With Stadium, McMurphy will continue as a long-time voting member in the weekly Associated Press football poll along with the Heisman Trophy and several other national coach and player awards.īefore joining Stadium, McMurphy spent the previous five years at ESPN as a College Football Insider, breaking hundreds of stories across multiple platforms. He was named the 2019 Beat Writer of the Year by the Football Writer’s Association of America and has also been the recipient of 10 FWAA Awards recognizing his writing. McMurphy was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting in 2010 (discovering USF coach Jim Leavitt hit a player) and '18 (Meyer’s mishandling and knowledge of an assistant coach’s domestic violence history), but was not a Pulitzer Prize nominee finalist. He broke one of the biggest stories of 2018 when his reporting on Ohio State led to the suspension of Head Coach Urban Meyer and Athletic Director Gene Smith. MORE: Idaho Football Players Don’t Want to Play This FallĪbout Brett McMurphy, Stadium College Football Insiderīrett McMurphy joined Stadium in August 2018. “Who knows? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.” “A Group of Five league canceling would make our presidents more nervous in an already nerve-racking time,” a Group of Five athletic director said.Īdded a Power Five AD: “Everyone understands the financial implications without a football season, but will the other conference presidents want to take the chance of something happening on campus - a major COVID outbreak that shuts down the football program and the campus? That would be a major PR hit and then there’s the liability concerns.
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The question now is this: Will other FBS leagues follow suit and cancel their seasons? The NCAA announced Wednesday all Division II and III fall sports championships would be canceled. Several smaller Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) conferences also have canceled their fall football seasons. The current membership consists of Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green State, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Miami (Ohio), Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo and Western Michigan. We’ll now have to step back and contemplate what that means for us.”
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If we are to solve these challenges and be truly dedicated to protecting the health and safety of our student-athletes, we need to do a better job of working together.”Īt the time, MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said the league’s intent “was in playing a full schedule. Ten FBS conferences have signed a college football playoff agreement with an expectation that we will work together for the good of college football. Bowling Green State lost $2.2 million, Central Michigan lost $2.15 million, Kent State lost $1.5 million and NIU lost $1.1 million.Īfter the Big Ten announced its conference-only format last month, Bowling Green State athletic director Bob Moosbrugger called the decision “the tip of the iceberg.
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The MAC had 11 games canceled against Big Ten members, costing MAC schools a combined $10.5 million. After the league didn’t reach a decision Thursday, it voted Saturday not to play this fall, sources said.īesides the health and safety concerns, the MAC was one of the leagues most impacted financially by the Power Five’s decision to eliminate or reduce non-conference games. The Huskies have made a league-record eight MAC title game appearances and won four of the last nine MAC titles.
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“The league didn’t like the look of NIU going out on their own and not playing,” said a source, explaining the MAC’s non-vote on Thursday. However, Northern Illinois president Lisa Freeman, a former research scientist at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, indicated her school would not play this fall because of the health and safety concerns, sources said. The conference presidents initially met Thursday to finalize the league’s scheduling format. The MAC reached its decision Saturday morning in a vote by the league’s presidents, sources said. The MAC intends to try to play in the spring, sources said. On Wednesday, UConn, an independent, became the first FBS school to announce it would not play this year. The 12-member MAC is the first Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) conference opting not to play this fall. The Mid-American Conference has canceled its football season this fall because of player health and safety concerns regarding COVID-19, sources told Stadium.