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Texas Tech athletic director says they’re ready to play despite coronavirus. Players who don’t feel comfortable and opt out of playing will keep their scholarships.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/will-...eyre-ready-to-play-despite-coronavirus-crisis

Texas Tech athletic director discusses what a fall 2020 football season will look like
In Lubbock, Texas, football players from Texas Tech University are participating in eight hours of mandatory workouts with the hopes that fall camp can start in August and their first official 2020 kick-off in September. Director of athletics Kirby Hocutt says despite some students testing positive for the virus in June, their student athletes want to play and they will provide them that opportunity until they’re told they have to stop.



 
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Not in any form recognizable to college football fans or the norm.

if mlb (that’s baseball) which is a pro sport of just 25 players 1 manager, 3 coaches, a few trainers, a doctor, etc, with no real contact are having outbreaks with players, how are college football teams with over 100 players 10-11 fulltime coaches and 40 + supports staff and contact on every play (100 + plays a game) gonna do it without an outbreak? Yeah that’s 10hrs of practice a week and a game.

The marlins had 4 players test positive and they’re cancelling/post-poning their games as is all of mlb as a safeguard. How does that work with college football where some football schools lose $$$$$$ in a normal year as it is? Who pays for this testing quarantine etc? The lawsuits afterwards will be something too. I don’t see it. There’s not enough discipline in the sport to make safeguards work for a season given school, travel, socializing etc in addition to games and practice.


the ufc and Napcar are the only sports I’ll be watching/sleeping through in 2020.
 
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I think they should just forget about this season. If they do play it’s gonna be crazy weird and the minute these college athletes start testing positive they will go crazy with the whole “you put us in danger!!” Rants.
 
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3xWVUenginEER said:
Not in any form recognizable to college football fans or the norm.

if mlb (that’s baseball) which is a pro sport of just 25 players 1 manager, 3 coaches, a few trainers, a doctor, etc, with no real contact are having outbreaks with players, how are college football teams with over 100 players 10-11 fulltime coaches and 40 + supports staff and contact on every play (100 + plays a game) gonna do it without an outbreak? Yeah that’s 10hrs of practice a week and a game.

The marlins had 4 players test positive and they’re cancelling/post-poning their games as is all of mlb as a safeguard. How does that work with college football where some football schools lose $$$$$$ in a normal year as it is? Who pays for this testing quarantine etc? The lawsuits afterwards will be something too. I don’t see it. There’s not enough discipline in the sport to make safeguards work for a season given school, travel, socializing etc in addition to games and practice.


the ufc and Napcar are the only sports I’ll be watching/sleeping through in 2020.
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Marlins up to 12 players and are pausing their season.
 
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Would be crazy to think a season could be sread out from August through
3xWVUenginEER said:
Not in any form recognizable to college football fans or the norm.

if mlb (that’s baseball) which is a pro sport of just 25 players 1 manager, 3 coaches, a few trainers, a doctor, etc, with no real contact are having outbreaks with players, how are college football teams with over 100 players 10-11 fulltime coaches and 40 + supports staff and contact on every play (100 + plays a game) gonna do it without an outbreak? Yeah that’s 10hrs of practice a week and a game.

The marlins had 4 players test positive and they’re cancelling/post-poning their games as is all of mlb as a safeguard. How does that work with college football where some football schools lose $$$$$$ in a normal year as it is? Who pays for this testing quarantine etc? The lawsuits afterwards will be something too. I don’t see it. There’s not enough discipline in the sport to make safeguards work for a season given school, travel, socializing etc in addition to games and practice.


the ufc and Napcar are the only sports I’ll be watching/sleeping through in 2020.
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No real contact? They share a dugout, locker room and showers.
 
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Take things in stride...


If we didn't want to play CFB the season would have been called off.

No one is saying there may not be problems.
But some of you are being fatalistic.

You play the season and you see what happens. If something comes up you take the precautions to fix it but you don't stop the season.

MLB isn't stopping the season because of a few teams.
Move forward

Like I said. Take things in stride
 
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Tough call. If there is one death I’d would think everything ends until there is vaccine or nerd effect ends the spread. If there aren’t any deaths I guess they’ll make an effort to fulfill obligations to get their TV money. Bowls can’t take place without people attending. At least most Bowls I would think.
 
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I’m talking about contact of opposing teams by comparison to football where there’s hitting and sweat transfer and even blood over 100 plays a game..

baseball has an average of under 7 hits a game and about that in walks where the catcher & maybe the first and second baseman interact With the batter/base runner. By comparison baseball is much safer or should be and the headline on FS1 said a reported 17 positive test results with the marlins in 4 days? The marlins are in Miami though.


I don’t know about the showering habits in baseball but the players were wearing masks in the dugout and at the plate when batting. I’m not a believer in masks though. It’s a false sense of security imo. Anyways Other than the pitcher and catcher, Baseball is a 3-7 seconds of action after the bat makes contact with the ball.

Baseball should be a lot safer than football.

If mlb ain’t getting it right then college football don’t have a chance. There will be an entertainment factor to the it unlike anything before.
 
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GREGJACOBS said:
Tough call. If there is one death I’d would think everything ends until there is vaccine or nerd effect ends the spread. If there aren’t any deaths I guess they’ll make an effort to fulfill obligations to get their TV money. Bowls can’t take place without people attending. At least most Bowls I would think.
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Not a tough call if anybody understands the ramifications of a 99.7% recovery rate.
 
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You’re assuming common sense. The Universities & College don’t have or use that despite a 99.7% rate. Also the teams don’t have the discipline to do it either-outside of the military academies. I would have actually thought the recovery rate was higher.

That’s why I don’t think it’s going to happen with any normalcy.
 
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Yeah ocean...what's one little death vs your enjoyment of a game! Ought to play through at least half dozen dead kids huh?
 
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Why do you think the whole thing get shut down because of 1 death?
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Just a gut feeling about how university Presidents think. I’ve only met 4 college heads so by no means can I give anything more than a fanboy opinion. They think generally in three ways.
High moral ground, money and legal. A death jeopardizes all three of those.
 
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