I guess williams and others leaving the door open for spring football, but how likely is that? Especially when you would have to consider lumping all the other fall sports into the spring, and possibly winter sports too.  32 school teams competing in the spring? Unlikely given training, facilities, and staff limitations...

Bowdoin not bates, sorry

Yep, we will likely hear from majority of schools the week after July 4th, but very little reason to be optimistic.  With Bates and TCNJ already kiboshing the fall season, the expectation has to be that most others will follow suit.  Tough for any administration to have the intestinal fortitude regarding fall football/sports when the specter of second guessing looms large if and when it proves to be the wrong decision.  Safer way to go is write the season off, apologize to the kiddies, and err on the side of caution.  Tcnj stepping up early with a firm and resolute position caught attention, but really was not that surprising.  This whole mess is just such a shame, especially for the seniors..

Was wondering that myself because it's being positioned that all gap requests need to be in by 6/30, and that all will be approved.  Not sure if that's everywhere, but it's what my kid's school is saying..

But (sorry cut off), my kid has a good friend who's number #1 priority is football - at a Nescac. They are waiting to see how this plays out before kid commits.  Every kid and situation is different, but I'm sure there's more than a few football recruits who will either gap it or enroll elsewhere. The last thing Patton, Roth, Mandel, Berger-Sweeney etc want is to demonstrate preferential treatment to sports (especially football lol) over other activities, but will be interesting to see what the recruit classes do if season gets cancelled. My uneducated guess is half either gap or go elsewhere..

Well, my kid attending a Nescac school in the fall as a recruited football player.   His frosh season unlikely to occur imo, which is unfortunate, but hardly the priority as far as we are concerned.  The coach is wonderful and our son is incredibly excited to compete and be part of what seems to be a great group of guys, but the much bigger picture is that the broader college experience could be significantly marginalized.  Put simply, this school passed the broken leg test for him - if he broke his leg and could never play again, would he be happy at the school - and his answer was a resounding yes throughout the recruiting and admissions process.  Missing a year of football - would be a bummer, but ultimately meh - but having the vibrant energy and infectious (pardon the pun) enthusiasm he felt on campus during his visits disappear is more important of a problem imo.  Seriously considering gap year at this point - football is a piece of it, but a small piece.  I get this is a football board, and some comments will tend to try to find reasons for a season, but this is the Nescac folks, not the SEC