Ya he's a POS, but it is a good point. What is the issue?
What is the point of playing a few football games and skipping a few others?
Any championships would be meaningless right?
Also, putting some kids at risk and not others, I don't see it.
All football should be played or all football should be pushed back or not played.
I vote for all football should be played with only family and media attending in person.
I agree. The Big Ten should play without Maryland, Rutgers, and Penn State.
Kick out MSU as well. Even 10.
Add back the University of Chicago?
Rather keep them and boot Nebraska.
Huskers are the hardest hitting team in the conference.
And Nebraska. No hard feelings towards them like Maryland, Rutgers and Penn State but they should go back to the Big 12. Then we can play every team in the conference every year and not go six years between seeing Minnesota at home.
Then we get rid of the dumbass conference championship game and go back to regular season champions, the way God intended.
Get off my lawn
Loss of conference title games for 8 team playoff, fair trade?
I could get behind that. The only reason I oppose a bigger playoff is the increased load on the kids.
I wouldn’t require it though, I just think conference championship games are dumb. Don’t particularly care about the B1G conference tournament either. I don’t mind it and I’m glad when we win but the regular season championship is much more important to me
But those are the only teams we can beat...
We can’t beat Indiana or Michigan State? Or pretty much every team in the West (excluding Wisconsin on the road)?
You must have written than comment in 1987
Kick out OSU. They are a pro team masquerading as a college.
Can someone post the James Franklin/Jackie treehorn gif just to make me laugh?
I'm down with this btw.
Delusional. There will be no CFB this fall, unless a miracle happens.
I don’t understand this logic. Can we make it to summer before we start trying to make predictions about the fall? Nobody knows what the lay of the land will be in 30-45 days much less in September.
Shhh... Many of the users on here won't cope well with being wrong when sports are back in july.
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I'd be very happy to see sports return, especially football in the fall, but I just don't see how it's possible.
Unless we all just accept that 30k+ people per month are going to die from the rona until it burns itself out.
Maybe without fans? I could see that happening for pro sports, but for schools that make most of their revenue from ticket sales, why bother? They'll lose money.
On the bright side, playing in the shoe without a crowd would be just fine with me.
I'd sacrifice a season without fans in the stands if that means beating OSU at an empty Shoe. I'm sure the B1G would allow OSU to pump in RAWK music and crowd noise for The Game just to be dicks. It would still be preferable to playing in front of 90,000 truck drivers.
Playing in the shoe without a crowd? I'm sorry, but I've seen this movie too many times. Six days prior to The Game the governor will issue an all-is-well order causing the NCAA and B1G to issue a special allowance to have fans at the game. Unfortunately, there will not be enough time or resources to issue tickets to the Michigan fanbase so the entire stadium will be Ohio fans only.
you forgot the part where the mouth-breathing ohio fans will be spitting on our players and screaming, 'i'm c-19 positive!'
We do have a pretty good idea of 30 days out, 3000 deaths a day at June 1st. Especially with so many states "opening up" without coming close to meeting the Federal benchmarks, the so called 2nd wave is going to be ugly.
Just remember that about 30 days previous the death toll was projected at over a million then 60k and now somewhere in between.
I hope we don’t see the 3k/day and doubt we will. The hot-spots with densest populations seem to be peaking, and I have faith that the majority of Americans will remain conscientious of distancing, hygiene, and maybe public mask use regardless of govt. restrictions. Combine that with the Summer “low” season and I think the estimates are on the extreme end of the worst-case projections.
Overall death toll may turn out to be over a million (after however many months/years this ends up lasting). The model cited by the White House had been predicting 60,000 deaths by August 4th and has since updated their projection to 134,000 deaths by August 4th. The US just recorded 2,500 deaths yesterday and that's with the majority of the country still in lockdown.
It was projected at over a million WITHOUT extreme social distancing; distancing flattened the curve; now, according to Johns Hopkins, the rush to open back up will kill at least 800,000 Americans over the next 18 months.
I disagree. While it may be hard, I wouldn’t be shocked if done. It would be a no fan In stadium situation, but I think it could be done. Now, I don’t think it should be, but I’m also not losing 100s of millions of dollars in television revenue.
The catch is schools losing out on football ticket sales would be a massive blow to their athletic departments. A big ten team gets something like 50-60 million a year from BTN. Your schools that sell a lot of football tickets (OSU, PSU, UM, Wisely, Nebraska, etc) probably net another 20-40 million from home games. No fans at football games would be a big blow to athletic departments.
Yeah what’s risking the health of students so athletic departments can keep making money? And if students get sick, everything will have to be shut down a lot longer, thereby costing more money. Not to mention the litigation players will bring if schools urge them to play and then they catch the virus. Your logic is, um, a tad flawed.
How are you risking the health of the students?
Football is inherently a dangerous sport. Assumption of risk and all that. If the players want to play, they'll play.
Right or wrong, young men in peak physical condition, who play a sport where they colide with each other at top speads, may not be overly concerned with a virus no matter now dangerous. I think a lot of players will hope the season starts on time, especially un the pros
I'm not saying they should or shouldn't play football this fall or if they do play whether there should or shouldn't be fans at the game. I'm just saying if schools aren't selling football tickets this fall, most athletic departments are going to be in trouble.
If students are on campuses this fall, they will be going to class together, parties/bars together, living in various types of communal housing, etc. Whether the "student" athlete on the field or the student in the stands, football is going to ad trivial risk. They are also very at very low risk to begin with.
The bigger issue is going to be consideration of the non-student fans, which still make up the much larger majority of ticket revenue.
The challenge for schools and colleges is how to protect the faculty. The incidence of serious illness/fatality among 14-24 year olds is about zero.
I agree with this. The actual number of fatalities in college aged people in the US is in the double digits. So the key is to prevent them spreading the virus to older University workers. Frankly, this is why I was not as upset at Liberty University opening up as others. It’s better that the college aged students cohabitate with others their age then going home to expose their parents.
Truncated season with no fans in the stadium. That’s what’s going to happen.
I'm on the complete other end of the spectrum lol. I'd be utterly shocked if there's not football this fall.
Don't know whether there will be fans! But there will be football.
i'm with doc on this one. (sorry, doc). i am raising a bunch of football players and they are aware of the risks, and particularly the lack thereof for young men their age. its a non-zero chance of a problem, but they are champing at the bit to get back. i have been holding football practices here at the farm. stretching, warm-ups, quickness, speed, agility, routes, defense, etc. to keep them happy. my sons won't be much different than most that age. if they're allowed to play, i'm guessing about 98% of the kids say 'yes!'
Not to mention that several of these players have access to better nutrition and world class medical care at these universities as opposed to the environments they're stuck in right now. Also probably better for their older and at-risk family members if they're away at school.
I hope you are carefully documenting how long they stretch. Just sayin.
if i get a grad assistant to monitor that, does that count?
The South would gladly sacrifice 10% of its population for CFB to continue this Fall. There will be SEC and ACC football. You can bet the farm.
What if we combined teams? The NFL did this a couple times in the World War II era (the Phil-Pitt Steagles).
The Rutland Scarlet Terrapins would probably still finish last in the East, however.
Michigan combines with O$U?
Makes me sad to think of how many starters would be OSU players
I've got the following who I think would have favorable odds at starting on O$U this year.
Ben Mason (FB)
Collins (WR)
Mayfield (T)
Hutchinson (DE)
McGrone (LB)
Hill (S)
Jackson (KR)
50/50 or slightly less odds:
One of Charbonnet or Haskins (Mostly because I don't know what O$U has outside of Sermon, who I think is a comparable talent to those two).
Ambry
Bell (depending on the package)
Eubanks
Michigan would be the scout team.
Would be the opportunity they need to claim they have a successful NFL QB in the future.
Sounds like he wants to take advantage of the fact that Ohio and Michigan have both been hit hard by the pandemic...
Sounds about right for Frames Janklin
Ultimately, if it comes to be that 9 B1G Universities are playing football in autumn 2020 and 5 aren't --- the 9 are going to go ahead and have their own confederation/conference for a year.
It's not taking advantage of anything, that's just the reality. How does one play a football game against a school not fielding a football team?