If any other multibillion-dollar company in the United States were run as a mediocre school sport, it would be ready for a hostile takeover. If the leadership of any other corporation was so divided, absent and frozen in the face of big decisions as we have noticed in recent days in school football, its percentage value would have fallen so low that it could be ruled out of the NASDAQ.
Monday’s series of confidence crises made school football resemble a real circle similar to a dispute of relatives watching to heal their wounds and missteps by placing pickets on each other’s necks while millions of others decide on the sides and look for damaged arteries. And that’s before politicians started getting involved.
Whatever the fate of the 2020 school football season, and more about it in an instant, the procedure for getting here has been a general embarrassment for everyone, unless the players, who obviously need to play and deserve answers on why the momentum of many presidents colleges go the other way. They are innocent in all of this, and yet their absence from verbal exchange over situations that would make school football imaginable while COVID-19 became enraged was remarkable and counterproductive.
This is aimed directly at adults, who have not been offered a unified message from one convention to another or even from one school to another, nor a backup plan if the season cannot be played in the fall and has not been offered main points on what constitutes appropriate and guilty situations to play a season. Lack of concentration has allowed them to waste time, offer empty trivialities and false hopes and now, when it’s time to make genuine decisions, move goals enough to confuse everyone about what’s going to happen.
Even if you think the Big Ten are doing the right thing by moving toward the cancellation of fall sports as soon as Tuesday, the fact that manufacturers disconnect the weekend, which happened only a few days after the league. made his debut with his 10-game fall football show, just for the convention, it’s an obviously absurd U-turn.
And even if you believe the SEC is doing the right thing while waiting to make important decisions, it has fed so much red meat nonsense at its base in recent months that a throwback to the truth of the virus is likely to appear. how to bend the knee to the very good Yankees of Michigan and Illinois. Good luck explaining this one, Greg Sankey.
And now, as it all turns out, it’s absurdly political with U.S. senators from Florida, Georgia and Nebraska pointing out that school football deserves to be played and President Trump seems to approve by retwaling a player unionization motion led by field marshal Clemson Trevor Lawrence. and the #WeWantToPlay hashtag.
But the most important thing is this: is he guilty or not to play football this fall? And the fact that no one can stick to their story means that everyone’s answer to this question turns out to be motivated by a hidden reason.
What we want to understand, however, is that if the presidents of Big Ten and Pac 12 decide not to play school football this fall, it will be because they think they are doing the right thing. It’s because they just don’t think they can do it and they don’t think it’s sensible to try.
In recent days, for example, it has made its way through Pac 12’s leadership in myocarditis, which is a central disease similar to COVID-19.
One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject, described the knowledge they saw as “terrifying.” Another anonymous official referred to the case of Michael Ojo, the former Florida state basketball player who collapsed after education in Serbia and died of an attack on the center on Friday at the age of 27. According to his team president in Serbia, Ojo had recovered from COVID – 19 weeks earlier, it is not known whether one had to do with the other or whether an underlying central disease contributed to the tragedy.
But this kind of real-life anecdote with a well-known athlete completely highlights what’s at stake in this decision. The concept of a player recovering from COVID-19 and then falling dead on the education floor weeks later because we were too inopportune to perceive that it has an effect on the body, is something that many directors lately consider an ethical challenge that they cannot avoid.
“From the beginning, we said we would stick to the medical recommendation,” the official of the moment said. “We are about to stick to the medical recommendation and it is incorrect or premature. It’s very unlikely that we’ll win.”
That’s why it raises serious red flags when trainers like Scott Frost of Nebraska and Nick Saban of Alabama recommend that one of the preachers to play a season is that we can’t do anything for athletes to get COVID-19 or they’re most likely to take him somewhere outside the football building.
“If our purpose is to save each and every student-athlete in the country from contracting a coronavirus, we will fail,” Frost said Monday.
Think about it for a moment, not even in a football context, but just a narrative of a society intended to function. Have we raised the white flag on this virus to the point where it doesn’t matter that football players get it fighting on the education floor because they can catch it in a bar?
However, as there are other people who have been willing to become moral pretzels for this to happen, rudderless delivery of college athletics is eating alive. Players in front of administrators. The ten great coaches against the ten great presidents. The SEC opposes everyone’s seeking to disconnect the season before it is necessary. And no leader in sight.