Seriously though, it wouldn’t surprise with how they’ve handled things
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BiG Expected To Reinstate Football Season Starting October 24
- Thread starter Red Reign
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If it's truly all or none, then I'd be a little worried. I think you have at least 2 that do not want to play, be it health or whatever the reason.
I do not believe the BIG 10 will force a school to play. The media would crucify the BIG 10 if they forced a team to play.
Let a team sit out, no problem, in fact they could spin that in their favor. But to force a team to play, they couldn't overcome that. And to me the BIG 10 always seems to be an all or none kind of conference.
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I'm hoping in that case, they will allow for individual teams (that are affected by Covid) to sit out without forfeit, and not require the whole league to shut down.
But that would require common sense.
You are likely quite correct in being a Karen Downer.
With the late start, there's less opportunity to make up games missed due to Covid. And we've seen quite a few games in the other conferences postponed already. The Big Ten is going to be no less strict if not even more so. For that matter, I think there's three Big Ten teams currently taking a break from football activities due to Covid positive tests. Heck, the ACC now has added guidelines where if it drops below 8 ACC teams able to play, they will cancel the season.
Miami football season could be cancelled if ACC has less than 8 teams
The Miami football season could be canceled if the ACC has less than 8 teams that are unable to play according to ESPN's Andrea Adelson.
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Regardless, it's worth trying to play!
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That's a tough call: save on winter heating bills is definitely a plus, but the global warming alarmists will definitely oppose.
I would bet a month's pay that an uncomfortable number of B1G academicians would have preferred to have had the University of Chicago restart its football program and rejoin the B1G rather than having added Nebraska. It's not a coincidence that Johns Hopkins is associated with the B1G. I also think folks would be shocked at how many people at the highest levels of Michigan and Wisconsin actually look down their noses at the Ivies.
It's likely that it's the opposite, and it feels and sounds as disjointed as real-time reporting from the battlefield where there is a lot of detail to describe, but there is a lack of cohesive understanding of the whole. In other words, there is a lot of motivation for lots of agents to leak info in order to steer the conversation, but there isn't a an authority to analyze what info carries the most weight. On top of that, it's evolving, fluid, so something that was a rational honest synopsis a few minutes ago gets thrown out by the time it's reported. We'll only understand the rumors and leaks in hindsight, and much of that will be re-spun.
If the expectation is that everyone is supposed to play or no one does, that really doesn’t bode well for the long run. As coronavirus is apparently here to stay in some form or fashion, there is most likely going to be one of these teams that never feels comfortable and wants to stay in their bunker. Of course then there’s this too:
Maybe, but I think it's more second hand info that's being leaked if anything. This is such a disaster it's unreal. I can't believe there's been so little actual info from the conference itself.
Bitterness for not getting hired by the Ivies. Their students bodies are also made of large amounts of “elites” who couldn’t get in to the Ivy League. Iowa City is loaded with Chicago kids who couldn’t get into U of Chicago, Northwestern or any of the Ivy League schools.
