MSNBC: Big Ten Cancels Football

[aaaaaa5a]

Wow.

Breaking news. The Big Ten opts out of the 2020 football season per MSNBC.

Story was first reported by the Detroit Free Press.
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/2020/08/10/big-ten-football-cancels-season-michigan-michigan-state/3332277001/

[greenjar_01]

1. There's not going to be any football this year

Obvs.

[aaaaaa5a]

6. Trump can kiss the Midwest goodbye. NT.

[HotTeaBag]

28. Yep, and

Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Iowa & Wisconsin should just about do it.

[SoonerPride]

2. This is the first big domino to fall.

PAC 12 will be next.

SEC will not go willingly.

[redstatebluegirl]

8. You know the Big 12 will be last to call it.

[SoonerPride]

10. Supposedly the SEC is putting out feelers to have OU and Texas join them for one year.

While that would be epic fun, I don't see that happening either.

[redstatebluegirl]

11. I don't think Lincoln Riley, a sane person, wants to risk his players.

With the newest research showing that covid can cause permanent heart damage, not to mention permanent lung damage I don't think he will go for it. Now, with that said, I have issues paying these multi million dollar salaries when faculty and staff are facing partial pay decreases and furloughs.

[fishwax]

17. I've been proud of Lincoln Riley's voice on this

and on other recent events

So glad he's the coach!

[redstatebluegirl]

19. He is a smart guy, really like him.

[highplainsdem]

39. I'm seeing tweets suggesting Nebraska and Iowa join the Big 12.

[redstatebluegirl]

40. Well that would be a return for Nebraska.

I don't think it will happen though. What is the Big 12 going to do, play all by themselves this year? Not going to happen.

[sop]

9. Of all the Power Five conferences, the SEC will probably be the last to pack it in.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

35. S-E-Cede! S-E-Cede!

I predict the same.

Edit: I suppose that I should be clear that I'm poking fun at them, not cheering.

[Mike 03]

13. I'm seeing reports that the PAC 12 is cancelling too.

Link to tweet

#BREAKING: According to Dan Patrick on the
@dpshow
- Sources say the Big 10 & PAC 12 have voted to cancel the 2020 Fall Football season tomorrow. The ACC & Big 12 are on the fence. The SEC is trying to get another power 5 conference to join them and play. http://abc7news.com/coronavirus

Don't know the veracity of this report. Offered FWIW.

[aaaaaa5a]

23. I think the SEC will "go it alone" this year. NT

[Aristus]

3. And sports nuts across the country boycott college.

Wait. They did that already...

Nevermind…

[fleur-de-lisa]

16. Ha ha!

[dalton99a]

4. 2020 - A year that will go down in history

[shanti]

47. Annus Horribilis

Desperately hoping 2021 is better!

[jalan48]

5. This should set off a major depression for millions of Americans. No circus this year.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Trump owns this

Make sure to let everyone know that there is no football because Trump mismanaged this during the Spring and Summer.

If all he would have done differently is advocate for mask wearing from the start we'd all be watching football this Fall.

[sop]

12. Somehow Trump will blame Obama.

[flibbitygiblets]

21. Yes, Obama didn't even have COVID tests ready!

Pretty sure I've heard agent orange actually say this

[Takket]

15. Exactly this

I hope every MAGAt that was screaming FREE DUMB and defying shutdown orders to go to church and protesting shutdowns is happy now that they don’t be watching football this fall!!! Hope they are all glad that they listened to drumpf and rethug governors and not actual scientists. Enjoying spending your fall watching reruns of ten year old games you dipshits.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

37. That's not how they see it, of course. They're blaming...

... others, like they always do.

I just saw several people on a sports forum denying Covid, or proclaiming that the numbers of cases and deaths are overinflated just to make Trump look bad.

[Awsi Dooger]

43. That is every day on every sports forum since March

I got banned on one football forum for emphasizing down the road complications, even among young survivors.

They don't want to hear anything like that.

This cancellation will be blamed on liberal mindset in universities across the country. Trump will seize on that theme and pound it nonstop. Anyone who believes otherwise is not in the real world.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

44. I noticed that sports forums are chock-full of right-wingers.

It's been that way for years. It's usually not easy to notice it, since sports is often the focus, but the replies that I saw whenever politics was mentioned used to shock me. Many of the posters had SEEMED reasonable until then.

I think it has something to do with the mindsets of competition or cooperation. Right-wingers seem far more obsessed with competition, so sports might be more attractive to them in general.

And now that I think about it, I've always been much more interested in team sports. And I like to see teams that are well-coached and work together. So sports can indeed appeal to some people with a more cooperative mindset too.

[Awsi Dooger]

46. Yes, with very few exceptions

College football forums are the worst. I am despised on those forums because I'm the only liberal who will speak up, and I can parry them easily.

NFL forums are somewhat better. I belong to one Dolphins site where the political forum has actually evolved from wingnuts to left leaning. But that is the only example I know of.

Golf forums predictably are overbearing right wing but most of them ban political talk. However, they will allow righties to make jabs but not lefties. I have received two-week suspensions many times for things that would never be noticed if sourced from the other side.

To my surprise, the largest track and field website is a haven for right wing nutcases, and they frolic there because the owners have the same mindset. Often there are more political threads than track and field threads.

I post on a swimming site that is among the best. There are right wing hacks, and they have been quite loud throughout. One of them stooped to making puppet accounts so he could agree with himself. But I caught that and exposed him. Overall it's the only sports site I've seen where the sensible comments outnumber the nutcase denials.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

48. Interesting! Thanks for sharing!

So much for my hypothesis. I would've predicted that all of the individual-competition sports would be even more that way. Swimming can be a team sport sometimes, I guess.

All of my in-laws who push their kids into sports have been right-wingers too. I mean, the ones who really "get into it" and act like it's super important. It could be a meaningless coincidence, I suppose.

[2golddogs]

49. Yup

Pretty sure I left that very same track and field website because of exactly this. Nutcase is too kind a word for some of them.

[underpants]

14. It's finally Michigan's year!!!!!

Congrats Coach Harbaugh!

[fishwax]

18. a year where they finally don't lose to Ohio State!

[underpants]

20. Yes!

[Happy Hoosier]

24. Well those guys HAVE to run fast....

... to stay ahead of the coaching staff!

[genxlib]

29. My daughter

Is sitting in a dorm room at Ohio State that overlooks the stadium. I guess that view won't do her any good this year.

To really add the real 2020 touch, she has to endure 2 weeks of dorm jail quarantine because Florida is such a hot spot.

I feel so bad for these kids. They are missing some of the best parts of their lives; prom, HS Graduation, senior trip and now the college experience.

[Happy Hoosier]

22. I was sure IU wanna gonna break-through! NT

[Wednesdays]

25. The NFL will be forced to follow suit

unless they go into a "bubble" like the NBA.

[BannonsLiver]

36. They're not going to follow suit

They’ll move heaven and earth to play. The NFL and college football are two separate animals, though given that most people here hate sports and think only toothless Trump humpers watch football I’m not surprised the nuance is missed.

[uponit7771]

50. without a bubble they'll get a lot of players sick and then the season will be a joke x 2

[Bleacher Creature]

26. This was inevitable once Trump decided to downplay the pandemic.

There's just no way to do it safely while the virus is spreading uncontrolled.

I don't have much faith in southern voters, but it's not hyperbole to say that Trump will have killed SEC football this year.

[Blue_Adept]

27. Sports are the reward one gets for a functioning society

We don't have one of those right now.

[genxlib]

30. It is important to note

That the initial word is that they have canceled it for the fall.

Smart money says they will still try to schedule for the spring.

Smarter money says that will eventually fall through as well.

[maryellen99]

31. Trump will make this political just you watch nt

[MarcA]

32. Seems most college athletics are being postponed to the Spring Semester

according to reports from ESPN and numerous sport blogs. College athletics has
numerous social issues that the pandemic is bringing to a head, just like in greater
society as a whole. The Virus that changed the World.

[exboyfil]

41. Spring football will be a challenge

Most players entering draft will opt out. It is hard to see playing games in outdoor stadiums in January and February (I wonder if they could pair with southern teams to play earlier games further south).

[Buckeye_Democrat]

33. I was about to post the same story.

Then I saw this thread.

The right-wingers who often outnumber others in the sports forums are losing their minds over it! Blame everyone except their own kind!

[Roland99]

34. Meanwhile, in South Korea (first case the same date as the US)

Baseball fans in South Korea back in stands amid COVID-19
By HYUNG-JIN KIM
July 26, 2020

https://apnews.com/fa18ebf115f95812c89ca496f450ad2b

[0rganism]

38. Trump broke football

might be my new mantra

[Baclava]

42. Bread & circuses, "Crackdown on Million dollar parties in LA with caged lions, tigers, giraffes"

[AnyFunctioningAdult]

45. To be fair

Most of the Big Ten started this process many years ago.