Posted on 08/11/2020 12:12:03 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
Spring football will go over like ham sandwiches at an Eid al-Fitr. If you can't play football in '20, let's just wait for '21.
Don’t see how they would have any, no.
Some "schools" would lose their reason for existing, not to mention mass suicide of their fans.
Golden Calf judgement. Those paying for tickets and transport could be using that money for their kids to learn a building, assembling, design skill, or other, together.
BY the by, what is the line on whether or not there will be college or NFL football in 2021, let alone 2020?
No interest in viewing and presentation.
Our interest is in us, participating actually doing the sport itself, uninterrupted.
This is not about player safety. The players are much more likely to have CTE or other football related health issues than any lasting covid issue. This is about liability.
Serious question, has there ever been a successful lawsuit where someone claims to have gotten a virus and sought compensation from those they think they got it from? Obviously outside of somebody maliciously performing an action in an attempt to infect another. If all the teams have been and continue to take precautions and test, I do not see the issue with them playing.
Slay that cash cow!
With MLB i missed it, until early/mid-May and began to forget about it. I haven’t even bothered to look at standings, scores, etc. much less watch a game played in a empty stadium where they have cardboard cutouts in the seats and fake background fan noise.
Oh maaannn they’re going to have to ACTUALLY go to basket weaving class now! OMG there’s going to be a lot of ugly baskets out there soon
And pay. Colleges hate playing people and they’ve been slowly losing ground on the idea of paying athletes for about 20 years now. But now they’re in a situation where they have to choose between maintaining the fiction of the student-athlete (their biggest argument to not pay), and admitting athletics is all about the cash and they really need to pay the players. Most of these colleges are going virtual, at least in part. And if they boldly stand there and say “students stay home, take classes online, oh but athletes get your butts in here” that’s admitting they aren’t student-athletes, they’re athletes. The funny part is if they’d given up this fight years ago they’d be in much better shape now. Players would be getting paid, they’d probably have a union, which the conferences could then negotiate with on how to execute the season, and the liability disappears. You can see it with the MLB. There was a big delay because they had to suss it out with the union, and the reason they’re not in a bubble is the union didn’t want a bubble. So now players are getting the rona and giving it to each other, and probably their families, and the MLB just keeps muddling along, because this is what the players agreed to.
Spring football brings particular challenges to Big Ten part of the country. Foremost, the Wunhan coronavirus probably will rage ever more intensely during wintertime, spreading rapidly through apartment buildings, university dormitories, classrooms, office buildings, and any other indoor venue with more than a few persons.
Second, the weather in the north is horrible during “spring.” Unless the universities want to delay the beginning their football season, usually the basis of autumn-semester campus entertainment and chatter, to April, May, or even later, they must contend with ice, blowing snow, heavy snow, bitter cold, and other awful winter weather. These elements of winter weather tend to snarl travel plans, but these universities tend to have infrastructure to cope in snowplows, airports, and more if the people who run them are still working and not stuck at home because of the Wuhan coronavirus.
But have they thought stadium-scale snow removal and field maintenance? In the autumn semester, most institutions must keep their football fields playable only through November, and few schools host more than two games after the first of November. Grass simply cannot grow in persistent subfreezing cold, so the players will tear up the field repeatedly. In the Southeastern conference, this new schedule probably would mean plenty of cold-rain games and the field degrading into a mud pit, but excellent field crews can mitigate this problem. In the Big Ten, it’s an ice-crusted, frozen-solid surface that slowly degenerates into a grass-free cold mud. Are they prepared? Can they prepare?
It sure did me and pro football. Haven’t watched it in two going on three years. No loss
No lost: College football payers grow up to be NFL take a knee BLM/flag protesters.
Sports bars in the Midwest are going to be pretty empty on Saturdays.
Total BS. No way they play two seasons in a calendar year. I hope the other leagues steal all their recruits. This is a 100% political decision.
Excellent news. Made my day. Thanks!
The ACC and SEC won’t care.
Eid al-Fitr
Had to look up that one. Great analogy.
The way I see it. ... It’s a great Win for TTU and Raider Fans. ... Lol. .. And that’s my favorite team too. Heck, Mahomes played some great games there. ... OU sucks. ... Lol.
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