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Onebuckfan said:
This is subject to change..written in disappearing ink. Trust must be earned Warren.
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Feel free to move this into the feckless cowards thread, but here's what's going on at MGoBoard:
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/big-ten-statement-any-team-unable-play-due-covid-will-forfeit

So, there is a chance we beat OSU!
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No way osu will miss a game.
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Maybe this is the year the football gods finally take pity on Michigan and give non-severe, non-life threatening cases of COVID to every single starter on OSU's offense the week before The Game.

As I typed that out, I laughed to myself a little at the idea of the football gods ever taking pity on Michigan.
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You know their backups are better than Michigan's starters, right?
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Yeah, because Ohio State is the one known for backing out of games for COVID.
 
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So, last season, ttun dodged their 100 point beat down by claiming they were too COVID infested to play. Subsequent reports stated that there were something like 9 positive cases within their athletic department as a whole and no specific number was given to the number of cases within the football program. Without mincing words, they hid and blamed it on COVID as to why they chose not to play.

Who's to say athletic departments will be equally evasive when confronted with the possibility of a forfeit if they have too many positive cases? I can foresee a situation where numerous players are "injured" or being held out of activity for the ever popular "violation of team rules" or something. (I mean, all you'd have to is make it a team rule not to get COVID for that to apply, right?)
 
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Sooooo are they going to have a ridiculously low threshold on % of a team having COVID meaning they cant play again?

Or is it a "as long as you can still field a team" kind of thing.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
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I suspect we won't see the ACC or the SEC issue such a statement. In fairness to them, there's no need to box yourself in like this in August.

But the B1G made proclamations last year and had to backtrack time and again. Apparently, they've learned nothing from it.
 
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Jake said:
I suspect we won't see the ACC or the SEC issue such a statement. In fairness to them, there's no need to box yourself in like this in August.

But the B1G made proclamations last year and had to backtrack time and again. Apparently, they've learned nothing from it.
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No idea if it's accurate, but according to this, other conferences have already made such declarations:
The Big Ten and other conferences resisted harsh outcomes for teams who could not play due to COVID-19 outbreaks during the first year of the pandemic in 2020.

Those policies have changed. The Big Ten on Monday became the final Power 5 conference to announce that teams who cannot play due to COVID-19 issues on their roster will forfeit the game and it will not be rescheduled.
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Big Ten football teams who cannot play due to COVID-19 will take a forfeit loss - cleveland.com
 
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Jake said:
I suspect we won't see the ACC or the SEC issue such a statement. In fairness to them, there's no need to box yourself in like this in August.

But the B1G made proclamations last year and had to backtrack time and again. Apparently, they've learned nothing from it.
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Agree especially with the bolded. Nobody knows what Delta is going to look like in mid/late October and November, particularly with all college and NFL stadiums at full capacity. There's absolutely no reason to drop a seemingly arbitrary rule now only to have to reverse course in seven or eight weeks.
 
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Dryden said:
Agree especially with the bolded. Nobody knows what Delta is going to look like in mid/late October and November, particularly with all college and NFL stadiums at full capacity. There's absolutely no reason to drop a seemingly arbitrary rule now only to have to reverse course in seven or eight weeks.
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Learning from Crisis management mistakes doesn't seem to be Warren's strong suit
 
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