When will we get clarity on a 2020 plan?
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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We are getting into crunch time. The Athletic's Stewart Mandel & Bruce Feldman discuss when we will get clarity on a 2020 plan for power 5 college football. Stew shares his latest model for a spring season. Bruce takes a deep dive into his story on the Group of 5 & FCS. Plus, an updated freaks list!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman for a Monday morning edition here on the West Coast. |
| 0:25.3 | Bruce, right before we came on, maybe an hour before we came on. |
| 0:30.1 | California high schools announcing that all fall sports are postponed until at least December, |
| 0:37.0 | and they already have the dates, |
| 0:38.3 | apparently, of the football playoff, which will be in April. |
| 0:42.5 | Just another in a long line recently of whether it's been junior colleges, FCS conferences, |
| 0:50.4 | high schools are going ahead and punting football to the spring, but of course we all eagerly |
| 0:57.7 | await what FBS is going to do. |
| 1:01.0 | So when we just kind of start out by taking the pulse of things, what's your expectation of |
| 1:06.5 | when we're going to start to get some clarity? |
| 1:08.0 | It's a good question, and I think it varies on who you hear from last. |
| 1:14.9 | One thing I would keep an eye on is when the NCAA Board of Governors gets together at the end of this week, |
| 1:20.4 | is there any decision made, is there a movement made on would they cancel other fall championships which should obviously not be |
| 1:30.5 | college football as it relates to fbS because as we know that's not run by the nca but if other |
| 1:35.6 | sports are shut down in that regard there's some people i've talked to in the Power 5 who think that would be a big step |
| 1:46.9 | and it would be hard for some Power 5 leagues and a lot of FBS to say, |
| 1:52.7 | hey, we're going to press on even if the NCA is shutting down championships in other sports. |
| 1:57.7 | So keep an eye on that at the end of this week. |
| 2:00.4 | If it comes to that, if the Board of Governors go in that direction, I would say that. |
| 2:05.1 | And then one of the things that, at least I've heard a decent amount more, is how teams are |
| 2:10.4 | going to try to manage practice or at least manage walkthroughs as they ramp up a little |
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