[DeplorablePaul]

Canceling a football season because of an unrelated death of a player is not rational. Life doesn’t stop because bad things happen. Curling up in a ball is a weak response. This coach is setting a bad example.

[FoxInSocks]

Their record is 0-6. Maybe that has something to do with it.

[9YearLurker]

How about sheltering in place for days, with supermarkets, etc., closing—because a crime has been committed a couple of hours away?

[Phoenix8]

I thought football was the essence of a sport promoting/teaching young men moral resilience, struggling to win through adversity?

You know the old adage when the going gets tough the tough get going? Sounds like they need a new coach.

[piytar]

AGREED. Well said.

[SamAdams76]

When I was in grade school in the 1970s, a classmate of mine was killed on nearby railroad tracks. He and his friends were playing "chicken" with an oncoming train, which consists of seeing how close you can let the train come before running across in front of it without getting hit. Yes, a very stupid game and eventually, somebody got killed.

Next day in school, the principal announced the tragic death and then proceeded to give a lecture (over the loudspeaker system) on the dangers of the railroad and that any students caught near the tracks again would be immediately suspended from school.

The loudspeaker clicked off and the teachers started class without a further comment.

No touchy-feely, no "grief counseling" at our disposal, none of that. Our classmates death was dismissed as an act of stupidity and we moved on with our lives.

Just illustrating how things are different now than back then.

[rdcbn1]

We have become a nation of emotion driven, virtue signaling wimps.