Colin Cowherd on Bill Maher: In a week, all conferences out

[PittMiamiRivalry]

Pro football will play; college will be cancelled in a week.

Oh, and during WWII the Steelers and the Eagles played as one team: the Steagles!

Is now the time for the State-Pitt?

 

[PittMan 72]

And then there's this opinion, since others besides Cowherd are entitled to one.
Only time will tell. Because no matter how thin the baloney is sliced there are still always 2 sides.

 

[ratking17]

Not sure if getting a rapid test negates the concern their doctors had for the heart inflammation issue.

Not saying the saliva test isn't an important issue and a good step in the right direction

 

[wbrpanther]

Pro football will play; college will be cancelled in a week.

Oh, and during WWII the Steelers and the Eagles played as one team: the Steagles!

Is now the time for the State-Pitt?

That may be the case, but I wouldn't rely on Colin Cowherd's opinion on it.

 

[PittMan 72]

Not sure if getting a rapid test negates the concern their doctors had for the heart inflammation issue.

Not saying the saliva test isn't an important issue and a good step in the right direction

There is no panacea right now and there are many different opinions about playing football at various levels: from HS to the pros.

But it's difficult to reconcile some things then regarding the heart inflammation issue (or other COVID related complications):

What is the rationale for feeling it's ok to play NFL football but not college football, since the NFL is not using a "bubble" approach?

Why is the heart inflammation issue specific to playing college football and to college football players, when 10's of thousands of students are returning to any given large campus and will be interacting and having contact with each other?

Seems to me that now that there is a divide with some P5 conferences electing to try to play and others deciding to cancel, there are certain agendas that are being promulgated. Maybe because of concerns about certain advantages or disadvantages that may be realized?

Nobody knows for certain what may happen. We'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime we all have our own thoughts and opinions. This is obviously a very dynamic situation.

 

[steelcurtain55.]

The heart study the b10 used is beginning to fall apart.

 

[steelcurtain55.]

 

[PittGrl]

Good article on the myocarditis issue

https://www.outkick.com/what-is-myocarditis-and-is-big-ten-or-sec-right/

 

[FireballZ]

Pro football will play; college will be cancelled in a week.

Oh, and during WWII the Steelers and the Eagles played as one team: the Steagles!

Is now the time for the State-Pitt?

How an utter troll like you is still allowed to post on this site is why i won’t give Chis Leak $10 a month.

 

[PittMan 72]

How an utter troll like you is still allowed to post on this site is why i won’t give Chis Leak $10 a month.

Nitters gonna be nitters. I guess they're allowed to play on the free board. But they're certainly not fooling anyone.

 

[PittMan 72]

Good article on the myocarditis issue

https://www.outkick.com/what-is-myocarditis-and-is-big-ten-or-sec-right/

But I think putting this in a college football or college athletics context misses the point. Why is that? The B1G is allowing all of their students back on campus. Are they somehow immune? Or doesn't the B1G care about them? If football players can be afflicted with myocarditis as a side effect of COVID-19, why can't other students on their campus be in the same danger?

 

[yourhired]

He knows as much as you and I do

 

[andypappas]

Conspiracy theory.
If college football is cancelled who benefits? NFL
If college football is cancelled, NFL moves games to Saturday and possibly Friday. I know there is a law in place , but, what if they get it changed for this year. Suddenly the losses shrink.

Now I don't think this will happen, I find it hard to believe some of the college presidents will allow this.

I just really have a feeling that in the back channels, this is/was being discussed.

I just brought this idea up for discussion

 

[daytonpanther]

But I think putting this in a college football or college athletics context misses the point. Why is that? The B1G is allowing all of their students back on campus. Are they somehow immune? Or doesn't the B1G care about them? If football players can be afflicted with myocarditis as a side effect of COVID-19, why can't other students on their campus be in the same danger?

The players are different because they have bigger lawsuits attached to their future earnings.

 

[PittMan 72]

The players are different because they have bigger lawsuits attached to their future earnings.

Maybe. In some cases there are some pretty damn rich kids going to some of these schools. Who would be more than willing to “lawyer up”.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

But I think putting this in a college football or college athletics context misses the point. Why is that? The B1G is allowing all of their students back on campus. Are they somehow immune? Or doesn't the B1G care about them? If football players can be afflicted with myocarditis as a side effect of COVID-19, why can't other students on their campus be in the same danger?

They’ll be remote within 3-4 weeks .
Unc has 4 separate clusters already identified as havjf an emergency faculty meeting
School has been back less than 2weeks

 

[PittMan 72]

They’ll be remote within 3-4 weeks .
Unc has 4 separate clusters already identified as havjf an emergency faculty meeting
School has been back less than 2weeks

Could be. But I suspect lots of folks will be demanding big refunds then. Hard to charge big $$$$$ for room and board for remote, on-line classes.

 

[pitt-girl]

They’ll be remote within 3-4 weeks .
Unc has 4 separate clusters already identified as havjf an emergency faculty meeting
School has been back less than 2weeks

There are some pretty concerning outbreaks at ND as well fwiw.

I guess the next question will be does the school completely shut down or offer the opportunity for kids to go back home (with the provision they cannot return until the next semester).

And then if the football team continues to test and handle their players, are they allowed to continue without all the student body on campus?

Lots of rabbit holes.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

If college football is cancelled, NFL moves games to Saturday and possibly Friday. I know there is a law in place , but, what if they get it changed for this year. Suddenly the losses shrink.

I'm not sure what law you think is in place that would stop the NFL from playing on Saturday, but rest assured that if all the colleges bail on the season and the NFL goes on the NFL will play some games on Saturdays.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Not sure if getting a rapid test negates the concern their doctors had for the heart inflammation issue.

Not saying the saliva test isn't an important issue and a good step in the right direction

A kid from Indiana contracted this and that is terrible. But at some point, we need to stop being paralyzed by every possible outcome caused by this virus. It is like listening to these drug commercials, when they list potential side effects, if you were truly in fear of the less than 1%, you would never take any drugs prescribed to you.

At some point we are going to have to move on.....

The problem though is not doctor's or scientists. It is lawyers.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

Could be. But I suspect lots of folks will be demanding big refunds then. Hard to charge big $$$$$ for room and board for remote, on-line classes.

Tuition is tuition

 

[pittdan77]

A kid from Indiana contracted this and that is terrible. But at some point, we need to stop being paralyzed by every possible outcome caused by this virus. It is like listening to these drug commercials, when they list potential side effects, if you were truly in fear of the less than 1%, you would never take any drugs prescribed to you.

At some point we are going to have to move on.....

The problem though is not doctor's or scientists. It is lawyers.

It's accountants. If football, safety, or student-athlete concerns meant anything, it would have been a swift decisive decision.

 

[thebadby2]

Not only will college football be cancelled. Wait until the students have been on campus 3 weeks or so. School will be cancelled as well.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

Not only will college football be cancelled. Wait until the students have been on campus 3 weeks or so. School will be cancelled as well.

Yep

The entire reason they are doing this charade is to grab tuition dollars instead of kids going to community college for a fraction of the price

 

[TheSpecialSauce]

Not only will college football be cancelled. Wait until the students have been on campus 3 weeks or so. School will be cancelled as well.

They might switch to Remote Learning, but I highly doubt they shut down all learning.

 

[ratking17]

A kid from Indiana contracted this and that is terrible. But at some point, we need to stop being paralyzed by every possible outcome caused by this virus. It is like listening to these drug commercials, when they list potential side effects, if you were truly in fear of the less than 1%, you would never take any drugs prescribed to you.

At some point we are going to have to move on.....

The problem though is not doctor's or scientists. It is lawyers.

I don't necessarily disagree with you on this. I do know that the big10 had over 10 athletes that had this heart inflammation issue. Just a rhetorical question but how many is acceptable and how many is not.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

It's accountants. If football, safety, or student-athlete concerns meant anything, it would have been a swift decisive decision.

It's lawyers. Lawyers scare accountants.

 

[pittdan77]

It's lawyers. Lawyers scare accountants.

Not for the kind of money we’re talking here. LSU is talking about losing $80 million playing without fans.

 

[Mr. Monaca]

But I think putting this in a college football or college athletics context misses the point. Why is that? The B1G is allowing all of their students back on campus. Are they somehow immune? Or doesn't the B1G care about them? If football players can be afflicted with myocarditis as a side effect of COVID-19, why can't other students on their campus be in the same danger?

Exactly. If the B10 were so virtuous in their concern for the health of their students, they should never have let anyone back into campus at all. So, do they value their student athletes MORE than the rest of their student body?

 

[Gunga_Galunga]

Not for the kind of money we’re talking here. LSU is talking about losing $80 million playing without fans.

 

[tetonpanther]

They’ll be remote within 3-4 weeks .
Unc has 4 separate clusters already identified as havjf an emergency faculty meeting
School has been back less than 2weeks

Who cares

 

[JohnnyGossamer]

Who cares

Thought being if this becomes a trend as more students return, football is less likely.

 

[andypappas]

I'm not sure what law you think is in place that would stop the NFL from playing on Saturday, but rest assured that if all the colleges bail on the season and the NFL goes on the NFL will play some games on Saturdays.

There is an anti trust exemption that prohibits the NFL from playing Friday's and Saturday's between Labor Day and mid December.

 

[pittdan77]

There is an anti trust exemption that prohibits the NFL from playing Friday's and Saturday's between Labor Day and mid December.

If there isn't any college, it wouldn't apply. It's already being looked at.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

Thought being if this becomes a trend as more students return, football is less likely.

Seemed fairly obvious -
If - when school move to full remote after outbreaks -
Athletics become even less likely .

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

There is an anti trust exemption that prohibits the NFL from playing Friday's and Saturday's between Labor Day and mid December.

According to a provision in the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, the NFL is prohibited from scheduling games within 75 miles of a college football contest played “on any Saturday during the period beginning on the second Saturday in September and ending on the second Saturday in December.”


As I said, if all colleges bail on playing this fall you absolutely will see some number of Saturday NFL games.

 

[PittMan 72]

Tuition is tuition

Tuition is tuition. But not room & board. If someone lives off campus or commutes they don't pay for room & board. If schools go to distance learning and on-line classes, those who have already paid for room & board and are forced to leave campus will demand refunds for that portion.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

Tuition is tuition. But not room & board. If someone lives off campus or commutes they don't pay for room & board. If schools go to distance learning and on-line classes, those who have already paid for room & board and are forced to leave campus will demand refunds for that portion.

Fairly sure it’s not a refundable thing-
But haven’t read the agreement in a long time

unless Pitt is kicking them off campus - which they aren’t - it’s a silly thing to worry about

 

[PittMan 72]

Fairly sure it’s not a refundable thing-
But haven’t read the agreement in a long time

unless Pitt is kicking them off campus - which they aren’t - it’s a silly thing to worry about

I'm not just talking about Pitt. Pitt has a LOT of students who live off campus. But for some of the big state schools with loads of students living on campus in dorms and buying school run meal plans, it amounts to a LOT of $$$$$.

 

[NTOP]

I'm not just talking about Pitt. Pitt has a LOT of students who live off campus. But for some of the big state schools with loads of students living on campus in dorms and buying school run meal plans, it amounts to a LOT of $$$$$.

Do you think schools make big money in their food services?