Fail.
Regardless of whether one supports shutting football down, I do think it's the right choice. If they had started a season and had to kill the whole thing mid stream, it would have put schools in a much tougher financial situation. And there's no way they would've gotten through a full season. Cancelling now before everything gets moving will help keep an already critical revenue situation from getting worse.
Wait till Sturgis gets in full swing. There's a big group of people the next town over from mine who have never gone before, but they're going this year just to make a statement (big anti-maskers). I know all of them from a mutual friend who I helped with this "Freedom Ride" kids fundraiser thing a few years ago. What's even more hilarious is that every one of 'em is in his/her mid fifties, super fat, most smoke, and none of them walk regularly, let alone exercise. If there was ever a group that should stay away from Sturgis this is the one. Their idea of healthy eating is getting extra lettuce on their double quarter pounders with cheese.
Totally agree.
My (poor) analogy is a bunch of friends getting together for some flag football, drinking beer, having a great time. Off in the distance a storm is rolling in, you see the darkening clouds, hear the increasingly loud thunder, maybe see a bolt of lightning off in the distance. Everyone’s afraid to say maybe it’s time to go to the cars or even go home. But in the back of everyone’s mind is the realization that a very real danger is approaching. Who’s going to speak up?
If Iowa and Nebraska want to each other each weekend, Petras will be an All American and we're winning a NC
Well the part that I wasn't accounting for was this. We've heard from ADs and coaches all day every day about this stuff right? They all obviously want to play. But not the school Presidents and Chancellors who are making these calls till now... They've all been quiet and on the down low. We'll see just how much they want to look like bad guys to the folks that make them all the money.... Because now it's turning into a PR show as much as as it is about public safety or anything else.
International football (soccer) was one of the first major sports to return to play. They did it by quarantining 22 players per side plus coaches, medical staff, officials, limited news media and broadcast crews for like 10 days; testing almost daily; then playing in empty stadiums. You're talking probably 100 people being placed in a virtual bubble per match. Even with those restrictions you had a few players test positive for The Germ who then could not compete.
