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Kristina Johnson (OSU President)

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Thump said:
Not fair.
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calibuck said:
Anyway, Education should be first, but there should be other agendas in college as well, sports and music being two of them. It sounds to me like Dr. Johnson will embrace all of them during her tenure. Go Bucks!
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Yeah, education should be first and football is part of the university's "education umbrella". Technically football (and other varsity sports) are academic courses, i.e. a Phys Ed class. The players get academic credit for being on the team. I don't know how many credit hours they get and I'm sure it isn't very many considering the hours per week they spend on it; however, I am pretty sure it meets the university's general PE requirement.
 
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Having a daughter that swam in college, Script, will affirm that athletes indeed receive credit for participating in a sport (not certain about club sports, only varsity). Same as in high school. Replaces the PE requirement, required for graduation. However, the amount of time spent in practicing, meets/games, etc far outweighs showing up, running around, and taking a shower. Our daughter spent as much if not more time in the water than she did in her major. Major sports, emphasis on football, also fulfill another requirement of college, specifically preparing one to earn a living in the 'real world'. Sooo, while agreeing with your statement above, would like to suggest that playing football gives these players another way to earn a living. Certainly, not everyone can/will earn as much as a Bosa/Young/Okudah, etc. but they certainly can earn a livable wage right out of the chute of college. Any way you cut it, sports have a place in the academic stratosphere of college. It would be a shame to limit some of these exceptional people from those aspects. Go Bucks (and the 2020 season)!
 
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Nebraska all in on having a season.

Nebraska not a member of AAU.

Big 10/PAC 12 trying to push a cancelled season. Other P5 conferences want it to go forward.

Huge politics at play, and I’m not with the Big 10 on this.

I call balls and strikes....I’ll delve deeper, but Big 10 is in great position to miss season (or delay) and not be financially harmed based on AAU membership.

No other P5 conference has the ability to rake in billions of dollars like the Big 10 does in grant money, and that’s where the real story lies.

Good for Nebraska (who is a non AAU member and therefore desperately needs season) for looking outside Big 10 to create a season for their players.

I’d be pissed as an OSU player being brought into this political mess. And that’s exactly what it is.
 
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Let’s go a bit deeper.....MAC cancelled season, not out of an abundance of caution for players, but bc football bc a financial strain when they lost all their OOC paydays.

The MAC didn’t cancel football for safety, they cancelled cause it’d cost them money.

The Big 10 doesn’t need money....they’ll survive with or without a season. But the “academics” who really don’t give 2 shits about athletics are driving this decision....largely from the position of making more grant money than we can even comprehend as a state school that’s in AAU.

There’s a reason other conferences are pushing back. I feel for OSU athletes and also hate it for our coaching staff which now has an additional hurdle in recruiting kids to tOSU. Big 10, can go kick rocks on this one.
 
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