College football 2020 offseason thread

they ain't come to play school

 

OK.

A lot of joy among those USA Today columnists. Brennan, Wolken, Armour.

 

Yep. A lot of "rooting for things to go badly," from them.

 

Any year the Big Ten sent Illinois to the Rose Bowl was far darker.

Christine Brennan does realize that Wisconsin has a $100 million hole with no football. no? Iowa is $75 million. The beloved "Olympic sports"/non-revenue sports that she constantly cries for will be gone next year instead of in five years with no football.

This doesn't excuse how these athletic departments bring in $120 million a year in revenue but can't seem to have set aside anything for the one year that football gets impacted.

 

However... as an exmediahack in local TV sports, covering a cross-country race was easy for the video but awful for sound bites. They just ran 3 miles in 16 minutes. They're out of breath at interview time.

 

MSU still quarantined?

MSU still in the Big Ten?

Great job, everybody.

COVID-19 surge prompts self-quarantine recommendation for all local MSU students > Health Department

EAST LANSING, Mich. –At least 342 people affiliated with Michigan State University have tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) since August 24. The health department strongly recommends all local MSU students self-quarantine immediately to contain the outbreak.

 

Would love to know if somebody asked about other sports on the Zoom call today.

 

"A linebacker, big, huge, tough looking guy--right out of central casting he was--came up to me the other day with tears in his eyes and he said, "thank you, sir, for letting us play football" and he was, you know, very, very grateful as you'd expect and they never had college football when Obama was president, at least not like this, not with the huge, huge crowds and this linebacker was a player for the great Michigan State Wolverines--by the way I think it is very interesting that no president no president had ever played football for a Big Ten school, maybe some day, maybe I'll do it you never know and the wolverine is a very powerful, very fierce animal the wolverine is, like that team in that great movie Red Don, I think it was called where the Russians invade America--wouldn't that be something, wouldn't that be SOMETHING today if the Russians invaded our beautiful, tremendous country, I mean it would never happen of course because I like Vladimir Putin and he likes me--but if Joe Biden gets in--watch out--not having football would be the least of your concerns because there would be so many invasions, just so many."

 

I do wonder if rainy day funds will start popping up now. They must. Allowing players to receive outside $$ for name, image and likeness is the first step, and it's one that ADs should consider a precursor to institutional compensation. Start getting ready, gang.

 

Quite amazingly, the president of MSU, Samuel Stanley, was a Pfizer Postdoctoral Fellow in microbiology and immunology.
AND, by amazing coincidence, the president of U-M, Mark Schlissel, holds a professorship of microbiology and immunology.

And for some reason they let meat brained football fuckers tell them what they should do.