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Somebody Please track these athletes...
Canedawg2140
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We need somebody to research these thousands of fall sports athletes who just had their STRUCTURE, GOALS, AND LIVES taken from them by a few people who CLAIM to have their "best interest" in mind.
The mental toll.
The financial toll.
The emotional toll.
The effect of the FOMO on their lives.
Then, track to toll on the college towns, who will have dozens of businesses go under, and the mom-and-pop places that die.
Then track the college programs that are cancelled for good, and the kids who missed a college education because of this.
And then present all this info to the guys who made this decision a decade from now. And let them weigh that vs the "risk" they were afraid of. Maybe then they will at least understand what they just did.
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The lack of concern for the college towns is unbelievable. It’s pathetic, really. Treat people like adults These are not 10 year olds playing pop warner ball. These are grown men playing in a sport because they choose to. #letthemplay
But, to avoid being hypocritical, if those in charge actually believe this is the best avenue to follow, maybe they can sleep well.
I can come up with no logical reason, however.
Spring won't work.
I personally think everyone is going crazy...
Answer this:
Bigger risk from CTE or Covid if you play football - immediate and long term?
Pac-12 says NO BASKETBALL until January also...
That's TWO SEASONS for those athletes at least shortened...
Why is the PAC 12 even in the power 5?
They should be the P U S 12.
I thought it was called the "power 3" now. 😎
Give it another 10-12 years.
It won't even take 10 yrs thanks to the work of the genius Larry Scott and his low TV payouts. Both UCLA and Cal are currently running annual deficits of $20M while playing. Cal has run up a cumulative loss of $90M over the past few years. UCLA is in the hole for $40M. They'll each lose up to $100M in revenue this year.
The genius Larry Scott is trying to set up a 4 yr $1.2B Pac12 bond to cover the losses from not playing this year. If UCLA and Cal accept their share of the bond issue, they'll be running deficits of around $40M per year over the next four years.
Some of the other schools with balanced budgets could be running deficits of around $20M per year for the next four years.
For comparison, UGA makes around $30M profit. That's going to be a gap of between $50M and $70M per year over the next four years for some of the Pac12 schools.
In all honesty the Covid rates among those players that are sitting vs the ones playing needs to be tracked.
What happens if there is no difference?
What happens if the rate is higher than the teams that play?
Think about that nightmare scenario for the PAC or BIG10.
Presidents heads will roll.
More than the infection rate will be the severity rate. The kids on campus will be tested 2-3 times a week, and have immediate access to healthcare (and doses of HCQ). 😎
In theory, the regular testing of the teams should result in a higher "infection rate" although in reality there's no chance that will be accurate.
I'm not nitpicking your post @Raiderbeater1 but your post was made when something has been bothering me.
Why are all "if" scenario's negative? In any "if" scenario it can go either way but we never see positive "if" posts.
That's just something that has been bugging me lately. And I'll admit I'm an eternal optimist so that may be why it bothers me.🤔
Our 10 year old team hasn’t skipped a beat. Game on!!