When we stormed Normandy we knew there would be casualties
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Here's the basic problem: you have a half dozen conferences, each with individual and separate medical advisors, all getting differing opinions.
The NCAA (or perhaps a sub-group formed by the major conferences) need a single medical board advising them. Because right now you have about 6 groups of medical advisors all looking at the same X-Ray and seeing different things. That ain't gonna work if you want consistency.
Who's right? I dunno. Thing is, when it comes to COVID nobody knows everything. In fact, nobody really knows anything for sure. We simply look at numbers and extrapolate.
I will say this. According to what I read, B1G athletes can keep their 20 hour a week schedule. They can meet, study, train, lift weights, workout, practice and drill.
They just can't play the games against other guys who also test negative. That makes no sense to me.
If the rationale is "we can't afford to test 300 athletes every week just to be able to play sports. Those tests should go to the community at large". OK. I get that.
But if the issue is safety, not money, then I don't see where playing a real game is any more risky than a practice.
Just my opinion
The NCAA (or perhaps a sub-group formed by the major conferences) need a single medical board advising them. Because right now you have about 6 groups of medical advisors all looking at the same X-Ray and seeing different things. That ain't gonna work if you want consistency.
Who's right? I dunno. Thing is, when it comes to COVID nobody knows everything. In fact, nobody really knows anything for sure. We simply look at numbers and extrapolate.
I will say this. According to what I read, B1G athletes can keep their 20 hour a week schedule. They can meet, study, train, lift weights, workout, practice and drill.
They just can't play the games against other guys who also test negative. That makes no sense to me.
If the rationale is "we can't afford to test 300 athletes every week just to be able to play sports. Those tests should go to the community at large". OK. I get that.
But if the issue is safety, not money, then I don't see where playing a real game is any more risky than a practice.
Just my opinion
Comes with pluses and minuses. We've seen several coaches in several leagues, Lincoln Riley among them, say this would be easier with a College Goodell. And in general that's true, its ill-advised for militaries to split their command and in times of crisis a singular chain of command is generally a good idea.
But vesting the one lone power carries greater risk too. If Warrren or Emmert are the person, no one has college fb right now. If its Sankey, we might. You just never know.
Unlike you, I'm too embarrassed to see anything that should be applauded. We are a national joke right now.
Fair enough sir....good reply. I agree on the single medical board.
I might reply with more later...sometimes this board gets exhausting. I need a break (not because of you).
This has been a fun (and civil!) discussion. Truly uncharted waters.
With California still being locked up like a Tupperware container, it was pretty easy to predict that the PAC 12 was gonna cancel. Last time I looked, the CA schools are all remote learning through the fall - and you can't ask athletes to go on campus if the rest of the student body can't. That's nuts. And if the CA schools aren't playing, adios. Combine that with the prevailing politics in CA, Oregon and Washington . . . well, the math is easy.
With California still being locked up like a Tupperware container, it was pretty easy to predict that the PAC 12 was gonna cancel. Last time I looked, the CA schools are all remote learning through the fall - and you can't ask athletes to go on campus if the rest of the student body can't. That's nuts. And if the CA schools aren't playing, adios. Combine that with the prevailing politics in CA, Oregon and Washington . . . well, the math is easy.
