scarletngray
Gold Pants
Would not be surprised to see parents and student/athletes file a class action lawsuit against the BIG TEN.
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Won't happen....they aren't pulling the schollies and I'm pretty sure if someone decides they want to transfer it'll be granted immediately.
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OSUK
Sometimes lucid, mostly confused
Back in March the OHSAA cancelled the girls state and boys regional games. Our local HS had the girls at state and the boys in the regional finals. The two programs have been to the state tournament over 30 times combined. Those kids expect to play there several times in their varsity careers. But the seniors on those teams had a limited opportunity snatched from them - an opportunity that can't be recovered. A very, very high cost when those opportunities are finite.
2 weeks later, the tournaments would have been done, and with a very limited and distanced audience, I doubt letting them play it out would have resulted in one COVID-19 infection.
Several of those schools had never been to state once in their history. A literal once in a lifetime experience was snatched from them.
Same thing is going on with OSU football. Not being able to see what Justin Fields would wow us with in his 2nd full year of playing, how good the LB corps would be, how Sermon would do in a Buckeye uniform, and 100 other questions that will never be answered.
That is a very, very high cost. Maybe it is one that had to be paid, but it's hard to feel the B1G exhausted all of the time and possibilities it had before they quit fighting to preserve those finite opportunties.
2 weeks later, the tournaments would have been done, and with a very limited and distanced audience, I doubt letting them play it out would have resulted in one COVID-19 infection.
Several of those schools had never been to state once in their history. A literal once in a lifetime experience was snatched from them.
Same thing is going on with OSU football. Not being able to see what Justin Fields would wow us with in his 2nd full year of playing, how good the LB corps would be, how Sermon would do in a Buckeye uniform, and 100 other questions that will never be answered.
That is a very, very high cost. Maybe it is one that had to be paid, but it's hard to feel the B1G exhausted all of the time and possibilities it had before they quit fighting to preserve those finite opportunties.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
It's not conflicting to feel for the players and coaches for all the sports but particularly for football which was poised to have a historic season. At the same time, it's possible to understand the terrible position the Presidents were in in making this decision. I mean if anyone thinks they lightly and without strong reasons to do so just blew 100M dollar (Wiscy's estimate) holes in their budgets while antagonizing large elements of their fan/alumni bases there's not much I can do for you.
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gregorylee
I'd rather be napping!!
I don't understand how they can have kids moving into the dorms today, and yesterday they couldn't protect the players/coaches?
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OSUK
Sometimes lucid, mostly confused
I think there is a rebuttal to this, but, if made, it would need to be on the political forum.
But I think Dan Feeney's mother's post on Facebook (I saw it the day after the B1G announced the schedule) about her son's struggle to recover from COVID-19 played a big role. People ask "What changed in 6 days?" That seems to be one thing.
It's not hard to imagine a university president reading that and not wanting to have another mom in their office saying, "Why did you allow this to happen to my son when Mrs. Feeney warned you?" PR and legal liability nightmare that goes away with cancelling the season.
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While I understand that the media outcry wouldn't be as bad, or happen at all, but if you really only care about students health then why are you allowing them to go back to in person classes?
There is something well beyond a concern for player safety at work here.
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muffler dragon
Bien. Bien chiludo.
You're absolutely correct.
My largest issue is that the B1G corporation doesn't share the real reasons for their decisions (as is a consistency for all corporations). Instead they bring up platitudes (safety) through a PR shitshow and expect the sheeple to swallow it. Just publicly own the financial and liability considerations. Be honest and people will respect you more for it even if they don't agree.
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Bingo. Giving a consistent line of BS and non-answer answers to any questions asked only fuels the anger.
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OSUK
Sometimes lucid, mostly confused
Transparency brings with it criticism. For example, if they named names of experts they consulted, then there will be questions about whether they listened to experts that contradicted their experts and how they weighed the various opinions.
One could also ask if whether it was weighed in the harm to student-athletes not playing in terms of depression, going home to possible adverse environments, exposure to COVID-19 away from the structure of the program, etc.
A lack of transparency, where the rationale for the decision is not laid out in detail breeds conspiracy theories and other criticism.
I just want to hear exactly what the rationale was. Heck, maybe they will convince me. Maybe I will say, "Hard to argue with the sense of that." In the absence of that, people will speculate about the motivations behind the decision and how all the possible motivations were prioritized.
Without full transparency, it's hard, at least for me, to accept it was solely about the welfare of student-athletes.
One could also ask if whether it was weighed in the harm to student-athletes not playing in terms of depression, going home to possible adverse environments, exposure to COVID-19 away from the structure of the program, etc.
A lack of transparency, where the rationale for the decision is not laid out in detail breeds conspiracy theories and other criticism.
I just want to hear exactly what the rationale was. Heck, maybe they will convince me. Maybe I will say, "Hard to argue with the sense of that." In the absence of that, people will speculate about the motivations behind the decision and how all the possible motivations were prioritized.
Without full transparency, it's hard, at least for me, to accept it was solely about the welfare of student-athletes.
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Brought up and answered on page 64 in the dueling College Football Season thread.
Apparently unaccountability is okay when you make big Benjamins.....
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