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Tangentially related:

The “Hail Mary” began with a GroupMe DM. Clemson running back Darien Rencher sent it Sunday night. Stanford defensive end Dylan Boles received it. Trevor Lawrence soon joined them on a FaceTime call. And before long, with college football season creaking toward collapse, they’d convened the most star-studded Zoom meeting in the sport.
Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields? Present.
Alabama running back Najee Harris? Check.
Oregon lineman Penei Sewell? On board.
Oklahoma State running back Chuba Hubbard? Yep.
A dozen players gathered because they, like hundreds of college athletes who spoke up over the weekend, want to play football in 2020.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/college-foo...49049.html

Unclear if the season cancelling is a done deal or not, but I think Harbaugh and others are making some valid points. Cancelling the season is not likely going to help anything and could be a lot worse. I truly believe that these thousands of college football players are safer in the structured environment of a college football season with regular testing, discipline and peer pressure to stay safe than they will be on their own without a college football season. Sure there would be players that would test positive if there were a season, but I think a lot more will test positive without a season.  The stats are playing that out in most programs. Positive tests were high upon arrival to campus with many of these players coming from their hometowns.  Once they are on campus and in workouts, the positivity rate has been very low and contact tracing is very possible.  Cancelling the season may be the right decision for moral and public perception reasons, but I don't believe the players will be safer.

That strikes me as intuitively correct (if not obvious).  But but few acknowledge that, for whatever reason (another Covid reporting mystery).  

P.S.  Stanford football as a .500 program is now done.  Even if there is a spring season, Mills, Adebo (and perhaps others NFL bound) will not play.  And this fall (with uber-talent Mills at QB) was Stanford's best chance in foreseeable future to be .500 or above.  The run down of the program by Shaw, with the negligent acquiescence (at best) of Bernard Muir, is almost complete!  Good job, guys . . .

[teejers1]

Tangentially related:

The “Hail Mary” began with a GroupMe DM. Clemson running back Darien Rencher sent it Sunday night. Stanford defensive end Dylan Boles received it. Trevor Lawrence soon joined them on a FaceTime call. And before long, with college football season creaking toward collapse, they’d convened the most star-studded Zoom meeting in the sport.
Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields? Present.
Alabama running back Najee Harris? Check.
Oregon lineman Penei Sewell? On board.
Oklahoma State running back Chuba Hubbard? Yep.
A dozen players gathered because they, like hundreds of college athletes who spoke up over the weekend, want to play football in 2020.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/college-foo...49049.html

Unclear if the season cancelling is a done deal or not, but I think Harbaugh and others are making some valid points. Cancelling the season is not likely going to help anything and could be a lot worse. I truly believe that these thousands of college football players are safer in the structured environment of a college football season with regular testing, discipline and peer pressure to stay safe than they will be on their own without a college football season. Sure there would be players that would test positive if there were a season, but I think a lot more will test positive without a season.  The stats are playing that out in most programs. Positive tests were high upon arrival to campus with many of these players coming from their hometowns.  Once they are on campus and in workouts, the positivity rate has been very low and contact tracing is very possible.  Cancelling the season may be the right decision for moral and public perception reasons, but I don't believe the players will be safer.

That strikes me as intuitively correct (if not obvious).  But but few acknowledge that, for whatever reason (another Covid reporting mystery).  

P.S.  Stanford football as a .500 program is now done.  Even if there is a spring season, Mills, Adebo (and perhaps others NFL bound) will not play.  And this fall (with uber-talent Mills at QB) was Stanford's best chance in foreseeable future to be .500 or above.  The run down of the program by Shaw, with the negligent acquiescence (at best) of Bernard Muir, is almost complete!  Good job, guys . . .