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I just laugh at the inbred comments I receive on Twitter from Big 10 fans. Some are VERY detailed and specific.

They have such an inferiority complex and rightfully so. The entire league is a joke. Play that soft schedule to get beat first game of the playoffs every year. Ohio St needs insulin from feeding off those cupcakes.
 
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UTProf said:
Even UT will experience an extreme shortfall without fans (the athletic dept anyway desperately needs fans in attendance). The money made from the SEC network wouldn't offset it at all. Football makes its money via the gate and for the profitable schools that is usually 80-100k+ fans during home games. Basketball makes money that way too but it isn't as drastic because basketball costs a lot less. TV money offsets things a lot more there even without the tourney bc basketball is just a ton cheaper. That's why even small schools will dump money in basketball. The payoff there can be huge while the cost/risk is much lower than with football.

What these conferences are trying to do is figure out how many fans they need and whether or not they can fit them inside and sell them conscessions. If they can then we will have football. If not then football won't happen. Players are easy to take care of and test (well except for the schools that are small and won't be able to afford the testing required).
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Not only that, but I think the MAC was very forward thinking and had the right idea. The sooner you push to spring the more you control your own destiny.

Imagine this: the Big 10 postpones til March, but the SEC doesn’t. The SEC plays ~3 games in front of empty stadiums before being shut down for COVID. Huge failure and waste of time.

Now, the Big 10 has waited til post vaccine. They get to play all their conference games in from of 50% capacity, let’s say. They get the same TV money too.

Pushing this thing out gives us a lot more control.
 
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Also, Trevor Lawrence pushing the #WeWantToPlay movement in lock-step with the push for a national players union is the NCAA’s greatest fear.

The NCAA will protect amateurism at all costs and they know they’ll lose it once the players are organized.

It’s probably 75% of the reason we won’t have a season. Because the only way to do this safely would be to bring the players to campus but not the rest of the student body. But you can’t do that if you say they’re amateur “students” first - because then you’re asking them to risk their health and safety for no compensation (so the athletic department can make money) - and the other students wouldn’t be required to do that.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Not only that, but I think the MAC was very forward thinking and had the right idea. The sooner you push to spring the more you control your own destiny.

Imagine this: the Big 10 postpones til March, but the SEC doesn’t. The SEC plays ~3 games in front of empty stadiums before being shut down for COVID. Huge failure and waste of time.

Now, the Big 10 has waited til post vaccine. They get to play all their conference games in from of 50% capacity, let’s say. They get the same TV money too.

Pushing this thing out gives us a lot more control.
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Counterpoint:

SEC plays on their late-September start date, just as cases are reaching their nadir from the late-Summer spike. A relatively benign fall for the virus allows the conference to get its games played, albeit at very limited capacity. Schools take a bath financially, but not as big as they would have if they had cancelled.

Vaccine gets delayed until at least summer 2021 (because that seems just as likely as having one by Spring, to be honest). Covid cases spike in the winter, due to the nature of seasonal viruses, plus holiday travel/gatherings. Now it’s March, and the Big10 is in exactly the same boat they were in August 2020.

Is my scenario any less plausible than yours?
 
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cHiZzLeVOL said:
But heart problems..... like you can’t get heart complications or other complications from contracting any other type of virus/sickness......
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Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but yes, yes you can. Strep throat untreated or incorrectly treated can affect the heart (bacteria ), Coxsackie virus, viral endocarditis, not a new problem with viruses...
 
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