College football 2020 offseason thread

The real reasons are harder to explain, but the medical stuff will suffice.

 

Not a good look for LSU and Coach O ...

A USA TODAY investigation found that the women’s allegations were shared at the time with multiple people at the school — including at least two coaches, an athletics administrator and a nurse — yet the school does not appear to have investigated.

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The former boyfriend redshirted his freshman year and said he steered clear of Guice because “I probably would have lost my (expletive) on him.” But he said LSU head football coach Ed Orgeron brought up the subject of his then-girlfriend and Guice about a year after the alleged assault, telling the athlete that he shouldn’t be bothered by it.

“(Orgeron) said, ‘Everybody’s girlfriend sleeps with other people,’” the former player told USA TODAY.

Ex-Washington NFL player Derrius Guice accused of rape while at LSU

 

You play football, more people die.

Fucks sake.

 

Just curious, what is harder to explain than
1) the risk of heart complications scares us
2) the PR hit we'll take if one of our students gets sick and has heart complications really scares us and most importantly
3) the amount of money it will cost us to make sure everyone is safe and to cover our liability scares us to want to close everything down

 

I think it has something to do with the worldview that Warren and other Big Ten presidents have around the players' rights movement, whether it's morally "right," etc. Also, I don't think a season in the state of Michigan is really possible at the moment, or at least it wasn't perceived to be, etc, etc.

It's as much philosophical and political as it is medical. As most things, at this moment, tend to be. Really nothing is more important than elementary-aged kids getting back to school, and, in many places, they can't. New York City might be one of the safest places in America at the moment - it's already been hit by the virus, the measures are in place, etc - and they can't go back.

 

What a shock. You missed the point. As a parent he most certainly has a say in whether his son plays football.

 

I don’t think so. You play football where all of the players are negative, you don’t die.

 

You need TWO places where all the players test negative. Doesn't make it impossible, just twice as hard. And to reiterate, you need to have your student body present on campus, or the lawsuits will be about money as well as health.

 

If students are taking classes on line, and the football players are included, then what’s the big deal?

 

Because the players are engaging in what is alleged to be an extracurricular activity, while other students cannot. The chorus can't sing, the musicians can't play concerts, etc. It is discriminatory on its face. Plus, if the university sends students home because it's not safe, how can it then say "student-athletes, you stay. We need the money you make."

 

24 hours? That'll solve EVERYTHING!

 

The evolution -- a nice way to put it -- of people in athletics has been interesting to watch. In the spring, when everybody thought COVID would ease with the hot weather, Mack Brown said if it's too dangerous for fans to be in the stands in normal numbers, then it's too dangerous for the players to be playing. Others said similar things about other college students and their presence on campus. Among those: the commish of the SEC. Now that the season's drawing near and things haven't gone as well as they were once presumed to be going, it's time to embrace anything that will get the players on the field.
Part of that, I imagine, is that schools know that total evacuation of campus will also amount to an admission that basketball can't be played, either.
And then those who have hoped for the destruction of the NCAA will have their wish.