Pac-12 Cancels Football Season, Joining Big Ten Among Power Five Conferences
The Pac-12 is expected to follow, sources tell McMurphy.
Brett McMurphy joined Stadium in August 2018. 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.
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 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.
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.
Before joining Stadium, McMurphy spent the previous five years at ESPN as a College Football Insider, breaking hundreds of stories across multiple platforms. Prior to ESPN, McMurphy wrote for CBS Sports, The New York Times, AOL FanHouse, The Tampa Tribune and the Odessa (Texas) American.
The Pac-12 is expected to follow, sources tell McMurphy.
The conference will consider playing football in the spring.
"A Group of Five league canceling would make our presidents more nervous in an already nerve-racking time."
“We feel we have been neglected by the NCAA in terms of wealth over health.”
"One death [of a coach or student-athlete] and we will all regret pushing this competitive envelope so hard."
“Why can’t you play football on campuses that are closed?” one athletic director asked.
“That is the billion-dollar question we are dealing with."
"You prepare for the worst and hope for the best."
"If there’s no football, we will have bigger issues."
Do you want to see playoff expansion?
Are we getting that much closer to a bigger field?
“I think being open to a non-traditional season is a must for (athletic) departments to survive."
“If there’s no season, we will be f*****.”
We already know -- it's way, way too early.
Moorhead’s dismissal coincides with a late-season swoon and discipline issues that plagued the program throughout the season, a source said.