The MEAC, which doesn't sponsor soccer, has postponed all fall sports. Howard is a MEAC member and I can't see them having men's soccer playing when the rest of their sports are dark so you can probably add Howard to the mix. With the Sun Belt having already lost App State, assuming Howard isn't playing means they'd only have four teams. Be surprised if they still play. https://www.kbtx.com/2020/07/16/mea...rd-di-league-to-postpone-its-football-season/
Interesting about Howard...the following flew under the radar...Howard will be moving its soccer programs to the Northeast Conference after this season: https://hubison.com/news/2020/7/6/g...ortheast-conference-as-associate-members.aspx
https://sunyacsports.com/general/20...G6GdsQN00iptg1hndyvOl37pOMB9vtxuQhpn0qTsCwkbo SUNYAC SUSPENDS FALL SEASON OF COMPETITION
The AAC will not start its season earlier than Sept. 1. https://theamerican.org/news/2020/7...rts-competition-season-until-september-1.aspx
Big South start date is Sept. 3. http://bigsouthsports.com/news/2020...begin-fall-sport-competition-september-3.aspx
The NCAA Board of Governors is scheduled to consider voting on whether to cancel fall championships on Friday. The focus is football, and the BOG doesn't have a direct say on what major college football (Division I, FBS level) does, but a cancellation of fall sports would cancel the Division I, FCS-level, Division II and Division III playoffs and, of course, the men's and women's soccer tournaments.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html "As the US hit a sobering 4 million cases of Covid-19 and the rising daily rate of confirmed cases and hospitalizations suggest the virus is far from under control, medical experts are urging political leaders to shut down the country and start over to contain the pandemic. At least 4,038,748 coronavirus cases and 144,304 deaths have been recorded in the United States, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As the numbers climb, more than 150 prominent US medical experts, scientists, teachers, nurses and others have signed a letter to political leaders urging them to shut down the country and start over to contain the surging coronavirus pandemic."
Yesterday in Indiana, our governor finally signed the order requiring masks in public starting next Monday. Yesterday we also set a single day record for new cases. It looks like we're a few weeks too late on this one... again. Super discouraging. Super frustrating. I don't hit my golf balls straight very often, but I'm looking forward to smashing the hell out of a few later this afternoon for the cathartic effect.
More like a few months. But have fun at the driving range. Can definitely imagine the catharsis there.
Speaking of Indiana.... Anti-mask protesters march around the #Indiana State House chanting “USA” & “We Will Not Comply.” pic.twitter.com/5EhmLBlzqK— Karen Campbell (@KarenCampbellTV) July 19, 2020 It's idiots like the ones in the video that are a big part of the reason this country is in such bad shape in combating the virus. I'm not saying that everything would be back to normal if everyone had taken this this thing a lot more seriously months ago but there would be a better chance that there would have been a soccer season this year. There would also be a much better chance of schools starting back with students in the classroom and businesses would not be affected to the extent that they are now. Remember all of this when you vote in November.
Board of Governors kicks the can down the road. NCAA President Emmert’s statement on fall championships discussion: https://t.co/4822xZpU2K pic.twitter.com/Gatlc9KjiG— NCAA News (@NCAA_PR) July 24, 2020
College soccer: More than 250 NCAA Division III colleges and universities with soccer have called off fall sports The Middle Atlantic Conference, Ohio Athletic Conference and Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference won't play in the fall
Since Soccer America only has 3 free articles for non-subscribers, here's a link to D3soccer.com's page of cancellations - https://d3soccer.com/notables/2020/COVID-Status-of-Play Soccer Wire updates their tracker for D1 on a regular basis and here is a link to that - https://www.soccerwire.com/resources/ncaa-division-i-soccer-conferences-covid-19-tracer/ It now appears that more than 1/2 of D3 programs have canceled or postponed the season. Percentage-wise a lot less D1 programs have canceled or postponed. What does that tell you about how the NCAA and the schools view D1 athletes vs D3 athletes?
The NCAA hasn’t canceled anything. Everything that has been done has been done at the conference or institutional level. This is more so about the revenue streams for a D3 vs D1. That’s one reason why D1 is able to hang on a bit longer than the rest
Point taken. I know that the NCAA hasn't canceled everything but I misspoke. I guess that the point I was trying to make is that the D3 schools seem to value the health of their student-athletes more than the D1 schools do. I am fully cognizant of the huge amounts of revenue that are at stake in D1 football and basketball. Those two sports, though, are all that are bringing money in. Even though very few football programs are actually in the black from a budget standpoint, the periphery aspects of the programs and schools are benefiting. Not many schools' football programs are bringing in the money that programs like Alabama, LSU, and Ohio State are. I doubt that any D3 school makes money on any sport. Those sports are being provided at those schools for the enrichment of the students. Athletic participation makes the students more well-rounded as individuals and that is one of the tenets of D3 schools. Many D3 schools have very large endowments so they probably are not fretting much about a loss of tuition money if a student-athlete decides not to attend their school due to a sport not being offered (as an example, the 8 schools in UAA conference have nearly as much in their endowments as the 12 members of the B1G) . It will affect some schools but not many and D3 athletes tend to select schools based more on academics than athletics.
All of the schools in the Power 5 make massive amounts of money on football from television deals thought ABC, CBS, Fox and ESPN. That is 65 schools minimum that are turning a huge profit on football. They also have the most votes in the NCAA voting structure. The NCAA is holding off on making a decision on D1 sports until the very last minute. In addition, the testing costs and procedures necessary for providing a hopefully safe environment for student-athletes is well beyond what most D3s can do. So yes $$$ is as an issue for D1s and most likely without football this year, there will be sports cut (including soccer). The positive is that there is also massive amounts of $$$ being spent on testing to provide as safe an environment as possible. That being said, kicking the season to the spring makes by far the most sense. Hard to keep college kids in the bubble that pro athletes are expected to remain.
Hopefully sports will get moved to the spring. A lot is going to be dependent on if there is a vaccine available by that time. If there isn't a vaccine, there will need to be better control over the rate of transmission of covid. That is a tall order given that it seems a big part of the population lacks the discipline to do what is necessary to get thing better under control. The economy doesn't need to shut down for this to happen. People just need to be more aware of what they're doing and exercise some precaution and self-control. Speaking of the pro athletes - they're getting paid a lot of money so I am sure that they are pretty much quarantined when not training or playing in a contest. That can't happen collegiate student-athletes nor should it happen with them. As an aside, I dvr'd the Chelsea vs Liverpool match and just watched it on Saturday. It was kind of weird watching it with the recorded crowd noise and then not seeing a crowd in the stands. When the focus was only on the field it felt like I was watching a game from Anfield that was filled with 50,000+ fans. There was an option to watch the game online without the crowd noise. I watched a Bundesliga game when they first went back to playing and there was no recorded crowd noise. It just seemed really weird. It was like I was watching a training session or something. Also as an aside, Liverpool is the real deal this year and Pulisic put in some good minutes for The Blues. I felt sorry for Lampard as it was a display of total domination. Pulisic should have started but I doubt that it would have mattered.
MAAC cancels Fall Sports, including men's soccer. https://t.co/ePGFeUCEAA— RPI Update (@RpiUpdate) July 27, 2020
Missouri Valley Conference announced delayed start and conference-only schedules for Fall sports, including men's soccer: https://t.co/yvf0gU4evV— RPI Update (@RpiUpdate) July 27, 2020
The latest status (7/27, 4pm PDT) no fall season AMERICA EAST ATLANTIC 10 COLONIAL (schools are free to play as Indies) IVY MAAC PATRIOT no non-conference BIG EAST BIG TEN MVC PAC-12 truncated non-conference (start of season) AAC: Sept. 1 ACC: Sept. 1 ASUN: Sept. 18 BIG SOUTH: Sept. 3 HORIZON: Oct. 1 MAC: Sept. 3 NORTHEAST: Sept. 10 SUN BELT: Sept. 3 WAC: Sept. 16 WCC: Sept. 24 No changes (yet) BIG WEST CONF USA SOUTHERN SUMMIT