College football 2020 offseason thread

Oklahoma Sooners' COVID-19 situation casts doubt on 2020 season

 

I'm at the point where I will refuse to watch college football this year, because playing is absolutely the wrong thing to do.

 

He expressed no concern for the well-being of the players who tested positive, only for his football program.

 

Stop a second. It’s an op-ed, not straight news. We don’t know what Jenni Carlson left out.

 

Lincoln Riley doesn’t even want a season. He’s kind of stuck coaching this team in this moment, but he’d like for OU not to play.

 

Whoops.

 

We’re believing a Maven now?

 

Is he wrong for feeling this way? He’s the coach. He’s the guy who sits in living rooms and tells parents that their sons’ health and safety is the top priority. A decision to not play solidifies the legitimacy of that promise. It does nothing to undercut it. Playing, on the other hand, generates questions.

 

Great question. From the piece, which appears on a Michigan fanboi site:
“That didn't happen. And if you're looking for another reason to hate Notre Dame, now you have it.”

Objective journalism, ladies and gentlemen.

 

I didn't say he was wrong. Obviously, you think he's right. I just don't get the impression he wants to do this. At all.

 

I don’t think it’s absurd for any coach to harbor a secret hope that it gets shut down. If it gets shut down, there is far less of a chance that coaches will be sued, for example. Those suits may all lack merit and get tossed, but the negative attention from the mere filing is something anybody can do without.
Given what we have seen in football just with the return of students to campus, it’s not hard to believe the schedule will be disrupted.

 

The ACC letting a half-member push it around sounds on brand.