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I like Big 10 commish Kevin Warren buckling down, even though it was the presidents who voted to suspend fall sports, and even though Warren has become the fall guy for criticism!
As for the ACC, well: UNC and Notre Dame (this year they're ACC) students wilding out, on campus, with a few covid positives. Whoops, don't leave out my alma mater, Syracuse, whose informal freshman quad gathering got an angry letter from the vice chancellor; despite the school not dispersing the crowd before it got big. Eight positives, at Cuse, so far. I won't even give my views on opening up, against Liberty.
I bring up those campus incidents to say that they may have an impact on whether not just ACC football, but whether all the ACC schools might shut their whole campuses down, again!
Probably not a coincidence. Most of the players are African American, and the South isn't real strong on the whole BLM thing.
And for most of these African American athletes, this is their one shot to get up out of da hood. They've been told since they were a child that they had a gift and skill that not many can replicate and they have a real shot at the next level. We're talking D1 athletes who have been training their whole lives to try to make it to the NFL or at least gather connections in the sports industry. Their family needs help now and they are the shining light to an escape out of a life of poverty.
I'm an African American male so I totally understand. When you come from generational poverty and school just never came very easy for you, you look to other things you are good at. For most African American athletes it is their sports background.
I like Big 10 commish Kevin Warren buckling down, even though it was the presidents who voted to suspend fall sports, and even though Warren has become the fall guy for criticism!
As for the ACC, well: UNC and Notre Dame (this year they're ACC) students wilding out, on campus, with a few covid positives. Whoops, don't leave out my alma mater, Syracuse, whose informal freshman quad gathering got an angry letter from the vice chancellor; despite the school not dispersing the crowd before it got big. Eight positives, at Cuse, so far. I won't even give my views on opening up, against Liberty.
I bring up those campus incidents to say that they may have an impact on whether not just ACC football, but whether all the ACC schools might shut their whole campuses down, again!
500 cases already in the University of Alabama system after 6 days of reopening:
If the SEC and the others insist on playing football, then we will be able to finally rest the claim that they care about the players. Colleges are quickly sending home non athlete students to protect their health, but want to insist that football players risk theirs, and for what? The TV money.
Basketball: Mid January -end March
Football: end March to mid May
Baseball: beginning of May to end of June.
Yah football will be tough to pull off probably with the short break before the schools start summer practices, and you have a risk of a lot of first round & select second round picks sitting out, but I think it's better to push everyone back to the same time frame and give everyone a fair shot. Maybe by January 2021 we are still in the $#!t anyways, but kick the can further down the road. ESPN with the NFL can probably kick the draft back to the end of May.
If the SEC and the others insist on playing football, then we will be able to finally rest the claim that they care about the players. Colleges are quickly sending home non athlete students to protect their health, but want to insist that football players risk theirs, and for what? The TV money.
Bama opened back up, and they started partying, off the bat!
Not a surprising point of view from someone living in a state who's flagship university (Colorado) is something like 39 wins vs 77 losses so far this decade. Not finding life much better in the Pac12 than they did the Big12 it seems.
Come to think of it, A&M hasn’t done any better in the SEC than they did in the Big 12.
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