College football 2020 offseason thread

That’s because the Trumpers know they’re going to lose PAC-12 country by about 94-6.

 

The most egregious example was the SI baseball writer, who I suspect fell for the Zach “two million will die and we’ll have a 9/11 every day” Binney, an “expert” from Emory.

I think in recent weeks the national college football reporters have toned down the rhetoric - as did the SI baseball writer - because, once the seasons actually start, you either cover them or forfeit your job out of moral opposition. No one is going to do the latter.

Stewart Mandel actually apologized for his tone, which I found to be an honorable thing to do.

 

It's hilarious people like Brando and Travis think they can discern somebody's political ideology because they've been reporting the concerns of medical experts about playing football during a pandemic.

 

So just like every time a Big 10 team plays USC in the Rose Bowl since 1990.

 

I think I know what Pat Forde thinks.

https://www.si.com/college/2020/07/16/trump-fumble-coronavirus-response-college-football-season

Beyond that, let's face it: Almost all mainstream national journalists who cover anything at all are Democrats, and I'd be willing to bet a majority of them are progressive Democrats. That's just baked into the cake at this point. I'd additionally be willing to bet most of them came from at least middle class and more likely upper middle class educated homes.

Local beat writers is probably a different story although still, I'd guess, a majority in favor of Democrats.

Now that even being a Republican - and I'm not - is synonymous to progressive Democrats with being a racist, sexist, xenophobic, climate-hating monster, I wouldn't imagine there are too many robust two-sided political conversations any longer, either among reporters. There's the progressive Democrat who's right about everything and also a great person, there's the reluctant Democrat who, yeah, sees their point, there's a small group of openly, cheerfully offensive Clay Travis MAGA-ites looking for a fight, and there's a large group of silent people who just don't say anything for fear (reasonable or not) of losing their friends, their job, etc.

 

Iowa Football Coaches Receive Raises After School Cuts Swimming Programs

 

You can be a member of either party and think that Trump has done an awful job with the response. It doesn’t make you a liberal, a member of the woke cabal or someone who is rooting for the seasons to be canceled to further their political agendas.

Trump wants the season to take place because he thinks it will help him get re-elected. Full stop. He doesn’t give a shit about anyone’s health.

 

But if you think Trump has done an acceptable job, in any facet of the response, you're portrayed as a white-hooded granny killer.

I don't disagree with the second point. However, I will say that political desires can occasionally coincide with public interests and it's not always a bad thing.

 

This all reminds me of a TV meteorologist I know pretty well. He tweets a story mentioning climate change and he's inundated with replies calling him a progressive Democrat because that's just baked into the TV cake at this point. Doesn't matter that he's to the right on the political spectrum and voted for Trump in 2016 (and every other GOP candidate on the ballot for a couple of decades). Just trusting science as he was trained to do results in people claiming to know his political stances on every issue.

Same thing is happening with sportswriters as they cover the pandemic's effects on the teams and leagues on their beats.

And I'd wager a very large sum of money the lack of political conversations aren't happening these days due to people spending less and less time in the actual newsroom (even before Covid) than anything else. Tough to get into any deep subjects with co-workers you might only see once per week during a required staff meeting. It was easier back in the old days when you were sitting around waiting on sources to return your calls (pre-cell phone days) and you needed to be in the office to file because you didn't have Internet at home.

 

I am certainly not going to disagree that this President especially has made things far more partisan particularly with respect to all of his idiotic COVID statements.

 

So a meteorologist guy I was friendly with in ABQ was the most scientific weather dude on the air, and he often spoke about the effects of climate change...until he quit his job to run for US Senator and won the GOP nomination and hitched on with the racist traitor in chief. Now, he never mentions climate change. At all.

 

To be truly serious about it you have to talk seriously about consumption, which means talking seriously about globalism. It's a not a subject the left likes to discuss.