Its rare the issue that is so divisive and polarizing. Talking with different people would lead you to believe we all don’t live on the same planet.
You just beat me to this. I thinks maybe Cade is looking looking good also… Hope Joe worked on that touch but he can throw and he can run. With the running backs they have they could be a fun team to watch.
Big 10 releases new football schedule.
Ohio State/Michigan in Columbus on December 12.
Stanford may sit out this season if the p12 votes to resume football.
Thanks for the post @bluebayou Sorry I laughed at this part:
Oy! ?
If Cal and UCLA are “similarly high-minded,” then they should be more than “lukewarmly agreeing” with Stanford.
So Stanford doesn’t give advantages to student-athletes that aren’t available to students? No admissions plus? No athletic scholarships? Accesss to trainers/tutors that non-athletes don’t have?
From the games that I’ve attended the past several seasons, Stanford football doesn’t even come close to filling their stadium anyway. So I’m not sure the revenue loss, at least on football ticket revenue, in the greater scheme of the Stanford revenue stream, will be much anyway.
I work with a long-time Stanford season ticket holder, who finally got sick and tired of the season ticket price hikes and gave up his primo seats. And he says, he’s not the only one of his friends/alums doing that.
CU was the first of the PAC 12 schools to say last spring that if the students didn’t return to campus, sports would also be put on hold. Students did return to CU but very few sports competing. Very few students returned to UCLA or Cal but if the conference decides to compete, they’ll want to compete.
PAC 12 has to decide. Soon there will be no time to practice before a first game.
I disagree with Stanford University’s position.
Football is almost always the main revenue generator for Power 5 college athletics programs. Football revenue benefits all students by funding athletic programs which enrich an entire campus & alumni base.
If Stanford University did not have a top 5 endowment, I wonder what its position would be then.
Notre Dame/Wake Forest game scheduled for this weekend has been postponed because of Covid issues. ND has 13 players in isolation. 7 players tested postive in tests run Monday.
Notre Dame covid dashboard lists 1 positive test on Monday. Not sure if the players are no longer part of campus reporting or if the football team results are just not reflected on the dashboard.
Welcome to college football during the covid Era… Lol
The NYT has an article about the death on a Div 2 player from Covid. Jamain Stephens played football for California University in Pennsylvania. He had been hospitalized and passed form a blood clot. The college had been doing no testing.
Quote from his father:
"…Stephens said his son’s autopsy showed the right side of his heart was enlarged because of Covid-19. The effect, one of several linked to the virus, elicits echoes to his time in the N.F.L., when the league played down the severity of concussions.
“It’s about money,” he said. “We’re going to make it happen regardless of how it happens. So what if we lose a few lives?”
Tragic, but a few points to make.
The campus has been closed since March, and there have been no organized football activities since then. The student went to his off-campus housing to live for the semester, take remote classes, and workout with teammates. The school was not providing any testing or contact tracing for the off campus students (even though the apartments are owned by the school). Clearly not a great situation, nor was it a good decision when the student went to a party when feeling ill.
If I’m reading correctly, the apartments are only associated with the school; technically, they are ‘owned’ by the nonprofit Student Association. The school closed all dorms for the fall, and I would guess that they would have had to reimburse the ‘owners’ of the off-campus apartment complex for losses if the school forced them to close as well.
Definitely confusing, as the students pay rent to the university, not the non-profit. Of course if the families had signed those leases prior to the pandemic (likely), they probably had no choice but for the students to go live there. Some colleges with similar off campus arrangements are paying for testing. And the county/state should be doing contact tracing.
Definitely down in the weeds, but the NYT headline is not surprisingly, off point, and clickbait. This has nothing to do with fall football as their season has been shut down for 6 months, and the public college is all remote.
Looks like Pac-12 is looking to play 7 game schedule starting in November.
Be interesting to see if the local health officers agree. On the other thread, it seems that Boulder has essentially gone into lockdown for college-aged kids, so no way Colorado can practice. And the four California schools are still prohibited from a full practice.
As I said before, it’s really besides the point that he wasn’t or was actively playing, or at the school or not. IT DOESN’T MATTER. The point is that young people, like him, are not insusceptible to dire consequences, and the more we act like they’re immune and throw them together for entertainment, the more some young people will die. The whole “open the schools” movement is predicated on the assumption that all young people will have mild or no symptoms, so NBD.
And that simply isn’t true.
I haven’t seen that written anywhere. (but perhaps I have missed it.)
And yes, I get and agree with your point about the young man, but that was not the point of the NYT.