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2020 Team Discussion Thread

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BB73 said:
They could play the whole season indoors at Ford Field in Detroit and/or Lucas Oil in Indy. It’s only 7 games each week, and starting in the week before the Super Bowl on Jan. 30th, they could play 9 games, have 2 bye weeks during the season, and have a week off before the B1G Championship Game on April 24th, for potential rescheduling/postponements. They could play 7 games all at Lucas Oil between Friday and Sunday each week in case the state up north has an issue about hosting games, and televise them all on Fox and BTN.

Goodell can delay the NFL Draft until June 2nd, which I believe he’ll do if any of the Power 5 are playing in April.

I think they’ll propose something like that, but they shouldn’t lock it down until they see what happens to the SEC and ACC in Sept/October.
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I would be pleasantly surprised if any of that happens. The networks heavily invested in March Madness - who also televise college football - might have issues with it.

Even if it somehow works out you're still looking at starting another season 4 months after it ends. There will be some for whom that's a hard sell.

They should be doing what the SEC, ACC, and Big XII are doing, rather than taking a premature stand based purely on speculation.
 
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Powair7s said:
What if the sec and ACC play, how many scholarships do they get? They might need 40 recruits to hit 105.
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They would still be stuck with the 25 max per year, but need to bump to 105-110, as the existing 85 are all allowed to stay, plus 25 new schollies. Schools with a lot of players heading to the NFL will be below the 105, but lower tier schools will need the room.
 
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billmac91 said:
Ohio State announces they will go forward with a fall intramural sports schedule.

Maybe our football team will go ahead and pull together a bad ass flag football team and at least go for that championship?

What an insult to the players and families. These presidents and the conference in general, have no idea the backlash they're about to face.
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Apparently students living in dorms, attending classes, and playing intramural sports are at less risk than regularly-tested athletes taking remote classes while living in a controlled environment.

Then again, students playing intramural sports aren't likely to organize and threaten the foundation of a multi-million dollar athletic program.
 
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Jake said:
Apparently students living in dorms, attending classes, and playing intramural sports are at less risk than regularly-tested athletes taking remote classes while living in a controlled environment.

Then again, students playing intramural sports aren't likely to organize and threaten the foundation of a multi-million dollar athletic program.
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Yeah, I don't care which theory you subscribe too (that liberal University Presidents are doing this for political reasons or that the Big 10 saw the organizing of players as a threat to college sports) we now know for sure, it has nothing to do with Covid-19. Period.
 
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bukIpower said:
Just not happy with how damn silent our administration is regarding all of this.

We were told no by the big ten and our top brass hasn't done a damn thing ever since.

We are set for a $130m hit due to no football and they seem okay with that.

Sickens me how we are doing nothing as the flag ship of our conference. The fact that Randy Wade has done more than Gene should make buckeye fans upset at how quiet our leadership is.
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You have no idea what the administration has or hasn't done.
 
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billmac91 said:
Ohio State announces they will go forward with a fall intramural sports schedule.
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I don't really get comparing intramural and conference sports. One is controlled by a school and the other is much more complicated and has input from 14 schools.

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Yeah, I don't care which theory you subscribe too (that liberal University Presidents are doing this for political reasons or that the Big 10 saw the organizing of players as a threat to college sports) we now know for sure, it has nothing to do with Covid-19. Period.
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The idea that it's political is nonsense. I do think it has something to do with players organizing and having more power, but COVID is the overall issue that makes it much more complicated from that standpoint, as well as a playing standpoint.

Not to mention, people are really downplaying the issues we'll see from teams playing while students are sent home from campus. The ramifications from that being done will be enormous.
 
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billmac91 said:
Yeah, I don't care which theory you subscribe too (that liberal University Presidents are doing this for political reasons or that the Big 10 saw the organizing of players as a threat to college sports) we now know for sure, it has nothing to do with Covid-19. Period.
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I highly doubt that. The school is opening because that's what the students are paying for and education is a priority. Intramurals are OK because the university doesn't make money off of them. There is so much long term liability in unpaid athletes risking covid so the university can make $130M off of them. Even if they sign waivers, you could say that they signed them under duress or come up with a number of other reasons to throw them out. There is a reason big businesses are lobbying hard for legal protections in a Covid relief bill. These people aren't dumb. No one knows what this disease does long term, all we know is they are finding it travels through the blood to most major organs, from your testicles to your heart. I think they've even found it in the brain. In 10 years we'll most likely find out that it didn't cause any major long term damage, but there is enough of a chance that the university presidents are willing to loose over 100 million dollars to make sure they are protected from it.
Even in the short term, god forbid one kid catches this while the season is going and it kills him. It will be a sudden stop to every season and the flurry of lawsuits will be insane. Saban was quoted a few weeks ago saying one of his players that caught it this summer wouldn't be playing this year regardless because it wrecked so much havoc on him. The Big Ten and Pac 12 presidents are trying to protect their institutions pocketbooks.
If only everyone would just do their part to try to reduce the spread. Or people can keep making it political, and these guys will never have a chance to play any kind of a season.
 
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Count me as someone who doesn’t mind the whole thing being punted to 2021. Even if we played, the 2020 season is already so compromised it’d ultimately feel hollow and meaningless. No OOC schedule. No fans. No pageantry. Basically none of the things that make college football special to me.

I wouldn’t mind the Michigan game still be played, but the rest of it? Nuke it from orbit for all I care.
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
I highly doubt that. The school is opening because that's what the students are paying for and education is a priority. Intramurals are OK because the university doesn't make money off of them. There is so much long term liability in unpaid athletes risking covid so the university can make $130M off of them. Even if they sign waivers, you could say that they signed them under duress or come up with a number of other reasons to throw them out. There is a reason big businesses are lobbying hard for legal protections in a Covid relief bill. These people aren't dumb. No one knows what this disease does long term, all we know is they are finding it travels through the blood to most major organs, from your testicles to your heart. I think they've even found it in the brain. In 10 years we'll most likely find out that it didn't cause any major long term damage, but there is enough of a chance that the university presidents are willing to loose over 100 million dollars to make sure they are protected from it.
Even in the short term, god forbid one kid catches this while the season is going and it kills him. It will be a sudden stop to every season and the flurry of lawsuits will be insane. Saban was quoted a few weeks ago saying one of his players that caught it this summer wouldn't be playing this year regardless because it wrecked so much havoc on him. The Big Ten and Pac 12 presidents are trying to protect their institutions pocketbooks.
If only everyone would just do their part to try to reduce the spread. Or people can keep making it political, and these guys will never have a chance to play any kind of a season.
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So if we won't know the long term effects for 10+ years does that mean football and all other activities should be shut down until then?
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
If only everyone would just do their part to try to reduce the spread. Or people can keep making it political, and these guys will never have a chance to play any kind of a season.
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COVID isn't going anywhere and it will be some time until we know long-term results or have a vaccine. Unless there is some actual defined goal soon (one that is not perpetually shifting from "flatten the curve" to "we've flattened the curve and hospital resources are fine, but everyone keep wearing masks and be a hero indefinitely"), under that logic we'll never have another season. For the one covid death that might happen to a 20 year old athlete at his prime, there are numerous other deaths or long-term health consequences every year associated with playing the sport of football that already expose these universities to potential liability. People just are not using common sense in cancelling the season for a number of reasons and I do think they are getting swept into hysteria (not necessarily political views) that are influencing their ability to think logically.
 
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bukIpower said:
Oh I think we have an idea what they haven't done ... take it public.
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Exactly. Also, if they really have actually done something other than just sit around with their thumbs up their collective asses--oops, my bad, make that fucking asses (so sorry @Thump)--then you know for damn sure they would've let us know about it.
 
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