College Football Season Death Pool
- Thread starter Gunnerclone
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I'm getting censored on this site now, so instead of stating why, I'll just say the last possible moment just to make the nut kick that much worse
Skate to where the puck is, not where it's going to be young man...
There are plenty of media who are glamorizing over the fact that there might not be any football. Now they setting the stage for Fall 2021 to be cancelled as well? Geeesh.
I think (know) sports writers are just looking to write something that'll drive clicks. They're bored.
There are direct quotes from AD’s and CfB officials in the article. The quotes wrote that story, it’s not the writer’s opinion on the situation.
Maybe I missed the others, but there's a single quote from a guy at a single school. Keep in mind, we're talking about about administrators/football coaches, not doctors.
“The thing that’s starting to settle in for us,” said a high ranking official at a Power Five school. “We’ve been talking about this as a one-year problem. I’m not sure it’s a one-year problem anymore. To me, it’s more likely we’re in this situation the same time next year than we play college football in the fall.”
Okay so how has the writer injected themselves in to that and how does that show “boredom” from them? This is shaping up to be a huge story in sports.
Look at the Tweet associated with the story. He purposely took a footnote from the story to drive clicks. The story was 98% about this upcoming season and then he drops the last paragraph.
Does putting something at the end of an article make it any more or less important than if it were at the beginning?
CycloneErik
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You're missing his really obvious point. If 98%ish of the article deals with this fall, and this small bit talks 2021, and the small bit is used in his publicizing tweet, it's disingenuous.
I think people need to stop thinking Ivy or Patriot league football cancelling is a domino that has any impact on P5 football. It’s like suggesting that the NBA season is more likely to be cancelled because I stopped playing pickup ball at the Y.
CycloneErik
Well-Known Member
Full confession: I read the post twice hoping you'd say "a single guy" in there just so I could reply with "How do you know he's not married? Judging and stalking?" Something like that.
I didn't expect it to become a "serious" method of discussing the post.
