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The 2020 College Football Season

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buckeyemania11 said:
I guess only 1 game has been "postponed" so far this week. Progress?

There were 5 last week
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lol. You had to say something didn’t you?

That said, I’m not sure I see the rationale for a Weds (which was probably identified Tuesday or earlier) pospontment/cancellation. Isn’t that more than enough time for contact tracing and multiple tests to to make sure the rest of the team is healthy? It seems like an early week outbreak should fall under the ‘sorry you’ll be shorthanded, but that’s football’ category. Its not the same as a late week positive test where there isn’t time to be sure the rest of the team is positive or not. But what do I know?
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Technically, yes. But do they really? Realistically, even if a kid tests clean next week, when would they really be ready to be on the field. Ultimately, the longer the season (time wise) the greater the chance they have even higher numbers out.

We’ll see soon enough how quickly those kids are able to return to game shape. For their (kids not school) sake, I hope it’s soon. As much disdain as I have for the school, I hope the individual kids come through this ok.
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They have more of a chance for make up games than the B1G will have since anything is more than zero. Plus, even if they can't make up all of them they started with 11-12 games. Cancelling 3 still gives them as many as the B1G has scheduled going into it.

The 5 weeks the B1G flushed away served no practical purpose. Reactionary, and ultimately indecisive, "leaders" made a difficult situation worse.
 
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BB73 said:
PAC-12 announces a 7-game season starting Nov. 6th.
Breaking news on ESPN pre-game.

Well, that’s the first time I’ve posted a tweet. I’m still joining this century.
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Even if the P12 champ doesn't qualify for the CFP, the P12 is guaranteed a spot in a NY6 bowl. That's $4 million. Also, each P5 conference gets a $66 million from the CFP annually, regardless of teams selected.
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PAC-12: $4M + $66M = $70M

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MaxBuck said:
I actually do hate to see it. Notre Dame having so many positive tests shows a lack of seriousness on Brian Kelly's part in protecting his players.

IOW, Capt. Scissors Lift redux. :sad2:
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OK, the buck stops with Kelly; he's ultimately responsible for the football program. However, he can't monitor every player 24/7; nor would he want to. Realistically, he should be treating his players like responsible young adult, etc. With that being said, it's very likely that some of his players aren't taking the school's COVID-19 protocols seriously either.
 
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Jake said:
They have more of a chance for make up games than the B1G will have since anything is more than zero. Plus, even if they can't make up all of them they started with 11-12 games. Cancelling 3 still gives them as many as the B1G has scheduled going into it.

The 5 weeks the B1G flushed away served no practical purpose. Reactionary, and ultimately indecisive, "leaders" made a difficult situation worse.
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Absolutely wrong. The delay allowed the medical professionals in the B1G to develop a plan to protect players, coaches, staff and officials while retaining a schedule that will allow the conference champion to play for the National Championship.

I'm much more confident that the Big Ten will complete its schedule successfully than I am the ACC will. I see no evidence that they're as protective as we are of player welfare. And that's going to be remembered by recruits in future years.
 
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MaxBuck said:
Absolutely wrong. The delay allowed the medical professionals in the B1G to develop a plan to protect players, coaches, staff and officials while retaining a schedule that will allow the conference champion to play for the National Championship.
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They should've had that plan developed before the opened their months back in the beginning of August when they announced the initial 10-game conference-only schedule that was to start three weeks ago (Sept 5th). The only reason why they ended up re-opening the season is because of the shit storm that resulted from their incompetence. So it would be your stance that would be absolutely wrong here...
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
They should've had that plan developed before the opened their months back in the beginning of August...
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You should've had enough sense to invest properly so as to become a billionaire. Why didn't you?

I'm not defending the manner in which the B1G ran its on-then off-then on schedule. But the current plan and schedule is what it should have been all along. The failure was in committing to a schedule, then pitching it out the window and saying that the season was gone, no going back. That was stupid. But we got to the right place in the end. And it's not a place that we necessarily could have known, early in August, we'd end up in.
 
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