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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #448 on: August 14, 2020, 01:14:17 PM »
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #449 on: August 14, 2020, 02:55:48 PM »
chancellors don't live in the real world

they live in academia, it's different 
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #450 on: August 14, 2020, 02:56:19 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 14, 2020, 12:35:10 PM
I love ZZ Top.

La Grange is a dump, though.  They do NOT gotta lotta nice girls, I can assure you of that.
well, that's just your definition of lotta and nice
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #451 on: August 14, 2020, 04:18:03 PM »
University of Iowa leaders made it clear to the Big Ten Conference earlier this week that they wanted to play football games this fall. Although that request was shot down by a majority of league presidents and commissioner Kevin Warren, parents of Hawkeye players are continuing to fight for fall football.

What started as some Twitter direct messages flourished into a Thursday-night Zoom call, with parents of an estimated 35 to 40 players formally organizing their request for more transparency from the Big Ten. They also requested for their sons to be given the opportunity to play this fall — as is the intent of the Atlantic Coast, Big 12 and Southeastern conferences — during the COVID-19 pandemic.

There are two primary messages in a letter distributed to media and hand-delivered to the Big Ten offices in Chicago on Friday morning.


https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports/college/columnists/chad-leistikow/2020/08/14/leistikow-iowa-hawkeye-parents-seek-answers-big-ten-return-fall-football/3359778001/?fbclid=IwAR35Oh-DnQn9lvpteoHHA9ggdN3Anw5__l2giAzo7iqQH-yo_Xi_PqJEBOQ
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #452 on: August 14, 2020, 04:45:16 PM »
Yes, do it. 

Call Karen Warren's bluff. 
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #453 on: August 14, 2020, 05:18:27 PM »
The Big Ten Conference announced on Tuesday that it has postponed all fall sports, with the hopes of playing football in the spring. Steve Spurrier is hoping the conference will change its mind.

The former Florida and South Carolina head coach appeared on The Paul Finebaum Show on Wednesday afternoon.

Spurrier, who won a national title at Florida in 1996, said he hopes that the Big Ten will reverse its course and play.

“With three of the Power Five conferences ready to play, I think we can have college football,” Spurrier said Wednesday. “I really do. If we have to watch on television, so be it. These guys are pretty safe. They really are, Paul. It reminds me of the movie, ‘The Longest Yard,’ with Burt Reynolds and all of those guys. Right now, the college football players, they are the prisoners. They’ve got nowhere to go but to practice and back to their cell, or their dorm and eat together. That’s the way all of these teams have been living for the last couple of months or so.
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #454 on: August 14, 2020, 05:27:56 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on August 14, 2020, 05:18:27 PM
The Big Ten Conference announced on Tuesday that it has postponed all fall sports, with the hopes of playing football in the spring. Steve Spurrier is hoping the conference will change its mind.

The former Florida and South Carolina head coach appeared on The Paul Finebaum Show on Wednesday afternoon.

Spurrier, who won a national title at Florida in 1996, said he hopes that the Big Ten will reverse its course and play.

“With three of the Power Five conferences ready to play, I think we can have college football,” Spurrier said Wednesday. “I really do. If we have to watch on television, so be it. These guys are pretty safe. They really are, Paul. It reminds me of the movie, ‘The Longest Yard,’ with Burt Reynolds and all of those guys. Right now, the college football players, they are the prisoners. They’ve got nowhere to go but to practice and back to their cell, or their dorm and eat together. That’s the way all of these teams have been living for the last couple of months or so.
Wow. That's a horrible way to put it lol!

But let's look at what young people do. An undrafted free agent for the Seahawks just got caught trying to sneak a woman into the team hotel. Dude's trying to make a roster and get PAID, and he can't avoid bringing unauthorized people into the half-assed bubble the team put together. 

You think these college players, especially those who know they'll never play on Sundays, are going to go into full-scale quarantine?
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #455 on: August 14, 2020, 05:31:50 PM »
reports from UNL state that the entire football roster has been under strict rules since arriving on campus in July
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #456 on: August 14, 2020, 05:46:46 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on August 14, 2020, 05:31:50 PM
reports from UNL state that the entire football roster has been under strict rules since arriving on campus in July
We know how seriously people of that age group respond to "rules". 

What about monitoring and enforcement?
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #457 on: August 14, 2020, 06:14:35 PM »
not sure about Frost's discipline procedures, but it's safe to say the 100 young men on the roster are behaving in a safer manner than the general student body
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #458 on: August 14, 2020, 06:35:41 PM »
Financial loss projections starting to trickle out if no football at University of Arizona this fall:

""""That process will determine how much of a financial hit the athletic department takes from the postponement of all sports through the remainder of 2020, a deficit that could be as high as $65 million according to Arizona Wildcats athletic director Dave Heeke.

“Without football, we’re estimating a $60 to $65 million impact in revenue loss,” Heeke said Friday on a Zoom press conference. “The financial implications are pretty significant.”

Heeke said Arizona’s projected 2020-21 athletic budget is about $94 million.""""

In short, 2/3rds budget loss.

https://www.azdesertswarm.com/football/2020/8/14/21369336/arizona-wildcats-football-revenue-losses-athletic-department-budget-coronavirus-2020-spring-canceled
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #459 on: August 14, 2020, 06:39:16 PM »
the entire state of Nebraska relies on revenue generated by Husker football
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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #460 on: August 14, 2020, 07:07:34 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on August 14, 2020, 05:27:56 PM
Wow. That's a horrible way to put it lol!

But let's look at what young people do. An undrafted free agent for the Seahawks just got caught trying to sneak a woman into the team hotel. Dude's trying to make a roster and get PAID, and he can't avoid bringing unauthorized people into the half-assed bubble the team put together.

You think these college players, especially those who know they'll never play on Sundays, are going to go into full-scale quarantine?

No, no I don't think that.  I don't think any other college kids will refrain either.  You know, the 98% that AREN'T college athletes. 

So that means this entire thing isn't about student safety, nor is it about the more general "public safety." If it were then all colleges would be 100% online for the next 12 months.

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Re: Odds we have a football season poll
« Reply #461 on: August 14, 2020, 10:13:38 PM »
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