ATHENS: For those who keep score at home, things are getting out of hand and more than confusing.
If deciphering the statistics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic was not challenging enough, they are now overrun with politics and the implications of back to school, tracking the football hierarchy is absolutely impossible.
Several media outlets, including ESPN, reported that the NCAA board of governors postponed decision-making about the fall sports championships at its meeting on Friday.
The FBS conference commissioners and athletic directors have made it clear that they are not ready to cancel any fall sports or championships at this point in the low season calendar, with the soccer season starting more than a month away. distance.
A group of university presidents representing the three divisions largely make up the board of governors, which according to ESPN has the authority to “Cancel or postpone the NCAA Fall Championships for sports such as women’s volleyball and FCS soccer.”
But not the FBS football season or the college football playoff.
The Power 5 conferences gained great power in 2014 through a vote by the NCAA board of governors that allowed them to write many of their own rules.
Still, when the board of governors meets again on August 4, there are some who believe that their vote in postseason sports has potential consequences.
Optics would certainly question Power 5 conferences for some, even though financial structures and models are different.
In fact, FCS soccer could find more revenue by moving to spring, particularly if there is an opportunity for an attractive television package.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey has pointed out the problems a spring soccer season would / would have if it took place at the FBS level.
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Players’ interests must be considered in all areas, from the ramifications of COVID-19 risks, to the unintended consequences that the cancellation of fall soccer would have in several other respects, including professional ambitions.
Meanwhile, Georgia football has its own political football hanging around with the school’s current direction of playing Florida in Jacksonville in a season designated for the rivalry to be the Bulldogs’ home game.
Texas A&M recently said Arkansas will not play in Arlington, Texas, as originally scheduled at those schools’ annual natural sites meeting due to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel challenges.
At this point in the recruiting calendar, Georgia seems to need four local SEC games to recruit this season, like all other schools in the league, plus the concept of not exposing its student athletes to more travel than necessary. be.
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