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As problems mount, college football's outlook appears grim: 'You can feel the tidal wave coming'
Yahoo ^ | August 5, 2020 | Pete Thamel

Posted on 08/05/2020 12:23:40 PM PDT by C19fan

The painful unwinding of the 2020 college football season is upon us.

So many significant events for the sport have been squeezed into the last 72 hours that it feels like the rat-a-tat lyrics to the old REM song, “It’s the end of the world.” Except no one feels fine.

The most visceral news came with UConn football canceling the 2020 season on Wednesday morning, the first Division I program to do so. Then there are the star defections – Virginia Tech’s Caleb Farley, Minnesota’s Rashod Bateman and the expectation that Penn State’s Micah Parsons will join them soon. It continued with an internal investigation at Colorado State for its handling of COVID-19, a Stadium report that three-quarters of Idaho players don’t want to play and three Big Ten schools with significant enough breakouts and contact tracing that they’ve paused workouts.

(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Sports
KEYWORDS: college; covid19; education; football; ncaa; sports
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Crazy to expect 18 - 22 year old on a college campus to socially distance and like. College campuses are a petri dish.
1 posted on 08/05/2020 12:23:40 PM PDT by C19fan
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UConn canceling is an act of mercy to its beleaguered fans. Their record the past 3 seasons was 6-30.


2 posted on 08/05/2020 12:25:22 PM PDT by montag813 (Nonsenze)
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The NCAA announced athletes who sit out will retain their scholarships and schools cannot force students to sign a COVID19 waiver. So one player who dies or has serious complications the family can sue for a big payout from the school.


3 posted on 08/05/2020 12:25:28 PM PDT by C19fan
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I chucked when an article described UConncan't as "big time" football program.
4 posted on 08/05/2020 12:26:48 PM PDT by C19fan
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save money on these scholarships....players won't play, they don't get scholarships....

I am so tired of people begging NOT to work for what they get....teachers and professional athletes and now college athletes...

go indulge yourself....

5 posted on 08/05/2020 12:26:57 PM PDT by cherry
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NCAA football will not be missed.


6 posted on 08/05/2020 12:27:25 PM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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Can the players get jobs at McDonald’s?


7 posted on 08/05/2020 12:28:07 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Even if things (Chinese flu wise) were back to normal, BLM would ruin the year.


8 posted on 08/05/2020 12:29:09 PM PDT by albie
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To: C19fan

Skeeter Davis, End of the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=K7nWr31_RXA&feature=emb_logo


9 posted on 08/05/2020 12:29:18 PM PDT by Fungi
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College football season won’t last as long as John Lewis funeral.


10 posted on 08/05/2020 12:30:31 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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The point of college is drinking, smoking weed, and sex.
Oh, and I guess classes.


11 posted on 08/05/2020 12:30:55 PM PDT by EEGator
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All football will be cancelled pro and college.................


12 posted on 08/05/2020 12:31:49 PM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'...........................)
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The point of college is drinking, smoking weed, and sex.
Oh, and I guess classes.


Those are the classes for credit......................


13 posted on 08/05/2020 12:32:05 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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I think some conferences will have games: SEC and ACC especially. Big Ten and Pac 12 maybe. All in-conference only.


14 posted on 08/05/2020 12:32:29 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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UConn had already committed football suicide by leaving the American Athletic Conference for the current Big East for the benefit of the basketball program. Since the Big East is not a football conference that left them to twist in the wind as an independent.

Pratt and Whitney Stadium is gonna be a black hole for Connecticut taxpayers.


15 posted on 08/05/2020 12:32:41 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“Except no one feels fine.”

Wrong. So far as the outlook for “major” college sports goes, I feel fine. It’s a corrupt mess that needs a major financial haircut and decoupling from the educational mission of universities. Let the NFL and NBA run their own farm teams.


16 posted on 08/05/2020 12:33:00 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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Massive coronavirus outbreak envelops Rutgers football team
17 posted on 08/05/2020 12:33:22 PM PDT by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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Look on the bright side, think of all the injuries avoided.


18 posted on 08/05/2020 12:33:31 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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espn’s cash spewing prostitute and the nfl’s free farm system is in danger?

good. let it die. then maybe it can be reborn as what it’s supposed to be in the first place; college athletics for the sake of amateur competition.


19 posted on 08/05/2020 12:34:11 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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You should leave college 25 pounds heavier from bloating due to impaired liver function, know how to make an IBD(improvised bong device), and have Herpes and HPV.


20 posted on 08/05/2020 12:34:58 PM PDT by EEGator
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