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Rumblings are coming out of barner land that they may be unable to field a team this year in football and maybe even basketball, even if those seasons aren't cancelled on the whole. Granted, it's just rumblings. Nothing official by any means. The reason for such rumblings are due to Lee county being hit so hard. They seem to think that even if things started to turn around in a major way right now, it still wouldn't be enough to get them back up to where they need to be to get the 2020-2021 athletic year started. Of course, a lot of them see this as an advantage, seeing as how they can have "renewed bragging rights". Just fucking silly. Never mind that not playing will set their program back. If they (or anyone for that matter) don't believe that the loss of a season won't set a program back, ask SMU how not playing in 1987 and 1988 worked out for them. Sure, that was because of the death penalty. It could be said that that's an apples to oranges comparison. But, the common denominator is...the loss of a season. That is NOT good no matter what the reason is for not playing. Bottom line is, if this season is cancelled all the way across the board, then we are ALL going to feel the hurt from it. From the major brand names all the way down to the most obscure directional schools. And if only certain programs are forced to cancel while the show goes on, then it's a worse scenario than a total shut down (for those programs that can't play) because they will REALLY feel the set back. Hope those "renewed bragging rights" will be worth it for the barn.

<blockquote data-quote="MunchyOs" data-source="post: 1330563" data-attributes="member: 18029"><p>Rumblings are coming out of barner land that they may be unable to field a team this year in football and maybe even basketball, even if those seasons aren&#039;t cancelled on the whole. Granted, it&#039;s just rumblings. Nothing official by any means. The reason for such rumblings are due to Lee county being hit so hard. They seem to think that even if things started to turn around in a major way right now, it still wouldn&#039;t be enough to get them back up to where they need to be to get the 2020-2021 athletic year started. Of course, a lot of them see this as an advantage, seeing as how they can have &quot;renewed bragging rights&quot;. Just fucking silly. Never mind that not playing will set their program back. If they (or anyone for that matter) don&#039;t believe that the loss of a season won&#039;t set a program back, ask SMU how not playing in 1987 and 1988 worked out for them. Sure, that was because of the death penalty. It could be said that that&#039;s an apples to oranges comparison. But, the common denominator is...the loss of a season. That is NOT good no matter what the reason is for not playing. Bottom line is, if this season is cancelled all the way across the board, then we are ALL going to feel the hurt from it. From the major brand names all the way down to the most obscure directional schools. And if only certain programs are forced to cancel while the show goes on, then it&#039;s a worse scenario than a total shut down (for those programs that can&#039;t play) because they will REALLY feel the set back. Hope those &quot;renewed bragging rights&quot; will be worth it for the barn.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="MunchyOs, post: 1330563, member: 18029"] Rumblings are coming out of barner land that they may be unable to field a team this year in football and maybe even basketball, even if those seasons aren't cancelled on the whole. Granted, it's just rumblings. Nothing official by any means. The reason for such rumblings are due to Lee county being hit so hard. They seem to think that even if things started to turn around in a major way right now, it still wouldn't be enough to get them back up to where they need to be to get the 2020-2021 athletic year started. Of course, a lot of them see this as an advantage, seeing as how they can have "renewed bragging rights". Just fucking silly. Never mind that not playing will set their program back. If they (or anyone for that matter) don't believe that the loss of a season won't set a program back, ask SMU how not playing in 1987 and 1988 worked out for them. Sure, that was because of the death penalty. It could be said that that's an apples to oranges comparison. But, the common denominator is...the loss of a season. That is NOT good no matter what the reason is for not playing. Bottom line is, if this season is cancelled all the way across the board, then we are ALL going to feel the hurt from it. From the major brand names all the way down to the most obscure directional schools. And if only certain programs are forced to cancel while the show goes on, then it's a worse scenario than a total shut down (for those programs that can't play) because they will REALLY feel the set back. Hope those "renewed bragging rights" will be worth it for the barn. [/QUOTE]