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The 2020 College Football Season

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BigWoof31 said:



BIG XII will start same weekend as SEC in hopes of delaying another six week to get numbers as low as possible and gather more information
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At this point, why wait till last week in September? By then there will be too many kids on campus mingling and flu season getting ready to start. I was much more interested in starting in week 0 rather than pushing it back another 4-5 weeks.

I'll be shocked it that works.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Or perhaps Nebraska should respect everything (and every dollar) that the Big Ten has given it, particularly since they've utterly failed to deliver on the football side of things since, God knows, that's the only thing they were supposed to bring to the table.
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I don't care if Nebraska respects the B1G/Warren. I just want to see some controversy over this decision since it's the only possible entertainment to come from it.
 
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My feeling with Nebraska--and it strays a bit into politics, so please move it to the sports & politics thread if mods think I've gone too far--is that this has everything to do with internal Nebraska state politics. The university administration needs to do everything possible, up until the very last moment to show the Governor and legislature that they're fighting this. At the end of the day though, Corn is not going to abandon their Big Ten money and go crawling back to the Big 12 Overlords in Austin.
 
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Sorry if this idea has already been mentioned, or if it's out of the realm of possibility, but could Warren reverse his decision at any point? I'm really curious as to the reason all activities are still a "go" except playing the actual games. Could it be that perhaps a "wait and see" approach as to how the ACC, SEC, etc... are affected, if at all, and if the Covid situation improves significantly? We would still be game ready, could jump back into the mix in early October, and still have time to play catch up by eliminating the bye weeks. Just a random thought. I know I'm grasping at straws, but must we wait until Spring if things improve? Or would it impact the basketball season too much?
 
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Oh8ch said:
Eat a Bag of Dildos?

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Somebody had to go there.
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Who let Zach Smith in the damn door?
 
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If the powers that be don't disclose specific milestones that need to be met in order to play spring ball, they all need to be fired. You can't play this game of having no transparency AND no accountability. I want to know what specific milestones need to happen and how are they tracking/working toward those items.
 
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1926Buckeyes said:
This goes with what I heard about PSU. Not all these teams were getting tests back in time, making it useless from week to week. Testing only matters when you have 24-48 hr turnarounds and then tracing to make sure you have everyone that came in contact with that player/person.



Agree, although I have to think it's harder than we'd know depending on where other teams could send their tests and get them back in a timely manner. If certain states had labs that couldn't meet the demand, there's not much you can do.

This all goes back to having no national plan to deal with what's going on. Yes, B10 should've had a better framework to deal with this, but I imagine it's much harder to do that without any sort of nationwide testing and tracking network. No matter the money, these people aren't experienced enough to set up this type of infrastructure in 5 months, especially when there is so much demand for hundreds of thousands of other test per day.
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To add to this, we also don't know how much states are relying on the testing that some big 10 schools are doing for the general public. I think the Columbus area and parts of Ohio are counting on the testing Ohio State provides to keep the public safe.

I also think there is a roadblock to testing and getting it approved for use. Alot of the schools can most likely do testing in house but they have to set that up. The FDA seems to want places to design their own tests and not take an already approved testing method from someone else and use that. Rutgers has a saliva test that they can only use, FDA won't allow it to go wide.

We also have to realize that testing isn't just testing the football team. It's testing all fall sports. They most likely want students, staff, and faculty to have access to testing too. The resources to test like swabs and reagents are still in limited supply. I think the other conferences are going to realize they will hit the same roadblocks as the big ten schools are.

Securing testing from private labs probably isn't going to help make fall sports happen. A lot are backlogged and have little incentive to ramp up further. Even Bill Gates has said such. No one has thought to make a pay scale for testing with the turnaround times attached to it. They get paid the same if it comes back in 24 hours or 7-10 days.
 
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