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.
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I was really looking forward to the Texas Tech Red Raider Patrick Mahomes playing this year. Guns Up Mahomes.
Hate to say it but I agree. Just another economy killing scheme.
I would miss it and I am sure that many around here would miss it.
Good riddance.
The college athlete dream of playing in the NFL will be subsumed by this: Do you want fries with that burger?
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