PAC12 calls it off

Here’s one news link

I would suspect that the transfer portal is going to light up. Players are going to go wherever they can to play ball. One of many reasons that this could have huge ramifications for the program in the long-term if other conferences are somehow able to get things together to play.

Pac-12 has canceled fall football season, source told @Stadium. “We’re done,” source said. Official announcement at 4:30 p.m. ET

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) August 11, 2020

BTW, f**k this whole f**king thing.

What a major disappointment.  But what can you do?  There’s just not enough information yet as to the long-term effects of COVID-19 for us to risk the health of our athletes.  These are college kids; not Roman gladiators.  We don’t want to see anyone battle anything out to the death.

I sure hope we can square enough things away in time for Spring.  College Football season is the best time of year.  

GO UTES!!!

Do they really believe the players are going to be able to play ~20 games in under 12 months? Even if they give an extra year of eligibility to the students, they are taking a year away of playing from somebody (taking away scholarships/playing time from incoming freshmen). I would hope that Utah could break off the pac12 this year and go play with Iowa and Nebraska and all the other schools that don’t want to lose all the best players to the SEC, ACC, and Big12.

Help me understand how it will be different in Spring? Calibrate your sarcasm sensor 🙂

Kind of, I guess!

1. What will be different in Spring since the NCAA and school leadership basically have been sitting on their hands the past five months doing nothing to create a strategy to at least try and play? Basically raised the white flag.

2. As soon as you see a so called virus expert or physician on TV sitting in front of a book shelf, quickly change the channel. I love how all of these so called experts come out of the wood work to tell us about all of the proven “science” occuring over the past five months surrounding outcomes, treatments, “the science”, etc. Memo to all you medical expert folks on TV, stay in your lane and focus on the 250,000 (probably on the low side) preventable medical error deaths occuring in the U.S. every year. 

3. Do these leaders really think a miracle vaccination is going to cure the virus before Spring next year? 

4. Is the continued testing disaster and tracing fiasco going to fix itself?

5. Will the increased mask compliance make the virus go away? For the record, not a hater-good with the masks here.

6. A votng miracle cure appears on November 4th, depending on who wins the election of course :)?

Hard not to see the Spring delay is nothing more than a bulls**t legal, political pandering effort to chase dollars and justiy administration paychecks for another five months. No way football will fly in Spring unless there is an effective, proven, viable vaccine.

The decision not to play in the Fall sets precedent that as long as the virus is present at any level in the community, college athletes are at risk of getting C19, and potentially at risk for the least likely-worse possible outcome. Not saying I have all the answers, it seems this has been a poor system leadership effort failing these kids.

See you all on the river fishing or biking on the trails this Fall!

Rant over…Go Utes! 

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