College Football 19-20: Where We Kinda Want Clemson As Champion.

[Slap Shot]

I don't know if this makes my an oddball in my subset of those extremely unhappy with how Covid has been handled in the U.S. (meaning we've not done enough) but this decision does not alarm me yet. I am 100% sure there's a small part of my subconscious telling me this is ok because I love college football, but there's a logical component that makes me feel okay about this at the moment. That could change as things develop.

 

[dxmnkd316]

I don't know if this makes my an oddball in my subset of those extremely unhappy with how Covid has been handled in the U.S. (meaning we've not done enough) but this decision does not alarm me yet. I am 100% sure there's a small part of my subconscious telling me this is ok because I love college football, but there's a logical component that makes me feel okay about this at the moment. That could change as things develop.

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I'm upset about this and I'm lashing out

 

[Kepler]

The biggest problem for the B1G and PAC 12 has always been, “what if it works for the other conferences?”

Like it or not, sports are sort of working.

So there are parents who, when their kid's school and its conference announce they are suspending sports to ensure their kid is safe, care that some other school is playing a game?

Who are these morons?

 

[SJHovey]

I expect Minnesota High School football will be the next shoe to drop around here, and an abbreviated season will be started shortly, according to news I'm seeing.

 

[SJHovey]

So there are parents who, when their kid's school and its conference announce they are suspending sports to ensure their kid is safe, care that some other school is playing a game?

Who are these morons?

I have no idea whether parents of college athletes support the halt to the season or not. I suspect it's a mixed bag, but if pressed, I'd guess more want them to play than not. Just a guess though.

The way I look at it is this. Each kid, and family, has the ability to choose their own fate. If I didn't think it was safe for me, or my kid, I'd elect not to play. That has happened.

Now, if college football practices or games become "super spreader" events that endanger other non-athletes, schools are going to have to answer some questions.

 

[dxmnkd316]

For the people in the back:

I don't suspect that giving athletes huge amounts of tests is going to go over all that well on campus, who can only get them if you appear sick.

 

[Handyman]

I am not mad they are gonna play i just think it is ridiculous that athletes are gonna waste what little resources we have. It isn't like there isn't outbreaks on a lot of the campuses right now and the average tuition paying student is lucky to even get a test.

The schools can barely handle quarantine for regular students. (Talking to you Michigan)

 

[dxmnkd316]

Now, when college football practices or games become "super spreader" events that endanger other non-athletes, schools are going to have to answer some questions.

Important distinction. It's a college campus, which you have thoroughly espoused as full of moron kids who don't care. So by your logic, the R number for college campuses is going to be higher and the virus will spread faster. And while college kids might be at lower risk, I don't think I should need to remind you of the damage one person can cause:

 

[Russell Jaslow]

So there are parents who, when their kid's school and its conference announce they are suspending sports to ensure their kid is safe, care that some other school is playing a game?

Who are these morons?

All over the place... :-(

 

[unofan]

So there are parents who, when their kid's school and its conference announce they are suspending sports to ensure their kid is safe, care that some other school is playing a game?

Who are these morons?

Nebraska and Ohio State parents, at least publicly. I'm sure there are some everywhere in private

 

[Kepler]

Nebraska and Ohio State parents, at least publicly. I'm sure there are some everywhere in private

I gotta say, that's not a great look for Flyover.

 

[Handyman]

There is a reason we say "The N on the Nebraska flag stands for Nowledge"

 

[Kepler]

There is a reason we say "The N on the Nebraska flag stands for Nowledge"

Reading the Notre Dame football board during this past weekend I was blown away by how many spectacularly stoopid right wing comments there were alluding to COVID. I think of Catholics as my parents, which means well educated, but evidently the ND alumni are not particularly outstanding in rhetoric and logic anymore. Time to get Opus Dei to kick some as-s and raise the general standard. The Marianites aint cuttin' it, this backsliding would never have happened under the Jesui... (looks at BC... shuffles feet, backs towards the door).

 

[unofan]

Reading the Notre Dame football board during this past weekend I was blown away by how many spectacularly stoopid right wing comments there were alluding to COVID. I think of Catholics as my parents, which means well educated, but evidently the ND alumni are not particularly outstanding in rhetoric and logic anymore. Time to get Opus Dei to kick some as-s and raise the general standard. The Marianites aint cuttin' it, this backsliding would never have happened under the Jesui... (looks at BC... shuffles feet, backs towards the door).

Remember that the fan base for all football factories is at least half people with no formal affiliation to the school. Those ND fans were likely Catholic, but almost assuredly not graduates, students, parents of students, or faculty.

 

[French Rage]

Remember that the fan base for all football factories is at least half people with no formal affiliation to the school. Those ND fans were likely Catholic, but almost assuredly not graduates, students, parents of students, or faculty.

Or, if I were to judge by fans at their Stanford games, people who have ever set foot on campus or the state of Indiana for that matter.

 

[Kepler]

Remember that the fan base for all football factories is at least half people with no formal affiliation to the school. Those ND fans were likely Catholic, but almost assuredly not graduates, students, parents of students, or faculty.

That's true, I tend to think of colleges from a New York model. Except for Army there is no college in this state where anybody gives a flying f-ck about the school's sportsball teams except for alumni. And just in general if somebody other than a former student or possibly their parent started following an Ivy team, they would be institutionalized.

 

[Kepler]

Or, if I were to judge by fans at their Stanford games, people who have ever set foot on campus or the state of Indiana for that matter.

Huh. As loathsome as I found everything else about the Cardinal Way, I got that bandwagon feeling about Cal but not Stanford when I went to my only Stanford football game, The Big Game in 87. Stanford Stadium was about 80/20 Cal fans. It may have to be factored that Stanford was mediocre and Cal downright sucked at that time.

Now true the Stanford contingent all looked like the old dude from Postman Always Rings Twice, but they were alums, it was just from the class of fifty-something.

Edit: oh. You meant Notre Dame. Got it.

Doesn't surprise me. The "Subway Alumni" and all that. I am Exhibit A: I am a 50-year Notre Dame fan because of my dad who was a Notre Dame fan since the 30s because every Catholic in America in the 30s was a Notre Dame fan. I have in fact never been on the Notre Dame campus, or been to a ND game in any sport, though I have been in IN twice.

 

[RaceBoarder]

Huh. As loathsome as I found everything else about the Cardinal Way, I got that bandwagon feeling about Cal but not Stanford when I went to my only Stanford football game, The Big Game in 87. Stanford Stadium was about 80/20 Cal fans. It may have to be factored that Stanford was mediocre and Cal downright sucked at that time.

Now true the Stanford contingent all looked like the old dude from Postman Always Rings Twice, but they were alums, it was just from the class of fifty-something.

Edit: oh. You meant Notre Dame. Got it.

Doesn't surprise me. The "Subway Alumni" and all that. I am Exhibit A: I am a 50-year Notre Dame fan because of my dad who was a Notre Dame fan since the 30s because every Catholic in America in the 30s was a Notre Dame fan. I have in fact never been on the Notre Dame campus, or been to a ND game in any sport, though I have been in IN twice.

That sums up most of Chicago's NCAA Football fandom nicely actually... You are either an alum of the school you like, from Michigan or WI for those three B1G schools, or a ND fan if you are either Catholic or Irish. Everyone else doesn't care about NCAA Football...

 

[French Rage]

Pac-12 now discussing a late October restart, because "follow what other conferences do and don't have any principles of your own" worked so great for every other aspect of the conference's strategy for the last two decades.

 

[Deleted member 3166]

7 Irish players test positive. This weekend's game with Wake is postponed.
Just in time to open the B1G and Mountain West...