It's official: Big 10 to postpone, attempt to restart in spring

[Wog68]

This is great news here in Indiana as IU and Purdue will lose far less games this fall.

 

[CryptoMiner]

Big12 expected to announce season on for now.

 

[Travis Trucks]

The numbskull who runs this account blocked me for agreeing with the tweet. Idiots.

 

[Wexahu]

No, you can't.

Maniac used the word "shameful" to describe this act, and he's 5x5 correct. The very idea that gibbering fear over a disease that, outside particular groups, amounts to little more than a bad cold would cause the entire Nation to grind to a halt, and stay that way for months is crazy. All the while, the goalposts as to reasons why continue to shift around, and not much makes sense anymore. Now they've gone and driven a stake through the heart of College Football, killed it out of sheer cowardice and pant-wetting paralysis. The follow-on effects of their decision may well kill the very institutions that employ them, though not that they give a flip about that. After all, they care. And they want to make sure that they are thought of as people who do. Actually doing their damned jobs comes in a distant third if at all...

I'm especially bitter knowing that (looking at the clock) we have about 78 minutes until the BIGXII solons kill our season, too. Not a damned thing we can do about it. Their betrayal is certain, and all we have to do until then is hope that the cigarette they give us before the firing squad opens up isn't a damned menthol.

The drinking lamp is lit. First round is on me.

It's almost comical to think back when it was going to be 2-3 weeks of sheltering in place so we could "flatten the curve". I was hugely skeptical at the time and that turned out to be about the biggest farce of all time. The can of worms that opened up by everyone being so easily coerced into that bogus scam might never get completely shut.

Hopefully it's a lesson learned but I doubt it will be

 

[Moose Stuff]

No way in hell these conferences actually intend to attempt a spring season. Just trying to soften the blow for now. Shameful.

 

[jake102]

Of course there isn’t! It makes zero sense

 

[Mean Purple]

Of course there isn’t! It makes zero sense

Kevin Warren will be [ Finebaum ]canned for sure. When the music stops after the blowback fires up, dude aint gonna have a chair to hid under or a pie to shank in.

 

[CryptoMiner]

at least one large school wants to close it down but most either want to defer or play (B12). Its all going to change but if they shut it down now there is no turning back.

 

[CryptoMiner]

Of course there isn’t! It makes zero sense

They can have their own participation trophy.

 

[gohornedfrogs]

at least one large school wants to close it down but most either want to defer or play (B12). Its all going to change but if they shut it down now there is no turning back.

Lemme guess...OU is the one who wants to shut it down. Lincoln Riley seems like a guy who doesn't want to play.

 

[Wexahu]

Lemme guess...OU is the one who wants to shut it down. Lincoln Riley seems like a guy who doesn't want to play.

If I had a guess it would be UT.

 

[Big Frog II]

If we don't play this fall, they are not going to play in the spring. That is BS.

 

[CryptoMiner]

 

[CryptoMiner]

If we don't play this fall, they are not going to play in the spring. That is BS.

You can't play in the spring and then again in the fall. Absurd.

 

[Bob Sugar]

 

[Sebastian S]

So many industries rely on football.

It will do more harm than good to cancel football, especially in the south.

just play, half capacity stadium and all, fans will take it.

 

[CryptoMiner]

OU as been the main opponent to playing and that has been a big issue.

 

[MAcFroggy]

Of course there isn’t! It makes zero sense

I do not really understand why it can't happen. Yes, the best players will opt out for the draft. However, the names on the side of the helmets will still be there. People will still watch on TV. Play a condensed spring season of 6-10 games and then play a fall season. I know it will be hard on players bodies, but it is not like they don't normally have spring football. If players want to opt out, then let them.

All of this assuming TV partners would even want to have a spring season

 

[Moose Stuff]

OU as been the main opponent to playing and that has been a big issue.

scheiss OU.

 

[HG73]

Larry Scott just cost his schools, their communities, the G5 schools that would play the PAC schools and their communities a billion dollars, but I bet that weasel still gets his $5million salary.