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re: Goodnight, sweet college football
Posted on 8/10/20 at 3:28 pm to wizatlanta
Posted on 8/10/20 at 3:28 pm to wizatlanta
If the BIG 10 does opt out - which seems likely - then maybe our favorite QB from Ohio St will be allowed to come home and play for the good guys again...
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Posted on 8/10/20 at 3:45 pm to jodeaux
Would be the strangest thing I have ever seen if that happens.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 4:31 pm to wizatlanta
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If you can't keep a baseball team of 30 guys from going out and getting the virus then how the hell did they expect to keep 100 kids from going out and getting it???
The kids are going to go out and get it anyway. Schools need to outline a rapid testing regime and a plan for managing covid that could plausibly result in students being safer than they would have been otherwise.
If these people can't get this done then the entire structure of CFB should be upended. Leadership needs to be consolidated, governance should be centralized, and everyone in charge should be fricking fired.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 5:53 pm to chillmonster
Straight from the mouth of an authoritarian Marxist.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 6:44 pm to wizatlanta
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If you can't keep a baseball team of 30 guys from going out and getting the virus then how the hell did they expect to keep 100 kids from going out and getting it???
The answer is that you can't. Will there be team outbreaks and game cancellations / postponements? Yes but if the players want to play then you let them play and do your best to mitigate any risk that you can.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 7:30 pm to Fats
Let the players play or not at any time. Coaches should also be able to opt out. The important thing is to play and it doesn't matter if there are dropouts.
I would work to prevent infection from taking out an entire position group.
I would work to prevent infection from taking out an entire position group.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 8:50 pm to Whiznot
Let's just not test them. Like Europe. No symptoms, no test. Poof, problem gone, we're back in business.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 9:25 pm to deeprig9
Magical thinking. What could go wrong?
Posted on 8/10/20 at 9:30 pm to Whiznot
Broken bones, contusions, sprains, cartilage tears, head injuries, all sorts of life changing afflictions to the athletes.
Posted on 8/10/20 at 10:26 pm to P-Dawg
This is allegedly about concern over COVID-19 causing cardiac inflammation, which can cause permanent damage. A couple of small studies have found this to be the case in "recovered" patients, even some who weren't having cardiac symptoms (damage was discovered via scans). But like everything else involving COVID-19, nobody knows much of anything for sure at this point.
It's probably more about lawyers and liability than fears for the future of the young athletes.
Simple solution: Anyone who wants to play college football this season needs to sign a waiver holding harmless schools and conferences from all damage claims, in perpetuity.
It's probably more about lawyers and liability than fears for the future of the young athletes.
Simple solution: Anyone who wants to play college football this season needs to sign a waiver holding harmless schools and conferences from all damage claims, in perpetuity.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 5:06 am to Gtmodawg
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protests are not preventable and the only way to stop them is to come down hard on them which leads to more protests and more people in confined areas, jails, and hospitals
Well, you say that...
-Josef "No man, no problem" Stalin
Mao "Stalin was a piker" Zedong
Posted on 8/11/20 at 12:23 pm to wizatlanta
How many players opt out of a spring season for the draft
Posted on 8/11/20 at 1:27 pm to deeprig9
There were compelling arguments made this morning on ESPN's Get Up for not canceling Fall football. The case for football was made in terms of player safety by David Pollack, Greg McElroy, Nick Saban, James Franklin, Jim Harbaugh and Scott Frost.
Desmond Howard argued that there should be no season because players would be endangered attending classes with other students. That argument makes no sense. If the risk of classroom instruction is unacceptable then no student should be there. Canceling the season doesn't keep players out of classrooms.
Desmond Howard argued that there should be no season because players would be endangered attending classes with other students. That argument makes no sense. If the risk of classroom instruction is unacceptable then no student should be there. Canceling the season doesn't keep players out of classrooms.
This post was edited on 8/11/20 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 8/11/20 at 1:43 pm to Whiznot
This is all about keeping "amateurism" in tact. If the season is played, then a bubble of sorts for the players would have to be instituted. The players would then have to be able to negotiate the terms of the bubble. The universities want to avoid that, because the players would then have the groundwork in place for a player's union, basically making them semi-pro athletes.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 2:18 pm to Whiznot
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Desmond Howard argued that there should be no season because players would be endangered attending classes with other students.
I like how he focused on the regular students infecting the players, as if it only works one way.
How about the fact that Covid is like the tenth most dangerous thing football players face behind head injuries, back injuries, fricked up knees, etc?
Posted on 8/11/20 at 3:20 pm to RedPants
It's an amateur sport anyway you slice it... Them playing is based on meeting certain academic standards....
Posted on 8/11/20 at 3:32 pm to lewis and herschel
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It's an amateur sport anyway you slice it... Them playing is based on meeting certain academic standards....
Agreed.
There are already player councils. Chris Conley was on one of them in the past. Having an organized panel advocating for student interests and needs does not eliminate the fact that these are amateurs.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 4:01 pm to meansonny
It's all about logistics and liability at this point.
This post was edited on 8/11/20 at 4:01 pm
Posted on 8/11/20 at 8:44 pm to Lucius Clay
Nobody cares they get beat to absolute shite every day in practice and in games, but God forbid somebody might get the zip sniffles, it's game over.
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