Quote:They have to motivate a staff and juggle unprecedented logistics to get their players to campus safely and remain COVID-19 free. Yet they do it knowing that they are preparing for a season that isn’t happening.

“I hope I’m wrong, but I think the season being canceled is a foregone conclusion,” a Power Five coach told Yahoo Sports on Sunday.

The worry among coaches remains the same: Are we really going to keep pushing forward with the season and wait until there’s a player hooked up to a ventilator in an ICU and have that become the sport’s Rudy Gobert shutdown moment? Luckily so far – from Clemson to Texas to North Carolina, among those we know about – there have been no known hospitalizations among the college football players who’ve tested positive. But coaches remain concerned that players with pre-existing conditions like sickle cell trait could be at increased risk.

“I cringe when I hear administrators saying that the health and safety of the student-athletes is first and foremost,” said a Power Five coach. “No, it’s not. If it was, you would have already punted the season.”

(07-13-2020 02:39 PM)GreenMississippi Wrote:  

Quote:They have to motivate a staff and juggle unprecedented logistics to get their players to campus safely and remain COVID-19 free. Yet they do it knowing that they are preparing for a season that isn’t happening.

“I hope I’m wrong, but I think the season being canceled is a foregone conclusion,” a Power Five coach told Yahoo Sports on Sunday.

The worry among coaches remains the same: Are we really going to keep pushing forward with the season and wait until there’s a player hooked up to a ventilator in an ICU and have that become the sport’s Rudy Gobert shutdown moment? Luckily so far – from Clemson to Texas to North Carolina, among those we know about – there have been no known hospitalizations among the college football players who’ve tested positive. But coaches remain concerned that players with pre-existing conditions like sickle cell trait could be at increased risk.

“I cringe when I hear administrators saying that the health and safety of the student-athletes is first and foremost,” said a Power Five coach. “No, it’s not. If it was, you would have already punted the season.”

Thinking coldly and ignoring your humanity for a second, just from a business standpoint this is the worst possible scenario for college presidents and ADs. Take a virus that already had a propensity to kill racial minorities, inject it into a sport that has already been accused of exploiting players, a disproportionately large number of whom are racial minorities, add in the medical fact that conditions that almost exclusively effect racial minorities are big risk factor for morbidity and mortality for this virus. Layer this on top of the fact that we just had massive nationwide protests about attacks on minorities where the rallying cry was "I can't breathe".

Just ignore the human cost for a second. Do you really want to risk the long-term future public perception of your business on the REALLY SIGNIFICANTLY HIGH CHANCE that one OR MORE racial minority kids on your watch will not be able to breathe because they were part of your business model? The long term damage would be crippling.

I just don't see contact sports happening. From a human and moral standpoint I don't see this as a good idea. From a business standpoint it looks even worse. Live to play another day.

(07-13-2020 02:45 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  

(07-13-2020 02:39 PM)GreenMississippi Wrote:  

Quote:They have to motivate a staff and juggle unprecedented logistics to get their players to campus safely and remain COVID-19 free. Yet they do it knowing that they are preparing for a season that isn’t happening.

“I hope I’m wrong, but I think the season being canceled is a foregone conclusion,” a Power Five coach told Yahoo Sports on Sunday.

The worry among coaches remains the same: Are we really going to keep pushing forward with the season and wait until there’s a player hooked up to a ventilator in an ICU and have that become the sport’s Rudy Gobert shutdown moment? Luckily so far – from Clemson to Texas to North Carolina, among those we know about – there have been no known hospitalizations among the college football players who’ve tested positive. But coaches remain concerned that players with pre-existing conditions like sickle cell trait could be at increased risk.

“I cringe when I hear administrators saying that the health and safety of the student-athletes is first and foremost,” said a Power Five coach. “No, it’s not. If it was, you would have already punted the season.”

Thinking coldly and ignoring your humanity for a second, just from a business standpoint this is the worst possible scenario for college presidents and ADs. Take a virus that already had a propensity to kill racial minorities, inject it into a sport that has already been accused of exploiting players, a disproportionately large number of whom are racial minorities, add in the medical fact that conditions that almost exclusively effect racial minorities are big risk factor for morbidity and mortality for this virus. Layer this on top of the fact that we just had massive nationwide protests about attacks on minorities where the rallying cry was "I can't breathe".

Just ignore the human cost for a second. Do you really want to risk the long-term future public perception of your business on the REALLY SIGNIFICANTLY HIGH CHANCE that one OR MORE racial minority kids on your watch will not be able to breathe because they were part of your business model? The long term damage would be crippling.

I just don't see contact sports happening. From a human and moral standpoint I don't see this as a good idea. From a business standpoint it looks even worse. Live to play another day.

I agree with you..

Blazinbham's head will explode when he reads this post

(07-13-2020 02:51 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  The other thing that stands out to me is that the Power 5 conferences are all desperate to play games to fulfill their big $$$ tv contracts. Money talks, so I can see them trying to find a way to make it work.

CUSA gets so little money from our TV contract that I just dont see us having the same urgency to try and make a season happen.

(07-13-2020 02:51 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  The other thing that stands out to me is that the Power 5 conferences are all desperate to play games to fulfill their big $$$ tv contracts. Money talks, so I can see them trying to find a way to make it work.

CUSA gets so little money from our TV contract that I just dont see us having the same urgency to try and make a season happen.

(07-13-2020 09:34 PM)blazr Wrote:  If college football is canceled I’m retreating to a cabin in the woods because this place is going to burn.

(07-14-2020 09:53 AM)Doktyr X Wrote:  The P5 schools will try as hard as they can to get some kind of season in; they depend on that income.

(07-15-2020 07:03 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  I want to hear how they explain that the health of the players is primary when they're the only students on campus.

(07-15-2020 09:32 PM)UAB Schnauzer Wrote:  I heard a good point today. What are the legal ramifications going to be when a player who caught covid playing college football fails his nfl physical due to reduced lung capacity or heart arrhythmia? who is going to be held liable?