IMO the biggest difference is the NCAA dictates the basketball cash and gets little or nothing from college football cash. The NCAA will do everything in their power to have their basketball season (and more importantly) their tournament.
Big Ten and Pac-12 cancel 2020 fall football seasons
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IMO the biggest difference is the NCAA dictates the basketball cash and gets little or nothing from college football cash. The NCAA will do everything in their power to have their basketball season (and more importantly) their tournament.
Liability isnt an on\off switch. Theyve determined that it is too difficult to make it happen for football, but for basketball it may be more doable, with more ability to isolate the players, more ability to reschedule games, etc.
Agreed, but the shift would most definitely help the contracting media companies.
Everyone has lost their GD minds. Oh well, only the sane look crazy in an insane world.
It now looks like the Big XII has the cards on any potential season. Let's hope they grow some balls and make these two conference look like the pansies they are.
It now looks like the Big XII has the cards on any potential season. Let's hope they grow some balls and make these two conference look like the pansies they are.
Assuming ESPN doesnt try to sweeten the pot to affect the decisions of those remaining.
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Completely agree. NBA is doing fine right now. A shortened season will work well in the fall. Just do no fans and we are golden.
Except for the fact that now the players are going to be less cautious because they don't have to play football for 8 more months.
Sure it is. How about one EO from the President saying no one can sue over Covid as no one can ever prove where you caught the virus.
Sports radio is absolutely crushing this decision. I'd assume most are doing so with the realization this means massive layoffs for media members associated with college football.
Is sports a bigger risk than a frat/sorority house, dorms, cafeteria, classroom, etc? These athletes are in a controlled environment and ISU is having success with that controlled environment. That could change throughout the year, but as of now, ISU has been able to manage this situation.
There is a gigantic world of difference between the NBA and college football. For one, the NBA actually pays their players, and two they can put the entire league in a bubble. It is impossible to put one CFB team into a bubble, let alone an entire conference worth of teams. Baseball has like one third of the players of a college team, and even the MLB can't prevent outbreaks.
If anyone plays football this year, kids will get sick, coaches will get sick, and there's a very good chance someone (probably a coach or staffer) dies from it. Not to mention some of the long term effects they've been seeing like lung and heart disease.
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How awesome would it be for the Big 12 / SEC / ACC to all keep football in the fall and show these pansies what a bad decision they made cancelling it.
Then the Big 12 could use it as a recruiting tool to bring in a couple new schools to join us.
Then the Big 12 could use it as a recruiting tool to bring in a couple new schools to join us.
Wasn't the Big10 Commissioner just saying last Thursday that he would let his son play college sports and had faith in the universities. What changed?
Or....we could have Congress just eliminate frivolous lawsuits all together. This ain't just a Covid issue. So much money is wasted in CYA because lawyers in this country have gotten out of control.
Apple just sued a company called PrePear because somehow these two logos look similar to someone. That's where we are as country.
