Did college football return too soon? Positive COVID-19 tests generating negative views about 2020 season
Dennis Dodd, CBS Sports
From the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, fingers everywhere in college football have been crossed. While intentions to overcome the global pandemic are noble, the approach and methods are - pardon the pun - largely untested. That's why, without a vaccine, college football continues to dodge raindrops. But did anyone think a thunderstorm would hit so quickly?
Patriot League Restrictions Imperil Non-Conference Football Games, Signaling Cancellations to Come
Pat Forde, Sports Illustrated
With the FCS Patriot League announcing protocols Monday for the return of fall sports, it became clear that the conference's seven members are unlikely to play at least some of their non-conference football games-and perhaps all of them. That includes several games against FBS opponents.
Conference USA joins NCAA, SEC in banning postseason events in Mississippi until flag is changed
Nick Suss, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
This move could have a huge effect on the Southern Miss baseball program. The Conference USA baseball tournament was played in Mississippi every year between 2014 and 2019, as well as in 2009, 2012 and 2013.
Jonathan Terrell named new Nicholls State University Athletic Director
WDSU
Nicholls State University has named former Colonel football player and coach Jonathan Terrell (BA '98) as its director of athletics. Terrell is the first Black athletic director in Nicholls history and has more than two decades of proven sales and coaching success.
Chicago State Votes To Cancel Baseball Program
Kendall Rogers, D1Baseball
Chicago State on Monday became the second Division I athletic department to cut baseball. CSU athletic director Elliott Charles proposed cutting baseball and adding men's soccer, and the university's Board of Trustees approved the measure, 5-2. Charles estimated that the institution will save $500K annually from cutting baseball but didn't say the cost of adding soccer.
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Dennis Dodd, CBS Sports
From the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, fingers everywhere in college football have been crossed. While intentions to overcome the global pandemic are noble, the approach and methods are - pardon the pun - largely untested. That's why, without a vaccine, college football continues to dodge raindrops. But did anyone think a thunderstorm would hit so quickly?
Patriot League Restrictions Imperil Non-Conference Football Games, Signaling Cancellations to Come
Pat Forde, Sports Illustrated
With the FCS Patriot League announcing protocols Monday for the return of fall sports, it became clear that the conference's seven members are unlikely to play at least some of their non-conference football games-and perhaps all of them. That includes several games against FBS opponents.
Conference USA joins NCAA, SEC in banning postseason events in Mississippi until flag is changed
Nick Suss, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
This move could have a huge effect on the Southern Miss baseball program. The Conference USA baseball tournament was played in Mississippi every year between 2014 and 2019, as well as in 2009, 2012 and 2013.
Jonathan Terrell named new Nicholls State University Athletic Director
WDSU
Nicholls State University has named former Colonel football player and coach Jonathan Terrell (BA '98) as its director of athletics. Terrell is the first Black athletic director in Nicholls history and has more than two decades of proven sales and coaching success.
Chicago State Votes To Cancel Baseball Program
Kendall Rogers, D1Baseball
Chicago State on Monday became the second Division I athletic department to cut baseball. CSU athletic director Elliott Charles proposed cutting baseball and adding men's soccer, and the university's Board of Trustees approved the measure, 5-2. Charles estimated that the institution will save $500K annually from cutting baseball but didn't say the cost of adding soccer.
-----Morning Consult
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