College football 2020 offseason thread

100% on. Coaches congratulating themselves and their teams for their discipline and diligence haven't faced that enemy quite yet. That comes in stages 3 and 4 of this entire process.

 

We have always known that the Group of 5 are irrelevant. They exist to prop up the non-conference records of the big boys. The MAC supports the Big Ten and the Sun Belt serves at the pleasure of the SEC. Etc. But never have we seen such a dramatic representation of the little guys' irrelevance as this. The MAC and MWC are out and nobody bats an eye. Their departures are accompanied by the same level of outrage as Turks and Caicos would get if it boycotted a United Nations subcommittee meeting on global warming.

 

I’m sorry I ever rooted for Jim Harbaugh. I’m glad that John Harbaugh has the only family SB win.

 

Let's also not forget that in the B1G, there are, what, three or four member universities (including a couple of the big boy leaders) who either just recently, or currently, or in the likely near future, have been paying out multi hundred million-dollar settlements due to sexual misconduct cases involving athletic personnel, and according to many accounts they've been trying to get insurance carriers to pay some of the bills. So the insurance carriers may have let word filter out that they're not too excited about the universities engaging in activities which COULD result in greater spread of a disease which may have severe lifelong consequences with potentially massive continuing medical costs.

 

To the last point -- in a criminal case, where guilt/ responsibility must be determined "beyond a reasonable doubt," yes, it would probably be pretty hard to get verdicts.

But in civil suits the standard of proof drops to "a preponderance of the evidence," ie a jury decides it is more likely than not the case is valid.

 

Shawn Windsor nails it. Harbaugh doesn’t care about Wayne State without football


Let's quit acting like preserving Big Ten football is about the players

 

That’s eye-rollingly self-righteous commentary of the “if it isn’t perfect, it isn’t any good” camp.

The MW and MAC canceled their seasons because it was cost-prohibitive to even try (MAC) and the state of California makes any of this hard (Mountain West). Fresno State didn’t even have players on campus.

The NCAA didn’t lead on testing protocols because the NCAA didn’t want to lead. The NCAA doesn’t want there to be football. (Especially when major college football operates outside the NCAA structure.)

 

Tell that to the Indiana kid who caught it and now has a heart issue

 

And Clay Helton lives to coach another year. He's got two years left after this,

 

There will be no waivers.

 

Without waivers, the insurance companies will tell them to fuck off.