There would be no Utep football if
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Good one. We’re so lucky to be playing SFA, ACU, Southern Miss, North Texas, FIU, and UAB. Instead of waiting for the spring to play UNM, Colorado St, Air Force, Boise, Utah St, and Wyoming.
Lucky us!
Remains to be seen. Anyone can have a plan or schedule, execution is what matters. How’s the arena plan working for El Paso?
1 season of fall football, doesn’t trump being in the MWC.
Another fact stated another call for the defender of truth to come to their defense.
“Anyone can have a plan or schedule, execution is what matters.”
I'm trying to imagine a program playing till May then jumping back in and starting up again in August.
Or, the G5 conferences breaking away from the Power 5 and playing in the spring instead of fall. It would be a fantastic power play and potentially even out the pay differential a little bit. I would love to see that. Senter, lead the charge.
Why? You’d rather go to Miner football games in March and April?
No players worth a damn would play in the spring, you would see a lot opt out to be ready for the NFL season in the fall.
Good thinking. I'm shudder to think of how many Miners we'd lose to the NFL.
If Aaron Jones played in the spring, he’s skipping those last games. Would also affect the quality of other schools. Might as well just drop to FCS then.
How do we get paid if the all the P5 teams play in the fall? Without the annual body bag games most of the G5 would bankrupt.
First, I really don't want football in the spring. Spring is for March Madness, playoff positioning pushes in the NBA, and spring training. Football is a fall/winter sport, which is where it should stay.
Second, almost every high school athlete recruited to play college football, whether he becoming an All-American at Alabama or the last guy off of the bench at Tarleton State, believes that he has what it takes to be an NFL player. Even though we at UTEP don't send that many players to the NFL, I guarantee that when our players sign they are dreaming of a future in the pros. If we play in the spring year after year there is no way that we will have a chance at recruiting good college-level talent. A one-year decision by a conference to play in the spring due to COVID 19 might work. A perennial schedule in the spring? I think that it would be a disaster.
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I'm very curious as to how spring football will work. Say the games start in February... do teams play till May with bowls in June?
Do programs then jump back into full contact in August?
I'm going to predict programs like the one up the freeway won't play at all.
Do programs then jump back into full contact in August?
I'm going to predict programs like the one up the freeway won't play at all.
I agree. The NCAA doesn’t want spring football and fans of both sports, do not want to choose between watching a football game and March Madness.
Guys playing D3, D2, and NAIA don’t have realistic NFL dreams
FCS guys have a chance
FBS guys have a better chance
Even though UTEP, NMSU, and Ball St aren’t cranking out NFLers, they have a better shot and more visibility than SFA, ACU, and Alabama State
TV contracts for one. And BTW, body bag games aren't keeping G5 teams solvent. That ship sailed when CUSA agreed to a 300,000 per year tv rights deal.
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Stuff playing in the Spring - March Madness, NHL playoffs, NBA playoffs, MLB, MLS.
But yeah, TV networks are going to televise UTEP vs FIU instead.....
There is nothing television wise in the spring. Nobody watches baseball. Nobody watches the NBA until the playoffs start. We are always complaining about the 'off-season'. March Madness is one-month long. After March people watch what, golf, hockey? We've been playing football in the fall for how long? And where has it gotten us? A few hundred thousand a year from ESPN? Time to start thinking outside the box.
What it would hurt is college basketball. That's already a sport most people dont pay attention to until March. G5 football in the spring would significantly damage college hoops. It'll never happen though.
Imagine a network getting pitched UMass vs Ball St and UTEP vs UNT in football and choosing that over Duke vs Wake and Kentucky vs Miss St basketball, you would get laughed out the room. Football belongs in the Fall.
The MWC is surely filled with a jealous rage after seeing USM lose to a 2-10 South Alabama team and MTSU being beat up by a 5-8 Army team 42-0.
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