Now Purdue will not play this season. This covid sucks. I know football is recreation but it's a fun distraction for me. People can't do some of the normal things and now sports are continuing to be taken away. 2020 has totally sucked.
No big ten season- I hate covid
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At least we don't have to deal with the what-ifs associated with Rondale opting out. Grasping at straws here for a positive spin.... Ugh
Has been a miserable morning between this news and the downtown of my city looking like a scene from Batman right now.
You know it will be a point of recruiting. "Do you want to play football, or sit around until somebody sez you can play football?"
Although SEC is having a meeting this afternoon.
If you notice B1G hasn’t actually informed of their decision. I think they have already been talking to other conferences. I think they are waiting for the other conferences
Supposedly now the 12-2 vote was whether schools thought their facilities could handle different scenarios.
Either that or the B1G is backing off due to the backlash.
In the end, I think all 5 Power conferences do the same thing. Play or not play. Fans or no fans.
Either that or the B1G is backing off due to the backlash.
In the end, I think all 5 Power conferences do the same thing. Play or not play. Fans or no fans.
We as a nation have been sold a bill of goods. COVID is highly contagious and is deadly in a very small percentage of healthy people and no real risk to those under 15. The elderly and the compromised should use precautions. The rest of the world should go back to work and school. I have been in health care for over 30 years and this is 20% science and 80% BS and politics. Unfortunately, many have bought in to the fear.
After november this will be all over one way or another.
1. Calm down.
2. It's not cancelled. It would be postponed until Spring.
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Couple thoughts
1.) Please Nebraska leave. GTFO you offer Big 10 nothing
2.) Intrigued at the thought of fall and spring football
3.) OSU President and AD don’t seem to be on same page as Ryan Day
4.) Seems like our Republican President doesn’t believe we should play
5.) One athlete gets it and it’s fatal, that school and conference will be shredded?
6.) Kids were throwing their weight around with demands last week, and I notice it was PAC 12 and Big 10 athletes that were the instigators. Any surprise those are the conferences that are leaning to cancel? Is this a push back by the athletic departments?
1.) Please Nebraska leave. GTFO you offer Big 10 nothing
2.) Intrigued at the thought of fall and spring football
3.) OSU President and AD don’t seem to be on same page as Ryan Day
4.) Seems like our Republican President doesn’t believe we should play
5.) One athlete gets it and it’s fatal, that school and conference will be shredded?
6.) Kids were throwing their weight around with demands last week, and I notice it was PAC 12 and Big 10 athletes that were the instigators. Any surprise those are the conferences that are leaning to cancel? Is this a push back by the athletic departments?
Peacefully, tho right ?
Trump tweeted out earlier today in favor of playing college football, so your 4th point would be incorrect.
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What's your beef with Nebraska?
"Kids" (athletes) are weighing in? And there's a PROBLEM with that?? I have a strong suspicion, if they were lobbying to cancel everything you'd be on board and all for their input. Regardless, it seems to me we should be listening to them. Instead...
Not quite sure why you're bringing politics into this. I've been accused of doing that, but nobody has ever produced evidence of it. And yet... here we are.
Mitch has been at the national forefront of seeking a degree of normalcy, taking informed risks, and moving forward by reopening our university. I would be very surprised if he is not also supportive of conducting a fall sports season, including football. At least starting and adjusting as necessary going forward.
Not Trump.
Mitch Daniels
You’re misunderstanding me. The athletes had all kinds of demand, wouldn’t sign a waiver, wanted paid, blah blah blah. Well Big Ten and PAC 12 called and said how bout no ball. If they play athletes are going to have to bear the consequences. The schools aren’t going to. Sign the damn waivers.
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Don’t blame Covid, blame all the idiots who have overreacted to Covid to make it out to be the plague. We could have very easily gone on “business as usual” and not shut anything down, not gone into a recession, and played college sports with 100% fan attendance.
They say push it back to spring but do you think that will really happen? I highly doubt it.
I'm afraid this winter will be a mess. Come sniffle season everyone will be freaking out. Media will be blowing it up.
I'm afraid this winter will be a mess. Come sniffle season everyone will be freaking out. Media will be blowing it up.
"Very easily gone on business as USUAL" The only idiots are the one's who think like you.
This may be in response to Frost’s comments of today that Nebraska will be playing somebody somewhere this fall with or without the B1G’s blessings.
Hopefully some of the BT coaches can have some influence on this.
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...football-fall-conference-conference-breakdown
He has a point, it seems like you don’t like the way he made his point perhaps his tone. Let me ask you this, what do you do for a living? Perhaps it’s easier to have your opinion if you don’t have your own business, or a coffee shop, or a bar or a restaurant? Or especially a sports complex.
I was coaching summer league at a sports complex yesterday in Ohio and I spoke with the owners about how they have been getting along. They admitted if it wasn’t for the lawsuit going through against the state of Ohio last week awarding them the ability to stay open, they would be bankrupt today.
this family spent a small fortune every month to keep the doors, the five basketball courts and the turf soccer field open. They also have babysitting. they said they have spoken with people in Columbus and Cincinnati who have had to shut her their facilities after decades of service to the aspiring youth in basketball mostly.
so who opens the next facility to serve the youth of our cities? It’s a very small percentage of people who are willing to open such a business that requires as much cash flow each month to continue operations, let alone make the purchase.
The business side of this “canceling sports“ is easy for the armchair individual to say because they’re not the risk taker, I appreciate other people taking the risks in life and sitting back and checking in “when is their kids turn to play“ assuming that the sports complexes will be open. If these places are being forced to close that shit in the taxpayer pay to cash flow their expenses? I mean if we’re going to force the closure of all these businesses isn’t that socialism? If it’s socialism we want that needs to be a 100% “all in”, correct? How stupid is it an anti-American, anti-capitalism, just plain damn stupid to bankrupt tens of thousands of business owners in America if not hundreds of thousands over a pandemic that, yes it will kill people but so will the after-effect of bankrupting people and forcing them out of their homes? Maybe I’m wrong...The destruction of financial lives it’s just a more slow painful death.
We shut the world down for something that is less harmful than the flu for 80% of the population. That’s moronic.
They may reverse course. Not sure they expected the backlash.
The conference took a PR hit, if they change course can it be salvaged?
I think the question a month ago should have been play or don't play. Not cancelling non-conference games. If Rutgers can travel to Purdue, so can Memphis. That part never made sense to me. Just seemed like a contrived cop-out.
I do think that the conference, and college football as a whole, is in a no-win situation. Same with schools in general. There's no answer that works for all involved.
I don’t disagree. But what kind of fallout do you think that will be if one athlete dies of Covid
Sign a waiver, no lawsuit clause. This should have been handled in D.C. already and hasn't.
No ambulance chasers now or down the road if you want to go to college and same goes for players.
No doubt, some people would have an emotional reaction. Never mind the extraordinarily low risk.
We've seen that on this forum.
It’s my understanding that was in the student athletes demands. That they NOT be forced to sign a waiver.
