HighSeas
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Alright I'll come out of exile to address this subject.
1st of all blaming the media for this situation is the most ignorant and absurd take you could possibly come up with. CFB media is gonna be a ghost town with the layoffs coming their way besides recruiting writers and the most tenured names like Feldman. Imagine a group of people sacrificing their careers just to get a "gotcha" moment on the internet - seems legit right guysm?
If you wanna place blame look no further than college administrators and conference presidents. They sat on their asses for 5 months hoping and praying the virus would just disappear or the corrupt NCAA would deliver some guidance. The absence of leadership is appalling. It doesn't help that the US politicized the virus and masks, meanwhile here in Ontario (population ~15 million) we had 70 positive cases today and active cases are below 1000.
You reap what you sow. The ACC could have planned various contingencies and protocols to protect the health and safety of players. Transmission dynamics of the virus are well-established by the medical community at this point and the NBA and NFL have taken different approaches to satisfy the concerns of players and their families - who almost uniformly want to play.
So why didn't the NCAA, or its conferences, just copy or modify the precedents set by pro sports? The answer is in the question. Ultimately they are willing to punt on a season and cost themselves and their stakeholders - players, families, media, team staffers, local hospitality businesses and their staffs, TV rights holders, etc. - devastating losses just to protect their 'amateurism' house of cards. They see the writing on the wall with players organizing and they know their facade of amateurism and education is on the brink of upheaval. If players are expected to "risk their health and safety" playing a game for which they're effectively unpaid labor it opens up Pandora's box for players to unionize and get paid. So they're willing to kick the can down the road and sacrifice what would be a tumultuous season filled with bad optics and likely a substandard product littered with issues just to protect their golden goose post-COVID.
Don't be naive and side with these school "leaders" who use the health excuse to protect their charade and sic you against the players and media. The NCAA and its conferences have always been transparent with this **** and it's never been more clear. The ship has sailed on mitigating the virus - you all failed - but the least you can do now is join the crowd condemning this situation and exposing the reality that's staring us all in the face.
Thank you and I will return to lurk mode where I belong in this cesspool of idiots.
1st of all blaming the media for this situation is the most ignorant and absurd take you could possibly come up with. CFB media is gonna be a ghost town with the layoffs coming their way besides recruiting writers and the most tenured names like Feldman. Imagine a group of people sacrificing their careers just to get a "gotcha" moment on the internet - seems legit right guysm?
If you wanna place blame look no further than college administrators and conference presidents. They sat on their asses for 5 months hoping and praying the virus would just disappear or the corrupt NCAA would deliver some guidance. The absence of leadership is appalling. It doesn't help that the US politicized the virus and masks, meanwhile here in Ontario (population ~15 million) we had 70 positive cases today and active cases are below 1000.
You reap what you sow. The ACC could have planned various contingencies and protocols to protect the health and safety of players. Transmission dynamics of the virus are well-established by the medical community at this point and the NBA and NFL have taken different approaches to satisfy the concerns of players and their families - who almost uniformly want to play.
So why didn't the NCAA, or its conferences, just copy or modify the precedents set by pro sports? The answer is in the question. Ultimately they are willing to punt on a season and cost themselves and their stakeholders - players, families, media, team staffers, local hospitality businesses and their staffs, TV rights holders, etc. - devastating losses just to protect their 'amateurism' house of cards. They see the writing on the wall with players organizing and they know their facade of amateurism and education is on the brink of upheaval. If players are expected to "risk their health and safety" playing a game for which they're effectively unpaid labor it opens up Pandora's box for players to unionize and get paid. So they're willing to kick the can down the road and sacrifice what would be a tumultuous season filled with bad optics and likely a substandard product littered with issues just to protect their golden goose post-COVID.
Don't be naive and side with these school "leaders" who use the health excuse to protect their charade and sic you against the players and media. The NCAA and its conferences have always been transparent with this **** and it's never been more clear. The ship has sailed on mitigating the virus - you all failed - but the least you can do now is join the crowd condemning this situation and exposing the reality that's staring us all in the face.
Thank you and I will return to lurk mode where I belong in this cesspool of idiots.
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