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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Probably; however, B1G's presidents and chancellors aren't the schools's "football expert", the prudent thing to do is to make sure the school's AD and football coach "buy in" before the actual vote.
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Precisely. The will continue to drag their feet under the guise of "investigation", "research", and "discussion", while in actuality not doing a fucking thing until, "Oops, sorry, too late to have a season now."
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Jake
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The hope from Ohio State is that a season can begin by the middle of next month. Ryan Day put out a statement on Thursday to call for a mid-October start to the season since the Big Ten's medical subcommittee “has done an excellent job of creating a safe pathway toward returning to play in mid-October.” He reiterated his hope to start the season by the middle of October on Saturday's College GameDay show on ESPN, noting that as important in order for the conference to be in the conversation to earn a College Football Playoff berth.
Here's what pisses me off, why didn't Warren have his subcommittee work on this this 2 months ago?
Answer: Back then he was just looking for reasons to cancel the Fall football season (and he was stupid enough to think all the other Power 5 commissioners would just blindly follow his lead); not for a path to play the season......
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Just curious: How many schools do you think will play, as opposed to "opting out"? I really don't think all 14 will want to play, and that's OK (but they shouldn't be sharing any TV football and/or bowl revenue for the season). The number of participating school could effect the ideal schedule.
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ShowMeBuck
You know what? Chicken butt.
Nah. I disagree.
That’s not going to happen.
The momentum has shifted and the backlash has been far worse than they would have guessed.
To just purposely delay while middle and high schools are playing and 3 of the P5 are playing? No way. I hate these fuckers too but that’s just not believable to me. In fact, as much as I hate these recent delays, maybe it’s because they fucked it up so bad last time that they are just being extra careful not to do it again.
This Oct 17th smoke seems legit. I think they are just working on every contingency plan now and crafting their come back message because of how bad they have been ridiculed. All the new committees organized for the return are legit because they really can’t afford to mess it up and they legitimize the (phony) concern they will say they had all along.
But, there will be football this fall. Everyone else is playing and the B1G is a laughing stock for not playing as well.
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My guesses and some rough groupings (give me some rope here):
The Bottom Feeders: MD, Rutgers, Illinois and NW are all in the camp of "why the hell would we play football if we don't have to?"
The statement makers: Minny and tsun seem hell bent on making a statement regardless of the facts around player safety.
The shiftless nobody's: Sparty, IU and Purdue seem to be willing to go along with whatever. They'll play because they simply need the money, more than likely.
The alpha's: OSU, Iowa, PSU and Nebraska have the "we're not responsible for what might happen if you cancel the season" approach.
I can't figure out what the hell Bucky is up to. You know Alvarez wants to play but not sure what his school/state leadership is all about.
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I hope you're right, but I won't believe any of this until I see the opening kickoff of our first game.
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ShowMeBuck
You know what? Chicken butt.
Or, better yet assuming the season happens, what the reactions will be with any kind of bad news/tests during season.
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scarletmike
Researching the Magic!
I expect OSU, Nebraska, Iowa, PSU, Purdue, and Minny are all fully onboard the train to play. I think IU, Sparty, and TSUN will play if given the opportunity. I think Wiscy would as well, but there's been relatively little smoke out of their camp and they seem to be having an outbreak at the moment, so they're a tossup still. It sounds like the Rutgers president will have to be dragged kicking and screaming if they want money, and the other 3 bottom feeders that @Jaxbuck mentioned are fine sitting out (well, maybe not MD because they need the money as well), but I don't expect they would actively try to block it happening, either, at this point.
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sparcboxbuck
What happened to my ¤cash?
... and we have an AP National Champion or the only ones left standing play in CFP. Either way, I like our chances if they.let.them.play.
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I personally think that no matter when/if the season starts, OSU has enough talent top to bottom to still go undefeated in the B1G and make a CFP. Even with the possibility of more guys opting out, I think with the way the coaches have recruited, the talent gap in the B1G is just too wide. With all teams losing out on game reps, full camps, etc, id still put our backups stepping up with possible losses, over every team in the conference. And it helps massively that I also think we have the best coaching staff.
Now those same losses could be the difference between ending the season with just another B1G title and a CFP or the B1G title and an NC. Regardless of the outcome, OSU benefits.
Now those same losses could be the difference between ending the season with just another B1G title and a CFP or the B1G title and an NC. Regardless of the outcome, OSU benefits.
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
I've no idea what a scholie costs - I'm guessing tuition, books, food, room - we're looking at 35 to 50 K per - now, if they have to put out that kind of money anyway, i.e. honor the scholie despite the lost season, then we have to look at what it costs to stage a game - stadium, security, lights, clean up, insurance and balance that against probable revenue from tickets/parking/concessions/TV. OSU stated that they needed 60K in the stands to break even. Rutgers and Northwestern wouldn't know what to do with 60K to begin with. My guess is that even with the cost of honoring scholies it could be cost-cutting for Rutgers, Northwestern and Maryland to not have a season.
If they don't have to honor scholies - holy shit storm - those three would not only not have to cover the 80 football scholies, but also another 80 female scholies. That would be an attractive alternative.
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