College Football for some

[Sean Miller Fan]

1. What does essential have to do with anything? Kids on campus are at least as much at risk as fans at a game.
2. It looks to me that you, and others, are using the pandemic to dictate what others can and cannot do based on your value system. But, I will play along.
School can be postponed just as easily as a football game can be. Learning can be done remotely just as football can be played without fans. If the school goes under, professors need to find some other way to support themselves. If a football program collapses, coaches need to find some other way to support themselves. Really, these are the exact same thing.

A football season can be played during the second semester. It is not vitally important that we have college football games in 4 months. The Fall semester cannot be moved to the 2nd semester. Yes, they can have an online semester and I have said they will but going to college from home is not what these kids signed up for and it would financially cripple the schools so having the kids on campus is far more important, essential, whatever than playing a football game that can be played at a later date.

I am sorry but if you want football in the fall, the only way is

a) a medical breakthrough (the new Remdesivir trial looks promising)

b) no fans

If there isn't a medical breakthrough, there is no way fans are going to be allowed to attend games in the fall other than the parents of the players potentially.

 

[HailToPitt1985]

1. What does essential have to do with anything? Kids on campus are at least as much at risk as fans at a game.
2. It looks to me that you, and others, are using the pandemic to dictate what others can and cannot do based on your value system. But, I will play along.
School can be postponed just as easily as a football game can be. Learning can be done remotely just as football can be played without fans. If the school goes under, professors need to find some other way to support themselves. If a football program collapses, coaches need to find some other way to support themselves. Really, these are the exact same thing.

Except for one small detail. Education is more important than sports. Education is the priority.

 

[PeetWeet1]

Except for one small detail. Education is more important than sports. Education is the priority.

To you. To me. Not to future NFL players. Not to the coaches. Not to the trainers. Perhaps not to the band members. Perhaps not to many of the students. Perhaps not to many of the fans.

If football with fans is too dangerous, so is having kids on campus.

Also, don’t confuse schooling with education. Plenty of ways to learn outside of a school. Not so with sports.

There is a personal reason I take these things so seriously. A lot of people suffer from mental illness. Anxiety and depression can be crippling, and deadly By the grace of god, I and my immediate family are in a great place. A few years ago, this wasn’t a the case for one of my kids. But for boxing, I am not sure she would still be with us. My point is, what one person thinks is frivolous, may very well be life-sustaining to another.

For my dad, this isn’t so easy. He is in his 70s. Not going to church is wearing on him. He missed my mother and feels humans were meant to live three generations, about 75 years. While I want him to live a lot longer, why should he be forced to spend what may be his last time here stuck inside his house?

 

[wicker]

HCPN (Duzz, Pat Signal, etc) thinks spring ball is stupid

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...ronavirus-affect-college-football-season-2020

 

[pierre93]

To you. To me. Not to future NFL players. Not to the coaches. Not to the trainers. Perhaps not to the band members. Perhaps not to many of the students. Perhaps not to many of the fans.

If football with fans is too dangerous, so is having kids on campus.

Also, don’t confuse schooling with education. Plenty of ways to learn outside of a school. Not so with sports.

There is a personal reason I take these things so seriously. A lot of people suffer from mental illness. Anxiety and depression can be crippling, and deadly By the grace of god, I and my immediate family are in a great place. A few years ago, this wasn’t a the case for one of my kids. But for boxing, I am not sure she would still be with us. My point is, what one person thinks is frivolous, may very well be life-sustaining to another.

For my dad, this isn’t so easy. He is in his 70s. Not going to church is wearing on him. He missed my mother and feels humans were meant to live three generations, about 75 years. While I want him to live a lot longer, why should he be forced to spend what may be his last time here stuck inside his house?

I'm sorry to hear about your family members just try and keep the faith. May God Bless you and your family through these tough and trying times. H2P!

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

HCPN (Duzz, Pat Signal, etc) thinks spring ball is stupid

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...ronavirus-affect-college-football-season-2020

He will like it when the alternative is no season or a season without fans.