Idea for 20-21 Season

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sirvoo

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Since I’ve been hearing about some sports in the fall scrap Non-Conference games or cancel sports altogether, you can only assume that idea will be discussed for the upcoming college basketball season.

If all conferences decided to forgo Non-Conference play they should start games Dec 31st or Jan 1.

You can’t really have a committee selecting teams when the sample size is just conference games. I suggest they grant each conference a specific number of bids based on the average over the past 5 seasons.

If you are a 1-bid conference the regular season champ gets an automatic bid into the conference championship game. The remaining schools play the conf. tourney to determine who gets that final spot against the reg season champ.

For all multi-bid conferences (let’s use the BE for example), if you are allocated 5 bids, the top 4 teams in conference play are automatically in the tournament. The remaining teams play a conference tourney to get that last tourney bid.

Pretty simple plan, I’m sure you could poke holes in it but figured I’d share!
 
College basketball does have the benefit of time. Unlike football, it can be started in January of 2021.

They can also wait to see how a non bubble sport like the nfl makes out.

I believe college hoops will be canceled or have a January start date.
 
[quote="Duke of Earlington" post=392989]College basketball does have the benefit of time. Unlike football, it can be started in January of 2021.

They can also wait to see how a non bubble sport like the nfl makes out.

I believe college hoops will be canceled or have a January start date.[/quote]

But wait. What happened to November 3rd
 
If I really thought everyone were capable of wearing a mask and social distancing, I would push for every single student in the country from nursery school to college to take a gap year. Of course I still have to iron out a few details.
 
[quote="Moose" post=392993][quote="Duke of Earlington" post=392989]College basketball does have the benefit of time. Unlike football, it can be started in January of 2021.

They can also wait to see how a non bubble sport like the nfl makes out.

I believe college hoops will be canceled or have a January start date.[/quote]

But wait. What happened to November 3rd[/quote]

They will have to make these decisions way before November 3rd.
 
[quote="Duke of Earlington" post=392989]College basketball does have the benefit of time. Unlike football, it can be started in January of 2021.

They can also wait to see how a non bubble sport like the nfl makes out.

I believe college hoops will be canceled or have a January start date.[/quote]

What makes January safer than November?
 
[quote="L J S A" post=392998]If I really thought everyone were capable of wearing a mask and social distancing, I would push for every single student in the country from nursery school to college to take a gap year. Of course I still have to iron out a few details.[/quote]
That’s actually not a bad idea. It would give the pharma companies a full year to develop, test and administer vaccines.
In addition, the gap year could be made productive, so kids can gain something from the experience. Build an at home curriculum that includes community service projects. From community gardens for the little ones, to working in food banks for older kids. Local coaches can offer traveling camps to teach skills. The opportunities are endless.
 
[quote="Room112" post=393024][quote="Duke of Earlington" post=392989]College basketball does have the benefit of time. Unlike football, it can be started in January of 2021.

They can also wait to see how a non bubble sport like the nfl makes out.

I believe college hoops will be canceled or have a January start date.[/quote]

What makes January safer than November?[/quote]

Nothing. Other than perhaps the hope that two more months could have a vaccine available or perhaps the rest of the country will finally start wearing masks and bring down the infection rate.

I don't think the January target has much if anything to do with safety. Its just a clean break between between semesters, and between non conference vs conference play. If you aren't going to play in the fall (and how could you at this point?), and you aren't playing a slate of non conference games, then the next logical start date is sometime after 1st semester or whenever conference games are scheduled.
 
I like the initial idea Sirvoo laid out but also can't wrap my head around a tournament happening.

I think we're most likely to see more half-measures and confusion. It's sad to say, but I've lost faith in the American public to do what's right on our own. We're a bit broken at the moment and unless there's uniform acknowledgment among every single governor about what is going wrong right now, we'll just be opening and closing for the foreseeable future with each closure causing the public to lose even more faith in our local and federal governments.

If the gridlock breaks and we're somehow able to drive down case #'s to a place where we're back within our tracing abilities, a schedule of just conference games and a tournament would be awesome.
 
I don't think their biggest problem is going to be how many games are played, or what to do about conference tournaments. It will be more of an issue of how many players are going to play, and how this season affects eligibility.


College athletes have a career that lasts a finite amount of time. You get 4 years to play, and that's it. Imagine being a senior player, and one that has no future in basketball. Their senior year is their last hoorah...no more opportunities to play competitive basketball.

Should they be forced to play their final year in a shortened season in front of zero fans?

Is the NCAA going to be willing to grant medical redshirts to players to wish to sit out the season due to the virus? Will the players even be eligible for medical redshirts? If a player chooses to sit out, will the school be able to strip them of their scholarship?
 
If season is cancelled, then every player will get a medical redshirt as this is a medical issue. The thing the NCAA will have to do is allow additional scholarships for HS Class of 21 to open space on rosters for them.

Would not expect to start until February/March. I'll throw this out there, schools would be free to arrange a 10/12 schedule playing local/non conference schools in prep for an "all comers" national tournament with opening rounds being in-state, that branching out to state groupings and then regionals followed by Final Four
 
[quote="Eric Williamson" post=393045]I don't think their biggest problem is going to be how many games are played, or what to do about conference tournaments. It will be more of an issue of how many players are going to play, and how this season affects eligibility.


College athletes have a career that lasts a finite amount of time. You get 4 years to play, and that's it. Imagine being a senior player, and one that has no future in basketball. Their senior year is their last hoorah...no more opportunities to play competitive basketball.

Should they be forced to play their final year in a shortened season in front of zero fans?

Is the NCAA going to be willing to grant medical redshirts to players to wish to sit out the season due to the virus? Will the players even be eligible for medical redshirts? If a player chooses to sit out, will the school be able to strip them of their scholarship?[/quote]

If the season is totally cancelled, I'd actually be curious to see how many seniors who graduated simply move on with their lives instead of coming back and playing another year the following year.
 
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