[teejers1]

Denial isn't working out for college football. 

“History will wonder whether this messy, muddled, and repeatedly interrupted season was worth all the risk.” 

I am pretty sure history will say it was a waste of time and a public health failure.

Apologies if this has already been shared.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...al/617225/

1.  Watch the Stanford players in pre-game interviews.  They are uniformly grateful to be playing games this season.  And this is Stanford . . . 1-2 Stanford (which probably won't win (m)any more games).  The kids want to play.  Period.

2.  The TV money is better than no TV money for universities and their athletic departments.  Whatever "the number" is, on balance I suspect it is helping sustain college sports, including minor sports . . . including at Stanford.

3.  Yes, games are being canceled/postponed . . . so what?  No one is dying; few players are even getting sick, are they?  You can point to the unknown "other risks that must be out there harming people."  Okay.  But that's true with everything we do outside the house, even walking the dog.  Are walking dogs a sham?  Shopping at stores?  Dining outside at restaurants? Having a "pod" of friends over to socialize?

4.  If folks are really worried about inevitable "other risks," then perhaps the focus/rants should shift to every college or university that invited kids back to campus.  There the numbers really spiked (no surprise).  But they test and they're doing their best.  

5.  As stated many moons ago, the USA will continue to muddle through until the vaccine takes sufficient hold.  That's just the way it is - and the US has been on this track for months.  Given hospital numbers, increased restrictions make sense.  Part of the fits and starts and scuffling through this thing.

6.  History will probably say lots of things about the pandemic and how it was addressed - older people and poorer communities getting racked.  That's where the real failure has occurred.  Somehow I don't think playing college sports will be considered much of a factor/consideration at all, in any Covid retrospective.

[teejers1]

Denial isn't working out for college football. 

“History will wonder whether this messy, muddled, and repeatedly interrupted season was worth all the risk.” 

I am pretty sure history will say it was a waste of time and a public health failure.

Apologies if this has already been shared.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...al/617225/

1.  Watch the Stanford players in pre-game interviews.  They are uniformly grateful to be playing games this season.  And this is Stanford . . . 1-2 Stanford (which probably won't win (m)any more games).  The kids want to play.  Period.

2.  The TV money is better than no TV money for universities and their athletic departments.  Whatever "the number" is, on balance I suspect it is helping sustain college sports, including minor sports . . . including at Stanford.

3.  Yes, games are being canceled/postponed . . . so what?  No one is dying; few players are even getting sick, are they?  You can point to the unknown "other risks that must be out there harming people."  Okay.  But that's true with everything we do outside the house, even walking the dog.  Are walking dogs a sham?  Shopping at stores?  Dining outside at restaurants? Having a "pod" of friends over to socialize?

4.  If folks are really worried about inevitable "other risks," then perhaps the focus/rants should shift to every college or university that invited kids back to campus.  There the numbers really spiked (no surprise).  But they test and they're doing their best.  

5.  As stated many moons ago, the USA will continue to muddle through until the vaccine takes sufficient hold.  That's just the way it is - and the US has been on this track for months.  Given hospital numbers, increased restrictions make sense.  Part of the fits and starts and scuffling through this thing.

6.  History will probably say lots of things about the pandemic and how it was addressed - older people and poorer communities getting racked.  That's where the real failure has occurred.  Somehow I don't think playing college sports will be considered much of a factor/consideration at all, in any Covid retrospective.