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Anonymous wrote:I thought this was an interesting article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexreimer/2020/08/10/college-football-players-arent-safer-playing-football-doctor-says/#1aad686c62c5

I’m a big fan of Trevor Lawrence and I agree with him that college football could theoretically be safer for the players virus-wise than sending them home to their communities. But that would require setting up the kind of bubble environment that has been successful for MLS, WNBA, and (mostly) the NBA. That’s not likely realistic.

For now, my kid who plays soccer at a Power Five school is living in a single in a hotel, along with his teammates and athletes from other teams. Their meals are delivered, and they are all getting COVID and antibody tests this week. The current plan is for them to begin small group practices (10 kids max) in a couple weeks with tons of protocols in place. They will be tested every few days. When school starts, they will live in the same dorm with their pod of 10 in adjacent singles and will continue to have meals delivered. The team rules will be even stricter than the school rules re socializing. They will pretty much be in their rooms if not in a lab or at practice. Putting aside the cost, if this could be done for every football team in a conference as well, and there were a way to ensure compliance, I think the season could be reasonably safe even given what a close-contact sport football is.

Yes theses people should be grateful. They would not be able to take care of themselves without the guidance of the NCAA. This is why we do not pay them. They would spend the money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest they would just squandered. We have to get these student athletes back to playing now. Maybe with holding those valuable scholarships would get these ingrates back to work...I mean school. 99% will be paying in the pros!

Try again without the attempted satire and add a bit of proofreading?

Anonymous wrote:I thought this was an interesting article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexreimer/2020/08/10/college-football-players-arent-safer-playing-football-doctor-says/#1aad686c62c5

I’m a big fan of Trevor Lawrence and I agree with him that college football could theoretically be safer for the players virus-wise than sending them home to their communities. But that would require setting up the kind of bubble environment that has been successful for MLS, WNBA, and (mostly) the NBA. That’s not likely realistic.

For now, my kid who plays soccer at a Power Five school is living in a single in a hotel, along with his teammates and athletes from other teams. Their meals are delivered, and they are all getting COVID and antibody tests this week. The current plan is for them to begin small group practices (10 kids max) in a couple weeks with tons of protocols in place. They will be tested every few days. When school starts, they will live in the same dorm with their pod of 10 in adjacent singles and will continue to have meals delivered. The team rules will be even stricter than the school rules re socializing. They will pretty much be in their rooms if not in a lab or at practice. Putting aside the cost, if this could be done for every football team in a conference as well, and there were a way to ensure compliance, I think the season could be reasonably safe even given what a close-contact sport football is.

Yes theses people should be grateful. They would not be able to take care of themselves without the guidance of the NCAA. This is why we do not pay them. They would spend the money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest they would just squandered. We have to get these student athletes back to playing now. Maybe with holding those valuable scholarships would get these ingrates back to work...I mean school. 99% will be paying in the pros!

I thought this was an interesting article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexreimer/2020/08/10/college-football-players-arent-safer-playing-football-doctor-says/#1aad686c62c5

I’m a big fan of Trevor Lawrence and I agree with him that college football could theoretically be safer for the players virus-wise than sending them home to their communities. But that would require setting up the kind of bubble environment that has been successful for MLS, WNBA, and (mostly) the NBA. That’s not likely realistic.

For now, my kid who plays soccer at a Power Five school is living in a single in a hotel, along with his teammates and athletes from other teams. Their meals are delivered, and they are all getting COVID and antibody tests this week. The current plan is for them to begin small group practices (10 kids max) in a couple weeks with tons of protocols in place. They will be tested every few days. When school starts, they will live in the same dorm with their pod of 10 in adjacent singles and will continue to have meals delivered. The team rules will be even stricter than the school rules re socializing. They will pretty much be in their rooms if not in a lab or at practice. Putting aside the cost, if this could be done for every football team in a conference as well, and there were a way to ensure compliance, I think the season could be reasonably safe even given what a close-contact sport football is.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope at least one college football conference decides to play. (I fear that decision not to play is being forced on conferences from “above”.)

I do not look forward for press conferences tomorrow justifying decision. (If I were a star college football player, I would hope that my school/conference lets me go pro immediately.)

It is possible to play travel soccer without traveling out of the DMV. Travel soccer can work around counties in the DMV that wish to ban games.

Someone will. And for a few weeks, the Big Sky conference or whoever will be the hottest ticket in town.

Then someone will get sick with covid. Then multiple someones. It’s nearly a mathematic certainty, with the probability enhanced by the fact that American football coaches are probably the LEAST inclined to follow competent medical advice (play through the pain, son!)

Then someone will die. Maybe, again, several someones. Probably more likely to be a coach, as they’re older and some look like they’ve got some risk factors going on. Maybe, unfortunately, players. And when it’s over we’ll count the cost in lives so that ghouls like you can sit on the couch and stuff your face with potato chips while feeling like a real winner.

There are simply immense regional and cultural differences among people in this country. Your assumption is that if these kids don't play football, they'll be fine, or materially better than if they do, and that is just BS. I am all for not having the season but this is tripe you are spinning. All of these players at LSU and Clemson got sick before day one of practice. They are gonna get sick. They know what they are doing and they will do it anyway. Whether at home, at bbqs, at summer parties, at school or football. You don't understand people outside bubble-urbia. They are comfortable with risks that you are not.

Well pay them.

Absolutely, or just take this stuff out of colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope at least one college football conference decides to play. (I fear that decision not to play is being forced on conferences from “above”.)

I do not look forward for press conferences tomorrow justifying decision. (If I were a star college football player, I would hope that my school/conference lets me go pro immediately.)

It is possible to play travel soccer without traveling out of the DMV. Travel soccer can work around counties in the DMV that wish to ban games.

Someone will. And for a few weeks, the Big Sky conference or whoever will be the hottest ticket in town.

Then someone will get sick with covid. Then multiple someones. It’s nearly a mathematic certainty, with the probability enhanced by the fact that American football coaches are probably the LEAST inclined to follow competent medical advice (play through the pain, son!)

Then someone will die. Maybe, again, several someones. Probably more likely to be a coach, as they’re older and some look like they’ve got some risk factors going on. Maybe, unfortunately, players. And when it’s over we’ll count the cost in lives so that ghouls like you can sit on the couch and stuff your face with potato chips while feeling like a real winner.

There are simply immense regional and cultural differences among people in this country. Your assumption is that if these kids don't play football, they'll be fine, or materially better than if they do, and that is just BS. I am all for not having the season but this is tripe you are spinning. All of these players at LSU and Clemson got sick before day one of practice. They are gonna get sick. They know what they are doing and they will do it anyway. Whether at home, at bbqs, at summer parties, at school or football. You don't understand people outside bubble-urbia. They are comfortable with risks that you are not.

I don't understand regional and cultural differences....ok....

I don't understand that 19-year-old guys at the peak of their physical performance would be cavalier about their chances of getting sick or dying? I get that. I don't assume that they'll automatically be better off by not being in school--some might return home to circumstances that are tough. But you, not surprisingly, are talking out of both sides of your mouth. On the one hand, you're saying that the college should let them play because it has some kind of responsibility for the well-being of the players, but on the other not *so much* responsibility that it prevent them from playing Russian roulette with their health and lives (covid, of course, doesn't just kill--also appears to fry people's brains).

My assumption is that if someone gets covid at home, at at bbq, or at a summer party, then it's on them. If they get covid at school in a mandatory in-person class, then that's the school's responsibility. If they get covid playing football, also the school's responsibility. My argument, simply, is that the college should remove the incentive for the players (and coaches, and support staff, and broadcast crews who will bring your your joy) to risk harm. Yes, they should take responsibility. The players might get covid anyways, but NOT because they were pressured into a ridiculously high-risk situation for your entertainment.

College sports but without college student-athletes. College sports are all about having a home team to root for and to bet on.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope at least one college football conference decides to play. (I fear that decision not to play is being forced on conferences from “above”.)

I do not look forward for press conferences tomorrow justifying decision. (If I were a star college football player, I would hope that my school/conference lets me go pro immediately.)

It is possible to play travel soccer without traveling out of the DMV. Travel soccer can work around counties in the DMV that wish to ban games.

Someone will. And for a few weeks, the Big Sky conference or whoever will be the hottest ticket in town.

Then someone will get sick with covid. Then multiple someones. It’s nearly a mathematic certainty, with the probability enhanced by the fact that American football coaches are probably the LEAST inclined to follow competent medical advice (play through the pain, son!)

Then someone will die. Maybe, again, several someones. Probably more likely to be a coach, as they’re older and some look like they’ve got some risk factors going on. Maybe, unfortunately, players. And when it’s over we’ll count the cost in lives so that ghouls like you can sit on the couch and stuff your face with potato chips while feeling like a real winner.

There are simply immense regional and cultural differences among people in this country. Your assumption is that if these kids don't play football, they'll be fine, or materially better than if they do, and that is just BS. I am all for not having the season but this is tripe you are spinning. All of these players at LSU and Clemson got sick before day one of practice. They are gonna get sick. They know what they are doing and they will do it anyway. Whether at home, at bbqs, at summer parties, at school or football. You don't understand people outside bubble-urbia. They are comfortable with risks that you are not.

Well pay them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope at least one college football conference decides to play. (I fear that decision not to play is being forced on conferences from “above”.)

I do not look forward for press conferences tomorrow justifying decision. (If I were a star college football player, I would hope that my school/conference lets me go pro immediately.)

It is possible to play travel soccer without traveling out of the DMV. Travel soccer can work around counties in the DMV that wish to ban games.

Someone will. And for a few weeks, the Big Sky conference or whoever will be the hottest ticket in town.

Then someone will get sick with covid. Then multiple someones. It’s nearly a mathematic certainty, with the probability enhanced by the fact that American football coaches are probably the LEAST inclined to follow competent medical advice (play through the pain, son!)

Then someone will die. Maybe, again, several someones. Probably more likely to be a coach, as they’re older and some look like they’ve got some risk factors going on. Maybe, unfortunately, players. And when it’s over we’ll count the cost in lives so that ghouls like you can sit on the couch and stuff your face with potato chips while feeling like a real winner.

There are simply immense regional and cultural differences among people in this country. Your assumption is that if these kids don't play football, they'll be fine, or materially better than if they do, and that is just BS. I am all for not having the season but this is tripe you are spinning. All of these players at LSU and Clemson got sick before day one of practice. They are gonna get sick. They know what they are doing and they will do it anyway. Whether at home, at bbqs, at summer parties, at school or football. You don't understand people outside bubble-urbia. They are comfortable with risks that you are not.