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The 2020 College Football Season

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dragurd said:
My problem is how the decision appears to have been made. Essentially everyone figured to try to make it work then the MAC goes. We ill have no fans and no big conference paydays? Nah we're out it's not worth it for all the money we are going to lose this season.. Then next thing you know everyone is panicked their plans from before seem to be tossed out the window all because someone none of them were playing anyways cancelled. Either have the balls to cancel on your own or the balls to at least try your plans for a few weeks. Don't cancel everything cause a conference that literally makes it bread off of playing big time schools cancels in a season it's not allowed to do that. In all this mess of overaction you're letting the freaking MAC who made their decision last based on the financial realities of 3 of the big conferences going conference only 2 going 1 extra game only and no or little fan attendence as much as covid dictate your decision for you. If they had actually tried to make their plans work for the next 2 weeks then said nope not going to work or even given to the start of september and pushed back their seasons and tried I'd respect it. If they had decided to call it off a month ago before they started I'd respect it. But to try for a day or two then call it off cause of what the MAC did is laughable.
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I think MAC schools have legit concern about the safety of their whole university more than the football team. Ohio University and Miami of Ohio has pushed back move in dates by a month and are going virtual for the first month. They are also talking about a phase move in approach where only students who's classes need in person instruction will be allowed on to campus. They have even asked off campus students not to move back to town and stay at home.

The football teams not having out of conference games for the MAC made it a no brainer for them to postpone their season. I think there are legit concerns for every university in the country of how they operate. I also think universities have tried to make it seem like there will be more in person instruction than there will be to keep enrollment up. As much as football seems like a huge thing for power 5 schools, the university presidents have to look out for the safety of their whole student body, staff, and faculty.

I truly think football getting cancelled goes beyond just the football teams health. I think more and more schools will either announce they are going completely virtual to start the year or they will start the year and go virtual real quickly. Football and fall sports isn't the prime objective of universities, it's education. I think schools are focusing in on how they can educate their students safely and most effectively right now.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
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I think most ADs and coaches believe they will go forward with the season. They have been operating on their own without much input from university presidents and boards for a long time. Ultimately I think the decision are going to be on the presidents of universities and their duties are much more macro to their whole university than just the football team or sports. University Presidents don't even know if they can pull off whatever in person classes they have scheduled.

Ultimately I don't think university presidents are looking at the question of if they can keep football operating but if they can keep their campuses operating. I think there is a legit possibility that most colleges will go to pure virtual instruction again and close down most if not all of their campuses after trying to open.
 
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OMG, they're all going to die! Not really. I hate that Harbaugh has to be the voice of reason here.

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inliner311 said:
I think MAC schools have legit concern about the safety of their whole university more than the football team. Ohio University and Miami of Ohio has pushed back move in dates by a month and are going virtual for the first month. They are also talking about a phase move in approach where only students who's classes need in person instruction will be allowed on to campus. They have even asked off campus students not to move back to town and stay at home.

The football teams not having out of conference games for the MAC made it a no brainer for them to postpone their season. I think there are legit concerns for every university in the country of how they operate. I also think universities have tried to make it seem like there will be more in person instruction than there will be to keep enrollment up. As much as football seems like a huge thing for power 5 schools, the university presidents have to look out for the safety of their whole student body, staff, and faculty.

I truly think football getting cancelled goes beyond just the football teams health. I think more and more schools will either announce they are going completely virtual to start the year or they will start the year and go virtual real quickly. Football and fall sports isn't the prime objective of universities, it's education. I think schools are focusing in on how they can educate their students safely and most effectively right now.
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Oh I'm sure they do but their job was made easy. No ooc payday games, little to no fans for the whole season and no 30-50 million dollar tv contract to pay for expenses made cancelling really easy on them.

I don't begrude them them for cancelling football if that's ultimately what happens. I just find it laughable they bothered to redo the schedule and put out a plan if the MAC cancelling was all it took for them to go well fuck that cancel it all without even really trying their plan.
 
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The decision isn’t as simple as only the health of the players, but do administrators think that the guys on the team are more likely to get COVID-19 while they are part of a team structure under close supervision and frequent testing than those team members would be if they spend the next 4 to 5 months away from the team, doing who knows what?
 
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BB73 said:
The decision isn’t as simple as only the health of the players, but do administrators think that the guys on the team are more likely to get COVID-19 while they are part of a team structure under close supervision and frequent testing than those team members will be if they spend the next 4 to 5 months away from the team, doing who knows what?
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Great point. The only thing they can be sure of is that they won't get sued if the players get covid while "doing who knows what".
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I hate to agree with anyone from tsun but this, this right here.

Look at what happened to OSU in the 60's after they declined the Rose Bowl. It took years for recruiting to recover.
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It may actually be worse than that. We won't just take an immediate, huge hit in recruiting. We'll also lose an entire season's worth of development for everyone on the roster. You don't get that back, and that will show up on the field in September 2021 and in the following bowl season. That might result in another hit on recruiting.

Like it or not, the cost of not letting these adults make their own decisions about risks they're willing to take is enormous, not just in terms of the hit to the economy, which is larger than a lot of people think.

And before anyone else has to say it... Yes, the repercussions of the risk they're taking can affect more than just them. I get that. That's why you absolutely have to quarantine the players for the duration of the season. The players have already said they're willing to do it; if you don't think it's possible please don't regale us with your lack of imagination (or do, I could use some unintentional humor to brighten my day). I agree with anyone that public health is absolutely a reason for the government to step in and tell people what they can and can't do; but the right way to do that in this case is for the government (university government or state government, whatever) to tell the players, "You can play if you're willing to be on house arrest".
 
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BB73 said:
The decision isn’t as simple as only the health of the players, but do administrators think that the guys on the team are more likely to get COVID-19 while they are part of a team structure under close supervision and frequent testing than those team members would be if they spend the next 4 to 5 months away from the team, doing who knows what?
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Clearly, the lawyers were involved in this too. Don't think for one moment that if Justin Fields gets COVID and ends up with some congenital heart condition (like that Red Sox player) that prevents him from ever stepping onto an NFL field that--Buckeye pledge and parents' tweet be damned--that wouldn't end up in court. The coaches--even SimpLLLLL Jim--are doing what's good pr relative to their players, players' families and future recruits. The Presidents are managing multi-billion dollar enterprises, and in that greater scheme of things, the wishes of the coaches, players and players' families really don't amount to much.
 
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