Pac-12 postpones all sports competition through end of year, aims to play in 2021

[Roland99]

Source: AZFamily.com

TEMPE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) -- There will be no football season for the Sun Devils or Wildcats this fall.

On Tuesday, the Pac-12 announced that they would postpone all sports, including football, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The conference "would consider a return to competition for impacted sports after January 1, 2021."

The decision was made following a consultation from the Pac-12 COVID-19 Medical Advisory Committee with athletics directors, in which they expressed concern with moving forward with contact practice.

“The health, safety and well-being of our student-athletes and all those connected to Pac-12 sports has been our number one priority since the start of this current crisis,” said Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott. “Our student-athletes, fans, staff and all those who love college sports would like to have seen the season played this calendar year as originally planned, and we know how disappointing this is.”

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[riversedge]

1. and now to delay opening schools for a few months at least!

[ybbor]

5. A friend suggested every student gets a gap year.

Teachers still get paid, and work on implementing online education to be effective for all students. Kids who need free and reduced lunch programs still get fed.

The idea of starting and stopping over and over will be as detrimental as not having kids in school at all.

As a former teacher who is not going back this year, I think it is a pretty good idea.

Just my two cents.

We are living in some crazy times on this rudderless ship.

[riversedge]

6. I agree that this on off of schooling is not good for anyone including the parents to have to

arrange child care for one, two three weeks. not good. a gap year--or least a semester is a sound idea.

[Evolve Dammit]

2. smart move. Just saved lives and futures. That wasn't so hard was it?

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. This is on Trump.

Lots of apolitical sports fanatics out there...I will remind one and all that they have Trump to thank for destroying football season.

[Stallion]

4. PLEASE Do Not Cause #TrumpKilledCollegeFootball to trend on Twitter

I'm afraid its got momentum....that would make Trump furious plus its "unfair and possibly illegal"

[roamer65]

7. Big Ten and PAC-12 should play a Rose Bowl game IF spring games happen.

Would be a classic game.

[kairos12]

8. More than any policy decision the Dems can make, the loss of the CFB and/or the NFL will

sink President Bleach.

[not fooled]

9. College footbal once again

making better policy decisions than red don's federal government.

[ouija]

10. Spring football is unlikely as well

Bottom line is not about player health, it’s about money as usual. Universities are concerned about the mountain of lawsuits they would be looking at if they played this year.

[Doc_Technical]

11. Too bad.

The experts were picking the University of California at Santa Cruz
chess team to make the playoffs this year.

GO BANANA SLUGS!