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That pretense left a long time ago.The minute you put student athletes in a bubble you give up the pretense that they are students first and you might as well start cutting paychecks.
Students are at almost zero risk for CovidTravel is a much bigger issue for the general student population than it is for the football team. The football team can charter travel to and from games and never come in contact with another person outside their teammates, trainers, coaches, and the opposing team.
Thats stupidM$U just had to quarantine the entire football team and staff for two weeks due to positive test results. It had already ceased workouts.
You said a bubble was possible for college football. I say it’s not.
The minute you put student athletes in a bubble you give up the pretense that they are students first and you might as well start cutting paychecks.
Let's talk turkey.
Regardless of what you believe about risk, transmissibility, etc.
Are the thousand or so student athletes on B1G rosters on average safer for the next 3-4 months on a regular schedule where they are occupied with football, training, and school and are being tested regularly... or with football cancelled or pushed to the spring and left with a bunch of free time to roam the campus with limited-to-no testing the next 3-4 months.
Right. And which scenario is safer? My point is that only one side of the equation is being talked about, with the assumption that cancelling football creates a safer situation for the players and their families. My position is that going forward with a football season builds in a degree of control due to the structure and limited free time. I've seen this summer with my own eyes how young people are approaching things when no one is looking over their shoulder. The virus is going to spread like wildfire through the general student population who will mostly NOT be distancing or under regular testing. I will wager if football proceeds this fall there will be fewer cases by % among the football team than in the general student population. And if football does not happen this fall the football players will be more at risk.They'd be just like any other college student "roaming campus with free time". That's up to the campuses and their administration on how they're handling things.
I think we're at the point where some players just want to "feel" safe and that somebody is looking out for their safety. Fact is the players would be more at risk running around campus than playing football this fall. If this is what it takes to have football I am 100% behind it. I liken this to the rule changes in football in response to the CTE studies. It is what it is. A placebo.Think about that:
For 3+ hours they're going to be on the field, sweating, spitting, coughing, sneezing, wiping their faces with their hands, holding a football, throwing a (now infected) football (i.e., passing it around), tackling each other, blocking each other, grunting, yelling, etc. etc. etc. ....
... and the solution is that mask.
I think we're at the point where some players just want to "feel" safe and that somebody is looking out for their safety. Fact is the players would be more at risk running around campus than playing football this fall. If this is what it takes to have football I am 100% behind it. I liken this to the rule changes in football in response to the CTE studies. It is what it is. A placebo.
Ask who wants to really play, eliminate all at risk kids based on existing data, have them sign a waiver, pre-pay any medical expenses if they do get sick and put'em in a room with folks that have it. Once they test positive for the antibodies and aren't contagious, play ball.He's "struggling".
Everyone wants him healthy, and the facts remain, the risks are extraordinarily LOW for people in his age group (and medical condition).
She's absolutely right; the schools "can't protect them". NOBODY can protect them. It's a virus. A virus that has run rampant throughout the world.
We can deal in facts, or emotion.
“Bottom line, even if your son’s schools do everything right to protect them, they CAN’T PROTECT THEM!”
Agreeing with FirstDownB:“Bottom line, even if your son’s schools do everything right to protect them, they CAN’T PROTECT THEM!”
Agreed. They will get exposed, whether its on the football field or at a party. Nobody is going to 'protect' young people from living their lives. Might as well play on and keep them on a testing regimen.
They were going to lose money
No way they deal with the equivalent of a players union. Slippery slope!