No Fall Sports for Ivy League

The Ivy League is cancelling all of their Fall sports. The news of the final decision was first reported by Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports:




Bear in mind this also affects winter sports like basketball and hockey that traditionally begin before New Year's but now will not.

There is conflicting info about whether Fall sports are entirely canceled or might be postponed to the Spring. Dana O'Neil of The Athletic says this still is to be determined:








There is chatter out there that this forecasts bad things for the rest of the country, and in particular college football, since the Ivy League was the first conference to cancel college basketball tournaments when the pandemic first struck in March.

We continue to be in a weird spot with coronavirus where there are escalating case totals but deaths are down substantially since their peak. We do not yet know whether deaths, which are a lagging indicator, will catch up with the increased positive tests.

Nonetheless, I'd still be very surprised if Power 5 football moves away from the Fall, mainly because it would take too heavy a toll on players' bodies to play in the Spring and then have a normal Fall season in 2021. Further, many of the best players like Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields would be highly incentivized to sit out the season if it conflicts with the NFL Draft. We're in unprecedented times, so we'll have to wait and see what ultimately happens.

 







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Ryan Glasspiegel grew up in Connecticut, graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and lives in Chicago. Before OutKick, he wrote for Sports Illustrated and The Big Lead. He enjoys expensive bourbon and cheap beer.