Big 12 does NOT cancel fall football

[Nevilledog]

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[Nevilledog]

1. Big 12 doubling down on plans to play college football season

https://nypost.com/2020/08/12/big-12-doubling-down-on-plans-to-play-college-football-season/

Don’t mistake the Big Ten and Pac-12 cancelling all fall sports for the end of college football in 2020.

At least not yet.

If you need more proof that the sport is geographical and controlled by conferences rather than the overarching NCAA, consider the Big 12’s renewed commitment Wednesday to moving forward with all fall sports.

“Ultimately, our student-athletes have indicated their desire to compete in the sports they love this season,” commissioner Bob Bowlsby said in a statement, “and it is up to all of us to deliver a safe, medically sound, and structured academic and athletic environment for accomplishing that outcome.”

The Big 12 is revamping college football schedules to include nine conference games plus one non-conference matchup.

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[SheltieLover]

5. I feel sorry for players

I'll bet many feel pressured to play. This is just wrong.

[qazplm135]

8. actually a lot of them want to play

doesn't mean they should, but a lot of the pressure on university presidents includes coming from the players.

[SheltieLover]

9. 😳

Well then, I won't feel so badly if they start gettibg sick. 😏

[Tess49]

16. Sooners have had 14 positive cases of Covid so far.

[SheltieLover]

17. 😱

[lapfog_1]

10. A lot of them are 18, 19, 20, and 21

and very physically fit... they feel indestructible.

Unfortunately for them, the virus doesn't give a damn.

Most will not die, but a significant percentage will end up with permanent lung damage, heart damage, kidney damage.

And they will have the rest of their lives to wish they hadn't been allowed to play.

[qazplm135]

12. I wasn't defending them

simply saying it's not necessarily the case that a large number of them "feel pressure to play."

Most of them want to play.

[SheltieLover]

24. I can't imagine

😳

[SheltieLover]

18. That's my thought

[IggleDuer]

21. Cannon Fodder

N/T

[Ex Lurker]

26. So is the SEC

Nebraska is looking to jump back to the Big 12 from the Big 10. I expect a lot of Big 10 and Pac 12 players to transfer to schools that are still playing, assuming they will have immediate eligibility.

[tblue37]

2. Fools. I just retired last year from teaching at a Big 12 school. So glad I am out of this

disaster.

[redstatebluegirl]

14. I cannot wait until my husband retires.

[Stallion]

3. They Are Just in Shirts and Skins-Wait Until They Begin Contact Drills

[underpants]

4. I thought the SEC was looking for another conference to play

But I’d misread the headline. They expanded proposed schedules to include other SEC schools.

I read somewhere that Nebraska really wants to still play and I’ve heard a rumor that Ohio State might be fishing around too.

[samnsara]

6. it was confusing..the Big 10 and the PAC 12 cancelled......now dont even ask me what that means..

[redstatebluegirl]

15. Reasonable alumni in a lot of blue or purple states, as opposed to the Big 12

and SEC which are in red states.

[ResistantAmerican17]

7. SEC leaders in their best Ivan Drago voice--"if he dies he dies."

[global1]

11. This Decision Will Eventually Bite Them In The Butt.....

It will catch up with them and they will have to stop playing in the middle of their season.

[SheltieLover]

19. Yup!

[magicarpet]

13. Macho, macho man.......

Ain't no princesses on this football team.

[sarcasmo]

20. Big 12 Covidiots.

[spanone]

22. trump has dumbed-down this country to where it is unrecognizable.

[Wednesdays]

23. I give it six weeks before the football season begins to unravel

I might not even give it that long. Watch for things to get really interesting beginning the first week of October.

[Ferrets are Cool]

25. Till someone dies.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. What Could Go Wrong?

Well other than:
4 teams are in Texas where positivity is 24.2%.
2 are from OK, where the rate is 9.2.
2 are from KS, where the rate is 11.4.
And Iowa State is from a state with a rate of 9.8.
That's 9 teams with the states averaging (nonweighted for population) 16.15%.
The states in the big 10 have a way lower average positivity, and they pushed everything back.
Remember, these decision makers are university level educators!
Think about that!

[beachbumbob]

28. We will see