If you have to ask that question, you're probably one of them
My guess is the season gets postponed next week ...
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If you have to ask that question, you're probably one of them
I love the people that work in black/white absolutes. As if a person can’t have a healthy respect for the virus and follow all protocols and yet still recognize that a college kid is perhaps more likely to contract the virus outside of a quasi-controlled environment.
Respectfully I don't give a **** what the players think. This idea that non-experts should get an opinion on how we tackle the virus is the reason we currently are on the way to 200k deaths and our peers in our response are third world countries.
Explain this. It makes absolutely no sense. How is the environment more dangerous if they aren't travelling all over the country interacting with hundreds of other people.
probably the same place you did.. but he and a lot of others out there are willing to except the risks.. the same as all the essential workers out there who have been at work this whole time..
This argument continues to be stupid. Football by no measure is essential. Also his decision impacts more than just himself, so again respectfully I don't give a **** about his opinion.
those hundreds of other people are most likely being tested to help with the situation. and those found to have the virus get quarantined a bit faster, yet the general student body won't have that advantage.
Getting tested doesn't keep you from getting the virus. Limiting the number of people you interact with keeps you from getting the virus.
yeah it can potentially effect the Vollyball player, the cross country runner, the tennis team etc.. you think the money that football would lose out on just effects one sport? how will the other sports programs survive at some schools if there is no cash cow football? Akron I think it was has already shuttered most of it's sports programs this year how many more will have to follow suit because of it?
Those that continue to compare it to other diseases and how we don't shut down for them that were not even in the same ballpark for deaths or hospitalizations, etc.
That was still happening just today.
Someone just yesterday said we're shutting stuff down for a little cold or something along those lines.
I'll pour one out for those sports but i think you should be pointing the finger at the people who haven't spent the past 5 months alone and wearing masks.
then have players go online only/limited class lab exposure. Thats already what is happening to begin with for most schools. if your around the same 150ish people everyday who are all testing negative, and then travel to a group that is doing the same, how much spread could there really be?? how do you spread whats not there potentially? there's enough will to play from these guys it could work. now say we have no sports and they become part of the regular student body on campus then how many will contract it?
I don't think there's a person that doesn't realize that this could change the dynamics of college sports.
Just like it showed us how fragile our economy is despite low unemployment numbers, this is accelerating the reality of just how dumb it is that we place more value on kids' games than we do for things that are literally more valuable to our ability to sustain life.
Wouldn't that be something if we figured out how to get to a place where an athletic scholarship wasn't the only way for kids to get a good education?
Our society is showing every day that we don't want to learn anything from this situation so I suppose our leaning on football won't change either.
If the season gets cancelled you aren’t having fall practice. No practice sessions but still on campus with 20-30K other kids. These guys have ten fold the interaction with other people during the week then they would have on the four proposed road trips this fall.
We are now forced into this spot because our nation failed. But there will be similar risks for these young men if they are on campus regardless of whether they are playing football.
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