College football 2020 offseason thread

I'm amazed it took them this long. A lot of schools have put up barriers in seemingly odd places to block such views for a while now.

 

They are giving free game tickets as a gesture.

Our son might not live there. Due to COVID, he’s hoping for a single room. He should find out this week.

He made the decision to be on campus. We explained that we would have to treat him like anyone else from outside the household when he came to visit.

 

Also posted this elsewhere. Looks to me that they're inviting those who want to vacate campus housing to do so. Doesn't indicate whether anyone will be forced to leave. At any rate, this is a disaster that should have been avoided.

 

UNC will go back to online instruction only. Don't know if they're sending (now-maybe-infected) students home, but if they do, makes it hard for sports to proceed without acknowledging the athletes are in fact not students but poorly paid employees.

 

Kansas State Football.
25% capacity.

 

Describe this "Alcohol sales expanded"...

 

SEC Opening Week Schedule
Alabama at Missouri
Florida at Ole Miss
Georgia at Arkansas
Kentucky at Auburn
Mississippi State at LSU
Tennessee at South Carolina
Vanderbilt at Texas A&M

 

That caught my attention as well....
I know they sell beer and wine there........

 

Strongly worded or nah?

 

They're absolutely right to demand transparency and complete revelation of every bit of data (minus any FERPA-related redactions of names or other identifying info of individuals) that went into this decision.

This is troubling:
Our sons are willing to assume the risk and commit to mitigating risks this fall.

My question there: Will you and they really be so eager to proclaim assumption of risk if players get sick to the point of hospitalization or long-term impact?
It's easy to proclaim you assume risk when you know you'll never have to sign anything that dissolves your legal rights.

I'm going to guess that a big chunk of the signees of these parental letters fall into one or both of the following buckets:
1) Ex-jocks (particularly football-playing dads) who think it's soft to quit on your football team for any reason.
2) They hope/expect the kid to start producing the family income by the age of 21. And they, like the kid, are all convinced the player is a sure-fire NFL star. And they won't be convinced otherwise.

 

So in exchange for having his view obscured, he gets compensated by having taking part in an activity that can further risk his health.

Brilliant!

 

Combined with 0.36% Blood-Alcohol Content.