High-level conference meetings are planned for this week across the entire football landscape with the expected resolution of postponing fall sports until 2021, several sources have told Sports Illustrated.
“It has reached a critical stage,” one conference commissioner said Sports Illustrated Sunday, after a conference call between the heads of the Power 5 conferences. ‘I think we will all meet with our boards in the coming days. We have work to do that is not fun. ”
Dominoes began to fall into disrepair on Saturday when the Mid-American Conference postponed bankruptcy sports. The Big Ten followed with an announcement that it was putting its planned progression to football practices with full pads. A well-placed source told SI Saturday, “I think at the end of the week, the fall sports will be postponed in all conferences.”
Even that schedule would probably be speeded up. Sources told SI on Sunday that the Big Ten is moving toward a decision to cancel the 2020 bankruptcy system, while other Power 5 conferences are joining in on a uniform decision to announce later this week. A spokesman for Ohio State confirmed to The Athletic that the Big Ten presidents are scheduled to meet Sunday night.
Group of 5 league representatives conferred simultaneously to align their own timelines, a source said.
Both the Pac-12 and Big 12 have called for Tuesday night talks with league presidents who could present the first scheduled opportunity for Power 5 leagues to formally vote on postponement. But other conversations could have been planned earlier. There were multiple media reports of a call from the Big Ten presidents scheduled for Sunday night.
The move to stop the season comes as a shocking over-face after leagues spent most of last week releasing models of football schedules and / or schedules. Any momentum for playing these games was abruptly halted by the MAC’s decision to postpone, with indications of health and safety concerns in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. That put a president that the other nine Football Bowl distribution conferences were forced to follow – and quickly.
“In the next 72 hours, college football will come to a complete halt,” said one source from the sector.
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