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The 2020 College Football Season

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ORD_Buckeye said:
It's over. My educated assumption is that the B10 will delay this week in a bid to have a uniform, consensus announcement from all the P5 conferences. If they can't get that--and everyone knows that the SEC will hold out until half their teams are infected--then I'd guess that the B1G (and our little brother out West) will pull the plug on the season by early next week.
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The the SEC will award itself collective national champion for being the last to hang it up?
 
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Zem said:
It seems like some folks are too anxious to send the already-exploited players into harm's way so they can have 3.5 hours per week of a diversion while watching safely from their home.
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It seems like some folks are more interested in virtue signaling than acknowledging the players themselves actually want to play.

You're projecting your level of fear on to everyone else. Players who want to opt out will opt out, but they would be the minority if the rich old men allowed the season to happen.
 
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scarletmike said:
I really think, as much as the school presidents might have legit concerns about liability as it relates to COVID, they are equally and possibly more fearful of opening up the veil on amateurism regarding football and basketball. The united statement last night I believe is what seals the deal on the season getting cancelled. If the players had kept it "unorganized" and along with coaches and possibly ADs pushed their schools hard individually behind the scenes I think positive forward momentum could have been made on allaying COVID fears. Maybe not enough to keep it from getting cancelled eventually, but enough to keep it from being a sudden domino toppling based on the MAC and lower level conference announcements. Doing it publicly the players may force their hand in pausing for a day or two, but I think it gets cancelled pretty quick now because they recognize what this message push means outside of the COVID situation and that scares them. As it relates to COVID, I think opening in-person instruction makes their position on cancelling harder to believe from a broad perspective (at a micro level I understand the concerns with football specifically, and do agree with some/most of them).
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completely agree

The biggest problem the players face in this fight is that they only stay 3-4 years. Fields and Sunshine are gone soon anyway (for example) so anything the AD's can do to delay will work in their favor.

No idea how it will all shake out but I don't think they can keep the paid athletes genie in the bottle much longer no matter what.
 
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Jake said:
It seems like some folks are more interested in virtue signaling than acknowledging the players themselves actually want to play.

You're projecting your level of fear on to everyone else. Players who want to opt out will opt out, but they would be the minority if the rich old men allowed the season to happen.
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Or maybe a bunch of 18-21 year old kids singularly fixated on getting to the NFL aren't the best source for making public health decisions.
 
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alexhortdog95 said:
Definitely not surprised - we have a clown job of leadership here, state wide.
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I'm actually fine with Nebraska and Iowa voting for the season. If you are going to commit to a plan to make the season work actually commit to it. Don't just scrap it after literally 3 days cause of what the MAC did. Give it 2 weeks at least and then if cases rise it becomes obvious logistics isn't going to work cancel it. But if you cancel it without trying what was the point of the first plan in the first place.
 
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dragurd said:
I'm actually fine with Nebraska and Iowa voting for the season. If you are going to commit to a plan to make the season work actually commit to it. Don't just scrap it after literally 3 days cause of what the MAC did. Give it 2 weeks at least and then if cases rise it becomes obvious logistics isn't going to work cancel it. But if you cancel it without trying what was the point of the first plan in the first place.
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Hate to play the conspiracy guy but I have legitimate doubts there was anything resembling a plan. I think a lot of it was just posturing to buy time to see who would cancel first.

This decision was probably more or less in place back when they canceled spring practices.
 
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Mike80 said:
Hate to play the conspiracy guy but I have legitimate doubts there was anything resembling a plan. I think a lot of it was just posturing to buy time to see who would cancel first.

This decision was probably more or less in place back when they canceled spring practices.
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Maybe, but I don't usually attribute to calculated-posturing that which could just as easily be explained by incompetence. If they thought about it, the current #WeWantToPlay trend might have had much less steam in March than it has now after so much work has been put in by so many. This makes them look worse IMHO.
 
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Bucklion said:
Patrick apparently reporting that BIG and PAC will announce tomorrow, ACC and Big 12 on the fence, and the SEC is trying to get a bunch of teams to join for a year.
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PAC is not surprise. A: They do what big brother does and B: The academic block (Stanford, Cal, UCLA, USC and Washington) swings the big dick politically at the conference HQ. ACC has a more split power dynamic that's more balanced between the Louisvilles, Clemsons and FSUs of the conference and the UVA, Pitts, BCs and Dukes. I'd bet there's something of a civil war going on behind the scenes there. B12 could go either way. SEC will always SEC.
 
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