Michigan Defensive Back Tyler Cochran pulls no punches on "incompetent" Schlissel

That is... sort of what happens when you graduate...

 He should see if he can go somewhere he can actually play this season.

“Mr. Warren appeared to want to be the first power five commissioner to make the decision so he could be the hero.”

I think in the end analysis, many years later, this will be the end evaluation. It’s the worst kind of pseudo leadership, frankly.

Delany would’ve handled it like the comedian/masturbator he is - probably by asking osu how they wanted to handle it

Here’s what science says: many fewer people will get COVID if we socially distance and avoid other activities that force us in confined spaces in crowds. I know this is hard for propels to accept, especially here.

People said it months ago, and Schlissel threw out the warning then—they are making decisions based on the health and safety of the entire school. And they cannot give preferential treatment to players by isolating them from the rest of the campus, which is the only way football players would not be in danger.

You can continue to beat a dead horse by saying these players are safer because they’d be tested, but testing doesn’t stop them from getting COVID when they go to classes with students who are not tested as vigorously. And you can throw out small percentages all day about the small percentage of students who get mild to sever symptoms, but those in charge (university presidents and their boards) make decisions based on evidence and on reasonable doubt provided by that evidence.
 

And just because you, because you’re fans or players, want to say that reasonable doubt should be ignored, doesn’t mean those with more authority who think otherwise have heavily weighed their decisions. They’re dealing with an ethical dilemma that extends beyond any one individual. A jury who has evidence that presents reasonable doubt should not convict. A CEO of a chemical or pharmaceutical or any business company who is presented evidence of reasonable doubt about the safety of their product should not put it into production. 

There is ongoing, direct evidence that student athletes have been found to have myocarditis as a likely result of infection from asymptotic cases. That is enough for many CEOs to give pause to their intended product launches. 

Your own desires for some mental respite and normalcy are why you are so vehemently pissing on the administrators and essentially calling them all kinds of names. Your responses are all individual looking for agreeable individuals, while an executive has to consider the collective outcome.

None of you should be in positions to lead large amounts of other people. If you are, why are you in MGoblog, at all?  Folks actually argue that these Presidents hastily and without enough thought cancelled football in the fall knowing that their colleges will lose millions and millions of dollars. That’s predictably arrogant and egocentric American individualism.

Because fans and athletes don’t have access to the same institutional information and see football and the virus impact differently, not only are y’all accusing, some of you are demanding the leaders explain themselves in full detail over and over to date your feelings (which they never will, because y’all just don’t want to move from your own conclusions no matter the evidence and reasoning presented).

No institution is going to provide the public all of the information they have—simply because so many of you would still spend your time loudly pouting out your rationalizations for how these leaders failed (you). 

Boo hoo. In their estimation, they are stopping community spread and the long term health impacts on even mild to asymptomatic cases that will result from that spread.
 

To argue these leaders took tens of millions (perhaps hundreds) in revenue loss lightly or selfishly made the choice is severely moronic. They didn’t get their jobs by being dumb, and they won’t keep their jobs if they fail. Athletes and fans can keep crying and call them names—doesn’t change a thing. 

I don't see any trash talk...

I similarly can't imagine how badly/madly I'd feel as a senior football player and he deserves an immense amount of grace for his very publicly professed frustrations.  However, that doesn't make his opinion correct.  The president most certainly does not owe it to the football team to talk to them in person.  Why them and not the field hockey team? Or campus police? Or janitorial staff? Or professors? Or current students?  There are innumerable people out there devastatingly affected by COVID and all of them are equally feeling like they're equivalently important to the university.  Can you imagine being someone in housekeeping tasked with the immense responsibility of keeping the university clean, and worried about not having enough PPE, and maybe catching COVID, bringing it home to your parents, or possibly losing your job because of funding cutbacks?  If I were in their shoes and saw the president having a fireside chat with football players, I'd be furious.  Yes, it is devastating to the players.  However, it is still sports and there are a lot of people at the university who are actually facing true life altering consequences.  I run a research lab at a large Big Ten university with just a few employees in the lab and one of them was COVID pos and had to quarantine.  I spent two full days navigating the byzantine process of ensuring everything was done properly with ever evolving guidelines.  I cannot imagine the responsibility that comes with Schlissel's position.

TLDR: I feel terribly bad for the football players, I understand and respect their frustration and they deserve empathy and grace, but they are not owed, nor should they reasonably expect the president of the university to sit down with them. He has a lot more on his plate that warrants his time and attention.

I'm all for Schlissel talking to the teams. He owes them at least that much. But this is Schlissel's specific area of expertise, and there are few people in the entire world who know more about it than he does. If, in his expert opinion, it is far too risky for student-athletes to compete against other schools for the time being, I'll defer to his judgment and decision.