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The 2020 College Football Season

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ORD_Buckeye said:
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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Yep, the potential liability is a giant factor for the Presidents. Any potential future lawsuit would have to figure whether the player got the virus from a football practice, during a game, or while getting supplies at the bookstore, or wherever; which would give the lawyers a lot of billable hours to argue about.

My point was that the Presidents aren’t really basing the decision primarily on the health of team members, which could very possibly be more at risk while outside of the team structure.
 
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Trevor Lawrence has tweeted “We are more likely to get the virus in everyday life than playing football. Having a season also incentivizes players being safe and taking all the right precautions to try to avoid contracting covid ... “
 
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Something weird is happening on BTN right now. I don't mean that it was supposed to be some random Illinois/TTUN replay and it's BTN Live instead. No, I expected that; that's why I turned it on.

What's weird is that BTN is asking Pat Forde what's happening. Like the people at BTN aren't as well positioned to know as one of their loosely affiliated contributors. Like I said... weird
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
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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Another thing billion dollar enterprises fear even more than a virus.

 
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BB73 said:
Yep, the potential liability is a giant factor for the Presidents. Any potential future lawsuit would have to figure whether the player got the virus from a football practice, during a game, or while getting supplies at the bookstore, or wherever; which would give the lawyers a lot of billable hours to argue about.

My point was that the Presidents aren’t really basing the decision primarily on the health of team members, which could very possibly be more at risk while outside of the team structure.
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The lawsuits could also be flipped where faculty, staff, and regular students have cause for the universities neglecting their safety if they were able to protect the football teams. If they disproportionately give testing, PPE, and cleaning supplies to the football program then there are outbreaks on campus, I think a lawyer could build a easy case that they didn't do all they could to protect whoever got sick.
 
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Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our "student"-athletes—we did. But you can't hold a whole college football industry responsible for the behavior of a few, sick greedy individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole intercollegiate athletic system? And if the whole intercollegiate athletic system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our higher educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg: isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do what you you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
 
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