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The 2020 College Football Season

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Why A Large Group of Pac-12 Players Are Prepared to Sit Out the Football Season

A group of hundreds of Pac-12 football players announced Sunday they will opt out of any upcoming training camps and games unless the conference negotiates with them and reaches a legal agreement regarding health and safety practices, while also addressing issues of racial injustice and economic inequality. With a virus that’s showing no signs of slowing down and constant civil rights protests around the country, the holdout is happening at one of the most critical moments in this country’s history.
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Entire article: https://www.si.com/college/2020/08/02/pac-12-players-prepared-to-skip-season

Well this article while not giving an exact number says there are "hundreds" of players.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
I don't get trying to hold hostage the entity that is giving you a free education.
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No kidding... I dont think many players realize what a college education costs. They're being paid essentially 100k over 4 years. Sure not fantastic as far as average yearly salary goes but leaving college with no debt is enormous.

I think it'd be nice to give the players the ability to make money off their name... but to be further paid by the school? Absolutely not.
 
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Last data I saw showed the PAC 10 earning about $500 million in revenue in 2018. The average profit per member school was about 50%. The OSU football team had revenue of $120 million in 2017 and a profit of $69 million. Not a bad return.

Imagine how quickly a college could stock their rosters year after year with 5-star players if they gave more than a "free" education. I mean, I think there is some additional profit to share considering there are 85 D1 football scholarships per team receiving a $100,000 education over 4 years.

More power to the student athletes as far as I'm concerned. I'm pretty sure these conferences that pay their coaches and even their commissioners well into 7 figures have some wiggle room.
 
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I have to wonder if this isn’t caused by the guys who see that they’re the last who won’t be cashing in. They see the changes coming, they see things will be better for the younger guys, they see the tragedy of being the last class that won’t benefit from NIL reform...

They’re like the big brother who finds out that the younger siblings will start getting a share of the golden eggs... next year, after he moves out. So he thinks, “I wonder what golden goose tastes like”. He has no problem strangling it; it won’t cost him a dime. He could probably get some of the less intelligent siblings to go along with the murder of the golden goose. Sadly, the environment we’re in now makes it dangerous for the smart siblings to say a word.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
This is a demand that I don't see going anywhere; everybody including Larry Scott take a big pay cut:

II. Protect All Sports
Preserve All Existing Sports by Eliminating Excessive Expenditures
  1. Larry Scott, administrators, and coaches to voluntarily and drastically reduce excessive pay.
  2. End performance/academic bonuses.
  3. End lavish facility expenditures and use some endowment funds to preserve all sports.*
*As an example, Stanford University should reinstate all sports discontinued by tapping into their $27.7 billion endowment.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/pac-12-players-covid-19-statement-football-season



The interesting fact that I can't find in the articles is who were the players (i.e. exact % of the PAC-12 football players) that that signed the letter.
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They're welcome to do that and become the IVY leage. But don't expect to do that and compete for championships.

Also 6 years med is a bit redicioulus. I see Yes they should be covered if they have long term damge from sports in college besides that? Why should college care if you get Covid19 4 years after you graduate. Maybe that's not what they meant but the way it's written sure sounds like that.
 
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Sunday afternoon, players from across the Pac-12 confirmed that they will sit out the 2020 season en masse unless a laundry list of concerns are addressed. Among those are fighting racial injustice, ensuring safety amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, obtain long-term health insurance and secure economic rights and fair compensation. Most of those are highly reasonable and probably should’ve been done years before. Seeking 50 percent of a conference’s revenue be directed to student-athletes? That’s highly, highly, highly unlikely, if for nothing more than the impact it would have on non-revenue sports, which are already on the chopping block because of the pandemic.

Still, the players have fired the first shoot in what’s expected to be a series of volleys between the two sides. And, according to some of the parents of Washington State football players, the Wazzu program has fired back as well. By, essentially, firing those who have come out in support of the movement.
 
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GOODBYE, NCAA? The Very Bad Virus probably isn't entirely to blame for changing everything about college sports as we know it, but it's sure as hell been a catalyst.

As if things weren't already wild enough, we've now got the Power Five seriously kicking around the idea of just straight-up leaving the NCAA, especially if the NCAA decides to cancel fall championships and/or continue to do nothing to lead its member institutions through the global pandemic.

In recent days, Power 5 conference officials began seeking feedback from their members about the feasibility of staging their own championships during the fall, sources told SI. When asked if such a move away from the NCAA championship structure could be seen as a precedent-setting rift between the national governing body of college sports and the Power 5, one athletic director said, "If I were (NCAA president Mark) Emmert, I'd be really worried about it. He's got to keep the Power 5 together.

Another Power 5 athletic director said he thinks the chances of breakaway fall championships are remote, but added, "I think this is representative of the poor relationship between the (NCAA) national office and our conferences."

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One veteran college administrator described the NCAA and Power 5 as having long been embroiled in an "existential crisis," and wondered whether this fall sports gambit could be "the crack in the armor" that leads to an eventual split.

"Is this the final break?" The source asked. "You could have two championships: one from the (Power 5) and potentially some Group of 5s joining them, and a second one for everybody else in the spring. ... It's going to be real strange."

I have no idea if that would be good or bad news, but what I do know is that the Power Five almost certainly does not need the NCAA to function, so the second the taste that sweet freedom, we ain't going back.

Buckle up, folks!
 
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This is going to end up like the NWA...the big territories are going to split off and do their own thing, and they’re going to end up with a championship someone throws on the ground and says nobody wants.
 
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Where is the Big Ten schedule?
Assuming the league proceeds with training camp and confirms that decision by Wednesday, that seems like a good time to unveil the details of the conference-only schedule as well. After delaying for the last couple months in that area, the Big Ten is now a month away from the projected Week One start date and needs to start making definitive plans for what the season will look like.

Given the flexibility the conference built into the schedule, it could perhaps push back yet again — especially if it follows suit with the SEC and Pac-12 by sliding the opening kickoff back into late September. Either way, at some point it needs to unveil the matchups and allow some plans to be made for travel to road games.
 
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Bucklion said:
This is going to end up like the NWA...the big territories are going to split off and do their own thing, and they’re going to end up with a championship someone throws on the ground and says nobody wants.
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Bucklion said:
Also, could the SEC end up like the SWAC where they skip the playoffs, crown their own champion and say that’s the only title that really matters?
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The SEC could be the NWO of college football...:lol:

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