INDIANAPOLIS – Why does Big Ten do it? After all, playing football, from the weekend of October 23 to 24. That’s because the SEC is betting. And the CCA and Big 12 because they play football in the NFL. And in the best schools.
Seriously, you understand.
We know more about the coronavirus today than august 11, when Big Ten and Pac-12 announced that they were postponing the 2020 school football season. COVID-19 controls have improved, fitting cheaper, faster. eruptions by conducting quick controls of the effects on each and every player and coach, each and every one and every staff member, each and every single and every day. They will be monitored before education and parties, and if your check is positive, you will be out for 21 days.
It is science and you are science. But also optics:
In Ohio, the Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns have just opened their 2020 NFL program Football at Best School is going well. But can’t they play at Ohio State?
Here in Indiana, the same thing. The Indianapolis Colts just played their first game. Football at the best school is rolling. It hasn’t been perfect, no, with dozens of games cancelled in the state, but they have football at Bloomington and Lafayette stadiums, so why can’t they have it in UI and Purdue?
Notre Dame, located in the middle of the ten major countries, has just played its first match. The Irish had to do so after a coronavirus outbreak on campus three weeks earlier. Notre Dame took his students out of the room of elegance and led them to virtual learning. and observed the pandemic. Scholars returned to elegance last week.
In a hard-hitting victory over the coronavirus, the Irish football team played on Saturday, right there in South Bend, in front of a crowd of nearly 10,000 people.
And on TV.
Oh, you realize why the ten great presidents play football.
Even when the coronavirus ravages its campuses.
You don’t see why the presidents of the Big Ten do this, not now. Not with the coronavirus emerging to record levels in the Midwest, with the maximum campus in chaos.
In Michigan, graduate academics gone on strike last week to protest what they call harmful conditions.
In the Northwest, freshman and sophomores stay off campus, forced to be informed remotely for protection reasons.
In Maryland, all athletic activities were suspended last week after 46 positive tests among athletes over a two-day period. Wisconsin football was recently suspended.
In Nebraska, where President Ted Carter announced the news in a hot mic Tuesday night of big ten’s return, college tests revealed 637 positive cases in 3903 tests since August 12, an astonishing 16. 3% positivity rate.
In Illinois, they face a major epidemic that has noticed 784 positive tests over a recent 10-day period. University officials have asked students to faint unless it’s for catepass or food.
In Wisconsin, the COVID-19 crisis is so severe (nearly 2000 academics tested positive, with a positivity rate close to 20%), academics placed improvised tombstones on campus.
In the state of Michigan, fraternities and sororities are quarantined until September 28. In Purdue, more than 30 sets of student housing have been quarantined. In the U. S. , 33 of the 40 houses of fraternities and sororities were quarantined last week, with 3 Greek houses appearing to be positive. rate of more than 75%.
At least in Big Ten schools at most, academics know how damaging their campus is. In Iowa, which has been a leader in the Big Ten, it dates back to the football movement and where there have been more than 1,800 positive controls, academics are disappointed that only others with symptoms can look for the virus. The CDC said up to 40% of all coronavirus carriers are asymptomatic.
At Penn State, a wave of pandemics on campus reflects what’s happening in Pennsylvania, where Gov. Tom Wolf ordered lockout strategies so serious that a federal ruling has declared them unconstitutional.
On Tuesday, the presidents of the Big Ten, in addition to Eric Barron of Penn State, voted unanimously to start playing football.
You can see why the Big Ten gave in.
Huge tension. The players’ parents wrote letters, held press meetings, and flew to Chicago to host an outdoor demonstration at Big Ten offices. Ohio State Quarterback Justin Fields filed a petition for #WeWantToPlay has attracted more than 300,000 signatures. Eight Nebraska players sued President Trump called Commissioner Kevin Warren.
It’s too much for a league that had announced a 11-3 presidential vote to cancel fall football on August 11, a position Warren reiterated on August 19 in a letter to the Big Ten network saying the resolution “won’t be reconsidered. “
But the data has changed. As Northwest President Morton Schapiro said Wednesday: “The medical recommendation I relied on when I voted (against football) five weeks ago was that there was virtually no chance that we could do it safely. . . For me it was, “OK, we’re going to postpone the season and we have (security protocols) in position on the first weekend of January. “
“Medical checkups have changed,” Schapiro continued. ” There has been a lot of progress in the pandemic. As wonderful economist John Maynard Keynes once said: “When facts change, our mind changes. “”
Sure, but like capitalist Jerry Maguire said, “Show me the money. “
It was a $1 billion counterpart here, no one will say it publicly. Schapiro, my MVP of the ten-six-user grand press convention that included Warren, northwestern sports administrators Penn State and Wisconsin, and Ohio State team doctor Dr. Jim Borchers: he was the only user of zoom’s one-hour call that uttered that dirty five-letter word: money.
“For me, it’s not about political pressure, it’s not about money, it’s not about demands, it’s not about what everyone’s doing,” Schapiro said. “This is the unanimous opinion of our medical experts.
“You’ll have to tell the other thirteen (league presidents) why they should move on. “
I’m sure they’re already subjects. All those issues: football is back for the Big Ten, and there will be a lot of joy. There are damaging blind spots, gaps in the logic and safety of the length of the Ohio State offensive line, but no one needs to hear that. .
Need to know that big ten tests, the explanation of why everyone says they’re comfortable playing football, won’t be mandatory until September 30, but the groups will start preparing right away?
Need to hear the report from two Ohio state doctors, adding Borchers, who looks like 4 out of 26 OSU athletes who tested positive for COVID-19 showed symptoms of life-threatening heart myocarditis?And that the other OSU doctor, Dr. Curt Daniels, is dismayed that other people are concentrating on the 4 positive tests and not the negative 22?As if a 15% myocarditis rate is acceptable?
No, you don’t have to listen to the negatives. Children may threaten their health, which can also be the flu today, but big headaches along the way. If the virus leaves the Big Ten campuses, I’m sorry, if the virus continues to leave the Big Ten campuses, it can also lead to some other network boost that would close schools and businesses in the Midwest.
But it’s tomorrow, and we are Americans, and possibly we will get into that later. Today, give us football. Or give us death.
Find IndyStar columnist Gregg Doyel on Twitter at @GreggDoyelStar or www. facebook. com/gregg. doyel.