Big Ten and Pac-12 cancel 2020 fall football seasons
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So help me, what does playing in the Spring do to potentially playing in the Fall 2021? I'm sure this has been discussed I just haven't seen it.
Oh goodie now we get to pretend like the other conferences are going to play and watch how pretzels are made.
There won't be spring football. Covid still ongoing, influenza still ongoing, and ****** (frozen/mud) field surfaces to play on in the spring. Will not happen.
Rather than focus on the content of this post, I will comment on its style. I like how Jared is able to start a thread with a header graphic (or whatever you call it) that fits the topic. First time I've seen that feature. I assume it is part of the website facelift. Nice. Can I use my own header graphic when I start a thread?
Might as well head to the cryogenic chamber and ask to be frozen until there are no longer any hazards to humans on earth... sheesh.
Any seniors that have a remote shot at getting drafted won't play, neither will early entrant juniors. The ripple effect will be significant.
At best, two truncated seasons.
8-game spring season between March and May.
Move fall camp back a month, to Sept. 1.
8-game fall season in October and November.
No.
They're afraid of getting sued if something happens. Which I really don't understand because football is already a crazy dangerous game where people regularly get injuries that affect them for the rest of their lives.
That's one of the scary parts about this to me. If the liability risk of COVID is too much for them to bear (the odds of a player dying are absolutely minuscule, and like I said, players already suffer life altering injuries on a regular basis), will they just decide that sponsoring athletics in general is too risk even when COVID is contained?
I honestly don't care either way. I'll miss football but I have a lot of other crap I need to get done.
Even if football was played, due to basketball being indoors the odds of having fans at basketball was infinitesimal all along.
My bet is basketball will run a condensed no fans season starting in January
I just am not convinced that football will be this superspreader thing. If we are pulling the plug on football then I think you have to on in person classes too.
To me this is just CYA. Players/athletes will be just as exposed out and about in the world vs. in a team activity. Obviously safety is important, but making players play two full schedules in 2021 can't be very "safe" for their health either.
Sucks all the way around don't get me wrong.
Sucks all the way around don't get me wrong.
