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Post by jojojo on Aug 10, 2020 15:53:34 GMT -5
*This post should have an asterisk. The B1G has not announced anything yet. The Detroit Free Press is the source. Not the B1G. Michigan and Michigan State — which both have physicians as presidents — were among the schools in favor of ending the fall seasons, according to those people. Big Ten presidents were expected to meet again Monday at 6 p.m., ET to formally vote on ending the season.
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Post by JT on Aug 10, 2020 16:46:03 GMT -5
Sorry, they get only get 10. You decide who goes. I vote Minnesota goes because JT just hurt my feelings. If your school started with an “M” I’d (probably) pick it instead of Maryland, but I feel obliged to replace Michigone with another “M” name. A problem is that I’d like to keep a school that’s kinda close to PSU in the new 11-school B1G (Maryland works), *but* it’s also beneficial to have somebody other than Minnesota paired up with Iowa... Nebraska does that well. Maybe Northwestern should go, so Nebraska can stay. That works for the geography as well as the first-letters! So... get rid of Michigan, Northwestern, and Rutgers. Keep the remaining eleven and have a double round robin again.
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Post by HawaiiVB on Aug 10, 2020 16:48:30 GMT -5
I actually disagree with this more than I wold disagree with anybody about if we should or shouldn't have a season. Rutgers and Iowa should not be required to make the same decision about the fall season. Same goes for Boston College and Georgia or Washington and Arizona. The Big Ten can certainly vote to not crown a champion this fall or to have an official conference schedule, but each university has a unique set of challenges and opportunities shouldn't be taken away from one group of young adults because another school 1,000 miles away can't make it work. Okay, but it is one conference. I mean this situation has never been experienced before. How the conferences choose to respond will/could be the models for the future.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Aug 10, 2020 17:10:37 GMT -5
This kills two birds with one stone - COVID risk and player organizing/unionizing risk.
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Aug 10, 2020 17:44:24 GMT -5
Hell, I wouldn't blame Nebraska if they went back to the Big 12 over this. I'm no lawyer, but there has to be a breach of contract in here somewhere.
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Post by staticb on Aug 10, 2020 17:56:53 GMT -5
Hell, I wouldn't blame Nebraska if they went back to the Big 12 over this. I'm no lawyer, but there has to be a breach of contract in here somewhere. If you believe the rumors, a majority of B12 teams voted to continue the season (by majority I mean OU and Texas, the rest voted against), so basically they are stalemated themselves over what to do.
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Post by northwoods on Aug 10, 2020 18:04:00 GMT -5
The new BIG commissioner was shaky at best going into this football season. He wanted to tackle player safety and compensation issues way more than advocating to play a season into any sort of headwind. He was vacillating even as he announced a schedule last week.
Such a vacuum in leadership between him & the NCAA administration.
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Aug 10, 2020 18:24:38 GMT -5
They literally came out with a brand new football schedule just last week, where every team had three freaking bye weeks just in case they had to reschedule a bunch of games because of a mass covid outbreak. Just last week.
Now they are cancelling the entire FB season, just in case they have the very covid outbreaks that the new schedule was specifically designed to address.
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Post by oldnewbie on Aug 10, 2020 18:36:00 GMT -5
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Post by n00b on Aug 10, 2020 18:43:46 GMT -5
They literally came out with a brand new football schedule just last week, where every team had three freaking bye weeks just in case they had to reschedule a bunch of games because of a mass covid outbreak. Just last week. Now they are cancelling the entire FB season, just in case they have the very covid outbreaks that the new schedule was specifically designed to address. This is the weirdest part about all of this. It really seems like the Big Ten is making this decision as a response to the MAC concelling.
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Post by gibbyb1 on Aug 10, 2020 18:49:31 GMT -5
They literally came out with a brand new football schedule just last week, where every team had three freaking bye weeks just in case they had to reschedule a bunch of games because of a mass covid outbreak. Just last week. Now they are cancelling the entire FB season, just in case they have the very covid outbreaks that the new schedule was specifically designed to address. This is the weirdest part about all of this. It really seems like the Big Ten is making this decision as a response to the MAC concelling. It’s surprising and it isn’t as those MAC states represent a lot of the same Big States and it also further put those conferences committed to playing on an island. “ everyone’s cancelling, but we don’t care the money is too big” not a good look
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2020 18:50:20 GMT -5
They literally came out with a brand new football schedule just last week, where every team had three freaking bye weeks just in case they had to reschedule a bunch of games because of a mass covid outbreak. Just last week. Now they are cancelling the entire FB season, just in case they have the very covid outbreaks that the new schedule was specifically designed to address. The cardiac issues which have recently come to light regarding the virus and the NCAA's refusal to permit covid waivers have significantly impacted the liability issues for schools.
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Post by badgerbreath on Aug 10, 2020 19:06:07 GMT -5
They literally came out with a brand new football schedule just last week, where every team had three freaking bye weeks just in case they had to reschedule a bunch of games because of a mass covid outbreak. Just last week. Now they are cancelling the entire FB season, just in case they have the very covid outbreaks that the new schedule was specifically designed to address. That is what you call hedging your bets. No one believed the schedule was a commitment to playing. It was more an attempt to visualize what it might look like to go ahead -- something you have to do to run scenarios to assess risk and response.
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Post by northwoods on Aug 10, 2020 20:25:37 GMT -5
They literally came out with a brand new football schedule just last week, where every team had three freaking bye weeks just in case they had to reschedule a bunch of games because of a mass covid outbreak. Just last week. Now they are cancelling the entire FB season, just in case they have the very covid outbreaks that the new schedule was specifically designed to address. That is what you call hedging your bets. No one believed the schedule was a commitment to playing. It was more an attempt to visualize what it might look like to go ahead -- something you have to do to run scenarios to assess risk and response. Sorry, but that is not how you lead. You don’t announce a schedule to run it up the flag pole & see what people think.... you do that internally, talk about it, make changes & get agreement. THEN you release a schedule and commit to making it happen. This is just weak, scared, risk minimizing behavior. When the NCAA, which is charged with leading college athletics, does nothing but set increasingly strict conditions on schools to maybe allow them to consider holding championships.....well that attitude just rolls down hill.
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Post by staticb on Aug 10, 2020 20:55:02 GMT -5
They literally came out with a brand new football schedule just last week, where every team had three freaking bye weeks just in case they had to reschedule a bunch of games because of a mass covid outbreak. Just last week. Now they are cancelling the entire FB season, just in case they have the very covid outbreaks that the new schedule was specifically designed to address. This is the weirdest part about all of this. It really seems like the Big Ten is making this decision as a response to the MAC concelling. They were rumors of it a couple of weeks ago. Outbreaks at Rutgers and Indiana made a few schools not want to play. I think it was the players unionizing that potentially brought things over the edge.
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