Fall season not dead yet
Some buzz on twitter that day-by-day becoming more of a reality as reports from verified accounts are coming out.
Started with this guy. He has 22,000 followers
The Big 10 conference is reconsidering possibly having a football season this year, in response to worries of players bolting to other conferences or to the NFL, per source.
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 15, 2020
This is in response to Ohio State putting pressure on the B1G saying they would join the SEC this year as well. Nebraska is threatening to join the ACC for good also. So there is an emergency meeting today in to try and prevent this.
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 15, 2020
Source: B1G officials just met. Ohio State, Nebraska, Iowa and Michigan are set on playing this fall. Illinois and Northwestern are only schools that are not thinking about playing.
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 15, 2020
If Big Ten doesn’t have football, teams will be allowed to join other leagues.
Main reason for the call btw was that Ohio State and Nebraska will play elsewhere if the B1G does not have a season
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 16, 2020
Purdue is moving forward as if they are playing a fall season, per source.
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 16, 2020
B1G commissioner Kevin Warren scrapped the idea of Big Ten teams playing in the ACC and the Big 12, per source.
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 16, 2020
Warren is working with B1G presidents to reverse his original idea and see if they are able to have a conference season this fall.
What I know about B1G and college football as of now:
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 17, 2020
-Some Big Ten teams are threatening to go play in the ACC and Big 12 if there is no conference season
-Commissioner Warren thus is trying to have a Big Ten season to prevent this as well as legal action from players' parents
The teams that are the most vocal are Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska, and Iowa.
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 17, 2020
Everybody from the presidents, the athletic directors, to the parents and players, are pissed with how Commissioner Kevin Warren has handled this.
The talks are real. The B1G wants to have a season. It might not happen, but they are doing everything they can to have a season so teams like Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska and Iowa don’t leave.
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 17, 2020
For people that think i'm lying or backtracking, I am not.
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 17, 2020
The B1G is trying to have a football season now. Everybody wants to and Commissioner Warren realizes he messed up. Several teams are pushing to play in the ACC and Big 12 this year if the Big Ten does not have a season
Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren is “hoping to God” the other conferences cancel their college football seasons, otherwise he’s going to have to let the B1G play, per source.
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 17, 2020
Things are getting really ugly behind the scenes.
In a shocking turn of events, unless there is a drastic outbreak of cases in the next few days, the B1G will resume their college football season this fall, per source.
— Sir Yacht (@SirYacht) August 17, 2020
Expect an announcement later this week that the Big Ten will be playing again.
And now this
An attorney I respect who long worked inside college football programs predicts that the pressure from parents, players and some schools will result in Big Ten reconsidering its cancellation of fall sports. COVID-19 might force re-cancellation but expects a second chance. 1/
— Bill Rabinowitz (@brdispatch) August 18, 2020
I don’t have a clue who Mr Yacht is here but... I think the “Pluck the schools from the leagues that ain’t playing” thing MIGHT HAVE SOME LEGS AGAIN https://t.co/4yyF7VyHHf
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) August 15, 2020
August 18th, 2020 at 12:03 AM ^
Oh, no, not for missing out on an education. But if you missed it on your sports club at said med school, then you can totally sue them.
August 18th, 2020 at 12:05 PM ^
When you accept a scholarship, its primary purpose is to pay for your education. That is not in jeopardy. They don't have grounds for a lawsuit.
August 18th, 2020 at 12:22 PM ^
Me. Yachty- James Yoder??
August 17th, 2020 at 10:29 PM ^
Judging from his name, Sir Yacht sounds like he could be a super wealthy big time donor to a B1G school. Or he could be some dude in his apartment.
August 17th, 2020 at 10:39 PM ^
Gotta upvote this. So true.
August 17th, 2020 at 11:03 PM ^
Parent's basement.
August 17th, 2020 at 11:15 PM ^
I just assumed it was Bill Martin.
August 17th, 2020 at 11:37 PM ^
Sir Yacht is actually the Counterstrike Guy.
August 17th, 2020 at 10:30 PM ^
Welp.....I love me some "yacht rock", so why not
August 17th, 2020 at 10:35 PM ^
You are to address me as SIR and yes, I do listen to yacht rock. I happen to like Michael McDonald's even keel serenades.
August 17th, 2020 at 11:06 PM ^
Wrong genre - he opened for 2 Chainz at Crisler a few years ago . Sir Yacht, Lil Yachty, Small Boat - all the same dude. DJ Wilson and Moe Wagner were right by the stage goovin to him. He might have only had 10k followers then. Didn’t know he was into B1G football though.
August 18th, 2020 at 6:53 AM ^
Crank it up to 4. Maybe a solid 4.5.
August 17th, 2020 at 10:30 PM ^
Cool we'll have 2 games max before there are 987k new cases of covid at college campuses around the country
August 17th, 2020 at 11:16 PM ^
If there are already that many covid cases on college campuses around the country, what do you have to lose by playing football?
August 18th, 2020 at 1:33 AM ^
Additional lives
The solution to a 10,000 car crash pileup is not to send a few more Hondas down the highway
August 18th, 2020 at 1:44 AM ^
If they are college kids on campus, then they are already part of the pileup.
August 18th, 2020 at 4:47 AM ^
Hint, check the stats on death rate for 20 years old. Its safer than diving an automobile
August 18th, 2020 at 11:02 AM ^
General population driving an automobile, or the average 20 year old driving an automobile?
August 18th, 2020 at 11:03 AM ^
I say again, General population driving an automobile, or the average 20 year old driving an automobile?
August 17th, 2020 at 10:32 PM ^
There is zero reason why they shouldn't play. The risks are well known well debated. If someone wants to subject themselves to the risks then that its their own choice. To cancel the season because a large entity wants to make decisions for the individual is completely overzealous. The Big Ten or any other entity should not be making decisions on behalf of the individual. If they really cared that much about the individual then they should have been paying them a long time ago.
August 17th, 2020 at 11:10 PM ^
Can you please just stop spewing BS and take 2 minutes to just read Brian's article on the front page? Geesh, morons.
August 17th, 2020 at 11:27 PM ^
I did and now what? It doesn’t change anything. If they want to play let them play.
August 17th, 2020 at 11:54 PM ^
Pandemics aren't about individual wants. God damn.
August 18th, 2020 at 12:22 AM ^
I don't recall a canceled football season of 2009? Do you? Nope...
August 18th, 2020 at 7:33 AM ^
How can you be so dense to not see the difference between H1N1 and this? Maybe use the internet to do some proper research. Avoid the conspiracy theories.
August 18th, 2020 at 9:37 AM ^
That’s not what I said. Nor did I ever discredit the severity of the issue at hand. What I asked was related since the poster said, “pandemic” the 2009 H1N1 was a pandemic. Perhaps the poster should have been more thoughtful with their intent. What I said still stands the players are the ones who are best suited for making decisions for themselves and the people surrounding them not the University or the Commissioner. Playing football does not present anymore risk factor to contracting the virus than not. This is a poor argument.
August 18th, 2020 at 10:58 AM ^
Come on dude. You were clearly implying that all pandemics are equal. There’s no other interpretation of that statement.
August 18th, 2020 at 12:18 PM ^
Incorrect, that was never stated nor implied. No pandemic event is like another. Each event is unique in its own right due to the fact that every virus is different. Is the virus serious ? Absolutely. However the people who wish to risk such consequences should be allowed to do so. If you don’t want to be around those people who don’t want to participate in good health practices than don’t be around them. If players opt out they can, no one is forcing them to play there’s virtually zero blow back from doing so. The risks like I said are well established. This is the equivalent of the state telling you to wear a helmet while driving to protect yourself from yourself. Does not playing football present any less risk to contracting the virus to those who do? No. Those who wish to play are most likely to not participate in social distancing anyways. The argument can be made that it’s actually safer to play because the players are more scrutinized and screened for COVID related symptoms while engaged in football related activities.
August 18th, 2020 at 12:39 PM ^
Apparently “no other interpretation” equals an invite for incoherent rambling.
August 18th, 2020 at 8:25 AM ^
H1N1 resulted in a total of 12,469 deaths in the US for the entirety of the pandemic. So far, we are at ~170,000 deaths from COVID-19. You don't recall a canceled football season in 2009 because the H1N1 pandemic was not nearly as bad as this one is.
August 18th, 2020 at 8:29 AM ^
Exactly. H1N1 also had a vaccine released by October 5, 2009.
August 18th, 2020 at 10:25 AM ^
What happened to the season in 1918? The season started in October and 18 teams did not play. That H1N1 virus is estimated to have killed 50 million worldwide and 675,000 in the United States.
https://www.si.com/college/tmg/tony-barnhart/spanish-flu
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/1918-pandemic-history.htm
August 18th, 2020 at 11:53 AM ^
H1N1 is not estimated to have killed anywhere near 675,000 people in the US. From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.
Personally, I couldn't care less what anyone did about a pandemic in 1918. We've advanced quite a bit past their medical thinking of "Whiskey! Laudanum! Saw!". Hell, let's look back on how the bubonic plague was handled and maybe we can follow that model!
Maybe everyone should start smoking because doctors prescribed and recommended cigarettes from roughly 1930-1950.
August 18th, 2020 at 12:00 PM ^
I think you chose to ignore the date in my post and the links. The Spanish flu was an H1N1 virus.
August 18th, 2020 at 9:22 AM ^
I don't recall 170,000 deaths either. How are you this stupid? That's like saying "The last STD wasn't so bad" when the last STD was gonorrhea and you're about to raw dog someone who's HIV+
August 18th, 2020 at 12:20 AM ^
Vastly more college football players are injured PLAYING football every year than will be more than minimally sick from C-19. Some of those injuries will have life long effects. Some college football players are paralyzed for life. CTE and concussions in general are a bigger risk to their long term health. Everyone laughed at Michael Onwenu for stating that he eats lots of grapes, but his health at 350+++ pounds poses a tremendous risk to his longevity, yet there was never a mention of this on this board.
These players are adults. They can vote. They can serve in war. They can play football or opt out. if enough want to play, then they should be able to play and the universities should support them to keep them as safe as possible while playing a violent contact sport.
If you disagree with that stance or their policies, then don’t watch, as many have opted to do with the nba and that one guy did with the WNBA.
August 18th, 2020 at 12:30 AM ^
CTE and injuries aren't contagious.
Yet another person who doesn't even remotely understand why the season was canceled.
August 18th, 2020 at 8:06 AM ^
One person inflicts it upon another...
August 18th, 2020 at 9:27 AM ^
Lmao maybe you should sit this one out. This discussion is way above your mental capacity if you actually thought that was a sound argument
August 18th, 2020 at 8:09 AM ^
Also, do you disagree that concussions and injury pose a more substantial risk to this age group?
August 18th, 2020 at 12:15 PM ^
So your reasoning for resuming football is that football players are likely to get seriously injured and develop CTE from playing football? Ok. The logic is sound.
August 18th, 2020 at 1:29 AM ^
What is the role of an entity other than to make collective decisions for the individuals which make up the entity they agreed to be a part of?
August 18th, 2020 at 2:21 PM ^
moral support?
August 18th, 2020 at 9:19 AM ^
Jesus Christ man....I don’t know how many times this has to be said but at this point it’s clear you’re just saying what you want to say without actually reading anything.
Its not just about the players and what they want. Sometimes it’s not all just about you and your choices. In this situation, their choice to play has a severely high chance of impacting someone else’s life, getting someone else sick, sent to the hospital, and god forbid, die. Why should someone else -and their family have to suffer because you want to watch football?
College football can’t be played in a bubble like the NBA and NHL can. Even if the players don’t actually get sick, the odds of them transmitting the virus to someone else they come into contact with are extremely high. Especially at programs like Rutgers and MSU which clearly aren’t handling the virus containment we’lol. The Big Ten is only as strong as its weakest link, and the odds of at least those two programs having a player that contracts the virus and spreading it to someone else are extremely high. We have no idea how that person will react to the virus. Maybe nothing happens and they’re completely asymptomatic. Maybe they die. And that’s just one person.
If you’re okay with all of that, that says more about you than it does the Big Ten. And it’s not saying anything good, pal.
August 17th, 2020 at 10:35 PM ^
Time to let the band play Sir Yacht.
August 17th, 2020 at 10:43 PM ^
Well, if “Sir Yacht” says so...
Hey, OP, has it occurred to you that it’s highly unlikely that this would go unknown by the press but somehow known by some random assclowns?
Also osu has already said it’s not playing in the fall.
August 17th, 2020 at 10:48 PM ^
Memory loss is a Columbus-exclusive pandemic.
August 17th, 2020 at 10:56 PM ^
I know the guy Mike. Not a credible source at all.
Sorry.