Big Ten cancels college football season for fall 2020

[jmyrlefuller]

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-ten-cancels-college-football-season-for-fall-2020-hopes-to-play-in-spring-2021/

Following a morning meeting of the conference's presidents, the Big Ten on Tuesday decided to cancel the college football season for fall 2020 with hopes of playing in spring 2021. With this decision, the Big Ten has become the first Power Five conference to decide not to play this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We know how significant the student-athlete experience can be in shaping the future of the talented young women and men who compete in the Big Ten Conference. Although that knowledge made this a painstaking decision, it did not make it difficult. "

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[jmyrlefuller]

Not even in 1918 was college football canceled.

This is what you get for following a Communist-led WHO into lockdown. It becomes impossible to get out of it once it inevitably fails.

[Smokin Joe]

Get off your knees kids, the pros are going to try to get someone to watch any way they can.


Watch HS sports.

[Absalom]

The college administrators grasp that a Covid-19 infected student body
is the end of their job and reputation. So no football. Wise!
Of course college football's media flunkies have gone bonkers, as they're out of work.
The NFL is simply a Casino of competing gambling interests and relentless media yip-yap,
who don't give a crap about the health and well being of any individual.

[DB]

Land of the free, home of the brave has been pretty much turned on its head...

[Sighlass]

The rest (college football) will follow suit here soon.

[sneakypete]

This is going to cause a lot of small businesses to fail.

Probably going to cause more than a few that are not so "little" to lay-off employees and cut back on production.fr

Not to mention it's going to kill the "golden duck" of "free money" from tourists coming to town  to see games that need a place to stay,eat,but gas,buy groceries,booze,etc,etc,etc.

The "ripple effect".

Which will,in turn cause cities to try to raise taxed to cut down on budget shortfalls,which of course causes some people to move to greener pastures.

NOTHING financial happens in a vacuum.

[sneakypete]

Get off your knees kids, the pros are going to try to get someone to watch any way they can.


Watch HS sports.

@Smokin Joe

I have about as much desire to watch sports as I do in being castrated,but where are people supposed to watch HS sports,when most schools are still shut down,and will remain shut down until after the election,when a "cure" will be found by some sort of "miracle" if Biden wins.

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

I have about as much desire to watch sports as I do in being castrated,but where are people supposed to watch HS sports,when most schools are still shut down,and will remain shut down until after the election,when a "cure" will be found by some sort of "miracle" if Biden wins.

If Biden wins, the cow will give straight cream, the trees will blossom again, and COVID will be found to be a hoax, an invention of the evil and desperate cis-gendered heteronormal binary raysis right wing (I think I got that s*#t right) designed to hold back loving peaceful protesters and keep them from shopping at Target and Ray's Corner Liquor.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

The woke conferences like the Big 10 and Pac 12 will be sitting on the sidelines watching the ACC, SEC and Big 12 battle it out for the National Championship.  Along the way, premier athletes and coaches will transfer out of the woke schools into those conferences who actually want to play football.

I predict the NCAA will not approve these transfers, or even try to ban theses schools from playing at all to appease the woke schools, which just might cause these major conferences to walk away from the monopolistic NCAA and form their own super conference, effectively neutering the NCAA.

Let the Big 10 and Pac 12 play the Rose bowl during the springtime, as few will watch.

[Smokin Joe]

The woke conferences like the Big 10 and Pac 12 will be sitting on the sidelines watching the ACC, SEC and Big 12 battle it out for the National Championship.  Along the way, premier athletes and coaches will transfer out of the woke schools into those conferences who actually want to play football.

I predict the NCAA will not approve these transfers, or even try to ban theses schools from playing at all to appease the woke schools, which just might cause these major conferences to walk away from the monopolistic NCAA and form their own super conference, effectively neutering the NCAA.

Let the Big 10 and Pac 12 play the Rose bowl during the springtime, as few will watch.

Good. I've had a bone to pick with the NCAA since the Fighting Sioux logo was removed (UND GF, one of the baddest-assed college hockey teams ever).

[IsailedawayfromFR]

The woke conferences like the Big 10 and Pac 12 will be sitting on the sidelines watching the ACC, SEC and Big 12 battle it out for the National Championship.  Along the way, premier athletes and coaches will transfer out of the woke schools into those conferences who actually want to play football.

I predict the NCAA will not approve these transfers, or even try to ban theses schools from playing at all to appease the woke schools, which just might cause these major conferences to walk away from the monopolistic NCAA and form their own super conference, effectively neutering the NCAA.

Let the Big 10 and Pac 12 play the Rose bowl during the springtime, as few will watch.

Looks like the NCAA is setting the stage to ban football this season.

NCAA's Top Doctor Casts Doubt on College Sports Happening in Fall
The NCAA's chief medical officer says there is a narrow path to playing college sports during the coronavirus pandemic and if testing nationwide does not improve, it cannot be done.

Meanwhile, one of college football's biggest stars sent out a petition Sunday, calling on the Big Ten to play football this fall.

Dr. Brian Hainline told CNN late Saturday that “everything would have to line up perfectly” for college sports to be played this fall. Much of the fall college sports season has been canceled, with conferences hoping to make up competitions, including football, in the spring.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ncaa-college-sports-pandemic/2020/08/16/id/982400/

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Now saying canceling Big10 football will cost Biden Michigan

Report: Gretchen Whitmer the Lone Governor Holding Up Big 10 Football Season
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is reportedly the lone Midwestern governor holding up the start of the Big 10 football season.

The Spun cited Ohio State insider as saying Democrat Whitmer is a “major roadblock” to it all coming together, which would essentially amount to the teams playing each other outside of the traditional league.

“I was also told that one roadblock to the new plan is the fact that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been vehemently opposed to football being played – at the high school and college level – in the state this fall,” Snook said.

“Ohio Governor Mike DeWine gave his blessing to all sports being played this fall on Tuesday.”

The Michigan High School Athletic Association has canceled high school football for the fall and has tentatively moved the season to spring.

The Spun reported Whitmer is “standing in the way of all the others” and is blocking Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio State, and Penn State.

If Whitmer continues to object, both Michigan and Michigan State would be out of the mix.

Last week, Robert Cahaly of the Trafalgar Group argued the lack of a Big 10 football season — and the appearance of supporting such a cancellation — could have an impact on the presidential election.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/23/report-gretchen-whitmer-lone-governor-holding-big-10-football-season/

[GtHawk]

Well this is just racist! This decision will unfairly impact the poorly educated Black athletes that major in football, how in the world will they be able to land overpaid salaries for a limited skill if they can't showcase those skills?

[mountaineer]

Now saying canceling Big10 football will cost Biden Michigan

Report: Gretchen Whitmer the Lone Governor Holding Up Big 10 Football Season ...

Whatever it takes.

[Smokin Joe]

Whatever it takes.

It takes a village knee whatever. Who cares? If everyone else wants to play, re organize the schedule and play the Big 9.   MI will get the sidelines they voted for. 
That way all those other athletes will get their shot at the pros, and the market won't be completely glutted with frustrated 'coulda-been' gym teachers.

[Wingnut]

Well this is just racist! This decision will unfairly impact the poorly educated Black athletes that major in football, how in the world will they be able to land overpaid salaries for a limited skill if they can't showcase those skills?

It's enough for a guy to take a knee on the sidelines of life in protest of the inhumanity of it all.  Somewhere in the distance I can hear the National Anthem playing...but not for thee.

[DB]

The simple truth is all these players are entertainers.

They don't actually achieve anything short of entertainment.

The professional class of entertainers have let their egos exceed their value.

[jmyrlefuller]

Well, if the plan goes forward without Michigan (and Michigan State), it'll leave just one less opportunity for Jim Harbaugh to disappoint the university.