This would not be the case with Iceland. Iceland has 2 very good universities that are practically free for their citizens Are you one of those people that always have to be right?
Texas A&M allowed ALL student athletes back on campus June 1st, Ole miss soccer is already back on campus, believe Arkansas is allowing soccer back on June 14th and Florida is set for June 22nd, no word from a few other schools, seems like they are waiting the fall out from the 125 football players coming back before they bring back soccer
Pitt moved its football team back on campus today. I don't think women's soccer is on campus yet. I think they are scheduled to move back at the beginning of July
I got my story from two Icelanders. I mentioned in passing during recruiting interviews with college soccer coaches, and they said they already knew about it.
My daughter went back to USC yesterday. Captains practice for the rest of the month. The Freshman arrive July 1 I believe
Similar... My DD drives back this weekend and will self quarantine for 7 days then get nasal and blood tests along with an EKG and be able to have Captains Practices and workouts until July 1st. At some point Freshmen will arrive and start the same process. Currently first game is scheduled for August 15th. She will start in-person classes August 24th then after Thanksgiving they will move to Online classes.
My DD goes back on June 22nd, with 7-day quarantine, Covid and antibody testing, physicals, then captain's practice. Summer classes are all online, Fall classes are in person. The freshman follow the same protocol. The schedule remains virtually the same with only 2 games in jeopardy of cancellation.
D1 will have a regular season of up to 20 games schedule with same playoff schedule. I’m not sure about other divisions
This is all sounding positive. Fingers crossed the return to campus and sports goes well. Any parents NOT sending their players back this fall?
I believe the NCAA has so far left it to the conferences in D1 to make Fall schedule changes and there are more changes to come for sure. The Big East joined this list of conferences creating more "regionalized" schedules and doing some kind of double round-robin. So that means the current Men's National Champion. It's unlikely that very many D1 schedules will remain unchanged in some way. Some high profile cross country trips have been canceled and the emails to more local opponents are going around. https://www.soccerwire.com/news/sev...s-to-reduce-costs-for-upcoming-soccer-season/ The irony is that kids may return to school earlier and do more training to play less games. Are you parents of these early arrivals concerned? Are you happy with the schools plan should your player test positive? or other players test positive? So far at least 10 schools have announced football players returning and testing positive and so getting quarantined. ND is going to put their football players in single hotel rooms for 2 weeks and test them all frequently. I wonder how many soccer kids will get that kind of treatment?
Bigger schools that have football can bring in their soccer athletes early and be ready to start in time for the fall season around August 21. The NCAA wants to have a longer preseason time this year. So if you can come back in late June or early July your timing to still have a regular start would be fine. For schools that don't have big football that experience would be vastly different as they may have to wait until September before their games are being played. Expect for lots of non-conference games to be dropped if this is the case.
Non conference games are money games for smaller schools. The last thing they will want to do is drop them, in my opinion.
Some smaller schools had their Spring seasons aborted. As I read the statutes, they can still play any of the five non competition season dates they have left and engage in the non competition season practices to prepare for them.
I have just been through all teams' scheduling pages, and it looks like all teams that had Spring schedules lost games.
https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/search/bylawView?id=8823 Specifically section 17.19 which specifies 20 games max during the regular season competition segment and 5 dates in “another segment” without specifying which segment(s). traditionally that’s Spring semester, but nothing says it has to be. Many schools have summer sessions now and begin the academic year with the start of classes in the fall. It would seem a school that hasn’t used its 5 dates could use them now. additionallly some competition dates Don’t count toward the 5 dates, I.e games or exhibitions against national teams , alumni, and charity events.
For most schools, no. We are still in the previous academic year. I suppose it could depend on when a school starts it’s academic year, but for soccer, that and the ticking clock on eligibility and the one year LOI starts with the first day of classes in the fall. The ncaa talks about academic year. Looking at UP’s academic calendar, for instance. The first summer session has started and continues until June 24. The second summer session begins June 29th ends with degrees confirmed Aug 6. That ends the academic year. The new academic calendar begins Aug 24 with final registration and the first day of classes. Freshmen don’t start part way in the academic year, they start at the beginning of it and that’s when the five year eligibility clock starts. Last year, opening convocation for the academic year was AUG 29. I don’t see this year’s listed, probably due to the governors ban on large meetings. This is nothing new. UP and other schools have practiced under non competition segment rules for decades, which allow practice and competition dates anytime classes are in session, including summer sessions. if your school doesn’t have classes, that may complicate things.
I believe that teams are not allowed to practice at all from now until two weeks before counting games are allowed. I know that within the 2-week practice window, they are allowed to play at least one exhibition game, and of the teams that have published schedules so far (there are 36 of them as of this very moment), a number of their schedules are indicating they will play an exhibition game. There have been rumblings about getting the practice window expanded to 3 weeks.
Not a chance. Spring is done and over with, it doesn’t roll into summer sessions or into the fall. You can play 0-3 scrimmages during August 4-21. Regular season starts after that. You can play up to 20 games, scrimmages count against that number. All spring competitions were done and gone once covid stopped everything in March.
Publicly announced changes, so far: Conference USA's format for the 2020 season: Split into East and West divisions of 7 teams each, playing a full round robin within each division. Top 4 from each division go to conference tournament, to be played on Wednesday/Friday, Sunday at the end of the season. Big East likewise has gone to two divisions, East (6 teams) and Mid-West (5 teams), with a double round robin in each division. The conference tournament format is TBD. Atlantic 10, Big South, Metro Atlantic, Southern, and Southland will have 4 team tournaments. Big Sky, Mid American, and Mountain West will have no tournaments.