MVFC Update on Fall 2020 Season

[IAA Fan]

The Missouri Valley Football Conference Presidents Council has announced the league's schools will not conduct conference competition this fall.
 
In its unwavering commitment to providing meaningful and safe competitive opportunities for the Conference’s student-athletes, the MVFC will play a full 8-game spring league schedule with the expectation to culminate the season with the FCS Playoffs.
 
“Without question the most important part of our decision-making process was listening to our student-athletes and hearing their feelings,” stated Jim Tressel, chair of the MVFC Presidents Council and President at Youngstown State University.  “What we clearly heard was that they want to play this year for a chance to participate in the FCS Playoffs.  It's great to know that they believe we are taking all the steps necessary to keep them safe in the process.  All 11 MVFC teams weighed in with their positions on the options we considered, and all thoughts and concerns guided our thinking.”
 
The Council also voted that non-conference competition in Fall 2020 be conducted at institutional discretion.

[IAA Fan]

Look for the sake of the money that I have already paid, just keep it for next year, Skip any abbreviated season. The school is just looking to salvage 3 games in fall & the rest in spring so they can keep the season ticket holder cash. Forget it. Keep my money for 2021. Give me a good spring practice season and an actual spring game for once in the last 10-years.

[Wick250]

Akron is done, Duquesne is done, the OVC and Eastern Kentucky will surely follow.  There will be nothing in the fall.

Playing in March and April is just a dream.  There may or may not be an effective vaccine developed by the winter, but it would be impossible to mass produce and distribute it before March.  A coordinated federal response that featured harsh sanctions for those who violate social distancing standards or mask-wearing won't happen either, at least until January 20 when it would be too late to "save" spring football.

I said this months ago and I repeat it now.  As much as we will miss football, this is the best possible result for YSU.  It will give time for Phillips to evaluate his players in actual practices and prepare some type of plans based on the talent.  If we had played a full schedule this fall, it would have been an unmitigated disaster.  Remember that Tressel went 2-9 in his first year, but he inherited enough talent from Narduzzi that he led us to the IAA playoffs for the first time in his second year.  Take a look at our roster.  How many juniors and seniors do you see that you would classify as "good?"  We are placing our hopes on young kids that are untested.  The extra practice time will benefit us tremendously.

[goodnews]

So you dont think the dozen players from Canfield, Mooney and Poland are the answer? 

[Wick250]

So you dont think the dozen players from Canfield, Mooney and Poland are the answer?

Goodnews, you left out the players from formidable state powers East, Struthers, Salem, and Lakeview.
Seriously, we will see what this guy can recruit now that his staff is in place and he sees the team's many obvious needs.

[guinpen]

Akron is done, Duquesne is done, the OVC and Eastern Kentucky will surely follow.  There will be nothing in the fall.

Playing in March and April is just a dream.  There may or may not be an effective vaccine developed by the winter, but it would be impossible to mass produce and distribute it before March.  A coordinated federal response that featured harsh sanctions for those who violate social distancing standards or mask-wearing won't happen either, at least until January 20 when it would be too late to "save" spring football.

I said this months ago and I repeat it now.  As much as we will miss football, this is the best possible result for YSU.  It will give time for Phillips to evaluate his players in actual practices and prepare some type of plans based on the talent.  If we had played a full schedule this fall, it would have been an unmitigated disaster.  Remember that Tressel went 2-9 in his first year, but he inherited enough talent from Narduzzi that he led us to the IAA playoffs for the first time in his second year.  Take a look at our roster.  How many juniors and seniors do you see that you would classify as "good?"  We are placing our hopes on young kids that are untested.  The extra practice time will benefit us tremendously.

Fair comments to make.

[penguinpower]

I saw an email exchange with Party Viverito. The MVFC is not exactly happy about the situation. The NCAA stated if 50% of the teams did not participate there would be no playoffs. Once the Big Sky dropped out they had a choice to play with no championship. The players wanted to play for a championship overwhelmingly. That's how they arrived at the spring season.

The facts state that the mortality rate is 0.3%, which is better than the H1N1 flu of 2009-2010. The 60% of deaths are 74 years and older. 21% of deaths are 65-74.  The death rate of people in the athletes are group is 0.12%. All of these numbers are improving due to better treatments etc.

The leftist academia elites that run the NCAA know better than all of you dumb mobtherf***ers on here and will mandate what is best for the dumb commoners.