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This creates so many questions. How are scholarships impacted? The simple fix is playing an abbreviated season in the Spring. That way you don't have to be concerned about granting another year of eligibility or balancing scholarship numbers for 5 classes when 2021 kids arrive.

Outside of the families of the players, coaches and former players, plus 600 fans, no one really cares if Towson plays football or not. Students could care less, and that's backed up by their non attendance despite being given free admission for their hefty student fee paid to athletics. The CAA is a hoops league, and since VCU and Mason left, it's been a bad hoops league. One bid hell. Given that 7 of the 12 CAA Football schools are not in the league for other sports, you could well see the CAA dropping football altogether and letting a new entity pick up the torch. America East Football?

JMU can't play themselves....would be a mistake to load up on FBS schools. Would also be dumb to play if conference is playing in the Spring. Can't do both.

This sucks but I can't say I'm surprised. How can they safely have a season this fall with no vaccine? Seems impossible

There is no coaching situation. Contract goes to 2021. Nobody is going to buy out a coach at this juncture. As for the season, if the Ivy League can play in the spring, so can the CAA. Play a conference-only schedule and start in April. Three weeks of preseason. Workouts in the winter indoors and outdoors. Having the new soccer stadium and practice fields can't hurt. Would probably end up moving some lacrosse games there, if necessary. Football, at any level of D-1, should not be played in March for weather reasons and should not go against March Madness.

Exactly. It seems to me that JMU’s efforts to cobble a new schedule is a fool’s errand