07-21-2020, 03:47 PM
Even with 100% remote instruction, there will be students on campus, as the memo notes. So Pac-12 fall sports *could* happen, but I think it's more likely that, if they happen, they start after January 1.
On a related note: the conference decided last week that football, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball, would schedule Conference-only games. The usual suspects play Pac-12 football and women's soccer and volleyball. According to pac-12.com, here are the conference teams for men's soccer: Cal, Oregon State, San Diego State (!), Stanford, UCLA, Washington.
So a standard home and away conference schedule would be 10 games, so each team would miss 8 or 9 nonconference matchups. Given the liberal substitution rules, they could play two games a week and be finished with the abridged schedule within five weeks. Or they could play one game a week because of Covid testing restrictions and still be finished in 10 weeks.
This is a long-winded way of saying that I could see *some* fall sports--such as men's soccer--being played *at some time* during the 2020-21 academic year. I'm not so sure about football, though.
On a related note: the conference decided last week that football, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball, would schedule Conference-only games. The usual suspects play Pac-12 football and women's soccer and volleyball. According to pac-12.com, here are the conference teams for men's soccer: Cal, Oregon State, San Diego State (!), Stanford, UCLA, Washington.
So a standard home and away conference schedule would be 10 games, so each team would miss 8 or 9 nonconference matchups. Given the liberal substitution rules, they could play two games a week and be finished with the abridged schedule within five weeks. Or they could play one game a week because of Covid testing restrictions and still be finished in 10 weeks.
This is a long-winded way of saying that I could see *some* fall sports--such as men's soccer--being played *at some time* during the 2020-21 academic year. I'm not so sure about football, though.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)