OleMissCub

Well then it’s a good thing they weren’t walking around for two weeks with it, but at most two or three days.

Good thing those kids get 4 tests a week Indeed, because otherwise, being healthy young people, they might not have ever known they had it and would have spread to it many other people. Glad we’re on the same page.

Well I’ve seen enough commercials about that kid. Guess he lived up to the hype. Muchos flo Latino

Sooooo Dustin Johnson so far today

The football player being required to meet, practice, travel, and play in close quarters with a group of ~100 people is at significantly higher risk of getting sick. Just to put a number to it, in Lafayette County, MS there's a 97% chance a group of 100 people has a covid-positive individual. Brian Jones hanging out even in a group as big as 10 people is down to 30%. https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/ These are averages and testing helps, but the lack of an actual bubble environment means the realities still exist even if they might be able to help prevent runaway spread. Absolutely, football should go the way of boxing. Thank you for the thoughtful rebuttal.

Ok, take out the hyperbole about bongs and sex. Explain to me how a football player living in a regimented bubble who is tested 4 horsefeathering times a week and has instant daily access to medical doctors is less safe than Brian Jones, the pre-med major at State University, who hangs out with his girlfriend at his apartment and occasionally goes over to his friends house to hang out. If Brian Jones and the football player are both asymptomatic carriers guess which one is going to be discovered and placed in scrutinized quarantine? Some truly smug and self-righteous takes in this thread. These dudes are FAR more likely to suffer long term physical damage or even freaking death just by playing the sport itself than they are from the effects of Covid. Does your "it's just a horsefeathering game" take extend to the game of football itself?

So how about giving them that same treatment but not make them travel all over the country to play football one year during a pandemic? Because they want to play and if they don’t want to they can opt out and maintain a year of eligibility. These aren’t toddlers, they’re adults. Stop treating them like children. They can make their own choices. If they feel safer being in the football bubble and they want to be there anyways, then so what?

Doubling down, eh? Who is safer: Student A: tested 4 times a week and is around actual doctors every single day of the week. If he tests positive he is placed under strict monitored quarantine by the school for 14 days. Student B: 0 tests ever. Only sees a doctor every few months to get their adderall refilled. Goes to the bars at night. Never wears his mask because Covid is a hoax. If he feels sick it’s not Covid, it’s just a cold. Goes to the bars. You’re so right, it’s definitely Student B. You seem to have left out lots of other possible student scenarios for some reason. Are there any other scenarios where students are tested 4 times a week, have daily access to multiple doctors, and if they test positive have an authority that forces them to quarantine and oversees that they strictly comply with that quarantine? Honest to Christ, I’m very curious to know what agenda you people have that is making you fight this obvious truth so vociferously. An average college football player is far safer from Covid than the average college student. Period.

Doubling down, eh? Who is safer: Student A: tested 4 times a week and is around actual doctors every single day of the week. If he tests positive he is placed under strict monitored quarantine by the school for 14 days. Student B: 0 tests ever. Only sees a doctor every few months to get their adderall refilled. Goes to the bars at night. Never wears his mask because Covid is a hoax. If he feels sick it’s not Covid, it’s just a cold. Goes to the bars. You’re so right, it’s definitely Student B.

Kids are stupid, they're going to get sick anyway. May as well let them get sick while entertaining me. College football fans are the worst people. Way to miss the point fella. This could be about any sport or any social club or any organization that tests someone 4 times a week and has doctors at their very beck and call. THAT kind of oversight and access to medical attention makes them safer than the average student. How you or anyone else can deny that is merely doing so because they don’t want to admit they’re wrong. And the players themselves WANT to be there. So what could possibly be your problem? Jesus, have you people actually paid attention to what the players are saying about this? They want to be playing and they recognize that they are safer in that environment than sitting on their ass back home.

Use your words if you have a point to make They don't give a horsefeathers about their players. OK, so let’s assume you’re right and 100% of coaches and AD’s are just evil greedy cigar smoking rich dudes who DON’T care about their players. How does that go against my point?

hahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha Use your words if you have a point to make

To think that schools with as much as 100 million dollars at stake are going to be flippant with testing and player safety is LUDICROUS.

Of course, but if students are going to be allowed on campus, then players are much better off in a structured setting with constant testing and reporting to coaches daily. If campuses are closed, that’s another story. How naive are you to think players are better off in structured setting of college freaking football? These programs are run by neanderthals that think catching covid will only make you tougher. The only structure is coach worship idiocy. hahaha good grief. You really think they are at more exposure than the average dopey bong smoking college student or sorority girl who can't wait to go out to the club with her girls??? holy horsefeathers you are way, way off base on that opinion

It's this moronic "just open everything and deal with the fallout no healthy young people are dying so who cares" ignorant conservative nonsense that is the reason we have been dealing with this problem non stop for 5 months. Well that's not my mindset. We've had dozens of deaths on the Reservation. It's been devastating. Lots and lots of people I knew. My whole point is that if you aren't going to shut the colleges down then don't shut football down because the players are much, much safer than your average college student. I don't see how that's even debatable.

pinch hit God

this umpire should be strapped to a rocket and fired into the Sun

He gone

Literally the same could be said for ANY OTHER COLLEGE STUDENT. You don't think college students travel to other college campuses and hang out? Good grief. Better ban automobiles. Don't want to make it any easier for this thing to spread. Oh, you’re that guy Yes, a guy who realizes that college football being played is actually keeping these guys and, by proxy, their campuses safer by the fact that they are tested FOUR horsefeathering TIMES A WEEK What other 20 years olds in the rest of the world get that sort of testing and oversight??

Literally the same could be said for ANY OTHER COLLEGE STUDENT. You don't think college students travel to other college campuses and hang out? Good grief. Better ban automobiles. Don't want to make it any easier for this thing to spread.

Not really. You think football players are less safe from Covid because they're playing football as opposed to doing what college kids do like go out to bars or house parties or have sex with people off Tinder or whatever the hell they do these days? Considering that football players during a season spend almost all of their time in the athletic facility, I'd say they are much, much safer than a regular student. Not sure about the other schools but at Ole Miss they do 4 Covid tests every week. Does the general student population have access to those measures? Hell no. All they had to do was push back the "season" like the other conferences did and wait and see what happens with the NFL because if the NFL can't pull it off then college football programs certainly can't. I'm saying the possible harm is further spreading a disease that has killed 175,000 americans and is still spreading and closing down schools left and right with outbreaks. Then completely shut college campuses down if that's your concern. Shut all schools down while you're at it. Less than 5,000 people under the age of 45 have died of Covid in America...out of 190,000,000 Americans in that age range. College kids are going to get Covid. You cannot stop it. Schools being open isn't the issue with the spread, it's the fact that 15 or 20 year old kids are going to congregate and do whatever they do.

Not really. You think football players are less safe from Covid because they're playing football as opposed to doing what college kids do like go out to bars or house parties or have sex with people off Tinder or whatever the hell they do these days? Considering that football players during a season spend almost all of their time in the athletic facility, I'd say they are much, much safer than a regular student. Not sure about the other schools but at Ole Miss they do 4 Covid tests every week. Does the general student population have access to those measures? Hell no. All they had to do was push back the "season" like the other conferences did and wait and see what happens with the NFL because if the NFL can't pull it off then college football programs certainly can't.

What's the possible harm in at least trying to play a season? What if the ACC, SEC, and Big 12 have somewhat normal seasons and the Big 10 ends up sitting on their butts? The students are mostly on campus, the players have BEEN on campus for months. Hell they are even playing intramural sports up there. It was an extremely knee jerk reaction by the Big 10 to cancel that quickly. It's going to cost tens and tens of millions of dollars for those programs. Those athletic departments are going to have to cut numerous sports due to not playing. The only reason the Olympic sports are funded is because of football TV money. Given that the players were ALREADY THERE for the past few months, why in the world would they not even do a cursory attempt to play and see if it works out. Oh, and here's the kicker, they want the players to STILL stay on campus and STILL do workouts and STILL go to team meetings because they might have a spring season when everyone knows they won't. It was foolish to at least not TRY to have a season. If it doesn't look like it's going to work out then fine, shut it down, but to not even attempt it is a terrible mistake IMO.

Oh Kyle

Why is it always Matt fvcking Carpenter??