2020 Gavitt Games

[MUPanther]

Need to bring the old chant back. Let them play! Let them play!

[GoldenWarrior11]

Absolutely hilarious. It is completely ok for Georgia Tech Football to travel to Syracuse, New York, in October, but not safe, under these new iniatives, for Georgia Tech to then play at Georgia in November. Or what about Clemson/South Carolina? Florida/Florida State? For basketball, it would be safer for Marquette to travel to UConn, but not to play Wisconsin? So many well-intentioned ideas and policies with so little common-sense.

Unless we see a completely revamped P5 conference schedule that keeps teams within divisions (or by geography) and even move to double games against each other, the conference-only schedules does not really solve the present problem of keeping teams safe and/or limiting the overlap of exposure.

The G5 is absolutely screwed. They lose out on buy games and P5 exposure, and they still have large-area'ed conferences that span multiple time zones and regions. How does an AAC conference-only schedule make sense? Temple is safer by traveling to UCF, USF, Cincinnati and ECU, but not safer by playing Pittsburgh or Penn State? Don't get me started on a program like Navy (who will be going East Coast to Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Tennessee).

For basketball season, I think the Thanksgiving Tournaments are likely out, as well as any long-distanced buy games. I think the goal would be to, ideally, limit the amount of overall overlap as much as possible; I just think that moving to a conference-only schedule doesn't solve that completely (if anything it makes it more difficult). For the tournament, the daily testing will be easier and more manageable (assuming without fans). It's just the regular season games that will be tricky.

[redmen9194]

For basketball - and the fall sports as well - is it safer for St. John's to take a coach bus 5 hours to DC than to take a flight on a charter to Chicago for 90 minutes to play DePaul? I'm not sure I get the rational.

[MUPanther]

I sure hope a league like the Mt. West can play. Many time windows will open up for FS1.

[ArmyVet]

Cancelled for this season which is too bad as there would have been some very interesting matchups.