Posted on 08/10/2020 8:54:58 AM PDT by drellberg
According to a report from ESPN, the “vast majority” of Big Ten presidents are in favor of postponing the season while hoping to play in the spring. Yahoo! Sports’ Pete Thamel reported Big Ten presidents and chancellors are scheduled to meet Sunday night.
(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...
scrap it.
Scrap football forever for all I care.
Let them get real jobs.
As long as Ohio State is out, I’m for it..............
Ping!...........
What happens to those on football scholarships? And the red shirted players?
America waits and wonders.
College football tv revenues help fund the liberalism taught in college that is destroying us. I’m done with it.
Marxism has already killed football.
Who cares? Certainly not me.
The Rutgers team went out & partied I think the first weekend after practice and caught the ‘rona.
Teams were talking about arriving on Wednesdays and staying in hotels. Sounded like a viable way to evict the homeless - send in football players to toss them out.
They’ll never play spring and fall seasons next year. The is just the Big 10 trying to stick it to the SEC and Orange Man.
Liberals destroy everything that they get their grubby little fingers into. Amazing!
I hope the Big 12, SEC and ACC say screw you and take all the TV revenue. That would make me smile.
This is a precursor to canceling in person classes. You can bet nearly all colleges will keep students home this Fall.
This is important.
Universities have four “legs” of funding.
1) tuition (about 65%-80%
2) sports—a large chunk of the remainder
3) gubment grants (a small % but steady)
4) endowments
They won’t touch #4 ever if they can help it.
This year #1 and 2 now will be significantly reduced. In the case of the U Cal/Cal-State systems, plus Georgetown, Pomona, USC, 100% on line with no student presence. This will cause tuition revenue to plummet.
When #2 goes away, a significant part of the income for #4 will begin to dry up.
We are on the threshold of razing the U system and creating genuine universities in their place.
OK, so I left out the “/S”, assuming it was implied.
From Steve Deace’s Twitter, read that there is a big push to unionize college athletics, and that is really the reason college Presidents are choosing to shut down the season.
Ohio State should now run two separate tracks. The first should include all of those players who are NFL draft prospects, however long shot. All should renounce playing college football ever again, and the program should work exclusively for these players to prepare for that draft.
Moving the season from fall to next spring renders it meaningless, so redirect and spare no expense in doing right by these athletes. If those athletes also want to have private trainers, agents, etc., then Ryan Day et al should work closely with them as well. Aim to blow the doors off of the NFL draft.
The second track is for underclassmen and those seniors who want to stick around. The objective is not to win spring games – who cares? – but rather to make player development the key objective and to put the best possible team on the field when college football resumes in fall 2021.
In short, put the players first and take full advantage of this time.
I’ve go to believe that the other conferences will also cancel and in that event I would counsel (and expect) other top 10 programs to go the same route.
Did they clear this with the NFL?? How about the high schools that are getting ready to broom out their athletes?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.