Within the last year I moved out of Nevada. Where I am now the closest Indian Casino will not have sports betting until end of this year. Don't like the internet books, too old fashion. So this cancellation of CFB no big deal to me.
What about the players who want to play? Michigan and Ohio State players are voicing their dismay. Most blame University Presidents. I don't, I blame the News Media and Election Year. The news media is posting "Big Ten did the right thing", commenters to articles say college age students need to learn. BULLS**T!!! People need to learn. The virus is very, very NASTY, no doubt. Students are their own would be more vulnerable than in the mostly controlled, regularly tested environment of college football, IMO and that of many others. Jim Harbaugh laid out the proof of how his program has mitigated the spread of COVID. But all it takes is one, and we have one. Indiana lineman developed swelling of the heart after COVID, myocarditis is it's name. Myocarditis can develop after influenza and obviously COVID to.
ESPN wrote an article it. This article swings wildly back and forth with a German study saying 60% of COVID patients get myocarditis to a Virginia team physician saying a very low number of athletes may get it. https://www.espn.com/college-footba...vid-19-fuels-power-5-concern-season-viability
Bottom line is this; PLAYERS said they wanted to play, felt safer in team environment. Football has so many inherit risks now with concussions, spinal injuries and 30+ deaths just playing/practicing since 2000. Players know, they are there. A lesson learned for them, a bitter lesson on how people are so easily duped!
ESPN reports MORE BIG10 parents chiming in; https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-big-ten-unfortunate-decision-postpone-season
I believe the young have figured out the virus not so bad to them, they want to get back to normal. Selfish some will say, but as long as they avoid those susceptible let them live!
Did you see several universities are hiring students as "ambassadors" to police campus COVID rules? Texas A&M has an online snitch form where you can add pics and video of those you want to turn in. Okla St will use wifi usage and network usage records to track you for "tracing". Orwell's 1984 book not so far fetched anymore!
9 Oklahoma players tested positive for the Covid today. We're off to a rousing start...
I guess this is going to be the new normal...for awhile anyway. It seems like when these players go home on break is when they get it. I wish they could play in the bubble like the NBA. But it's never going to be possible with student athletes...Riley doing a great job in Norman. All nine cases traced back to "community-based infections" after he gave the team a break on August 8th. He stated 75% of the team stayed in Norman while on break.
According to ESPN;
The Sooners have been one of the model programs nationally when it has come to managing coronavirus spread within its team. Riley was one of the last to bring his team back to campus for voluntary workouts, choosing to do so July 1, two weeks after the Big 12 allowed teams to do so. After announcing 14 positive tests in the initial round of testing when the team returned for July 1 workouts, the Sooners only had one positive player test in the next five weeks, including a four-week span from July 8-29 with zero positives. From July 1 to Aug. 8, the Sooners conducted 700 player tests, resulting in only 15 positives. Out of 186 tests of staff, only two have tested positive. The combined player and staff positivity rate of 1.9% in that five-week span was well below the state of Oklahoma's, which has been above six percent during the same time span and at one point reached as high as 10%. The state's seven-day rolling average positivity rate was 8.9% through Friday, according to the state's health department.
Guess Trevor Lawrence was right, players safer in training/playing!