If you read farther into the statements, they all say something to the effect of limiting legal vulnerability. Everything before and after that is, as you say, optical nonsense.
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If you read farther into the statements, they all say something to the effect of limiting legal vulnerability. Everything before and after that is, as you say, optical nonsense.
Easy.
We did everything we could to help minimize the risk of CTE. Better helmets, rule changes and you signed a waiver saying you knew the risks but took them anyway. The certainty of the parameters here help the schools lawyers feel confident in their position.
OTOH, You can't have that kind of surety right now in terms of risk mitigation with COVID. It's uncharted territory. I'm in one of these kind of conversation 2-3 times a week in business, ultimately you are talking about litigation which means some legal precedent needs to exist and there is none. On one hand you can envision scenario's where the school/business entity gets it's ass sued off. On the other hand you can sit there and envision that it would be damned near impossible for someone to sue over getting COVID because they'd have to prove a direct connection, maybe some kind of intent and then quantify damages.
Not a lawyer but I am an employer. What business people/school admins will do is play the odds and in some cases that means they will simply say the risk, even as vague and presently un-quantifiable as it is, is best mitigated by simply not opening the door to it.
If there weren't hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue at risk this wouldn't even be a conversation. They'd have cancelled it a long time ago.
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Powair7s
Heisman
How do all these litigation risks for schools not exist for non-student athletes that choose to be on campus? Not trying to be argumentative, that's a real question.
We know their age demographic is not high-risk. If they want to talk long-term affects, it could be years before we know that.
Also, we never stopped sports to figure out how to deal with CTE. Life is full of calculated risks, if students want to be on campus, they should be on campus, if athletes want to participate, they should participate.
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1926Buckeyes
Head Coach
I won't be nearly as high profile I assume. But a starting QB getting covid and hospitalized or dying will be easier to identify and talk about
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That’s the point though, you and I can discuss it logically all the live long day but ask the lawyers on the board, it means nothing until a judge bangs a gavel and sets precedent.
Business hates uncertainty, so faced with nothing but uncertainty the decision is often “ just don’t do anything.”
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Spla-fuckin-dam. Exactly why the MAC was not hesitant at all about cancelling their (fall) season once they knew their cash-cow games with P5 opponents weren't happening. The TV networks also want the season to happen at almost any cost because they stand to possibly lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The chance of a starting QB or any other 18-22 year old football player getting COVID bad enough to be hospitalized, let alone die from it, is extremely unlikely.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
“If you’re nervous that’s okay, but if you’re scared... sit tf down.” -Cie Grant-
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Zem
Hall of Fame
"“You could be a perfectly healthy 21-year-old,” he says, and after a couple of weeks of recuperating from the virus at home, you’re getting back up but still have some shortness of breath, “and four months later find out that you got scarring in your lungs. And that’s not going away.” He calls it “the virus that keeps on giving.” And not in a good way."
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/18/21328358/covid-19-cases-by-age-florida-arizona-texas-miami
Injuries are part of football, not so much contracting a potentially debilitating virus.
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/18/21328358/covid-19-cases-by-age-florida-arizona-texas-miami
Injuries are part of football, not so much contracting a potentially debilitating virus.
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There’s a great deal of fear mongering going on with respect to this virus; a butt ton of speculation regarding long term effects. In most of the cases (at least) the speculation assumes that this virus’ long term effects are vastly different than any similar virus. That’s fine, they’re entitled to make whatever assumptions they like, and yes, this virus IS different than similar viruses in some ways. But there is not currently a reasonable reason to believe that any of these differences will have long term effects that are vastly different for young, healthy people.
is it possible? Sure
it’s also possible that a car will veer onto the sidewalk and mow you down; better stay inside (or sit tf down as Cie Grant would put it)
is it possible? Sure
it’s also possible that a car will veer onto the sidewalk and mow you down; better stay inside (or sit tf down as Cie Grant would put it)
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