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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
Wed May 20, 2020, 04:51 PM May 2020

NCAA announcing Football and Men's and Women's Basketball activities to start June 1

According to Yahoo! Sports reporter Pete Thamel, the NCAA Division I Council voted to approve voluntary athletic activities in football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball beginning on June 1 and going through June 30. The rest of the sports will be acted on at a later date, which is expected to be next week


https://247sports.com/college/louisville/Article/NCAA-approves-athletic-activities-to-resume-in-three-sports-coronavirus-pandemic-147348280/
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NCAA announcing Football and Men's and Women's Basketball activities to start June 1 (Original Post) Roland99 May 2020 OP
The players might nave a different view of starting up? pwb May 2020 #1
This is madness and I love college football and basketball too Botany May 2020 #2
that really puts those athletes in a really bad position rurallib May 2020 #3

pwb

(11,246 posts)
1. The players might nave a different view of starting up?
Wed May 20, 2020, 04:57 PM
May 2020

Along with their parents. They might not be so excited to endanger their children.

Botany

(70,447 posts)
2. This is madness and I love college football and basketball too
Wed May 20, 2020, 05:10 PM
May 2020

Funny, the things that produce money for the NCAA will come back 1st. "They" say they will be
testing the players all the time but meanwhile the rest of America can't even get tested which is
the only thing we have to stop "the beast" right now, and this will sicken and or kill God only knows how many players, coaches, trainers and support staff because even if they house the players together in special dorms 17 to 24 year old men and women will go out and get laid and then they might bring the virus back to share with their teammates and others along with other teams which they will play against. And they will come back and play in empty stadiums and or arenas with no students on campus. This is madness.

How many dead and or sick people (C-19 has shown to have life long chronic conditions for even
the people who survive it) is a football game worth? Add in the dead and or sick people who get
“the beast” because we used up some of our testing capacity making sure we can have a football
games.

BTW scanning foreheads to look for fevers will not stop the spread of disease because in most cases of C-19 you are asymptomatic for 2 weeks after you contract the disease however you are still infectious during that time.

If we don’t play the long game here we are really fucked.


rurallib

(62,379 posts)
3. that really puts those athletes in a really bad position
Wed May 20, 2020, 05:58 PM
May 2020

Exactly like the "essential" employees. Take a chance on dying so we can make money or lose your scholarship and maybe your future.

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