B1G to announce conference-only football schedule
I'm getting whipsawed today. I feel like a manic depressive.
... who walks in the rain?
Sorry, every time I hear that term it reminds me of Cinderella Man by Rush.
Cinderella Man
Hang on to your plans
Try as they might
They cannot steal your dreams
Seems especially fitting for this thread.
Just today? Keeping up with the news has been a rollercoaster of emotions for a while. Shit is exhausting.
*extreme Aaron Burr voice*
Okay, so we're doing this.
Will never not upvote a Hamilton reference
Hail to the Victors, Valiant
Hamilton - good dude. Got to know his little sister in their pool cabana...
Aaron Burr cheated me out of five bucks back in 1804 when I made a bet that Hamilton would win.
WHY AREN'T YOU BLOCKED? I ALREADY FUCKING DID THIS.
Serenity now.
This all just feels like deju vu to be honest. It's like the conference tournaments back in March. No one wanted to cancel. First, it was no fans allowed. Then things changed quickly and it got canceled, but not after everyone was already there. Feels like the same thing is gonna happen. They'll make changes but eventually things will get canceled. Again, it will be too late, after tons of possible infection points have already occurred. We learn nothing.
Yeah, I feel like this is the schools wanting to play and wanting to come up with what they feel is a safer framework, but the infections are going to pop up and it's going to be clear they can't keep 100+ players and coaches and support personnel virus-free. At that point they'll finally cancel the fall season.
As shitty as it is, the decision makers are at the point where they have to decide wether or not some likely COVID infections that they may get through football related activities and frankly may get through non-football related personal activities are worth cancelling many, many scholarship, laying off dozens of employees, and the loss of millions of dollars. Not an easy choice.
Keeping the football season may ruin some lives. Dropping the football season is 100% going to ruin A LOT of lives.
Great comment. For those worried 2021 is in jeopardy, I have no doubt* that a positive C-19 test in July of 2021 is going to be received very differently than a positive test in 2020.
* Not science-based by any means, just can't imagine public perception will remain the same a year from now.. too many economic and social costs associated with cancelling everything to "save all the lives".
After hundreds of thousands (and perhaps more) Americans die of coronavirus over the coming months -- and that's what most experts project -- I don't think people will just get used to it.
This is why schools are letting students back on campus. They can't afford not to.
We have to strike a balance between protection from the virus and protecting ourselves financially. It's not a simple task. Tradeoffs have to be made.
Exactly. If the decision had to be made free of anything else, its a no-brainer to cancel it. But it's not. Because of the way things are set up, everything is tied to football, and not having football is a devastating decision.
It's like having your house on fire, and the only phone to call the fire department is currently electrified.
Yeah it feels like they're just trying to buy time and hope that we get things manageable
They'd have to rework the exact schedule details, but you could conceivably start team practices around Labor Day, and then run a 9 conference game season from October 3rd to Thanksgiving.
The conference tourneys all came crashing down within a few days and when we had no testing capability and no idea how widespread this thing was or anything.
If they can't get this together for a conference only thing, it'll be a huge failure. European soccer leagues aren't having issues. This shouldn't be that hard but you're right, we seem to not be learning anything here.
Can't compare pro leagues to college. Those players are being paid and there's a lot less of them. It's a much smaller and more controlled operation. I think the NFL season will happen in some form, but I just can't see it for college.
They’re also not having a lot of issues because they had a more robust universal response to the virus. We...did not
We're just repeating the stages of grief with a different sport. This conference only move is just the bargaining phase. Denial stage was when people thought a vaccine would magically fall out of a fuckin hot air balloon by July. Anger phase was when idiots like Joel Klatt would do bits on FS1 hollering about defeatists who want to keep people from enjoying their beloved sport. Now we're back to bargaining. Depression will hit when its October and we're having to watch Rugby Union from New Zealand with Smiths records on.
I dunno when Acceptance happens or what it even looks like.
I'd say most are still in the denial and anger phases based on the responses here to the foreign student attendance deportation thread from the other day. Anger about policy along with belief that it'll actually impact a season yet to occur.
Anecdotally, spoke to a woman today who sounded like she was dying. Turns out she was just screwed up after recovering from the virus. My cousin also died from it a couple weeks back.
Sorry about your cousin.
Thanks. Good guy. Had co-morbidity issues due to his weight, but he was under 50.
yeah, hillbilly, very sorry about that.
Acceptance is sitting in the dark, drinking vodka, listening to Yaz's "Only You" on repeat.
"acceptance" or "breakfast"?
(i kid)
I guess BoHarbaugh's source in the AD don't know shit, and I couldn't be HAPPIER about that... :-D
To be fair, they could announce their plans so there is at least a template and schedule for play in case they can but there may still be a low chance of the season happening.
If we've learned nothing the last 4-5 months it's that this situation is constantly evolving.
Right, sure. And I suppose, theoretically, that any season ever could have or could be cancelled by catastrophic unforeseen circumstances. I take this to mean that, like every other year for the last 137 years, the plan today is to play football. If people start dropping 20K per day from the virus - or if, theoretically, the Yosemite Supervolcano erupts for the first time in 1 million years and covers the continent in a meter of molten ash - plans will change :-)
I think you mean the Yellowstone supervolcano.
Yes. Even if the Big Ten presidents and ADs thought there was no chance of playing they wouldn't announce it today, not without agreement with other power conferences.
The statement was if they play, it will be conference games only. That's not signaling a lot of confidence in their plan. But just imagine what would happen to their rosters if they had canceled the season outright.
No one seriously believed Michigan was going to play in Seattle on Labor Day weekend. It was time to move past that and announce something.
I don't believe this for a second.
BoHarbaugh's sources are often ahead of the curve. His information will become real next week.
10 game schedule likely if it holds. Supposedly picking up Iowa or Nebraska from the West. We’ll see.
You got exposed as a fake insider by HenneGivenSunday.
It's like you just can't say anything that isn't cringey as fuck. You need self awareness, to say the absolute least. Good god, dude.
Why must you go there. If he is right, how many lemons will you eat on video?
Go where? Look it up.
Why are you giving him a hard time? I created 2 separate threads this week and said this was coming. It's not hard to believe.
For someone that cries as much as you do, you'd think you'd be a little more empathetic that UmBig11 tries to give us information of very fluid situations as consistent as he does.
WD, what a POS
Hilarious coming from the guy with multiple accounts. Is that you, Benn, Jay-Z, DiscussMan, Franklin Hatchet?
LOL! I forgot about these "guys".
What BS is that? We'd have to play the top 4 teams from the B1G West (Because I'm sure they'd give us @Iowa)? I'm sure OSU will draw Northwestern because Purdue hurt their feelings two years ago.
I have hurt feelings from Purdue. The team got their ass kicked. I'd like a date with Minny if they're rescheduling games and a season happens to be possible.
Michigan is playing Minny this year if the season happens. That’s a for sure thing.
Scheduling equity the least of my worries at this stage - would be fine with unfair schedule and playing top teams from anywhere as long as I get to see some college football this Fall.
I have my doubts about a season this year, so I want to complain about BS B1G scheduling while there's a schedule to complain about. A CFB blackout this fall would suck.