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Kinda feel like we are getting left behind a bit here. ACC, AAC, Sun Belt, SEC, and Big XII are slowly moving forward and a rash of games were scheduled today. Some SoCon and Southland games were announced or reconfirmed today as well with EKU and Mo State still on taps for their P5 money games. However, WIU, USD, and now SIU lost their P5 games. Most FBS school are opting to schedule other FBS schools instead of FCS. About the only options left are to go to Provo or Lincoln with the latter looking more unlikely by the hour as the B1G flexes it's muscle.
I get it everyone wants football, but lets really look at what is going on. If 1 NDSU player gets COVID and has any lasting effect after COVID, NDSU will be sued hugely and we will never have a football team or sports team again. Its not worth it at this time. If you are need NDSU football that badly, go watch some games from previous years.
How fun will and empty Fargo dome be for a game... snoozer.
We all want to tailgate, do you really think they will allow that.. no.
Just wait until all hell breaks loose once a school like Florida has 2 players test positive. Those two players may have got it a keg party, but are bringing it to the home team and the team they play. If it can happen to a professional baseball team like St. Louis, it sure can happen to a college football team.
"If FBS teams are looking for an FCS cupcake, might I suggest North Dakota instead of North Dakota State." - John Taylor NBC College football talk writer
Derp....If one kid has a concussion, if one kid blows out a knee, if one kid catches the flu, etc etc. I am 100% supportive of a student athlete that wants to sit out 2020 because they are uncomfortable with the situation for any reason at all. However after all the blood, sweat, tears, and sacrifice these athletes have put in, if they want to play, let's do everything we can to help them safely achieve this.
Every thing we can? Daily testing? Bison bubble? 100 college aged young adults living like monks for months? Wearing actual effective PPE as opposed to putting your mask over your face guard? (What a fucking joke that is.) Times what are we down to now 60 or 70 teams? ... It’s approaching college hockey territory as it is and most everyone who’s left appears to be deeply unserious about what it’s going to take.
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I completely agree with your last point. The only ones who are left saying they want to play this fall are the ones who aren’t being serious about it. Honestly I hope ONE conference charges into the void and tries to play this fall so that the rest of the NCAA can watch the shit show unfold and FINALLY realize the level of precaution they will have to take to get a full season completed at any level in any sport in the spring. Unfortunately I don’t think it will happen and the NCAA will cancel spring sports as well.
I work in a major hospital. We see COVID patient die regularly. I've never worked from home this entire time, and since my BMI is over 30 nearing 50 yo, I am at risk. With all that said, the hysteria is off the charts. The goal have never been to eliminate transmission of COVID; it is to control it. College football has the opportunity to try to do this. It simply cannot be justified how in person instruction is okay, but football is not. The likely mortality risk, which is much better defined now, is around 0.3% and college athletes largely are not at risk folks. Let them play with the ability of those at risk opting out without losing eligibility. (Tony, I admit I initially thought it would be around the flu at 0.1%, so yes, it is three times higher......)
I just don't get it.