08-01-2020, 08:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-01-2020, 09:00 AM by OutsiderFan.)
Wow, that Sankey statement was really terrible.
It sounds to me like the SEC is trying to persuade players to play, not just giving them the facts and leaving the decision to them, and then basically saying if you do play, you can't hold us responsible if you get sick. And they double down on this by saying we guarantee outbreaks are going to happen.
If you are a player how do you respond with anything other than "AYFKM?!, you are telling us you will do your best to protect us, but at the end of the day you are saying we should expect to get sick while playing while we aren't getting paid? What on Earth makes you think we should trust the SEC? The mere fact the SEC would say such a thing makes me unable to trust it, when we know the SEC wants us to play so it can make money."
OMG... That article just got worse and worse.
The SEC should be publicly exposed and humiliated for what it said to those football players. The Universities should absolutely not be in charge of deciding this stuff. Only independent health experts should be empowered to make the decisions. I again go back to the KBO broadcaster from last week. The South Korean CDC has the say on whether and how they play baseball in South Korea.
It tells you all you need to know, that all the conferences that don't make mints from college football are shutting down Fall sports. But speaking of that, why was it only football players on the call? Where were the other Fall sport athletes? They are being sacrificed too, so the conferences can give the illusion they aren't just playing football, we're playing all sports.
I need to go take a shower after reading that WaPo story.
It sounds to me like the SEC is trying to persuade players to play, not just giving them the facts and leaving the decision to them, and then basically saying if you do play, you can't hold us responsible if you get sick. And they double down on this by saying we guarantee outbreaks are going to happen.
If you are a player how do you respond with anything other than "AYFKM?!, you are telling us you will do your best to protect us, but at the end of the day you are saying we should expect to get sick while playing while we aren't getting paid? What on Earth makes you think we should trust the SEC? The mere fact the SEC would say such a thing makes me unable to trust it, when we know the SEC wants us to play so it can make money."
OMG... That article just got worse and worse.
The SEC should be publicly exposed and humiliated for what it said to those football players. The Universities should absolutely not be in charge of deciding this stuff. Only independent health experts should be empowered to make the decisions. I again go back to the KBO broadcaster from last week. The South Korean CDC has the say on whether and how they play baseball in South Korea.
It tells you all you need to know, that all the conferences that don't make mints from college football are shutting down Fall sports. But speaking of that, why was it only football players on the call? Where were the other Fall sport athletes? They are being sacrificed too, so the conferences can give the illusion they aren't just playing football, we're playing all sports.
I need to go take a shower after reading that WaPo story.