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Looks like you're on top of the situation too, Jeff. Can't disagree with a single thing you wrote other than that I think spring football has a substantially better chance of happening.
i don't know if you guys still lurk much on MGoBlog (I'm now a mod there as of a month ago---yippee 😵😱😬 )---but in various discussions going back at least a couple months I've advocated CFB letting the NFL and to a lesser extent the MLB and other pro sports take the lead as "guinea pigs", with CFB watching and learning from their failures and successes. The pro leagues are 100% businesses and the athletes are paid to take the risk; the NCAA is a disorganized joke, the individual conferences and schools have nothing close to an organized plan, and we're talking about "unpaid" (essentially) athletes taking on the covid risk in 2 months??! No way!
This gives the NCAA at least a chance of rescuing their cash cow. That is, if they spend the time more wisely than the west wing did back in the early months of 2020 (oops, off on a political rant...😎)
The season CAN be rescued. I don't have a ton of confidence in Emmett getting out of his own way, but at least time is a little more in our favor by waiting rather than rushing willy-nilly into September competition.
Maybe, just maybe, enough time to have a vaccine ready and approved for at least the lower risk younger folks in the meantime? As it is, they're the main engine behind the current major spike of infections.
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i don't know if you guys still lurk much on MGoBlog (I'm now a mod there as of a month ago---yippee 😵😱😬 )---but in various discussions going back at least a couple months I've advocated CFB letting the NFL and to a lesser extent the MLB and other pro sports take the lead as "guinea pigs", with CFB watching and learning from their failures and successes. The pro leagues are 100% businesses and the athletes are paid to take the risk; the NCAA is a disorganized joke, the individual conferences and schools have nothing close to an organized plan, and we're talking about "unpaid" (essentially) athletes taking on the covid risk in 2 months??! No way!
This gives the NCAA at least a chance of rescuing their cash cow. That is, if they spend the time more wisely than the west wing did back in the early months of 2020 (oops, off on a political rant...😎)
The season CAN be rescued. I don't have a ton of confidence in Emmett getting out of his own way, but at least time is a little more in our favor by waiting rather than rushing willy-nilly into September competition.
Maybe, just maybe, enough time to have a vaccine ready and approved for at least the lower risk younger folks in the meantime? As it is, they're the main engine behind the current major spike of infections.
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