Onebuckfan
classof76
You don’t get CTE at a scrabble tournament but your probably just as likely to get CoVid as a football player.
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sparcboxbuck
What happened to my ¤cash?
Let’s not act like these kids don’t have the option to sit out this year if they want to. It’s pretty clear that a large number of them are happy to sign up for all that this year could bring — good and bad.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
I know that message boards are meant to argue and rehash things to death, but it's over. Wormer dropped the big one, and no amount of petitions or rumors or "insider" knowledge is going to change that. If some real, verified, game changing new shit comes to light in the next month, great. But in the absence of that, I'm just going to accept that there won't be college football (at least any that I give a shit about) played this Fall.
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billmac91
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I think there's an outside shot the Big 10 allows teams to go alone for a year with enough pressure. Takes any liability off the conferences plate, and allows Universities to go forward.
There's enough behind scenes bitching about what's happening I think it could happen. I don't think it will happen, but I think there's an effort to make it happen.
Good on Justin for launching that petition to bring attention to this.
Make no mistake, the ACC, SEC, and Big 12 are having football. In fact, FSU announced this morning they're adding a game to their season. 1 out of conference opponent on top of (10) game ACC schedule.
They've dug their heels in, and are actually adding games instead of reducing. Obviously, their appetite for risk is much higher when football creates so much revenue for them. That said, these kids are undoubtedly much safer in a football environment, than left to their own devices. It's really not even close.
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billmac91
Head Coach
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29667299/fda-allowing-saliva-based-test-funded-nba
I think this qualifies, and it's not coincidental Justin launched his petition after the article ran. This is the testing that the sport needs, and it has been authorized. It's on programs to get labs Yale certified, which actually isn't as challenging as you'd otherwise think. In a way, college football could drive a much safer re-opening for colleges, if schools who want to play make it a point to identify labs that can become Yale certified.
And "Yale certified" probably sounds more complicated than it is. The saliva test was developed to use basic lab tools, that nearly all medical facilities have. That's the beauty of this $4 test.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
SKULL SESSION: JUSTIN FIELDS' DAD BELIEVES HE WANTS TO PLAY, A PRACTICE PLAN FOR THE FALL, AND A THE SALIVA TEST IS A “DIFFERENCE MAKER”
PRACTICE PLANS. Football games may be canceled due to the Very Bad Virus, but apparently padded football practices are fine and safe to continue.
This is hilarious to me for many reasons, but everything just seems so arbitrary at this point I guess we just take what we can get.
If this is really how it goes down this fall, this will be extremely, extremely good for the young players, because it's like four months of bowl practices where all the focus is all on player development and not game-planning for an opponent.
This would also be especially convenient in the event the Buckeyes end up having to start a true freshman quarterback, though I'd gladly take four extra months of development for our returning Heisman finalist starter, too.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...-plan-for-the-fall-and-a-the-saliva-test-is-a
PRACTICE PLANS. Football games may be canceled due to the Very Bad Virus, but apparently padded football practices are fine and safe to continue.
This is hilarious to me for many reasons, but everything just seems so arbitrary at this point I guess we just take what we can get.
If this is really how it goes down this fall, this will be extremely, extremely good for the young players, because it's like four months of bowl practices where all the focus is all on player development and not game-planning for an opponent.
This would also be especially convenient in the event the Buckeyes end up having to start a true freshman quarterback, though I'd gladly take four extra months of development for our returning Heisman finalist starter, too.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...-plan-for-the-fall-and-a-the-saliva-test-is-a
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1926Buckeyes
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Yeah. To be honest I'm starting to go crazy trying to check and re-check to see if there are any updates or hear what armageddon people think will happen if others conferences play and OSU doesn't. I'm resigned to the fact that either no one plays, or some play and OSU has significant issues in the next few years trying to keep players/recruit.
I just wish there was more organization to testing than "hopefully these colleges get certified and buy in asap". I don't get how an advanced country has to rely on individual choices of hundreds of colleges to provide safe campus openings.
Hope there is some movement to adopt this widely on campuses. Teams are safer when practicing in a fall camp 'bubble' without students, but without a much larger apparatus, it doesn't prevent covid clusters during the year. I don't see what will keep some of these campuses open if a couple hundred positives pop up.
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That's just the thing though, it isn't only about player safety.
If they were that concerned about actually keeping kids (all kids) safe from it then you just don't have them back on campus.
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1926Buckeyes
Head Coach
Oh I agree. I think it'd be safer to wait. I get that people don't want that and online schooling isn't as great, but I think you'll have much less suffering if you'd at the very least greaetly reduce on-campus populace.
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