There using that we’ll play in the spring.. like a Dangling carrot..
Big Ten to Try to Play in Spring 2021?
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There using that we’ll play in the spring.. like a Dangling carrot..
Only thing would be if there is something somewhere in the contracts that states when the official football season is ? Maybe could get around it that the football season ends Say Jan 10th. Anything after that date is considered part of the 2021 season.
we are playing this fall ... Scott Frost said so
During a press conference via Zoom on Monday afternoon, head coach Scott Frost made it clear that the Huskers were determined to play football this fall, even if meant creating their own schedule should the conference decide to postpone or cancel this season.
“We want to play a Big Ten schedule,” Frost said. “I hope that’s what happens. Our University is committed to playing no matter what that looks like and how that looks. We want to play no matter where it is and who it is, so we’ll see how all those chips fall and certainly hope it’s in the Big Ten and if it isn’t, then we’re prepared to look for other options.”
As an alumnus of a school not in the Big 10 I just say damn this sucks for you guys. I'm just glad our commissioner appears to have some stones and isn't going to cower in the corner in fear for the rest of his life. Come south and east for a year and play some ball with us because there is no chance you get anything but a half-assed attempt at an exhibition league in the Spring.
We need Boris the Cockhammer back on this thread. Paging Boris... Boris.
Careful. I think in the end we're likely to end up the school that let a coach off the leash and didn't have the guts to go through with it.
EXACTLY. All political.
If we play, and some players contract it (even though nothing will happen to them) politics will take over and they will fire people for being "greedy".
Just make this damn thing optional. Let people take responsibility for their lives, I hate that those of us that aren't shaking in our boots have to appease a loud, annoying minority that wants everything shut down and no one can ever get sick no matter if it costs us our way of life.
If these idiots managed our money they would have us all in a money market, because any amount of risk in stocks or bonds is too great to potentially lose $1 to make $100.
Amen. 2020: The Weak Leading the Blind
I can’t see the SEC and ACC being the only conferences that play this year in the P5. That would just be cruel and unusual punishment for everyone else. There’s too much money to be made. If 2 conferences play, other schools with large income to gain will also play. But I could also still see no one playing.
Everyone that canceled their season deserves the consequences of that dumb f***ing decision.
Any conference or team that plays deserves the rewards that come with making a sensible decision based on science and not politics.
The Husker store in Estes has been closed for a few years.
I dont get why people are saying "Big Ten postponed until the spring." That isn't what the statement said. The statement said:
"The Big Ten Conference will continue to evaluate a number of options regarding these sports, including the possibility of competition in the spring."
That doesn't sound very promising.... I think they just want to limit the backlash by pointing to the spring. Once spring gets here... they'll just say well let's just wait until the fall like always and we'll go forward with spring practice.
"The Big Ten Conference will continue to evaluate a number of options regarding these sports, including the possibility of competition in the spring."
That doesn't sound very promising.... I think they just want to limit the backlash by pointing to the spring. Once spring gets here... they'll just say well let's just wait until the fall like always and we'll go forward with spring practice.
That's my interpretation as well. Kevin Warren isn't a good attorney but he's an attorney, and in typical attorney fashion he said absolutely nothing today despite speaking for several minutes and signing off on a press release.
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It won't happen. Too many logistical issues. Recruiting season, dead of winter weather, NFL combine and draft, competing NCAA sports, and ending a season and then almost immediately starting up again.
Bingo! Well stated sir.....
The children I was referring to weren’t the players
the kid is an adult - if the leaders of his conference say they can play - that is his choice
this is why you have to change conferences. You can't just defy this and expect things to be normal next year.. in fact, they are a little sketchy right now I would think, given the veiled threats before and after the cancellation. I think you kind of have to go through with it now. They are expecting you not to, but if you do, things look much better on the other side.
I know damn well what you’re referring too.
If Warren let’s him play what does that say..
Think about that.
Handling necessary COVID procedures while maintaining amateur athlete status for the players. The COVID situation didn't change in the last week since the new schedule was released. However, the momentum behind collective bargaining by the players did. The B1G and now Pac-12 are getting out ahead of this by shutting down the season.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/stor...eason-cancel-big-ten-we-want-to-play-movement
Collective bargaining of what?
Why can't it be, anyone that doesn't want to risk playing, go sit in your dorm room and jack off.
Everyone that wants to play, let's get with it.
This isn't that f***ing complicated if you live in a free country, which we don't anymore.
maybe it says he raised an adult capable of weighing the risks and benefits of the options that are laid out by his up lines
Until 3 other conference’s shut it down the other 2 look like wussies.
The part of his brain that has rational thought has been broken for a bit.
So BIG players aren’t adults? Only SEC players?
It is over for everyone this year. The spring? Not going to happen. Accept it and move on to Sept 2021. Unfortunately with the current mass hysteria and panic that is currently going on, I am not so sure that we will be playing a year from now either. How can this mess, in the mighty USA of all places, even be reality and not just a bad dream? Because that is exactly how it feels.
It depends on how you look at it. Some may look at it from player health and that debate has been beaten to death here. But if you look at it from the perspective of shutting down a season to prevent the slippery slope toward unionization then it doesn't seem all that weak. Might be wrong to squash it, but it is a strong move nonetheless.
The key portion of my post you are missing is “as laid out by their up lines”. The Big players up lines ... ie bosses .... decided they weren’t sanctioning football this fall. The SEC players currently have the option of playing or not
If it were that simple then there would be B1G football. And that was the plan up until last weekend. The COVID situation didn't change, but Trevor Lawrence did tweet out a call for a players association. In other words, a union. His call was endorsed by many players, including in the B1G. Under labor law, a union consists of employees. So the players couldn't form a union, but letting them form any kind of association would give them a seat at the table when it comes to making decisions. This is a major step toward shifting the debate in favor of forming an official union, which means paying college players. This is an entirely different ballgame than allowing players to profit off their likeness. Of course coaches at major programs like Clemson would support this idea. The NCAA, however, is a tax exempt entity recognized under Supreme Court rulings as a non-professional sports association. So unless universities are prepared to disassociate with the NCAA or to fight legal battles against federal labor law (and find middle ground between each state's laws, BTW) and Supreme Court rulings, players will be dissuaded from forming associations or anything else that is a union by another name. From the perspective of B1G universities (and now Pac-12 and I'm sure soon to be others), dealing with the short-term fallout of COVID is a far smaller loss than the long-term implications of relinquishing the amateur status of college athletes.
I'm not going to get into whether I'm for or against a players association, but this is what I gather is the rationale behind the decisions being made. Throw on top of that the even greater responsibility that presidents and chancellors have to protecting their campuses and it becomes an easy choice from their perspective.
No thank you. When you are 100% sure you can return to normal then return to normal.
the key is "almost" anyone. There has already been a couple fb players diagnosed with myocarditis. Usually that ends up being transient and goes away within a few months. But heart issues of any kind carry an ominous aura to parents and lawyers alike. i did read an article written by a CD that says they are pretty routine to treat nowadays. i think more athletes have already got covid before the season started then get the flu in an entire season. so it would be really hard to compare the 2. One has not been uncommon already and the flu is pretty uncommon among players during a season
Yes, and they don't want all of the top Big Ten players to hit the transfer portal.
If that's the case, they handled it about as poorly as possible. Put out a schedule, then a few days later "postpone" the season indefinitely. With no path or communicated plan or timeline going forward.
Question:. If you're a 4 or 5 star player in this conference today, what's your motivation for staying?
The idea that maybe the BIG will play football again one day once a vaccine is developed (5 years from now, if ever?)
Yeah. If the Huskers can get a temporary agreement with the Big 12 they would fit perfectly into a round robin schedule or a North Division if the conference wants to play fewer games (would really expect a round robin though).
I could see discussion with Iowa as well.
There may be a chance that a Big 12 school doesn't want to play and Iowa or Nebraska could sub in also.
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