Dan Patrick: Source Told Him B1G and Pac12 Are Planning on Only Playing Conference Games
He mentions it at about the 2:20 mark and that his source has spoken with an AD. His guest is Pat Fords who then goes on to say it’s a game of wait and see so ??♂️. At this point I’ll be really surprised if we make the trip to Washington.
Whatever, just play games. I don’t care if we have to play only in-state teams and have to reignite that ancient Michigan-Albion rivalry.
Wonder if the Detroit Athletic Club is gonna reboot their program.
So basically every option is still on the table like it has been for a while now.
This is not a good year to go to Washington and I think they should pay us $2M not to go.
better yet, play the game in 2023 at Washington.
Just play Western, Eastern or Central Michigan as the Opener this year. They will need the money.
Games between teams that don’t require hotel stays make more sense than games that do.
Probably need to get Minnesota and Rutgers off the schedule. Those games will require hotel stays. Unless they can get the noon start for OSU pushed to a later time, they would need to stay in a hotel Friday night before the game.
On surface I like this idea, but if playing in front of 20,000 (if even that) instead of 109,000 would M be willing to pay the in-state schools the kind of money they need to make it worthwhile?
Charter a private jet. Reserve hotels rooms to include the night before arrival and play the games. Studies show that it is virtually impossible to catch from surfaces or while out of doors.
Not quite virtually impossible
“The primary and most important mode of transmission for COVID-19 is through close contact from person-to-person. Based on data from lab studies on COVID-19 and what we know about similar respiratory diseases, it may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this isn’t thought to be the main way the virus spreads.’
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0522-cdc-updates-covid-transmission.html?referringSource=articleShare
So wait, SARS-COV-2 has been discovered to only transmit between players from different athletic conferences??? DAMN YOU SARS-COV-2!!!!
I also can confirm that blueindc said athletes are 33x more likely to die in a car wreck than from covid...so this whole time we have been extremely wreckless playing away games and hosting opponents.
Given the dangers of vehicle accidents, I am personally glad that we are wreckless.
Credit should go to Justin Fox with Bloomberg. It also was not a stat about athletes, it was about a person between the ages of 15 and 24. It came from an assumption of about 200,000 US deaths and was based on average nationwide numbers (e.g. covid risk would increase in a harder hit area and decrease in a less hard hit area). Using the same assumptions, a coach between 45-54 would be almost twice as likely to die from Covid as from a car accident. At 55-64 this raises to about 4 times as likely and at 65 to 74 almost 10 times.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-07/comparing-coronavirus-deaths-by-age-with-flu-driving-fatalities
I can also confirm Broken Brilliance learned this in response to his all caps promise that: ‘Nobody associated with the UM football program will die from Covid-19 this year.‘
Car wrecks are not contagious, so it might be a little different.
I get the joke, but it has more to do with the Big Ten can establish rules on how to conduct themselves, but when you start going cross conference, you're dealing with people playing by a different set of quarantine rules.
Dan Patrick is a talking head. I don't really expect him to make breaking news.
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My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw an AD pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
Man, she was my celebrity crush for a good period of time. Buffy!
Yeah, too bad she's a MAGAt.
Putin, we all know what side you are on. You can't fool us! :)
I'm on everyone's side!
I'd think there would be a priority put on finishing the conference schedules. One approach would be to rearrange the schedules and play conference games first. If the season goes smoothly, then non-conference games could be played at the end. If the Pac-12 and Big Ten do that soon, the other conferences may follow suit.
There are various contingencies to prepare for this season. One is a temporary disruption. I'd guess only playing conference games has been discussed as an option, rather than it is the current plan.
Just play the whole season in Sept, before the 2nd wave arrives.
To have a second wave don't we need to finish the first wave?
Can’t have a second wave if you never finish the first wave.
chess, not checkers.
Dear God, can the second wave hit just before Thanksgiving? I would be so grateful to have a Thanksgiving weekend where I don’t have to watch Ohio State beat the shit out of us.
Meow.
Honest question for those who know better than I do: Does Dan Patrick have any history of breaking news?
Usually when he mentions what he is hearing behind the scenes, mostly NFL, he’s spot on. I wouldn’t discount what he is saying as he’s not the shock jock hot take throw shit against the wall guy.
Remember when Cowherd said he had a source that UConn was heading to the Big Ten? Fun times!
TBH, out of conference schedules have been pure fluff with the arrival of the play offs. What really matters is whoever wins their conference.
"What really matters is whoever wins their conference."
The 2017-18 Alabama football team would have something to say about that. They didn't even win their own division, and still made the playoff and won the national championship. Winning your conference is important, but if it was the end-all be-all, the PAC-12 would've made it in more than just twice by now. I think the "eye test" matters just as much, if not moreso. Teams like Clemson, Alabama and OSU are always going to get the benefit of the doubt no matter what happens in the regular season because minus maybe one game a year (if that), they always look the part.
The 2016 Penn State team would probably have something to say about that too.
The 2016 PSU team had a 39 point loss on their record. That pretty much voided any argument they had for the playoffs.
Im for this, cut out washington and the cupcakes and play 12 b1g games..
Michigan vs. Eastern Michigan
Washington vs. Eastern Washington
There, I just saved everyone money, plus a Summer's worth of bellyaching!
Eagles? Check
Awful turf? Check
Seems fair.
Don't you dare disparage Blood Field 2000 or Pleasantville Loves Concrete. They are fantastically weird and I like them.
It's bizarre how many people think that The NCAA or The Big Ten or Michigan have decided whether or not certain games are going to take place but they are keeping it a secret. That's not how this is going to work.
Committees are being formed, they are meeting, they are confused, they don't know what to do, different committees will come to different conclusions, and they will then proceed to argue with each other and form more committees, and finally their decision will come out once it has been made. Just like everything else in the real world.
First we need a committee to decide who’s going to be in the committee
Let's call it the central committee!
+1. Though you forgot a step. There will be various committees tasked with doing a post-mortem on the final committee's final decision.
Not sure why if we are going to play we would not go to Washington. What extra risk is there going to Washington vs. playing our conference game? How would the Washington trip be any different then a trip to Minnesota?
I can't imagine there is any way we play at Washington. I'd be more than fine with playing 10 or more conference games.