If you want to turn a sports thread into politics and talk about gutless cowards, your President is the definition of it. How many times did he dodge military draft again? Schools are making decisions based on uncertainty. Easier to scrap fall season and figure next steps than start it and stop it by Oct.
So True!!!!
Jim Harbaugh says;
I’m not advocating for football this fall because of my passion or our players desire to play but because of the facts accumulated over the last eight weeks since our players returned to campus on June 13,” Harbaugh wrote. “I am advocating on August 10 that this virus can be controlled and handled because of these facts:
►We have had two positive tests out of the last 417 administered.
►We have had zero positive tests out of the last 353 administered.
►There have been zero positives tests among the coaches or staff over the entire eight weeks of testing.
►There has been no contract tracing to our fields, weight room, locker room or facility.
►We have had zero pauses in our training.
►We have complied with all CDC guidelines and self‐implemented stricter standards for contacting tracing in quarantining to prevent spread.
►We have followed all health and safety guidelines and welcome and encourage any health department, University administrators or other sports programs to visit and see how we practice and execute these protocols.”
Last Friday on the “In the Trenches” podcast with Jon Jansen, Harbaugh said he was pleased how vigilant his players had been wearing masks and social distancing. He said that more than 100 players tested all returned negatives test results last Wednesday, two days before camps was to begin.
“This isn’t easy. This is hard,” Harbaugh wrote. “It is proven that the conduct, discipline and structure within our program have led to these stellar results. We respect the challenge that the virus has presented, however, we will not cower from it. We have developed a great prototype for how we can make this work and provide the opportunity for players to play.
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“If you are transparent and follow the rules, this is how it can be done. I am forever proud of our players, parents, coaches and staff for being leaders and role models in our sport, at our institution and in society. We will continue to follow all health and safety guidelines, teach, train, and coach those young men and their families that have put their trust in us, while advocating for a football season in the fall. In quoting President Theodore Roosevelt, we do this “so that our place will not be among the cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Harbaugh concluded the letter with two hashtags that have gained steam since late Sunday as college football players across the country began to mobilize on social media with the #WEWANTTOPLAY hashtag.
Coaches, like Michigan offensive coordinator Josh Gattis, began using the #WEWANTTOCOACH hashtag. Gattis wrote on Twitter Monday morning that Michigan’s “medical protocol is the standard. The environment we provide is the safest environment physically, mentally, and emotionally for our players!”
Thanks RE! This dumb liberal f*ck! "OMG!! THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!! Let's shut down college football over a virus that's killed .0000000000000000001% of college age patients!!"
So many gullible, gutless cowards out there. So many!! There's not much worse in this country than the white liberal!
“SEC is reaching out to other leagues to try to salvage the fall season. On his show today, Dan Patrick cited a source that said the SEC is courting teams from the ACC and Big 12 to form a “super conference” this fall.
“The Big Ten and Pac-12 will cancel their football seasons tomorrow,” Patrick said, reading the source’s message. “The ACC and Big 12 are on the fence. The SEC is trying to get a delay to have teams join them. The SEC is looking at exclusive TV contracts…They’re trying to buy time to see if the ACC or Big 12 will go along with them.”
According to the source, the vote in the Big Ten meeting on canceling fall football was 12-2, with Nebraska and Iowa wanting to play. In the Big 12, Oklahoma and Texas are the two teams fighting to save a fall season, and therefore may be interested in the SEC’s proposal.
“The SEC is trying to see if they can pick off some of these schools and see if they want to join them,” Patrick said. “If you can get Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12 and they’re going to join you in the SEC, you’ve got a super conference.”
-from the Dan Patrick Show
“The Big Ten and Pac-12 will cancel their football seasons tomorrow,” Patrick said, reading the source’s message. “The ACC and Big 12 are on the fence. The SEC is trying to get a delay to have teams join them. The SEC is looking at exclusive TV contracts…They’re trying to buy time to see if the ACC or Big 12 will go along with them.”
According to the source, the vote in the Big Ten meeting on canceling fall football was 12-2, with Nebraska and Iowa wanting to play. In the Big 12, Oklahoma and Texas are the two teams fighting to save a fall season, and therefore may be interested in the SEC’s proposal.
“The SEC is trying to see if they can pick off some of these schools and see if they want to join them,” Patrick said. “If you can get Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12 and they’re going to join you in the SEC, you’ve got a super conference.”
-from the Dan Patrick Show
Are we switching to the Obama/Biden admin here????? China not sipping champagne with Trump like they did with Biden. Our economy? First time in my LIFETIME we are energy self-sufficient.
I'm doing damn good, retired and enjoying my waterfront estate. My children doing good too. Worked too hard to get here to let some entitled liberal muck it all up.
This whole football cancellation directed by politics.
Flashback 2009, a non-election year, H1N1 (swine flu) attacks the young and college age students the worse. 12,000-18,000 die from flu CDC estimates, no meters like today. College football was very worried; https://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=4498040
They played on, no testing, NO CHECKING FOR MYCARDITIS, you can get that from influenza. H1N1 not as complicated as COVID, but still caused problems. So here we are today, testing every athlete more than weekly, practicing social distancing, wearing those masks, getting medical checkups if positive, etc., and still.....cannot....play. WOW!
The CDC and Obama admin tried early to isolate and control H1N1, they had testing going, then abruptly stopped, gave up. 60 million infected in U.S. Good thing it wasn't as bad as COVID!!!
