Breaking — Big Ten cancels college football…[And PAC-12]

www.citizenfreepress.com ^ | Posted by Kane on August 10, 2020 12:09 pm

[Red Badger]

DP was told an hour ago that the Big 10 and Pac 12 will cancel their football seasons tomorrow… The ACC and the Big 12 are on the fence.. And the SEC is trying to get teams to join them for a season.

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— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) August 10, 2020

Dan Patrick reported during his radio show this morning the Big Ten has voted.

There won’t be a college football season this fall.

Patrick said a source told him that the Big Ten and Pac-12 will cancel their seasons on Tuesday. He said he learned the Big 12 and ACC are “on the fence,” and that the SEC is trying to get the other teams to join them for a season this fall.

The Big Ten presidents voted 12-2 to not play this fall. Patrick said only Nebraska and Iowa voted to play.

Continue reading…

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/2020/08/10/big-ten-football-cancels-season-michigan-michigan-state/3332277001/

[Buckeye McFrog]

It's a virus with a 99 percent survival rate, remember? Remember how we were just going to shut down for a couple of weeks to protect the elderly and keep the hospitals from becoming overcrowded? Remember that? We are being gaslighted like no people have ever been gaslighted before.

And I lay that entirely, squarely, at the feet of Mike Pence. He should have been stating all of the above LOUDLY and DAILY from his task force briefings. He blew the messaging on this as badly as it could possibly have been blown.

[DAC21]

Seems a bit drastic, what prevents them to at least look at an amended 10 game Spring season? March 20th start,one week off after game five. The Season ends on May 29th. Bowl games on June 12th or 19th. Call it a year with none of the Playoff BS. Just let the AP / Coaches Poll declare the National Champion just like they did 22 years ago.

[chiller]

Makes me not mind so much getting near the end of the road .

I've had the same thought. I once hoped I'd be able from on high to watch all the great ongoings on planet earth for ever. If that happens to be true, I'm not sure I could bear to watch it.

On a similar wave length; have you ever calculated the very best era/years to live ? I submit it was shortly after WW2 until approximately now, so we did well living in unequalled freedom and convenience and medicine that we have. Now, I hope to make it to see DjT in stone on Rushmore.

Obama recalculated my desired checkout time, but DjT reversed most everything he did and so provided a few more years of smiles.

[Rebelbase]

"Add in naked cheerleaders I’ll watch"

Have at it.

[Songcraft]

They forgot to mention that that new COVID vaccine turns a person hideously ugly!

[political1]

I went to UAB. Trust me when I say, “you can go without football for a year or Two.”

[M Kehoe]

Breaking! The Big Ten turns into the Little ten.

I hope the SEC doesn’t turn into viginas too.

5.56mm

[Rastus]

The best path to wealth for these kneeling BLMers is quickly going the way of the buggy whip. Polish those rap skills, guys.

[tomkat]

Well said, FRiend, and I agree re our having shared in America’s ‘golden age’.

[real saxophonist]

Does anyone think these “student”-athletes will use this time to knock out a few classes?

[DrewsMum]

Exactly what I said. 100% they deserve it

[DrewsMum]

Yea but the after effects... are Hell.... so much unknown still,

[kabar]

We know a lot about the virus after 20 million cases worldwide including 5 million in the US. Complications after recovery are relatively rare. Most people show mild or no symptoms and don’t require hospitalization. Fatality rates are approaching those experienced in a bad flu season. 43% of deaths have occurred in nursing homes/LTC facilities. 83% of all deaths are people 65 and older.

[Impy]

Not a chance, too much money at stake. It’s a lot harder dealing with college kids as opposed to professionals.

[Impy]

A shame. And democrats WILL try to blame it on Trump in a desperate attempt to cleave his base from him.

[Red Badger]

It’s a lot harder dealing with college kids as opposed to professionals.

I read an article in a sports mag years ago, before the internet, from a famous coach that had come from the college universe and was in the NFL universe now, and he said the exact opposite. He said college kids were easy to deal with because they looked up to you and did whatever you told them to do. They had MS and HS coaches that were iron fisted dictators and expected no different from the college coaches. Whereas the ADULT players in the NFL were argumentative and had their own agendas and their own ideas about how to run plays and what plays to run and who to cover and not cover, showing up late for practice or not showing up at all, showing up drunk or under the influence and being an all around pain in the ass to other players, etc.......