SI: College Football Leaders moving to cancel season
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Iowa State has a loaded team with an elite QB and this happens. Unbelievable
Our college football hopes are like Old Yeller at this point. We all know what’s about to happen. Let’s just get it over with quickly instead of dragging it out any longer.
I do wish they would have tried out camp just to see how it would go but maybe even that was too much to figure out.
Well if this isn’t the most Iowa State thing to happen
I am very interested to know the exact reasoning for canceling the season. They will cite health and safety of football players and coaches without much more detail.
I know this isn't the same thing, but I will high school football programs have been practicing for 6 weeks now and outbreaks have not happened. Yes it's not the same thing. But I think it does prove that football does not have to lead to increased cases.
Ultimately I think it's a PR move. Universities don't want the liability of student-athletes testing positive. They have way more resources than any individual could have on their own so I don't buy that it's safer for them to not play.
I know this isn't the same thing, but I will high school football programs have been practicing for 6 weeks now and outbreaks have not happened. Yes it's not the same thing. But I think it does prove that football does not have to lead to increased cases.
Ultimately I think it's a PR move. Universities don't want the liability of student-athletes testing positive. They have way more resources than any individual could have on their own so I don't buy that it's safer for them to not play.
Of course liability plays into it. But I also think it’s college administrators trying to do the best they can.
but I wouldn’t bet that the high school kids are free and clear. They aren’t being tested.
Agreed. Why in the heck are we bringing students back to campus as we speak if it's too dangerous for student athletes (with resources to control and mitigate any risk of spread) to have a season? The student athletes are still subject to getting the virus from just going to class (probably more likely because students don't have to get regularly tested). I just wonder if there's more behind this decision (i.e. players forming unions in other conferences).
The reasoning is we still don't know the long term effects of the virus (i.e. heart/respiratory issues)
I would think with high school football, those athletes are at least staying somewhat local within the state or neighboring communities. So the risk of contracting an outbreak would be somewhat dependent on how the state overall has been containing the virus.
With college, you have teams traveling across state borders and with some states handling this poorly and having big daily case numbers, the potential spread from week to week and team to team increases.
I was trying to be optimistic, but I think high school sports should be canceled until there is a viable vaccine.
Im optimistic that there will be a spring college football season because of the money involved. Yeah, the turnaround time from spring to fall is not ideal, but I’d imagine it wouldn’t be the worst thing to happen.
Yep. High schools don't have the resources to routinely test their players. Plus, high school kids are going back to their homes where their parents are still in control (somewhat) of their lives. College students are going back to the dorms or their apartments and then heading out to the bars or house parties.
