College football 2020 offseason thread

The NCAA did not want football this fall. It didn’t want any fall sports this fall. It wants - and now can - to work on its basketball bubble
Scheme.

That’s why the NCAA had no plan for football.

 

And the “we need to play” advocates are saying it proves players are safer on campus.

 

They’re safer in a football-focused environment where they’re taking daily precautions and and getting tested all the time.

That’s just common sense.

Lincoln Riley gave them a break from that. Whether it was a lapse in judgment or a purposeful way of showing the season shouldn’t be played, I dunno.

 

College athletics are just extra-curricular activities. If the rest of the student body can’t attend the games, there should be no games. Unless the schools, conferences and networks want to cut the student athletes in on the money. And if the schools don’t play, but the NFL does, the college players should immediately be eligible for the NFL. Otherwise it’s restrain of trade and intentional interference with a business opportunities, a civil tort

 

So the lack of fall sports are due to a conspiracy by the NCAA? When have the NCAA as a whole or Mark Emmert ever demonstrated enough wit to organize a conspiracy?

 

It is safer for players to stay in a bubble where they get tested daily and don’t have interaction with other students. Of course, that’s not college — it’s unpaid professional sports.

 

That's the knot the colleges cannot untie.

 

There has always been a divide between athletes and other students. And it’s about to get worse. Much worse. Coaches are already preparing their angry rhetoric, and in many cases, it will be warranted.

 

Was it the NCAA-mandated day off per week? Or is that rule suspended these days?

 

He gave them a week off.