Is NCAA fall XC going to be totally wiped out? B1G just cancelled football and P5 will follow

goodbye senior season!!! guess ill take out loans to have a real senior season next year?

try some ointment wrote:

Viking21 wrote:

Do not be concerned! This person has an imaginary friend available for discussion, and public quotes, at any time.

Thanks for confirming that LRC is populated by half-literates who don't even understand how their own language works.

Am I talking to you, or to the imaginary person in your head? Does that person only speak in quotes? That would make things simpler.

Scott Burrell wrote:

run faster now wrote:

You must be a D3 guy. Power 5 conferences span thousands of miles. A team like Minnesota could run at Griak and Notre Dame and South Dakota all by bus. But if you want conference meets, 1/2 of the schools are outside of driving distance.

Most of the G5 conferences are spread across multiple regions and time zones anymore, too! Loss of football money is going to force schools to radically rethink conference alignment going forward.

agree-a lot of conferences like Mountain West, American conference, and WAC spread over multiple time zones--go back to basics after the conference expansion boom of the past 20 years or so...

Viking21 wrote:

try some ointment wrote:

Thanks for confirming that LRC is populated by half-literates who don't even understand how their own language works.

Am I talking to you, or to the imaginary person in your head? Does that person only speak in quotes? That would make things simpler.

I hope you enjoy dancing around in your own ignorance. I guess it's to be expected from a population that hardly reads anything longer than a tweet these days. Keep celebrating not knowing how to read if that's what makes you happy though.

The sec and acc are going to play. Just hope the big12 keeps its sack.

try some ointment wrote:

Viking21 wrote:

Am I talking to you, or to the imaginary person in your head? Does that person only speak in quotes? That would make things simpler.

I hope you enjoy dancing around in your own ignorance. I guess it's to be expected from a population that hardly reads anything longer than a tweet these days. Keep celebrating not knowing how to read if that's what makes you happy though.

In all honesty, if you had stopped after your original poorly formed post, I would have paid you no further attention. It has been entertaining watching you squirm about in a vain effort not to appear a bit silly. I know I shouldn't reach for the low hanging fruit, but we all have our weaknesses. If you would like to explore yours, read up on the Dunning-Kruger effect. Don't bother to thank me. I believe that we are done here.

So just going to drop some facts here. It would cost a Football program $1.1 Million to follow NCAA COVID-19 testing recommendations released by the Sports Science Institute. Most conferences are cancelling due to financial reasons not because of health and safety reasons. Ref/youth leagues and such do not have to abide by these standards. Why?? Next to no risk in this age range!!

I mean less than 200 18-23 year olds have died in the US out 21 million from the virus. The virus has a 99.6% survival rate. It’s such a scary virus you have to get tested to know you ever had it. The risk and costs to a university are very low. Even if 2-3 student athletes suffered extreme cases, most universities would have no problem covering those expenses. It would be extremely easy to purchase an insurance policy to cover all athletes because it is such low risk.

D2 even announced they were cancelled for “financial, logistical, and operational” reasons. Health and safety were not listed as a priority. If it were, they would cancel D1. Not like D1 athletes are less susceptible.

So why such a big deal? Why cancel the champs? By cancelling these fall championships, the NCAA will save $56 million. A good start on being able to set up a bubble for March Madness. They also do not want fall championships in the spring because this would take away from March Madness. D1 basketball will be the only NCAA championship held this spring.

NCAA makes no money off football since bowl games are not NCAA championships. But they don’t want to lose the power 5 so they won’t pull the plug on D1 sports.

Wake up people. Corona scam and fear have you all blinded. 94% of all deaths have 2 or more co-morbidities/underlying factors. Keep letting this fear agenda control your lives and there will be no college athletics in a year.

Most of us are all college educated and should be able to do an easy risk assessment and realize the big mistake of eliminating any education/extra-curricular activities for those under 25. We know the cure is much worse than the actual virus. Just look at mental heath & domestic abuse. In 5 years we will see drastic changes in test scores. We need to stop talking about the new normal and take back our lives. Otherwise we will never get them back.

Viking21 wrote:

In all honesty, if you had stopped after your original poorly formed post, I would have paid you no further attention. It has been entertaining watching you squirm about in a vain effort not to appear a bit silly. I know I shouldn't reach for the low hanging fruit, but we all have our weaknesses. If you would like to explore yours, read up on the Dunning-Kruger effect. Don't bother to thank me. I believe that we are done here.

I wasn't going to say anything at all because you were both being completely insufferable, .....but their original post made complete sense.

Amen

Care to define “when we can be safe?” The Big 10 and Pac 12 chose not to

“When we can be safe” is well understood to be code for “when there are zero cases of COVID-19 reported in the entire U.S.”

Because, when asked to define what specific parameters would permit a return to play, not one single AD in the Big 10 or Pac 12 could give an answer.

“Based on medical experts’ advice/opinions” they say. Fine. But, I’ve got news for you: those “experts” are not going to formally endorse sports of any kind until there are zero cases. This isn’t about a vaccine or even therapeutics. Medical people, if allowed, and in almost any situation, will err on the extreme side of conservatism. You think they’re going to say “Well, the USA is down to 500 cases per day from 50,000, that’s good enough.” No. They are going to say “Well, the virus is still transmitting. We don’t think it’s safe.”

The Big 10 and Pac 12 just set themselves back about 15-20 years in terms of being credible, trustworthy, or competitive. Their athletic budgets will be destroyed, and they brought it all on themselves by listening to folks who will never be happy (medical “experts”).

Is that a JoJo reference?

91% of college football players get Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). A small percentage woukd get symptoms from Covid 19.