Recruiting Forum Football Talk II

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butchna said:
I can unilaterally declare that I’m not watching some hodgepodge collection of games in Spring with most if not all NFL level talent in the draft process. It’s like the AAFL with even less bite for the buck. 😴
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I watched Purdue on the Big 10 Network the other day. May need a support group.
 
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tn4elvis said:
I bet you would still watch us play. Even a watered down version
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I don’t believe it’ll be an issue. If we don’t play in the Fall, I don’t see us even attempting it in the Spring. Was more referencing Mountain West and MAC level. You’d lose THAT bet.
 
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RiotVol said:
Here's my take as a university prof...

1) I do not think having classes on campus is very wise, particularly for large R1 universities in hot spot states. I teach at one, and students may follow guidelines during the day, but during the evenings and off campus, I doubt they will. Magical thinking in May and June have painted us in a corner. I hope my universities lawyers are good, because they're probably going to need them. I know people in their early 30s who have the 'Rona, and it sounds awful.

2) The smart move would have been to announce that all classes were online for the Fall back in May, and then opened the dorms to students who do not have accommodations good enough for online learning, learning disabilities, and athletes only. Every university has armies of administrators with b@#$**** jobs. They have the labor pool to evaluate students' situations on a case-by-case basis.

They also have CARES act money to make up some of the losses in revenue from dorms and their other financial entanglements. Ours is paying $1.2m to buy out local hotels to use as quarantine facilities. Wasted money if you ask me. That could have bought a chromebook for every incoming freshman.

I feel dirty for saying this, but I agree with Saban here. If they had made the call to go online, it would have been easier to keep athletes safe, the regular student body from turning into a giant COVID party, and we could have had sports.



I can hear my old man telling me "if you do sh!t right the first time, then you don't have to deal with bull$!t later."

Instead, students started moving in today. They don't have class until Monday. Do people really think they're just going to sit in their rooms and make TikToks?
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The virus is here forever..when were you plannin on going about your life? Now...six months from now, ten years from now and Covid will still be there...everybody needs to deal with that absolute act and move on..nothing done or not done in March, May, June or July has got a F'n thing to do with it..

How do you people not understand this? Nobody with even half a brain in the medical field has ever said Covid disappearing was a possibility..

The whole thing was "flattening the curve"..the damn curve got freakin squashed in most of the country...so now it is death by chinese water torture or by a thousand cuts...the spread is inevitable. What flu has ever disappeared once it got out? We have had different strains of flu forever, and every dang year people still die from it despite modern medicine, and so it will be with this virus...do you folks really wanna keep a running tally on it forever?
 
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Weezer said:
With the transfers they've taken, I'm curious how they can sign 25 guys? Where are they getting the extra initial qualifier spots from? Seems to me that the reforms they made a couple years back mean jack squat and teams are still finding ways around these limits.
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Someone asked this on 247 the other week. It seems a large majority of the transfers last year were not scholarship players. They also had a few spots to backcount.
 
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engineerVOL said:
Spring football season makes no sense.
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"Spring football" just seems like good marketing. Spring makes people think of flowers, warmth, etc. In reality, the season would be starting in January. Let's be honest, it is Winter football, which sounds like hell, and is in the dead middle of flu season. Your best veterans have already left the team to train for the combine.

Oh, and once you get done playing on frozen tundras, if at all, you get 2-3 months off before starting Fall camp to prepare for another grueling full season. Because...that's realistic.
 
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Devo182 said:
"Spring football" just seems like good marketing. Spring makes people think of flowers, warmth, etc. In reality, the season would be starting in January. Let's be honest, it is Winter football, which sounds like hell, and is in the dead middle of flu season.

Oh, and once you get done playing on frozen tundras, if at all, you get 2 months off before starting Fall camp to prepare for a full season. Beacuse...that's realistic.
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When you do have spring camp to prepare for that season though? It’s so impractical, I’m done wasting what few mental faculties I have left.
 
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