Report: The Big Ten will not play football this fall

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  1. hawgsalot

    hawgsalot Well-Known Member

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    Thousands and Thousands of minorities go to school for free due to athletics, many the first to every graduate in their family. Why would you discourage that?
     
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    HTownMarine Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They don't want to be sued.
     
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    I do know this much, you have an imagination. Please don't respond if all you have is conspiracies.
     
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    And you do? That sounds pretty smart to me...
     
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    I’m against letting kids into college just because they’re good at a sport. You wanna have a school team? Use the kids who got in because they’re students.
     
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    LMAO...yeah, the whole world will suddenly go back to normal on November 4 if trump loses the election and all the dead will come out of hiding and have a jolly good laugh at the orange dotard.
    Do you people even listen to yourselves anymore when you say such nonsense? Look at what worshipping that idiot has led you to.
     
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    Russia!!!

    Nazis!!!

    Mount Rushmore!!!
     
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    Everybody who can qualify and who wants to should be able to go to college for free. The billions diverted into useless sports could probably pay for that entirely.
     
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    That’s a different question. Scholarships give kids who are smart enough but not rich enough to go to college the chance to do so.
     
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    People did wear masks. People were locked down. People social distanced. 15 days to flatten the curve ended up being 2 months remember? Of course what better way to pump the numbers back up than to encourage thousands of idiots around the country to protest and riot day and night for a few months?
     
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    That seems like an intelligent decision then...
     
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    You are incapable of arguing why "thousands of protesters" created a viral spike but "millions of people going back to restaurants and bars and vacations" did not.
     
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    False false false
     
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    Yes it was all the rioters lol. Is that why in some of the areas where rioting was heaviest we are not seeing huge spikes compared to let's say Florida and Arizona where they didnt?? What happened nationally that could have caused it... bars.
     
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    HTownMarine Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Can you sue an employer if you catch the flu?

    I have never heard of anyone doing so, but I suppose you can sue for just about anything anymore.
     
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    It's going to make the NFL draft interesting for sure. I'm done with professional sports anyway, too political now, but those poor seniors who worked their whole lives for this very year, ouch. But on the plus side, they have more time to study now which is what college is supposed to be for right?
     
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    Complete bullshit.
    The number of excess deaths from normal compared to previous years have shot up in every country.
    You don’t know jackshit what you’re talking about.
    Stop spouting fake propaganda.
     
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    Often forgotten is the long term effect on health by the virus. Youngsters and their parents should do everything to avoid this now until it can be handled. Some lament the effect on player's future incomes, that tiny percentage that make it to the pros, what happens to their incomes when they have chronic respiratory illnesses or muscle weakness?
    The Big 10 had this decision made for them by the number of players saying they were unwilling to risk their current and future health.
     
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    Dude, I would love to trade jobs with any black athlete. If the NFL is willing to throw a few million dollars my way, count me in. What do you think the audience would be for an NFL comprised of middle aged white dudes who have spent a lifetime in front of a computer? Would I be getting the 20 year old 5 start groupies or 60 year toothless skank groupies?
     
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    Dude the Trump lives in your head not mine, you've literally said his name in every thread for 4 years, that's some serious obsession. There is no worship here, there's common sense, like hey if we let rioters burn our city it will be burnt. Then you have lefties hey it's ok to burn the city it will somehow someway not be a s***hole afterwards and Orange man bad. Serious TDS going on with lefties, it's kind of funny watching them dump their values and thinking it'll never hit my porch....
     
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    Yeah that is peculiar isn't it? Thanks for proving my point. This is obviously the most 'woke' virus in history.
     
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    College players now speaking. Sedentary U guys sitting behind desks may not ultimately make the decision.
     
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    Again, the virus won't go away right after the election but the political response to it will.
     
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    Exactly
     

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