Trump's Fumbling of the Virus Could Kill College Football

[applegrove]

Trump’s Fumbling of the Virus Could Kill College Football

July 17, 2020 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 267 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/17/trumps-fumbling-of-the-virus-could-kill-college-football/

"SNIP......

Pat Forde: “There will be no college football crowds of the usual size. There might not be college football, period. Pessimism percolates as the time for solutions dwindles. We are speeding in the wrong direction as a nation in terms of combating the coronavirus pandemic, and one of the cultural casualties of American casualness is an endeavor millions of us want and every college athletic department needs.”

“If the season dies, we know who had the biggest hand in killing any chance of it happening: Donald Trump.”

“When he inevitably gets around to Twitter-ranting about what has happened to the sport, Trump should instead do what he never does—accept some accountability for the state of affairs. By blowing the summer he’s jeopardized the fall, doing more to endanger the college football season than anyone in America.”

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[applegrove]

1. Will white men start to peel off?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. College football brings in a lot of money for Colleges.

Crowds of 100,000 spells DEATH for sure.

Trump is okay with that.

[underpants]

5. Big time.

Hotels restaurants BEER etc. tons of money locally.

[roamer65]

3. Send kids back to school and we will all be on lockdown again by October.

Definitely won’t be any football at that point.

Even if Big Ten football happens, it’s not going to start until Sept 26 here in Michigan. It’s conference only games, for now.

Just THAT delay is gonna set the football nuts off.

[Mike 03]

4. But "We can't let science stand in the way of college football..."

[brush]

6. Going to lead to huge job losses as big time athletics brings in big bucks...

for the universities. The losses won't just be in athletic departments but all over the schools.

This whole thing is just snowballing out of control.

Thanks for bungling it trump, and continuing to bungle it. There's no national plan and he doesn't care. He just wants to re-open everything as the thinks that'll get him re-elected.

It's becoming more and more apparent as cases and deaths spike, AGAIN, that that's not going to happen.

We're fu_ked until we get rid of trump and have a national plan to combat covid.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. Maybe they could give some of that money to the

arts.

I don't like football at all.

[HotTeaBag]

8. College football?

Hell, we'll be lucky if there's college at all.

[central scrutinizer]

9. Side benefit

One of the biggest revenue streams for right wing AM screech radio is college sports.

[central scrutinizer]

10. Tens of thousands

Of screaming, spittle-flying drunks crammed into narrow seats. What could go wrong? It’s an open air venue.

[OrlandoDem2]

11. A big middle finger to the SEC!! Hahahaha!!!

[NCjack]

12. High school prom? Forget it. You can thank f*ckitallup-#45

[Baclava]

13. Pretty much ALL college sports, mens and womens, with no campus classes

[cbdo2007]

14. They've already cancelled all high school sports and band and around me for the fall. It is...

devastating to those kids who were looking to scholarships in 2021 and won't have a Senior year to base that on.

[rufus dog]

15. It's done

Can't believe the PAC12 won't come out and make the call. Already cut season down to conference games only.

UC Schools in Berkeley and LA, NOPE! Stanford in Palo Alto, NOPE! UW in Seattle, NOPE, two Arizona Schools, NOPE!

Financial impact will be big but not catastrophic for PAC12/BIG10/most BIG12 schools. For SEC schools and towns, watch out.

[malaise]

16. It's already killed 140,000 people so why not

college football?

Down he goes.