Posted on 07/10/2020 3:03:38 AM PDT by C19fan
College football’s house of cards of a 2020 season collapsed on Thursday. In this case, it was by design — a voluntary and preemptive reshuffling and retreat. The Big Ten announced it was packing up and building its own place — canceling all non-conference games and playing a league only slate of nine, or maybe 10 contests. It’s an attempt to maximize control in the hope that it might make it through the COVID-19 pandemic. No one knows if it will work, but smaller, swifter and more cautious seems to make sense.
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Just give everyone a little BLM flag to wave as people enter the stadium. That will turn the game into a BLM rally and everything will be ok.
Our 'burb has excellent walking trails, some along canals, one runs by the Trinity River. There's also an historical marker that identifies a crossing point used by the 49ers.
Selfishly, I'm hoping there's a semblance of a college basketball season. I'm a Gonzaga alum, and we were looking forward to March Madness. It was a special year for me, as 3 of our players were from North Texas.
The Zags are loaded this year, with potentially our best recruiting class ever. They're fine young men, good students, too...top of the heap when it comes to academic rankings.
There's a real family vibe surrounding Zag basketball, too. For example, a few years ago, we were up in Spokane (I needed my fix), my excuse was to enroll my son in a basketball camp.
After the second day of camp, my then 7 YO grandson was invited on to the court by one of the players' brothers. Corey Kispert took time out of his evening workout to give him a 30 minute class, punctuated by hoisting him on to his shoulders for a slam dunk.
Fast forward 2 years, when the Zags played at Texas A&M, winning by 30. After the game, most of the players came out of the locker room to mingle with fans and family. When my grandson saw Corey, his eyes lit up and went to talk to him. I advised him that Corey might not remember him, but Corey called him out by name, and they had a chance to reconnect for a few minutes. Corey was also named to several scholar-athlete teams this past season.
The Zags are scheduled to play UT in Austin, and Texas Tech in Phoenix later this year. I've prepared myself for the probability that games will be played without fans, if at all.
I pay little attention to the NBA, except for when former Zags are playing.
American pubic university football coaches are often the highest paid employees in their states.
That is all you need to know about universities not being serious places.
America, de-fund and close ALL public universities! They are traitorous propaganda mills intent on turning patriotic American young people into violent Marxists.
America’s universities are destroying the futures of all of our young people by teaching them destructive and violent lies about their own country.
America’s universities are turning our young people into worthless, hateful and destructive criminals with no useful future.
American universities are life-support systems for worthless collegiate athletic programs recruiting angy street thugs who hate America.
Whatever. Maybe they can direct their money toward serious academic research (Non-SJW crapola) instead of the ridiculous notion of paying a coach 7 figure salaries like the caver at Oklahoma St. College sports should only be intramural level anyway.
Good, it means less money for these Leftist institutions.
Big time college athletic programs are somewhat separate from the main college funding arm. The coach may get a base pay on par with a high level professor, but the big bucks come from side deals for advertising, TV contracts and etc..
Yes, and it’s strange isn’t it? How suddenly it’s acceptable to “test” perfectly healthy, symptom-free people for a “disease” and proclaim them to be afflicted with said “disease”?
How has humanity made it this far without testing everyone for every possible disease every day since time began?
But I read where he took a 1 million dollar pay cut as atonement. I would think that would come from his salary.
“Holder said Gundy’s rollover contract was reduced from five years to four and the guarantee was cut from 75 percent to 50 percent. The buyout also was dropped from $5 million to $4 million. Holder didn’t say whether the $1 million pay cut was a one-time arrangement or something that would happen annually.”
I’ve never ever heard of a government worker willingly taking a pay cut other than a furlough. It just doesn’t work that way.
The gun ranges are open and I lately find shooting as a sport far more entertaining (and therapeutic) than watching professional ball players.
For everyone under 60 EVERYTHING IS “SAFE”.
Maybe it was take a pay cut or hit the bricks. I’m not sure how this stuff works. It’s ridiculous that he was getting this kind of money. It’s not like Oklahoma St is a national powerhouse. They’re not bad, but they’re not in the playoffs either.
My guess is with Covid-19 there was no way way he was going to meet his possible “performance” raises, so it was to decline them....
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