Big Ten cancels football season

Exactly, chances of death from COVID go up 40% for those in obese/overweight catagories. All it takes is for one lineman to die and everything will hit the fan. One word: LAWSUIT. People really expect some of these athletes to go out and risk long term health effects when they're getting paid no money while AD's and coaches are getting paid 6 to 7 figures?

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No it is liability and the costs of testing and meeting the players' demands. That heart condition stopped the Big 10 in its tracks.

It also feels ironic there's the argument that the kids would be safer playing football under the university's care than at home in poorer/rural areas. Wouldn't they be at school taking classes and not at home event if they weren't paying? Oh, right you assume they're not really student-athletes...

The football players are still presumably now more likely to get COVID and whatever heart conditions come with it as they will be tested less.

Not sure why a student athletes not playing football but still in school can't sue.

Now I'm hearing that a lot of this is an attempt to crush any attempt at unionization by the athletes. The schools are showing that without facilities, tv, etc the players value is zero. The presidents and ADs are just using Covid as a cover story. "Oh we are just toooo concerned about our athletes to put them in danger..." yeah right. This is about dolla bills.

A Message From Barry Alvarez

3,XXX views•Aug 11, 2020

Wisconsin Badgers Youtube

Transcript

i have to tell you right now i feel sick

i actually feel sick to my stomach i

just

and i have felt that way for the last

month and a half two months

i just haven't felt good about what's

going on

i don't every day i get different

answers uh or different

reasons um i can't put my finger

on this pandemic or covid

um every time you read something it's a

little bit different

and i'm trying to figure out how we can

play

everybody wants to play that's important

to me

it's important to our athletes our

coaches i know they all want to play

and we're trying to figure out ways that

we can play you know i get up

every morning very early i start off the

day with a

with a a conference call with all the

athletic directors in

in our league and league office and

we're trying to figure out ways to play

what we can do uh what are our medical

people

telling us what are medical protocols

how can you practice all the different

things that you have to do

to make it work and

you know after spending all day with

that and and then

you know once our players started

practicing i look out my window i watch

them practice

and i see how much they enjoy it and how

much the coaches are into it

after they've been away from them for a

while um

and i i want them to play even more

you know it finally came to the point

where

you have to go to the medical people you

go to the people that

that have answers that that that are the

professionals in this business

and you keep asking for give us a

solution give us an answer how can we

how can we get back on the field how can

we allow our athletes to compete

and you know when they finally came back

and told us

they didn't feel comfortable with it and

we have to make a decision for the

for the health and safety of our student

athletes and our coaches

and our fans but that was always in the

foreground i mean

you we can't go forward move forward

and not feel comfortable with the safety

of our student athletes so

in the end there were too many questions

that we couldn't answer and the doctors

had questions it did didn't have answers

and still were

were looking for those answers and felt

that it was important for us to

finally make the decision not to play

this fall our mission doesn't change

with our student athletes even though

they won't play games

we've got permission that we can have 20

hours a week with them

up to 20 hours a week they could have

with their coaches

i think it's important that the coaches

spend time with the student athletes

i think the student athletes have to

stay busy they have to be working on

something they have to be

thinking about improving they have to

stay busy

i know it's important for our coaches to

spend time with them mental health

is something that's always a concern of

ours and and and for them not to be

active and be busy um i don't think is

healthy

so consequently uh our coaches will come

up with a plan

where we'll keep our athletes busy and

at the same time try to improve them

my my thing is you know how how do you

take this and

and how do you respond you respond

let's get better uh it's something we

have to deal with let's deal with it

and let's deal with it positively let's

improve as a individual and as a team

i tell our fans first of all thanks

thanks for your support

we've had great feedback from from those

season ticket holders and and suite

holders and premium seat holders

um just understand that

our number one priority and our

priorities are our student athletes

first

we did not feel comfortable uh with

their safety

political experts agree wrote:

Big 10 conference is for wimps/fairies.

That’s a fact.

The war on science and facts continues. Universities which should be the defenders of Science show themselves as Liberal pawns.

So far 225 Americans aged 15-24 have died of COVID. There is an extremly high rate of severe underlying condition and co-morbidities in this group calling into question whether they died of or with COVID. 45 Americans under 15 have died of COVID. There is no meaningful statistical risk to kids be in elementary through college due to COVID. If they get fine, they'll feel better in a couple of days. More people 15-24 have died of Pneumonia this year than COVID and we're not shutting down schools for that.

I watched my Republican party commit crimes against truth starting about a decade ago because they were so dissatisfied with Obama. It caused obscene alt-right swing that left us with Trump as the party leader. Dems, learn from our mistake, and kill this war on truth all left swing before you are in an equally bad place.

Primo Numero Uno. I agree with your statement. Do you have a link to those stats about the mortality numbers? Thanks

This is honestly delicious to me. The fact that football literally means nothing outside of entertainment and money making. People orient their lives around these pointless ritualistic events, and they wonder why they feel hollow and have a midlife crisis. It's like the US was zoning out watching TV for 50 years, and someone came along and unplugged it. Now it is angry because it realizes how uncomfortable it is when the TV won't turn on. The country doesn't like how it feels when it isn't plugged into a morphine drip, and rather than take stock of where we went wrong, we just want to get plugged back in again.

As someone who has grown increasingly disgusted with college sports as entertainment for the masses, and disgusted with football as entertainment in general, I'm here for this. The grief over cancelling this season is just the growing pains of a society that is being asked to adapt to a new world, but just wants its brain binky back.

I know kids' dreams are being ruined. Careers are being destroyed. But this is what it looks like when the rug is pulled out from under you, and the rug never really mattered beyond making a buck. And it is happening everywhere.

Of Course, here are the real number. Even CDC isn't corrupt enough to include the Cuomo time travel specials.

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-by-Sex-Age-and-S/9bhg-hcku

Idk if it's already been said but do people think they're kicking the can down the road to squash any talks to unionize? The B10 & P12 players were organizing, making safety demands, and finally starting to recognize their worth. I think it's strategic to let that simmer down & then keep raking in the $$$ once there's a vaccine. I hope players keep pressing now & launch real organizing campaigns if there is no season & they suddenly have some free time to fill. I would love to see the looks on the faces of college presidents and administrators who might have to take pay cuts to give into worker (player) demands.

Says someone on a board for amateur runners?

I am sort of with you here. It should have never reached this point where soooo much depends on one thing (football) because when that one thing isn't around. Yikes.