Are you rooting for the SEC, ACC, and big 12 seasons to be played? I’m mixed a side of me want to see season played and for big ten brand to be weakened because I can’t stand Kevin Warren. On the other hand, the sec especially already competes at a higher level and I don’t want to see the gap widened even further. Thoughts?
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I hope they all play. Its the only way to see who was right. The BIG should have let the tea.s make the decision.
I also hope they play. I hope they all play basketball except the Pac 12, who has already cancelled all activities until January 1, 2021
For the sport, there should be no conferences playing.
For the economics, if conferences want to play, let them play.
For the economics, if conferences want to play, let them play.
I want them to succeed in playing their seasons. Not in order to stick it to the conferences that canceled, but because it will mean people have found a way to successfully resume another facet of the economy. We need that to happen, and the more success stories the better.
I hope they play full seasons. That will make it harder for the BIG to cancel all of 2021 as well.
I hope they are able to play and safely complete the entire season without issue -
Not to stick it to the BIG but to provide some evidence suggesting that it can be done safely so winter and spring sports can proceed.
Fall sports have not been cancelled because of science but rather by the lack of science. We are only ~ 6 months in - it is impossible to know what, if any potential long term issues may arise from this. There are decades upon decades of longitudinal experience with influenza. There has been absolutely zero experience to guide opinion with regards to a full contact team sport like football with COVID.
Right now the BIG and PAC-12 have decided the players in the SEC - ACC and B12 can be the Guinea pigs if those respective conferences so choose
Not to stick it to the BIG but to provide some evidence suggesting that it can be done safely so winter and spring sports can proceed.
Fall sports have not been cancelled because of science but rather by the lack of science. We are only ~ 6 months in - it is impossible to know what, if any potential long term issues may arise from this. There are decades upon decades of longitudinal experience with influenza. There has been absolutely zero experience to guide opinion with regards to a full contact team sport like football with COVID.
Right now the BIG and PAC-12 have decided the players in the SEC - ACC and B12 can be the Guinea pigs if those respective conferences so choose
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We're already in a hole so we should probably put down the shovel so that leads me to believe I should want the other leagues to shut down to preserve the balance in CFB.
However I agree with jlb's post. And I like watching football. So maybe I'll go that route.
However I agree with jlb's post. And I like watching football. So maybe I'll go that route.
Excellent thoughts.
I'd like to have some CFB to watch but at the same time I could do without an entire fall of people whining over and over that the other conferences are doing it, why couldn't we?
If everyone shuts down I suspect it's more likely the NCAA grants extra eligibility. If it's piecemeal you make the case to do that much tougher.
UNL is allowing the club volleyball team to have tryouts and play as well. I'd love to see all the BIG 10 volleyball teams roll their squad over to the club programs and play against each other in a club league, just to stick it to the conference.
Yeah I'm sure that would go over fine to do with volleyball after football has explicitly been told not to find loopholes to try to play.
Well obviously it isn't a real option, but the inconsistencies in COVID mandates is maddening.
I saw a story the morning all NCAA fall champions have been cancelled. Sucks for Omaha
As I said above, it wasn't a real option. Obviously the entire big 10 isn't going to suddenly move their programs to club volleyball. It was more to point out how ridiculous it is that club teams can practice, travel and play (at least as of now), but varsity teams can not.
personally, I hope the SEC, ACC and the Big 12 kill it and play ever game scheduled. Then I hope there are no issues along the way at all. That would make our BIG 10 and PAC 12 brass look....well, you know the answer to that.
Good thoughts here. If they play, the greatest benefit Is that we will have proven we can be successful in this aspect of reopening the country.
If those leagues play, i can only imagine the advantage ACC, Big 12, and SEC teams will have next year by having a ‘normal’ offseason of training, spring practice, summer drills, and TIME OFF.
If those leagues play, i can only imagine the advantage ACC, Big 12, and SEC teams will have next year by having a ‘normal’ offseason of training, spring practice, summer drills, and TIME OFF.
the one advantage I like for our Huskers waiting till spring of 2021, is it gives our younger players that much more time to learn the play book, hit the S&C with Duvall and so on.
With any luck, guys like T Corcoran, O Manning, N Joseph, Z Betts, A Brown, M Fleming, S Morrison, M Scott, K Greene, B Gunnerson, R Johnson, B Benhart, N Pola-Gates, M Farmer, Q Newsome, Ty Robinson and so on will have that much more time to learn and be ready once we actually play again. That will give us much more depth and much more available talent.
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The science is already there. There's been multiple sports going on throughout the summer from pro soccer to summer basketball leagues. College teams have been working out for weeks. The only problem those college football players MIGHT have had was a guy or two MIGHT have had EKG signs of myocarditis after testing positive for COVID. I will add that the definitive test for myocarditis as you probably know is an echocardiogram and we haven't heard that myocarditis was confirmed by that. Years ago when an associate of mine was reading EKGs for all the Husker football players, he said that roughly 60% of them had abnormal EKGs due to their weight training. Those EKG changes can not be distinguished from myocarditis by an EKG alone. All of those guys got echos.
So you're going to ignore all of the evidence there is until you get what you want.
Please review all the evidence involving 100+ member football teams playing weekly games involving 70+ plays where numerous athletes are in direct physical contact each play. While living in large campus environments with 10s of 1000s of other students and traveling routinely across their region.
my earlier post stated that I believe the reason some are delaying football is because of the uncertainty - the lack of evidence/experience specific to the unique aspects of American football in the setting of COVID
I assume since he accused me of ignoring the evidence - he certainly could recite it
I guess, but there is evidence. Teams have been practicing in close contact, living together, eating together for what? 60 plus days. I've seen videos of Nebraska players lifting weights with a spotter hugging and/ or dripping sweat on the person lifting. Players doing squats with another player literally hugging them all the way through the lift. Players yelling, at high volumes, and cheering on a lifter who is somewhat stationary pushing weights up on a bench press.
I've been to 7 on 7 tournaments where there is more contact than most Big 12 or MWC football games.
Strangely enough I haven't heard of huge outbreaks of Covid.
Do you have evidence to the contrary?
there have been no full teams traveling around the region playing other full teams for entire games of football for multiple weeks
the big has stated that they can still practice although I haven’t seen what stipulations they placed on practice - probably limited to what you stated above
The big and pac 12 have decided they will be the control group and the SEC/ACC/B12 players can be the guinea pigs in the intervention arm
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The travel isn't the issue. It will be the same people sitting on the same plane, just like it is the same people sitting in the same locker room or the same weight room. They fly private jets, they aren't sitting at Epply for 3 hours and then sitting at OHare for a few more waiting on a connector to West Lafayette.
If there are protocols in place that prevent players that have a fever, cough and sore throat from playing in a game, then what is the issue? Protect the vulnerable!!!!!
basically fear of the unknown. maybe something might happen if