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Difficult to rule it out.  There was a spin going into the season that the evil administrators were going to make the kids play to make money.  So actions by the players to protections certainly fit into that spin.  But perhaps that spin was off.  Everything is kind of a huge pain in the ass right now, and the evil administrators are trying to figure out how to have college at all, much less college football.  So with the kids not wanting to play and the administrators wanting to avoid a huge headache, they just call the season.  But they haven't been transparent, and clearly not everyone is on board.

That's always been the sticking point IMHO. How can you claim it's safe for athletes to compete on the field if you don't think it's safe enough for students to be on campus and go to in-person CLASS safely? 

I think that was always going to be a PR sticking point. Especially if something severe happened to an athlete. It was just set up for a PR nightmare, when you see a player hospitalized and all non-athletes are 100% online learning. 

The other question would be what guidelines would be in place for canceling games if there was an "outbreak"--how many players testing positive constitutes a reason for the team itself to avoid competing at all. 1? Let's say a wide receiver tests positive. Do you quarantine all the wide receivers who have been in the same room, watching the same film, practicing together? Hard to put a team on the field if you don't have any WR available, right?

I just find it hard to understand how 100-player rosters, especially college students who aren't exactly the best about making good decisions, will be able to avoid infections well enough that we'd get more than 2-3 games in anyway before it was scrapped.

Shot above...

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https://twitter.com/TarHeelTimes/status/1295451087743246336?s=19

administrators aren't ALWAYS the smartest people in the room

Betcha it's Maximum Sam he's slings jurisprudence in that neck of the woods

Making the twitter rounds; B1G Office has drafted a letter to reinstate Fall Athletics (with liability waiver and saliva testing,) just need to get the presidents on board. 

This could happen.

Making the twitter rounds; B1G Office has drafted a letter to reinstate Fall Athletics (with liability waiver and saliva testing,) just need to get the presidents on board.

This could happen.

Could be wishful rumoring, and they'd look like complete fools if they change this and then do a UNC.

Making the twitter rounds; B1G Office has drafted a letter to reinstate Fall Athletics (with liability waiver and saliva testing,) just need to get the presidents on board.

This could happen.

I've said from the start that schools that have any semblance of in-person learning won't last a month. Look at UNC and the public schools in Georgia that went back wholesale. The B1G presidents would do well to stick to their guns.

I'd love to be totally wrong, though.