College football 2020 offseason thread

BYU could probably beat the Lions and Broncos, except for that Sunday scheduling thing.

 

Here is another chance to remind everyone that the only reason John Swofford stopped the ACC Tournament was because Duke said that it wasn't risking its people.

Also, Swofford was an athlete during his college days. You get one guess as to which sport.

 

Rave? What is this, 1992?

 

I said some, not all. No offense intended.

 

Awful day for everyone who makes a living off college football, and the fans who live and breathe it. Probably the right decision for the Big Ten and Pac-12, but it still sucks.

I wonder if the SEC, ACC and Big 12 will be able to pull it off. I know they want to try, but it'll be difficult.

 

If those three play, they'll need to explain why they think they'll be able to test frequently, accurately and with quick turnaround times when other Power 5 leagues felt that was unlikely or impossible.
The truth is that every portion of this country save the college football-indifferent Northeast is having problems somewhere. Nobody is where they hoped to be.
So, sure people are getting acclimated to life in the weight room and in socially distanced walk-throughs, and they're patting themselves on the back for having no recent positives. All good things. But I'd like to hear, for example, that the testing climate differs between parts of the country -- specifically that it's tougher out west to get a reliable result back in three days than it is in the Southeast. To me, "protecting our student-athletes' health and safety is our top priority" doesn't suffice by itself. Tell us why it can't be sufficiently protected.
I find it amazing that the ACC is in solidarity with the SEC, a collection of schools that define their identity disproportionately in football terms.
And while I'm squeamish about playing football, I'm still a layman. And if there are a few leagues that go it alone, I'll be fascinated to see how they fare. If numbers flare and shutdown triggers are neared or even reached without any action, how far will they go in order to shout out to their boy in the White House?

 

Well done, FWAA.

 

You did intend offense. I'm guessing everyone on here dearly loves sports in some way. I felt like an old friend died when March Madness was lost. And one of my greatest joys is spending Saturdays watching college football. But this situation is hard. There is no easy path to the right answer and no way to know what that is. My love for sport is not more important that containing this virus and the safety of the athletes and other people necessary to make sports go. So, step off.

 

My deep love for sports is precisely why I don’t want a season besmirched by this virus. This is different than teams playing through wartime. In this case, you’re more likely to die — and spread death and disease — by playing the damn sport. Do you want that to be the memory of your team’s run to the 2020 “national championship?”

I mean, they’re trying to legislate the high five out of baseball this year. We had a collective freakout over a minor bench-clearing brawl. That’s all football is, is 60 minutes of bench-clearing brawl, over and over, with players spitting and gouging eyes and dripping sweat while piled atop each other. I just cannot fathom the — god, I can’t even find the word, something worse than “hubris” — that would lead one to believe any of that would be OK in Q3-Q4 2020.

 

The disaster that is taking place right now will be chickenshit compared to the disaster that takes place if they play spring football in 21 as well as fall football.

 

You just wait! When they die in 60 years I bet there will be some scarring on their heart.

Canada deaths per capita: 1 every 4,149
North Carolina deaths per capita: 1 every 4,656

People have a tendency to believe "I/we can manage" potentially harmful things. It's why so many people do so many unhealthy things, long before anybody ever heard of COVID-19.

When they're down to zero, it'll be canceled for them, and they don't have to look like the wusses.