are going to have learned much more about the virus.”

https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/college-football-season-may-be-moved-to-spring-amid-coronavirus/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&utm_source=reddit.com

 

[gamecock88]

This seems to make a little more sense to me but it's spring in Florida far earlier than spring in Michigan.  Do they mean Spring the season or Spring the semester?  With the social distancing restrictions, mask requirements imposed by cities/counties - this would automatically prevent FB unless some variances are offered to them.  If masks are required by the city of Columbia, how do they practice, play, gather in the locker rooms, travel and so on.    I'm interested to see how this works in college and in HS sports.  If there is no HS football this fall, it becomes even harder to push that back to spring - which  puts recruiting and recruit rankings a year behind.  It will become even more of a guessing game. 

 

[Spur's Addiction]

Yes spring certainly looks more feasible. 

And the weather should be  non-issue. Winter starts a lot earlier up north too and Football is played well into December. No reason they couldn't do it in March, April & May.

Recruiting certainly will be off. But they cold change the whole calendar to make it match 

 

[duffcock]

I wonder what happens if football is played during the Spring semester with bowls and playoffs spilling into late June?  How does that impact the NFL draft, other sports, schedules, etc....

What if football is canceled?  Will 3rd year players who are good enough make the jump to the NFL?  I can see Dabo now peddling the orange kool aid to Trevor Lawrence to come back for a 4th year telling him he's at best a mid second rounder.......  that jackass will do and say anything.