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One option is cancelling altogether, but the MAC does not want to be the first conference to do it, afraid they might lose players. Spring football could be an option. Back to Top Alan Swank General User Member Since: 12/11/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 7,100 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/7/2020 2:36:45 PM  UpSan Bobcat wrote: https://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/1291793006194982914 According to Pete Thamel, a college sports reporter for Yahoo, MAC presidents met yesterday without a conclusion and are meeting again tomorrow. One option is cancelling altogether, but the MAC does not want to be the first conference to do it, afraid they might lose players. Spring football could be an option. There's a lot of "does not want to be the first conference" out there in public school ranks too. Back to Top Bobcat1996 General User Member Since: 1/2/2017 Post Count: 903 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/7/2020 2:39:23 PM  Below is how much money MAC schools are missing out on from Big Ten schools. One would think that Ball St. getting less than $1 million from Michigan is ridiculous. This chart doesn't include any lost money from not playing SEC schools. Kent State lost money games with Bama and Kentucky also. Here's how much money each MAC team is missing out on from the Big Ten, according to USA Today Sports: Akron: Not impacted Bowling Green: at Ohio State (Sept. 5) — $1.2 million at Illinois (Sept. 12) — $1 million Buffalo: at Ohio State (Sept. 19) — $1.8 million Kent State: at Penn State (Sept. 5) — $1.5 million Miami (Ohio): Not impacted Ohio: Not impacted Ball State: at Michigan (Sept. 12) — $975,000 at Indiana (Sept. 19) — $700,000 Central Michigan: at Nebraska (Sept. 12) — $1.3 million at Northwestern (Sept. 19) — $850,000 Eastern Michigan: Not impacted Northern Illinois: at Maryland (Sept. 12) — Unknown at Iowa (Sept. 26) — $1.15 million Toledo: at Michigan State (Sept. 19) — $1.2 million Western Michigan: Not impacted Evan Petzold is a sports reporting intern at the Detroit Free Press. Contact him at epetzold@freepress.com or follow him on Twitter @EvanPetzold. Back to Top SBH General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Post Count: 4,045 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/7/2020 2:58:14 PM  Whats the news here? Thats been a consideration for months. Back to Top Kevin Finnegan General User Member Since: 2/4/2005 Location: Rockton, IL Post Count: 1,144 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/7/2020 3:44:33 PM  I find no respect for a group that thinks they know what is best but is afraid to be the first. Be leaders, MAC Presidents. For once, be leaders. Back to Top cc-cat General User Member Since: 4/5/2006 Location: matthews, NC Post Count: 3,904 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/7/2020 5:44:12 PM  My neighbor is a producer for FoxSports South (they handle ACC football). I asked him the other day what percentage chance is there we have college football this year? His response: "Zero chance. Probable zero chance it even starts" FYI1 - also said there is "zero" chance NFL finishes the season. FYI2 - because of those perceived percentage FoxSports South has laid off most of their producers. Businesses are adjusting - reading the tea leaves. Back to Top Alan Swank General User Member Since: 12/11/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 7,100 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/7/2020 6:55:19 PM  OHSAA is going to a six game season and everyone makes the playoffs. Back to Top Maddog13 General User Member Since: 12/21/2004 Location: Albuquerque, NM Post Count: 725 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/7/2020 7:01:21 PM  The MAC is merely part of the tail of the dog that makes up College Football and just happy to be along for the ride. It's the big boys in college football who will decide or, more accurately, seal their fate. Back to Top Buckeye to Bobcat General User Member Since: 9/10/2013 Post Count: 1,803 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/7/2020 8:40:39 PM  Been saying we wouldn't have a season since May. Hence why I only renewed my tickets at 4 schools this fall with guarantee refunds. Back to Top Bobcat1996 General User Member Since: 1/2/2017 Post Count: 903 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/7/2020 9:03:41 PM  The sad thing is if no fall outdoor season, then about zero chance of a winter season that plays mostly indoors. Back to Top Doc Bobcat General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Post Count: 4,246 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/7/2020 11:15:38 PM  Spring football might work....but the NFL doesn’t want them playing too many games. Back to Top ZIPsCAT General User Member Since: 9/3/2014 Post Count: 36 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/8/2020 6:21:24 AM  Buckeye to Bobcat wrote: Been saying we wouldn't have a season since May. Hence why I only renewed my tickets at 4 schools this fall with guarantee refunds. Agreed. I honestly think anyone who thinks there is going to be a football season isn't paying attention. Though I've always left the door cracked open that there would be a loud, vocal and entitled group of people that will stop at nothing to deny reality of the situation and demand everything back as normal. Back to Top LuckySparrow General User Member Since: 10/15/2012 Location: Illinois Post Count: 1,750 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/8/2020 10:14:19 AM  Season cancelled. What a day at the Convo.....Wow! Back to Top Pataskala General User Member Since: 7/8/2010 Location: At least six feet away from anybody else Post Count: 9,336 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/9/2020 3:08:08 PM  Last night I watched a live broadcast of Super Rugby from New Zealand. It's the equivalent of February down there. Temps were about 40 degrees F. They had real fans in the stands -- a packed house (17,000), sitting shoulder-to-shoulder, without masks. The most covid cases they've had was 89 back on April 4. The government and the people took it seriously and they haven't had more than ten cases at a time since April 18. Their curve has almost flatlined since early May. Sigh. We will get by. We will get by. We will get by. We will survive. Back to Top yamaha45701 General User Member Since: 3/6/2005 Location: The plains, OH Post Count: 170 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/9/2020 11:35:05 PM  My nephew is there working in a white water kayak and canoe park (olympic quality and they take that sport very seriously) and almost zero anti mask from what I understand. The difference in this country and New Zealand is night and day when it comes to working together to mitigate the virus. Here, it is every man for himself, neighbors be damned if I breathe on them and give them the virus. Oh well. Back to Top Buckeye to Bobcat General User Member Since: 9/10/2013 Post Count: 1,803 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/10/2020 12:03:06 AM  Pataskala wrote: Last night I watched a live broadcast of Super Rugby from New Zealand. It's the equivalent of February down there. Temps were about 40 degrees F. They had real fans in the stands -- a packed house (17,000), sitting shoulder-to-shoulder, without masks. The most covid cases they've had was 89 back on April 4. The government and the people took it seriously and they haven't had more than ten cases at a time since April 18. Their curve has almost flatlined since early May. Sigh. And let's cut to the chase of New Zealand because I'm tired of hearing how they're role models for all of this. -Population: 5 million people -International Airports: 2 -Not like there's a boat between New Zealand and Australia because it's 1300 nautical miles away Plus they are a bloody island in the middle of nowhere essentially. Tired of the comparison, but it is what it is. We locked down, did what we had to do to get things reopened again. Can't wait to hear the tune of academics change when they have to actually go job hunting because the student body won't come back the way they expect it to and is overbloated. Enjoy Athens the way it is, because that bubble is about to burst and there will be a boatload of hurt down there like you wouldn't imagine..... Last Edited: 8/10/2020 12:11:38 AM by Buckeye to Bobcat Back to Top Pataskala General User Member Since: 7/8/2010 Location: At least six feet away from anybody else Post Count: 9,336 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/10/2020 1:25:25 AM  Buckeye to Bobcat wrote: Pataskala wrote: Last night I watched a live broadcast of Super Rugby from New Zealand. It's the equivalent of February down there. Temps were about 40 degrees F. They had real fans in the stands -- a packed house (17,000), sitting shoulder-to-shoulder, without masks. The most covid cases they've had was 89 back on April 4. The government and the people took it seriously and they haven't had more than ten cases at a time since April 18. Their curve has almost flatlined since early May. Sigh. And let's cut to the chase of New Zealand because I'm tired of hearing how they're role models for all of this. -Population: 5 million people -International Airports: 2 -Not like there's a boat between New Zealand and Australia because it's 1300 nautical miles away Plus they are a bloody island in the middle of nowhere essentially. Tired of the comparison, but it is what it is. We locked down, did what we had to do to get things reopened again. Can't wait to hear the tune of academics change when they have to actually go job hunting because the student body won't come back the way they expect it to and is overbloated. Enjoy Athens the way it is, because that bubble is about to burst and there will be a boatload of hurt down there like you wouldn't imagine..... It doesn't matter whether NZ is an island or how many airports they have. The fact is, they did what they needed to do. By contrast, among countries with at least five million population, the US is FOURTH WORST in controlling the pandemic. Only Chile, Kuwait and Panama have higher infection rates per one million population (latest figures from Johns Hopkins). The old adage is "lead, follow or get out of the way." The White House did none of those. They left it up to the states to respond to the pandemic, then criticized the efforts of many states, and used FEMA to buy up or make it more expensive to buy supplies states needed to fight the virus. If the White House had taken this seriously back in March, we probably wouldn't be facing this situation. We will get by. We will get by. We will get by. We will survive. Back to Top Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame General User Member Since: 7/30/2010 Post Count: 3,611 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/10/2020 10:29:43 AM  Buckeye to Bobcat wrote: We locked down, did what we had to do to get things reopened again. Can't wait to hear the tune of academics change when they have to actually go job hunting because the student body won't come back the way they expect it to and is overbloated. Enjoy Athens the way it is, because that bubble is about to burst and there will be a boatload of hurt down there like you wouldn't imagine..... Nothing like rooting for a bunch of people to lose their jobs and livelihoods because you disagree with them on the level of risk associated with a global pandemic. The funny thing about this, is that you started with "we. . .did what we had to do to get things reopened again." But we didn't. What we had to do to get things reopened again was show regard for the health and well-being of those around us. To buy into a common purpose and goal. We did none of those things. In fact, largely what we've done is wish ill will on people we disagree with. We put our own myopic, selfish views of what freedom means ('not being told to wear a mask') ahead of the need of the collective. At every step along the way, people fought for their individual needs and prioritized that over the collective good, and our government proved itself incapable of providing safety and security when it was most needed. We proved only that we lacked the collective will to do what was best for the country. We acted, and are continuing to act, like a failed state. I suspect historians will look back at this moment in time as the moment it became clear to the free world we were no longer their leader. To be clear, that fall has been a longtime coming and is multifaceted -- it's not because of Covid that that's the case. But Covid laid bare the extent to which we've fallen. Last Edited: 8/10/2020 12:33:09 PM by Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame Back to Top Buckeye to Bobcat General User Member Since: 9/10/2013 Post Count: 1,803 Status: Offline     RE: MAC considering cancelling    Posted: 8/10/2020 12:49:49 PM  Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote: Buckeye to Bobcat wrote: We locked down, did what we had to do to get things reopened again. Can't wait to hear the tune of academics change when they have to actually go job hunting because the student body won't come back the way they expect it to and is overbloated. Enjoy Athens the way it is, because that bubble is about to burst and there will be a boatload of hurt down there like you wouldn't imagine..... Nothing like rooting for a bunch of people to lose their jobs and livelihoods because you disagree with them on the level of risk associated with a global pandemic. The funny thing about this, is that you started with "we. . .did what we had to do to get things reopened again." But we didn't. What we had to do to get things reopened again was show regard for the health and well-being of those around us. To buy into a common purpose and goal. We did none of those things. In fact, largely what we've done is wish ill will on people we disagree with. We put our own myopic, selfish views of what freedom means ('not being told to wear a mask') ahead of the need of the collective. At every step along the way, people fought for their individual needs and prioritized that over the collective good, and our government proved itself incapable of providing safety and security when it was most needed. We proved only that we lacked the collective will to do what was best for the country. We acted, and are continuing to act, like a failed state. I suspect historians will look back at this moment in time as the moment it became clear to the free world we were no longer their leader. To be clear, that fall has been a longtime coming and is multifaceted -- it's not because of Covid that that's the case. But Covid laid bare the extent to which we've fallen. Not disagreeing at all. Just frustrated to be honest. Sorry if it sounds like I'm taking it out on folks, heck my business ain't having a ton of fun during this. There's no good way to say what has happened all round and again, not sure what to do at this point. Back to Top Showing Replies:   1 - 19  of 19 Posts Jump to Page:   1 View Other 'Ohio Football' Topics                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               WHO'S ONLINE There are 381 Active Visitors on BobcatAttack.com 381 Guests 0 Registered Users There are no other users looking at this page.

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