What exactly does removing out of conference games do to achieve safety?

1) By only playing your conference you have a uniform standard of testing protocols which makes it easier to keep things in order

2) People keep talking about distance between games as if that matters. By only playing each other even in a worst case outbreak scenario the SEC will have a max of 14 teams infected. Let's say we played UVA week 1 and ETSU week 2 and half our team was infected and didn't know til later, now UVA is taking it back to play ACC teams and ETSU is taking it back to whatever hte frick they play in.

Personally I think the ACC did it right, there is no reason we could jsut play an OOC game last game of ht eseason and cancel it at the time if that was necessary.

Well, the SEC is now starting the season 3 weeks late and there are 4 out of conference games so that pretty much takes away the schedule flexibility.

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What’s more dangerous about playing Virginia, two cupcakes, and tech vs any team in the SEC?

This really applies to all conferences. I haven’t heard an explanation as to how canceling out of conference makes the game safer.

Not only can I not find a rational response, I can’t even find a reason as to why the big ten started this whole thing.

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What's even more irrational and absurd about all this is that around 13,000 age 18-25's are going to be banging bodies without masks, sweating and likely spitting droplets all over each other, EVERY WEEK, and probably 1000-1500 will continually test positive, 50-100 will show minor flu-like symptoms, 2-5 will get pretty ill, and not a single one will die.

Actually, it's much more likely that one of them will have an undiagnosed renal or cancer condition which they die from, and they will test positive for COVID, and then COVID will be blamed.

And we'll be lucky to make it to week 3 or 4 of the season before the pressure to shut down over 1500 kids "testing positive" (with virtually none having any symptoms or need for serious care) gets ramped up by the media and the doomer virtue signalers.

And this will come after we've seen games where 5 or even 10 STARTERS are held out of multiple games, leaving us to watch B-level football, and the championships to come down to who has the best backups/depth. And even likely who has the best backups to the backups.


It's all so stupid. What a wasted year.

I've read that cancelling all OOC games saves money on buyouts.

I'm not sure if that is true or not.

The answer is money, covid voided or at least lowered the amount to get out of ooc games.

If we have to cancel or change, everyone is under the secs wing right or wrong.

Still think we should play tech outside of the sec and NCAA.

I think it makes some people feel better about our current situation which in turn makes them feel better about themselves: in these troubled times you have to serve up sacrificial lambs and forego things you normally enjoy doing in life to appease the Gods of the pandemic.