The Big Ten reportedly goes there.
See you later, college football.
The Big Ten has voted to cancel the 2020 college football season in a historic move that stems from concerns related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, multiple people with knowledge of the decision confirmed to the Free Press.
The sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the decision. A formal announcement is expected to Tuesday, the sources said.
The presidents voted, 12-2, Sunday to end the fall sports in the conference. Michigan and Michigan State — which both has physicians as presidents — voted to end the season, sources said. Only Nebraska and Iowa voted to play, Dan Patrick said on his radio show Monday.
The question now is who follows.
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I suspect everyone will eventually follow.
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When does Pablo Fields head to Columbus to move his son back to Marietta to prepare for the draft?
The following additional B1G prospects are probably getting their withdrawal from school ready:
Micah Parsons, Penn State
Rondale Moore, Purdue
Rashod Bateman, Minnesota
Shaun Wade, Ohio State
Wyatt Davis, Ohio State
Pat Freiermuth, Penn State
Aidan Hutchinson, Michigan
Kwity Paye, Michigan
Chris Olave, Ohio State
Tyler Linderbaum, Iowa
Jayson Oweh, Penn State
Source: PFF Top 50 prospects (7/23/2020)
https://www.pff.com/news/draft-pff-big-board-top-50-prospects-in-the-2021-nfl-draft
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Rondale Moore opted out already. The rest are soon to follow. It only makes sense.
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Looks like the rumor is the Pac 12+2 is going to cancel/postpone tomorrow.
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I meant other players will follow, but yes, the Pac 12 will follow in cancelling the season. I suspect Larry Scott will do the honorable thing and give his paycheck back once he announces the season is cancelled.
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I knew what you were saying. I just put that in after I read it.
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ee – who are the plus 2 you keep referring to?
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ucla
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wazzu
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I miscounted … for some reason, I thought they were at 14.
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no worries, thanks for clarification. i thought i missed a meme or larry scott making junk up again
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SoCalDog- Was that comment intended as an homage to ee cummings? If so, well done.
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Does anyone else believe this is not about the safety of players but about money?
By pushing to the spring I think the Big 10 figures to cash in on having a lot more fans in the stands vs no fans in the fall. Just a thought….
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I just honestly do not see how you can have football in the spring. Any player who thinks they are going to get drafted will not play, but will focus on either the combine or just sit out.
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I think it’s about collective bargaining. This is the equivalent of an owner’s lockout with a ready made excuse surrounding COVID
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Right. They’re losing 100s of millions to not do NIL.
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Isn’t NIL already mandated to start in 2021?
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I dunno. Lol. The State of Florida is working on something? It changes often lately. I just think the tin foil hat conspiracy theory that they’re canceling football because they’re scared of 12 people on Twitter that had a zoom meeting is ridiculous. It’s a business decision…and that decision is the juice is not worth the squeeze.
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I wasn’t referring to NIL, I was referring to collective bargaining by players, which I said.
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Doesn’t change anything. They didn’t cancel football over a Twitter hastag.
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Chackdawg, Exactly
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It’s the time honored “If you say it long enough, it must be true”….player safety is the statement they’re attempting to believe in…..institution presidents/ad’s will chase those tv check$ as long as they can…..don’t forget they mi$$ed marchmadne$$ one time, they won’t mi$$ it again….
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2020, we hardly knew ye.
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I don’t get the idea that everyone now has to follow suit. Everyone ultimately might do so but it would seem prudent to me to keep gathering information, particularly by observing the NFL
Many players are on record as saying they think camp is the safest place for them. And coaches like Muschamp said the same about his own kid being at UGA for fall camp
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The biggest problem with separating is what happens if/when it all goes wrong.
Its one thing for everyone to say its worth the risk. When some calculate that the risk is too high, those who don’t follow have even a smaller margin for error from an public relations/optics perspective.
I just never saw a workable protocol for when someone gets infected. That may be part of what was driving this decision.
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I totally agree that I think a workable protocol is driving a lot of this. I think some universities don’t really have a working protocol for returning students.
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While the SEC, ACC and B12 might cancel down the road, we’re going to have at least a few weeks with one or more major conferences betting on spring football with those first 3 planning for fall.
ACC and SEC seem determined to play, with leaks to that effect. And buzz that the SEC is taking the pulse on Texas and Oklahoma spending a season in the SEC if the B12 punts.
Getting chippy out there.
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What if I told you Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC could be permanent?
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I could totally see Texas and Oklahoma staying in the SEC permanently if asked to play this fall. Texas maybe less so, but for Oklahoma it would be financially a huge step forward.
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I can’t see OU giving up their nearly sure shot at the playoffs each year via the B12 to scratching to make the SEC CG each year.
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Oh, and Texas isn’t joining the SEC simply because the Aggies are already there. There’s no way they will do anything that the Aggies did first.
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Good I’d rather have A&M than Texas and their drama.
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If the Big 12 doesn’t cancel, go ask Nebraska and Iowa if they want to play in the SEC in 2020 since they are reportedly the two schools whose presidents voted not to cancel the B1G fall sports.
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If the SEC could somehow make it work with the ACC and the Big12 you wonder how it would effect recruiting. I would think it could be a huge blow to the PAC12 and the Big10.
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Unless a player gets sick and dies. Then it’s a PR disaster for those conferences that played.
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Agreed.
To play devils advocate, statistically speaking, the chances that happens are less than 3-4%.
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What if a player from a conference that cancelled gets sick and dies because the player decides to go about his life without any sense of obligation to his teammates, coaches, etc. to be safe, sensible, and attentive to protocols? There is just as much a chance of that occurring as there is that the reason someone contracts the virus is football.
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There’s a difference in responsibility ain’t there?
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Maryland killed a kid.
And boosters still almost got Durkin reinstated. They end with Locksley instead, and it’s back to business as usual.
“Under new management” is the evergreen quick-fix for everything in college football.
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Every disaster is an opportunity
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I believe a Democrat said that or close to it.
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Sure. If you consider John D. Rockefeller a Democrat. 🙂
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Got that idea when someone read this blog to me last week. This week I’m going with Winter Is Coming.
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These are your bigliest ideas since you hatched that one about the fake businessman who sucks in unsuspecting acolytes and then FIRES! them. Can I just go on and call you an inspirational man?
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Sure, why not. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night for the B1G Ten
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They’re going to go through some things
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Glad Kirby stocked the QB room.
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Apparently this may all be premature. Several blue checks on Twitter are saying that no final vote has been held per sources in the B1G.
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Imagine the TV viewership for all and only sec. I bet they hold out 3 more weeks.
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If this goes official does the sec release a schedule this week as planned?
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Yes, Home Office HQ duty personnel in there ain’t no ham like Birmingham are twerking on it now
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ACC vs SEC – Everybody gets a bowl game!
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Salary reductions incoming? Harbaugh makes $7.5M to disappoint. Now he makes 7.5 to do nothing
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Needed sarcasm font
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/s for snark
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Looks like the SEC pushing its season to September 24th was prescient.
We still have 6 weeks to see what’s going to happen and with cases consistently coming down post protests, I don’t understand the urgency.
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I want there to be a season. I am dubious that there will be. I don’t think that there will be a vaccine or miracle drug available by the Spring that will make a season then feasible. The only solution is to do what the NBA did and that is impossible as documented on this blog and in other places. Sucks.
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We’re about to find out if it really does “Mean More”.
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If we have a season with only the ACC & SEC and the rest opt for spring ball how is that going to work. Half of the bowl games in the winter then spring ball then what – summer bowls for the rest. This just isn’t going to work.
We won’t have CFB this fall and I really doubt we will have this spring ball either. What a cluster @3%&. All I got to say is DAMN you China.
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SEC will cancel eventually im sure.
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While I don’t agree with Sankey about a lot of things, I think that his comment today was spot on about taking your time in making decisions especially with the data changing daily. Moving the start date to late September allowed the members of the conference to see how things go with return of students.
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Major CFB writers were reporting last TUESDAY that Big10 was probably going to cancel/postpone their season and that the SEC thought it was foolish and was committed to going forward “hell or high water.”
I expect SEC might try to play a few games, but that’s THE MOST they’ll be able to do. Cancellations, forfeitures, postponements due to positive COVID tests — as well as a wave of students deciding not to play — will doom the season.
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The logistics are a bitch.
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I am very proud now that we have a SEC football conference where high level execs can remember how to get the bugs out and play football and so many other things. Charlie Daniels is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I noticed
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Don, he ded.
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We all at times are little dead inside, some of us more than others, but give CD credit for retweeting the old hits up until the day before the deep state took him out
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HAHAHAHA …….
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“get the bugs out” I wish I knew how to put a crying emoji here
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Oh yeah. And I love Dan Patrick.
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Notre Dame is an interesting wildcard here. If they opt out on their own the ACC is in a bigger squeeze. SEC won’t go it alone. House of cards is falling. TV execs in panic with no content. Spring doesn’t work. A whole year for the P5 to create mischief in the power struggle with other conferences and Congress to screw with the NCAA.
All because some dude in China eats bat soup for lunch.
And I am NOT going to watch some geeks play NCAA Football in a made for TV show.
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Maybe the powers can take this time to get their shot together.
Lololololol. 😂
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I was thinking more along the lines of that ancient rumbly magnetic metal table Football game… 🙂 I’d like to see Smart v. Saban on one of those relics.
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That brought back memories! Can you see Kirby grabbing one of those little guys by the facemask for an epic ass chewing? ‘Cause if you had one you know not one of those little bastards is going to go where you wanted him to no matter how carefully you lined them up.
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I had one of those too! We were easily entertained back then. I guess it beat going outside and playing with a stick.
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How about an NCAA-sponsored, 68-team Paper Football tournament?
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Bats are nothing but trouble
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Coronabros everywhere must be fully erect.
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And tough guys still have their heads up their asses now don’t they?
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What? Over? Did you say ‘over’? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!…
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Scott Frost said today they’re willing to look for games if that’s what it takes.
Should have rolled with my 4 game exhibition idea. Now it maybe too late.
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The reality is, as long as your underlying understanding is “the virus is a deadly killer”, there is plausible way to play sports collegiate team sports
Until it’s consciously understood that the risk of death and permanent injury is low and players and universities can come to generally agreed upon understanding that (just like going to WalMart or Red Lobster) there is an almost a certainty of exposure and that is something they can live with, then there is nothing that can be done.
There is no way to manage rosters with mandatory 14 day quarantines, forced bubble isolation, or anything of the like.
Basically if the schools want football, and they do, and the players want to play, and they do, they basically have to agree that yes, there is a slim possibility they could die if they participate. The hang up is the schools know they will get sued for merely having the activity and from the schools’ perspective it is certainly the right legal move to just shut down sports indefinitely until there is indemnification as a matter of law.
That doesn’t really go just for collegiate sports. It goes for life. If you can’t accept the fact that each day when you leave the house that you might catch a disease, a bullet or a Mack truck, you pretty much won’t be able to leave the house.
I’m sure some yahoo will say “But your getting paid”, but the reality is I leave my house many times not to get paid, but to enjoy the world of possibilities life offers, regardless of the risks, be it going to a bar, going shopping, going on a date, hiking, boating, or what the hell ever else it is I choose to do.
In this case, the vast majority of players are being denied their opportunity to play college football based on legal liability and those that want to use their amateur status as a cudgel for whatever woke political agenda they have.
Woke white boomers. Everything they touch turns to dung. They are Shit Midas.
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Jesus, you are so full of shit.
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The NBA and the NHL are doing just fine with bubble isolation.
If you’re saying that it’s not a practical solution for college athletics, I agree with you, but only because that is the box the conferences and NCAA have chosen to live in. If you’re saying bubbles don’t work, again, the real world begs to differ.
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Can’t say I agree with everything you say here, but it’s close to 90%. And I lol’d at “Shit Midas.” I won’t hear those commercials the same way ever again.
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Kirby’s 2021 roster: the Death Star to end all Death Stars
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Except…Bama too.
The draft is going to be uber fascinating. They should do a longer bigger combine. Get some more TV
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Yeah and I guess Jamie Newman will have plenty of time to get up to speed on the offense. The ‘Rona mostly taketh, but it sometimes giveth too.
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Sec shorts on the scheduling: https://youtu.be/wYkc72gqCCM
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