Moving college FB to the spring?

[trents]

Somehow I can't see how the football staff at universities cancelling football until spring will be able to pull off managing preparation/practices/playing and recruiting all at the same time. One of those two major areas of responsibility, or both, will suffer.

[jshawaii22]

Quote From Urban Meyer: "No chance of a spring football season" -- (at least for OU)
Main reason he gave is since the colleges would also want to start again in the fall with the next regular year, that won't work on the college age kids bodies (among other reasons) --
He also says no junior or senior with any hope of even trying out for the NFL will risk playing, since the NFL has not indicated any chance of moving the draft down and that would overlap spring football games.

However, If it does go down as of today,
It looks like the 'old 2 guards' of the Big10 and Pac12 would stay together, and then play the Rose Bowl at the end of 'their' season, in April???.
SEC and ACC are trying to play this fall and they would have the Sugar or Peach Bowls for their final.
This would eliminate any college playoff.

[TriCitySam]

I have a hard time seeing that happening, lots of issues. This and the draft: big CF

[jshawaii22]

Now the Big 10 Commish is backtracking a little and talking about 'early January' reboot so the season would end in March/April, I guess ahead of the draft. I remember a playoff football game the Seahawks played in Minnesota in something like -30 a couple of years back. I assume that would be similar in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, too. It's not exactly college football weather, but whatever works.

[trents]

Now the Big 10 Commish is backtracking a little and talking about 'early January' reboot so the season would end in March/April, I guess ahead of the draft. I remember a playoff football game the Seahawks played in Minnesota in something like -30 a couple of years back. I assume that would be similar in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, too. It's not exactly college football weather, but whatever works.

Not exactly college football weather? Not in Hawaii or the SEC maybe but not atypical of normal late regular season weather in the upper mid west or teams located in the northern plains states and Rocky Mountain western states.

[RiverDog]

Now the Big 10 Commish is backtracking a little and talking about 'early January' reboot so the season would end in March/April, I guess ahead of the draft. I remember a playoff football game the Seahawks played in Minnesota in something like -30 a couple of years back. I assume that would be similar in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, too. It's not exactly college football weather, but whatever works.

Not exactly college football weather? Not in Hawaii or the SEC maybe but not atypical of normal late regular season weather in the upper mid west or teams located in the northern plains states and Rocky Mountain western states.

It's a little different starting your season in early September and finishing it in late November than it is starting in early January, at the coldest time of the year. You're talking about starting practice in mid December and not finishing up until early March. Besides, there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that this pandemic will be over with by then. It's even dicey starting the season in March or April as assuming that we have a vaccine by January that it will be distributed in a couple months.