So the college teams will just show up on September 1, hit the field, and play a conference game? No summer practice?
That should be fun to watch.
That leaves a month of practice.
I imagine individuals are working out on their own or maybe in very small groups.
No where did it say that it was proposed that college teams would start as scheduled. In fact the only mention of college sports was: "Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA, was notably not on the call."
That's basically how it is in the NFL now. The last collective bargaining agreement with the players union totally neutered training camp. It's cake that doesn't prep them for the season. The result: September NFL is awful, with many many upsets because none of the teams are actually ready at all. Then by October they've mostly sorted it out and good football begins.
One might infer a month, or even preferably six weeks or so of summer practice to partially make up for lost spring practice.
However, a bigger obstacle will be getting the NCAA to agree to anything.
One hundred university presidents all in the same room, and all of them wanting to be in charge. Not conducive to reaching a consensus...
One thing they’ll all have in common is liability management...
I’m not optimistic that we’ll have a college season in 2020.
I hope I’m wrong, of course.
Who’s saying that? Why can’t there still be summer camp for NCAA football?