CAA planning for spring football

Virginia Redbird

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It is early yet but I have not seen much in the way of expectations for the spring MVFC season. Locally, I saw this article discussing what the CAA envisions for spring. They are looking at 6 conference games mostly regional. Maybe a non-conference game or two depending. Probably no more than 8 games total. An interesting note was the comments by the Richmond coach. His recruit class could well be cut in half if some current players decide to skip the spring for eligibility concerns and wait until the fall of 2021 to play again. They are still waiting for guidelines on how eligibility is going to be handled by the NCAA. Players leaving early via the portal, players may be skipping a year totally, HS Freshman being impacted by a lack of roster openings that would normally have been expected. What a situation.
The CAA schools are a bit closer regionally than the MVFC schools so setting the schedule to limit travel is probably an easier proposition.

Still a lot of moving parts with the shift to spring. I had not thought about players that may skip a year and limit the ability to recruit HS players. Two players so far have entered the portal from ISU. If this spring season counts against eligibility I can see where a player may well choose to skip a year and come back in the fall of 2021. Anyway, I thought some of you may be interested in how this is shaking out in other areas of the country.

 

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The NCAA will be voting on a proposal that any fall sports athletes can play at any time this 20-21 year and not use up eligibility. I would think they will approve this, but who knows. In any case I think a number of athletes will be graduating and getting on with the next stage of their lives. Some will return and some won't.

I would think this makes it easier to have a spring schedule with fewer games that still lead to champtionships. That would seem to balance opportunities and resources. I haven't heard anything about expanding rosters for many sports in 21-22. Some expansion will be necessary in order to fairly accommodate returners and still offer opportunities to freshmen. Of course all of this in the midst of declining revenues. Some sports and divisions are allowed to split full rides among multiple students to spread the benefits...we may see more of this.
 
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