Postby Cane from the Bend » Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:23 pm
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And now, the Big 10 says, no football,the Pac 12 is playing follow the lemming.
All while, the ACC & SEC push forward, saying they plan on a season.
The Big XII is oddly silent, as the coaches at Michigan, Nebraska and Ohio State all say we want to play, even if that means finding a schedule elsewhere.
Some say that those mentioned in the last sentence there, are willing to merge for one season. Not sure how the logistics would work in that scenario. But, I get it.
Iowa and Nebraska were the only two of the fourteen Big Ten members who voted to play the season.
Maybe Iowa goes Southwest with 'em. Keeps their instate rivalry alive vs. ISU. If all 4 of those programs defect for a season,the Big XII could have a 14 team conference in 2020.
Nebraska & Iowa went on with contact practices, even after the news that there was a 12-2 vote against the season.
Ohio State is especially in a tight spot. The President voted against playing, but the Coaches want to go ahead and find an alternative. Also, OSU got their first de-commit from the 2021 recruiting class ---
4 Star DE Tunmise Adeleye, de-committed just an hour after the Big 10 announcement there would be no Fall Football
There is still talk about having a Spring Season, as far as the Big 10 & Pac-12 are concerned. However, that brings up a whole slew of other questions, such as:
How could you possibly have the players' best interest and health in heart, when you are asking them to play 22 games in a 9 month block?
If you play in the Spring, then practice camps would have to begin near the Christmas/Winter Holiday Break; how long, then, would you wait between the Spring Season Finale/Championship and the start of 2021 Fall Camp?
Would there even be a break between a Spring Season, and the 2021 Fall Season Championship/Tournament?
[Dec. 2020 - Jan. 2022]
With the PAC-12 seeking a bailout, hoping to draw in private equity investors. They are asking for $750 million, hoping to spread out the revenue to member schools. Yet, reports are saying there could be as much as a $100 million gap, per school.
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Miami Players have been taking video press questions after practices.
Many of the questions, of course, were on the outlook of safety and going forward with the season.
The players have been saying, they feel safer being on campus, and in practice, than being open in their own communities, because of school protocols.
They are also saying that they feel playing the season would be better than being kept away from the field.
Everyday, things seem more & more political, and less about what real effect this thing is having. When the universities cover their tracks, saying it's best for the players' health, yet, the players are saying `nough is `nough, the institutions meandering their slant as virtue might just become their own downfall.
The PAC-12 could potentially serve as a warning sign for everyone else. They banked off of their PAC-12 network drawing in additional viewership. But with fewer & fewer people tuning in, due to a spiking bevy of on-line entertainment and tech device options, they are out dangling on a string, begging for assistance.
The once proud and arrogant pacific bravado, that helped to orchestrate a coup against the Big 12, now finds themselves at the end of the rope.
They already had a soft market, hoping to cash in on the success of their mainstay programs from the early 2000's. But that isn't enough to bring in new interest. And, their former powers are at best, mediocre, when compared to the standing forces in opposing conferences --- Oregon is their last bastion of hope. But without the success Washington had been bringing to the table, and the Ducks not being able to win a significant out of conference regular season game; it just isn't enough.
Now, with the possibility of the season going on without them, the final nail in the coffin might be starting to get hammered down.
The conference as a whole is in tatters, and it very well may be only a short matter of time before they fold altogether.
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Cane... [__]
"It is only impossible until it has been accomplished." ... then it becomes standardized ...
Success is measured by results; whereas Character is measured through the means by which one achieves those results . . .
It seems the Rapture did come for two worthy souls:
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