(08-10-2020, 09:53 AM)paloalto Wrote: This article is a few hours behind the fast moving events but it addresses some financial implications.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/major...ons-losses
Quote from Oregon State coach:
"The impact of not playing a season is devastating. It would rock the foundation of intercollegiate athletics the way we know it. Frankly, I'm not trying to solve for that because it would be such a devastating circumstance that we'd almost have to get a whiteboard out and start over.”
While Larry Scott has been a disaster for the PAC-12, I can understand he is feeling the pressure right now.
You are correct and so is the Oregon State coach. You only have to look at the national response to the pandemic. The Federal Government has no rules and spends half the time making fun of the people responsible for trying to deal with the problem. It has abdicated the problem to the States who have made their own mess out of the problem. Some states have rules, but then many of their residents do not follow them. Other states seem to deny there is a problem. The NCAA seems to join the 'no problem" group. They have dumped the issue on the conferences who are all desperately looking for a way to avoid making any kind of a decision. So each school is now making its own rules. We have already seen that there are some significant differences even within our own conference on how to deal with this. It seems clear that the student athletes involved want a common set of rules, and many seem to hold out Stanford's handling of this as what they want. There reports that even though the virus doesn't make you very ill, it can still cause long term medical issues.
I can't imagine where we would be if the virus was a virulent as the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 where 10 percent of the people who got it died and it hit the younger generations the hardest.
Sometimes governments have to make hard decisions that may not be well received by all those governed but the issues are important enough that they have to insist those governed comply.
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