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SI Sources: Power 5 Conferences Moving Towards Cancelling Fall Sports in 2020

If the Big-10 felt like the season should've been cancelled a month ago, then why did they just come out with a schedule? Why are you fixing to cram thousands of students on your campuses?

As with most things that just don't pass the smell test these days, this is beginning to reek of politics from pencil necked University presidents.

These college kids are much more at risk by being sent home than they are with the structure of football and regular Covid testing. If we can have high school football along with various other traveling sports, we can have college football.
 
Pachyderm_Wave said:
If the Big-10 felt like the season should've been cancelled a month ago, then why did they just come out with a schedule? Why are you fixing to cram thousands of students on your campuses?

As with most things that just don't pass the smell test these days, this is beginning to reek of politics from pencil necked University presidents.

These college kids are much more at risk by being sent home than they are with the structure of football and regular Covid testing. If we can have high school football along with various other traveling sports, we can have college football.
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BINGO.
 
College football was never gonna be played in the fall. Whole things a sham.

everybody wants something for free so the liability aspects of college sports in tbe fall were always gonna shut it down.

Pros a different animal and why things are still on the table. They gonna fill those Saturday prime slots in November etc once the nba and nhl and mlb playoffs are over with Nfl games. Book it.

I don’t see any way high school sports are gonna play in the fall either.
 
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Some of the most prominent student athletes are pushing back against this on Twitter as of late last night.

Hopefully their message will prevail.
 
In some cases, like the Big 10, they felt it to be necessary. Not sure what happens from here. It wouldn't surprise if other conferences follow suit.
 
I never thought they would play in the Fall, if at all this season.

It is one thing to ask grown men being paid to play but unpaid college "students" is a whole different deal.

And why the NFL says they will not move back the Draft to accommodate Spring College FB is beyond me. Of course they will.
 
Nobody is asking them to play, they want to play. There's so much more involved in this than just the players. Entire local economies and livelihoods revolve around a college football season.

Anyone trying to perpetrate the narrative that this has anything to do with the health and safety of the players is naive. You don't have 40,000 students crammed on campus if you're worried about the health and safety of the students or student athletes.

Furthermore, all of these kids that tested positive for Covid on college rosters when they returned for football workouts all across the country got it from attending parties and doing things that they weren't supposed to be doing. It had nothing to do with football. Which is exactly what they're going to go back to doing when they're sent home with no football.

They were asymptomatic and didn't even know they had it until they tested positive for it due to the testing from being part of the football team. Without the testing they received from being back and involved in football participation, they would never have known they had it, and spread it around to their grandparents and so forth.

The players and their families are more at risk by them being away from football because they're not going to be tested, but they're still going to be doing all the things that caused them to contract it in the first place.

Even the players at Ohio St. have come out in support of how good they feel about the protocols in place by the athletic department. It's the same virtually everywhere. The players, coaches, and AD's by in large are ready to get on with it. The players that choose to sit out can sit out. Which makes no sense anyway if they still want to hang around the facilities and workout with 100 other players even though they've chosen to opt out on the season due to Covid - but that's a different discussion.

It's incredible how facts and common sense always run anathema when politics and false narratives get involved.
 
Spot on, Slimm.

Someone mentioned getting the blue blood programs together for a one off, round-robin style season. I'd love to see it personally. The likes of Ohio State and Notre Dame are obviously a lot more capable of paying for mass testing (the reason the NFL isn't having these problems is because the owners can pay for it) than the likes of Rutgers and Kansas.
 
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Apparently several players have tested positive to heart issues, related to Covid 19. I can see why people would get a bit nervous about that. Bleacher report has the article up on its website.
 
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Apparently several players have tested positive to heart issues, related to Covid 19. I can see why people would get a bit nervous about that. Bleacher report has the article up on its website.
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that I can totally understand but these things would have been uncovered during their draft physicals anyways. The problem is some kids and their parents even will say they will play etc but then if something happens they will sue the ncaa. It’s inevitable and in this age of litigation makes this a wont fly zone.
 
League presidents are apparently most worried about the potential long term impact of Covid on the heart.

While that is assuredly good reason for concern, these kids can catch the virus whether fall football goes ahead or not. Actually they'll be a lot safer with their programs getting tested four times a week than off at home doing whatever, as many in the CFB world have pointed out.

If it's the potential lawsuits, then get all coaches and players who opt in to sign waiver forms.
 
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