Big Ten Football 2020-2021

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[madaboutharry]

1. Another example of $$$ being more important than people.

Shame.

[FarPoint]

2. COVID-19 denial is not your friend...

I understand these young college students want a life/future in a sport....but they are in college for an education...One must live to complete college and without a chronic illness underlying if the contract covid-19.... We really don't know enough about this lethal virus...it could lay dormant and surface like say, Herpes, or chicken pox/ shingles for a quick example... we just don't know that much....We do know it can be lethal...it is highly contagious as well...

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Agreed, Completely

Today, there are 253 players in the NFL from the Big 10.
Players from the Big Ten making it to the NFL have careers, on average, 5 years.
That's 50 players per year.
There are 1,260 players on Big 10 rosters.
96% of the players are never going to be in the NFL, and 90% will never even get a chance to tryout.
They are there to get an education.
They can do that without risking their, and other people's lives.
And, if the schools need to figure out how to extend eligibility, scholarships and still recruit for the future, that's their problem.
It's why they get paid 7 figures or more.

[FarPoint]

11. Absolutely!!!

Well said....it is that simple....I stand firm on my big NO College Sports for the couch potatoes fantasy.

[mwooldri]

3. Only if...

All players, coaches, etc are in a bubble, and zero fans. That's how the NBA and NHL did it. But college sports isn't supposed to be "professional" so until Covid is contained and these college athletes get paid... Then maybe better off having no football.

[mvd]

5. Bad idea for sure

You can’t treat college students like professionals. And when they get COVID, it can impact an entire community like the Penn State area. This was a move about the $$.

[Tribetime]

6. Bad idea just like all other conferences

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7. Just heard college basketball is coming back too.

It was a bad idea in March. Its still a bad idea.

[qazplm135]

8. politics

too many politicians wanted this to happen, and too many midwestern conservatives who want their football.

And I say that as a Purdue fan. The fact that we can't wait even one season for football because of a pandemic shows just how fucked up half our society is. It's really embarrassing.

[empedocles]

9. Time will tell, . . . perhaps soon.

[brooklynite]

10. I don't care about football unless it involves kicking a ball with your foot.

[dsc]

12. Here is my take on this

For several months, I have listened to Trump and his supporters castigate schools and teachers for refusing to have face to face instruction as if everything is normal. During all of that time, the federal government has offered us no help in regards to testing. No help in regards to contact tracing. And as of yesterday, no funds for PPE or cleaning. But thanks to this constant drumbeat I am one election away from having to do full in person instruction, with no mask mandate. Teachers in other states are already facing this. And again, no testing, no PPE, no cleaning funds, no nothing from the feds.

Now, Big Ten football is being given access to tests developed with our money, paid for with our money so they can play god damned football. Do you understand just how furious I am that we are refusing to pay for PPE and cleaning of schools he has insisted be open but is now willing to spend our money for god damned football. I am livid.