Seems like you are supporting the wrong program. You want us to be all the things we've never been.
If those are the expectations, then we have been all of those things.
Let’s see how he rolls out his new “Social Distance” Defense before we give him credit for another “High Octane” Offense success story.
i was speaking to the very specific and the very general. On the academic issue, (which was the very specific) we have always had academic issues similar to this one. Sometimes we kept it out of the media, and sometimes we didn't. But yes the general funding of the university as a whole has never been in this bad of a situation. They have never made such drastic changes to the universities academic structure, no matter whether it was/or wasn't to deal with monetary problems. I don't disagree with you about that at all. It just wasn't addressing what I was talking about.
I seriously doubt that. A football coach isn't going to just overlook a kid who's related to one of his coworkers, who's also a famous form NFL alumni. I don't care how bad of a coach you are, that just doesn't happen.... Even if you think Monty himself is incompetent, a guy like Gillespie has been pretty good at recruiting and evaluating talent and I'm sure he has the green light to offer who he wants.
Todd had the most talented and exciting teams in the last 25 years. My favorite was the night game against BYU in the old 42,000 seat stadium .
CHeck this...MWC is now reconsidering whether or not they will play. 8 game season on the board but it is still possible individual schools in the conference (i.e. Fresno and San Jose St) may not play.
I'm just going off a news report released yesterday after the B1G announced they had caved to pressure from POTUS and potential lawsuits
Oh yes.....none of the players wanted to play, but the bad orange man is making them against their will.
Sometimes the best interest of a body of people isn’t necessarily what they want. If you honestly think this change was made because the PLAYERS wanted to play you’re delusional. The change was made because the schools’ admins wanted them to play.
Never said that, but the B1G presidents weren't budging until threatened by POTUS searching for votes in places like Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Guarantee within the week he takes full credit for that since he's got nothing else and he's killed 200k people
The people who control the money wanted them to play whether it be the admins, the TV folks tired of showing Sun Belt games on network TV, or the boosters who probably threatened to withhold millions. Waiting for Wisconsin to have to shut down their entire athletic program due to COVID because the people in that state are out of control and so is their infection rate.
Never fully understood people who think football players just sit in their rooms all day and only hang out with eachother. Football players are just as likely to get infected as the rest of the student body... the only difference is they get tested more often so we can see when they are infected. Do you honestly believe that out of 100 (ish) players on a team, that 0 of them are seeing their girlfriends this entire semester?
Safer is a relative term due to the heart complications that the virus causes. Most people who are infected aren't expected to perform strenuous cardiovascular activities. So, while it might matter less to some of the students on campus, a positive infection for a player matters a great deal. Are each of the players who have tested positive given heart exams after having been cleared?
You can't compare a run on the treadmill in the gym to football practice and you know it. I'm sure in the bigger conferences / pro leagues they've been very careful about this, but I doubt a program like Arky State has the excess cash to give specialized cardiac checkups to each player who tests positive (considering it's something like half their team).
Key word: Yet.
