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Thanks for saving school football. Let me reformulate: Thank you for saving school football, for now.
The resolution of the big 12 on Tuesday night to move forward with a football season in the fall of 2020 has held the hopes, perhaps low, that there will be a school action of pigskin in the fall. A few hours after the Big Ten and Pac-12 worked more sensibly, the Big 12, with the possibility of closing and perhaps bringing all school football with him, stood firm. Those responsible for the most sensible resolution in the league decided to keep moving towards the beginning of September. One organization broke up and on the fence going into the day, the leaders of the 12 Greats looked at the appearance of their neighbors to the east and southeast, VAC and SEC, rather than those of their north and west.
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Before their presidents agreed to continue the season, the sports administrators of the big 12 were briefed for 90 minutes through a medical panel, which led to a lively debate. Some people think it’s too dangerous. Others think it’s pretty safe. It’s a swing among the administrators, all the time with the season a little in play. The resolution among the 12 great leaders consisted of ramifications of not playing a season (players’ mental fitness, structure, etc.) in relation to the dubious dangers of betting a season.
They opted for the first one. According to league sources, the convention also to load a load layer into their COVID-19 protocols, which requires more extensive and mandatory cardiac imaging tests, a resolution based on virus-related center problems.
But let’s not celebrate too quickly. Maybe this only delays the inevitable. After all, top medical experts expect August and early September to be among the biggest obstacles to date. Thousands of students will return to campus when groups begin crashing for the first time at fall camp. This is a recipe for viral epidemics, which are the ingredients for more interruptions and delays. You can only throw the can to a certain point in the road before it runs out of way.
“That doesn’t mean we’re going to play,” a Big 12 source told IF on Tuesday night. “Students are returning to campus…”
For now, the Big 12 has stocked up the sport, slowing down a domino effect that may have further paralyzed the industry. The CCA, for now on board with the SEC’s pandemic attitude, would have jumped from this moving exercise if the 12 Grands had stopped it. Based on high-level resources within the conference, the ACC probably wouldn’t play with less than a portion of power’s five marginalized leagues (though, who knows). With the CCA’s demise, the SEC would stay on an island with a handful of Group of Five groups, an attempt that would have actually failed.
Here we are. August 11, 2020: The day the 12 majors kept school football alive. “It was amazing. These are difficult decisions,” says one convention member. “Everyone has smart points. I’ve never noticed anything like this. I think they gave us where we needed it, but there’s uncertainty.”
The conference, if he wished, had the chance to pull the cause in a season. Instead, he saved the weapon and, above all, plans to publish his 2020 calendar very soon, a very strong #WeWantToPlay. Of course, we’d probably be delaying the inevitable, but for God’s sake, that’s something.
We all needed a little joy in perhaps the most depressing day of college football: the closure of autumn sports in Big Ten and Pac-12, expected but overwhelming results.
“You’re wondering if you’re going to play in October,” says a source in Big 12, “and if the Big Ten, saying, “Why don’t we play? “
The big 12 got us out of trouble. Of all the meetings to do it too. The same league that formed in 1996 from the embers of the Southwest Conference and the Big 8, devastated the period of expansion, was controversially dropped in the inaugural playoffs and the site of one of the innermost mistakes in the history of school football (in Baylor). , this league kept the school game afloat.
And now school football is back on its way to the start, 77 of its 130 members tow, and in front of it lies, as there has been for weeks, impediment following impediment after impediment.
“We’re still out of danger. It’s over,” said an SEC source. “When I see the ball start, I’ll know.”