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.
Does anybody know the financial impact of cancelling an OOC game? any penalty from the networks? Are these games insured at all? What is the break-even point of # tickets sold for a cupcake game (are the cuptake teams guaranteed something even if game cancelled by 'act of god')?
Honestly, the struggle to play football right now is kind of blending a bit into the things that “actually matter“ so I would rather they just shut this down. The players being in school is what matters. Get these kids the education they signed up for, I think we can all agree that we spent a little too much mental energy on kids playing a game at this point.
Fauci today: 'Football may not happen this year’ and 'you can't do it safely without an NBA-like bubble." I wouldn't expect to see football in any non-redneck conferences. The legal liability alone will be staggering.
If it gets serious enough I think you'd even see the SEC shut down, but they would go kicking and screaming for sure.
The reason I say they'd shut down is because of what would happen to them if someone got infected with COVID as they continued to play, they got hospitalized, and god forbid, died. What if Alabama said "Fuck it we're going to keep playing." and then two weeks later, one of their players contracted COVID and died from it? You can bet the family of that kid would sue Alabama's ass off for forcing their son to continue playing during a pandemic. They might even sue Saban personally as well, and it would be a PR nightmare that would take the university years to get through. Their name would be getting dragged through the mud on ESPN and your 6pm national news every night for months.
Sure, the odds of an extremely healthy, extremely-fit college-age student dying from COVID are low. But we've seen that COVID doesn't discriminate who it infects, and the risk is always there.
How would you know they got it playing football? Rather than going to class, or in the dorms, or the cafeteria, or a party, or the multitude of other places college students will be going?
Notwithstanding my position above, which is how I really do feel, I don’t know if there is one person that I believe less about this virus than Dr. Anthony Fauci. That guy can go somewhere.
His boss?
His boss should never have turned policy over to him. His opinion should have been treated as just that, an opinion.
But his boss talked about using lights and disinfectant as possible treatments. I think he made the right call in turning most of this over to the science community.
Also, Fauci and crew haven't set policy. The governors have set the policies for their states. Only thing the administration seems to be actively doing from a governance standpoint is closing borders.
You could have been a case study for this author.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Expertise-Campaign-Established-Knowledge/dp/0190469412
Fauci has been fair and reasonable about almost everything, and also circumspect when need be. He's also the world's most respected expert in his field -- I can't think of any peers who substantially argue that he's been irresponsible or wrongheaded. The only people who question him are no-nothing imbeciles with political axes to grind. Sort of like you.
Can you point out a "non-redneck conference" for me? Because if you think that description would exclude the B1G, your definition of redneck varies from mine.
This is so stupid. Like it's really going to matter if you travel 300 miles instead of 2,000 miles for an away game. Just play the games or don't.
And while I'm pointing out stupidity - forcing college athletes to wear a mask as a mandate of "team rules" yet allowing them to play games where they literally have sweat splattering on each other is yet another society-inducing face palm.
I think it should be up to the players and college athletic support staff on what they want to do. But, jeez, whatever decision is made - don't be this stupid.
Wait two more weeks, we need more data ...........
Paralysis by analysis. It's been a theme these past 3 months.
Toe meets leather at 1:05. If you want to be there, fine. If you don’t, that’s fine too.
He is not a reliable source....
Play SVSU, Grand Valley and Ferris. That's as good as the SEC out of conference schedule.
Alabama plays USC Sep 5th
LSU plays Texas Sep 12th
Auburn plays UNC Sep 12th
Ole Miss plays Baylor Sep 6th
Tennessee plays Oklahoma Sep 12th
Florida plays Florida State Nov 28th
Arkansas plays Notre Dame Sep 12th.
Please stop spreading this propaganda to the fanbase. I'm starting to see these kinds of comments all over the place on Michigan fan sites and twitter and it's confusing to say the least because it has no basis in reality whatsoever.
I think a more reasonable argument is that they play some awful non-conference games and the big non-conference games are typically neutral site games within the SEC-friendly footprint.
LSU, for example, plays Texas. Good for them, but that's no excuse for scheduling UTSA, Rice (Neutral Site) and Nicholls College as your other non-conference opponents. People would revolt here (I think) if that was the non-conference schedule.
Your point about neutral site games is valid and has always bothered me. But at least LSU is going to compete against a big name program just like Alabama and the other schools I listed. Tenessee is playing Oklahoma in a game that they're most likely going to lose badly. If we bow out of the Washington game and replace them with Eastern Michigan, our non-conference schedule would be Arkansas State, Ball State and EMU. That would be the most boring 3 week start to a season in Michigan football history. We only play 5-6 quality opponents per season and to eliminate one of those for another creampuff would be a disappointment.
You have pointed out a few games coming up in which the SEC is scheduling meaningful non-con games, yet the criticism cones mainly from analyzing their non-con games over recent history (just look at the past 10 years or so). Sure, there are a few good games here and there, but the vast majority is fluff and much weaker as a whole than the other power conferences.
This could help us, I always thought the way Harbaugh's teams play on the road the Washington game was probably going to be a loss. Even if we just play conference games we will have our for sure loss to OSU in Columbus and I'm sure there will be another road loss to a team we should beat like MN?
If its left to the NCAA then this problem will be solved by......2024
Games will be played...or they won't. There will be no in between.
So playing only B1G teams? We already are scheduled them ost difficult B1G teams in OSU, PSU, Wisconsin.
So replace Washington, Ark St, and Ball St with Nebraska, Illinois, and either of Iowa or NW.
I doubt the game will happen. UM will play a directional school.
with the way things are going, we might only see scrimmages every Saturday.