Big Ten pulling plug tomm?
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The snowflakes are running the program now. Look for football to move to touch or flag football. Basketball will move to H O R S E.
It's inevitable. Hopefully we'll have a spring 2021 season. And if so, I'm interested to see if those who opted out will end up playing...
It's the result of panic porn.
It's a PR nightmare.
For players, the risks are incredibly low, but if you're in the athletic department, you'll live the rest of your life branded... if one of your own succumbs.
ESPN is reporting that inside sources are saying the Power 5 commissioners were talking today. It sounded like the conferences were trying to come to an unanimous decision, and it is looking like the Fall season will be cancelled. The question is whether there will be a Spring football season or not picked up again until next Fall.
I guess the next question will be whether we will have NFL or not as far as football.
I guess the next question will be whether we will have NFL or not as far as football.
Not looking good at all. Soaking up every baseball and hockey game while I can in case those get cancelled too.
Are things honestly expected to be different 6 months from now than they are today?
My question is on recruiting, because I read additional articles tonight that seems to say the same thing of no football.
If we have no Spring football, are our seniors done then? This was supposed to be a smaller class in 2021, can we over sign then? Will they even allow visits or virtual only?
If we have no Spring football, are our seniors done then? This was supposed to be a smaller class in 2021, can we over sign then? Will they even allow visits or virtual only?
Seems to me that the "echo chamber" has led us to where we are now. Each new alarmist opinion moves the line further and further toward shutting things down, with nobody wanting to the voice of dissent. Unfortunately this group think has resulted in misguided decisions, not just relative to the virus but in government, business, education and pretty much every other facet of life. You're correct about no one(or department) wanting to be the one to stick out their neck but eventually there'll have to be a course change or society(not just athletics) will be irreparably be changed for the worse.
Not sure the impact on recruiting but I could foresee a shortened spring season. Possibly each conference creating their own custom schedules. For the Big Ten for example, play only division opponents with maybe the possibility of one crossover game. This would mean a 6 or 7 game schedule, which could begin in mid March and run through mid May. No bowl games in this scenario, obviously.
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I assume that's what you want.
It really looks like you're cheering for that outcome.
Clearly, no.
Fatalities have bottomed out.
Right now it appears there's a different agenda driving decisions.
Nailed it.
What's driving public policy (and public opinion) now is emotion.
If you're a decisionmaker and you have just ONE person who dies from COVID, no matter how remote the risk, you're toast.
That's what's driving decisions today. Good... bad... indifferent... it's not logic or science, it's emotion.
F_CK Spring football. In protest, I will NOT support or watch 1 minute of it PERIOD. NCAA President, Conference commissioners, Legal Council and AD’s shit their pants. If you shut it down, then keep it down till the farce of a vaccine saves us all. I’ll be beyond disappointed. I’ll protest and withhold till people get some f’ng balls!
Thanks Snowflakes, DEMS, and Ambulance chasing lawyers for saving us all! DAMN LOSERS!!!
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Agree 100%.
There will be irreparable damage to non-rev sports, coaches (unemployment), students and that is only within University, what about the entire entertainment industry, sports programming, etc. The fallout will happen.
Personally, if they aren't allowing fans. It's pointless to me. When they wouldn't let fans in, I expected the season to be cancelled.
I’ll watch spring ball and be just as excited as I am now lookin forward to the season. I love watching Purdue football, and I’ll wait until spring if it means being able to get some kind of season in and I’d be shocked if the attempt at a fall season lasted more than a few weeks.
Personally, I think a spring season helps this team’s. We are very young. A spring season allows these youngsters 6 more months to get in the playbook as well as get their bodies ready for college ball.
Personally, I think a spring season helps this team’s. We are very young. A spring season allows these youngsters 6 more months to get in the playbook as well as get their bodies ready for college ball.
I'm with you on that. I'm a Purdue fan, whenever they play. If it's in the spring(which at this point is completely out of us fans' control) I'll be there.
If it IS spring, it'll basically replace spring football camp(and see above for my idea of how that may work) there's an interesting question to be answered; would early enrollees be eligible to play or just kids on the roster this fall? And how would transfers be handled, especially guys transferring into a program(play immediately?).
I'm not just thinking of sports, but also education(every age/grade level), health care, business and pretty much everything else. I understand fear of the unknown(and there is still a lot of unknown around thie effects of this virus), but too often decisions are made by people(especially those in leadership positions) on emotions instead of facts and it normally leads to poor outcomes.
So, if a HS kid graduates in December and enrolls, he is eligible for Spring ball, correct? And, is he considered a freshman, or does he get an extra year?
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Will not watch or support teams that knuckle under to MSM bullshit. I’d have been interested if it were a committee vote or new Commissioner directing it like a deer in the headlights.
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I’m canceling my DISH subscription if the college football season is cancelled.
How do we know that these kids are any safer if the season is cancelled?
I don't think it will lead to much, because I think the Power 5 Commissioners have already made their minds up. However, it looks like 2 last minute player lead movements are trying to get them to allow football this Fall. Hope to works!
https://247sports.com/Article/Colle...ay-we-are-united-statement-demands-150067723/
https://247sports.com/Article/Colle...ay-we-are-united-statement-demands-150067723/
We won't get full stadiums. If there is no vaccine, Snowflakes, DEMS, and ambulance chasers will see to it that NCAA remains shuttered.
Heard moments ago on Bob & Brian show Sports segment that only Nebraska and Iowa voted for playing the season. I can't believe that so many schools can't see the forest for the trees.
Will remain on the sideline and not watch 1 minute NOR support NCAA football till people grow some balls.
I suppose the DEMS on here are all in on support of letting people out of jail to help to reduce COVID-19 transmission, yet keep entertainment shuttered. What a line of bullshit!
As an "ambulance chaser," dude, take a breath. The VAST majority of lawsuits related to COVID are about whether business interruption insurance covers a pandemic caused shutdown orders. Then there are some work safety lawsuits about what is required of businesses as far as looking out for workplace safety. There are VERY VERY few about what you'd call ambulance chasing, and those have been mostly limited to nursing homes or cruise ships. And it's for the simple reason of it being darn near impossible to prove where you got infected. In other words, if someone is able to build a case for negligence and have the proof to go with it, the person getting sued probably deserves it.
"It's all frivolous litigation until you're the one the surgeons leave a sponge in."
I've taken a deep breath. Won't be snarky, but I have a question,"If OSHA covers COVID-19 in rather lenghty detail, why couldn't the NCAA have built protocols around it to minimize player contraction & transmission?
Seems like they had time to work together and yet here we are with conferences dropping out left and right.
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It's the result of panic porn.
It's a PR nightmare.
For players, the risks are incredibly low, but if you're in the athletic department, you'll live the rest of your life branded... if one of your own succumbs.
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The season is cancelled because jag offs like you are too selfish to deal with the slightest inconvenience of wearing a mask to benefit the greater population. God forbid you take a pandemic seriously enough to do the little things that have been proven to prevent the spread and save lives. Instead you’d rather bring politics into somewhere it has no business being rather than not being an asshole towards your fellow humans.
Because the NCAA didn't have enough "want to." And a little "want to" goes a long way.
NBA, NHL, and soccer have worked because they've bubbled. MLB hasn't worked because it didn't.
Power 5 football could've made this work if they would have put the kids in a dedicated dorm at the beginning of July, and made them live their lives between that dorm & the practice facility. And I mean made it a BUBBLE. Food brought in to them. First two weeks each kid is on lockdown on at least their floor. Coaches & staff, same deal. Rosters are too big & there's too much contact to do it otherwise. Classes would be all virtual because can't break the bubble. But once the bubble was secure, game on.
This is only for P5 times because it would be expensive AF and it would be a pretty crappy experience for the kids. But that's the only way this was going to happen. And they didn't want to do what it'd take.
They were worried about the optics of kids being us as just a cash cow. I'm afraid they're the last ones to realize that the toothpaste is out of the tube on that one.
I don't think they're particularly concerned that kids would get seriously ill or die (statistically speaking) but there would be kids that suffered long term and across all P5 teams, it'd be likely that a least a few players and probably more than a few coaches would get seriously ill or die.
But at the end of the day, the NCAA & conferences are just about like everyone else. They desperately want things to return to "normal." And they want to do everything within their power to "do something" about COVID while making the fewest changes possible. It's like the people wearing a mask over their mouths only but breathing through their noses. It's window dressing and doing absolutely nothing.
They had time to get this figured out, and failed. They're not the only ones, which is why I'm typing this in my dining room while my kids are doing virtual learning instead of being at my office.
But spring football just isn't going to happen either, so it'll be a Fall of "best of the Big 10" on BTN for me to get by. It'll be strange.
I'm keying this from my dining room table as well. I'm tired of this misery that we are all in.
This is true. But obviously the optics of a bunch of predominantly older white men confining a group of predominantly black young men to their dorm in the name of dollars... isn’t so great.
The season is cancelled because jag offs like you are too selfish to deal with the slightest inconvenience of wearing a mask to benefit the greater population. God forbid you take a pandemic seriously enough to do the little things that have been proven to prevent the spread and save lives. Instead you’d rather bring politics into somewhere it has no business being rather than not being an asshole towards your fellow humans.[/QUOTE]
How exactly do you know Purdue85 never wears a mask?
The season is cancelled because jag offs like you are too selfish to deal with the slightest inconvenience of wearing a mask to benefit the greater population. God forbid you take a pandemic seriously enough to do the little things that have been proven to prevent the spread and save lives. Instead you’d rather bring politics into somewhere it has no business being rather than not being an asshole towards your fellow humans.[/QUOTE]
Wha...?
Wow.
Can you show me any post, where I have ever stated that I have not, do not, and will not wear a mask? (Answer: no.)
Is there any post I've made to indicate I have not "take(n) this pandemic seriously"? (Answer: no.)
Where have I "(brought) politics into" this issue... this conversation? (Answer: I haven't.)
Here's a suggestion: Try addressing the points I've made, instead of posting a vulgar, pointless rant.
You have to make a lot of assumptions to make the accusation I'm "being an @sshole towards (my) fellow humans".
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