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Iowa & Nebraska Said Play, Rest Say No Per DP

Well glad the conference overall has the sense to outweigh our horrible decision making. Sounds like the nation as a whole.
 
Think of the football in 2021. Maybe 16 games? 8 in spring and 8 in the fall. And we don't have to play Iowa State again until 2022. Those are the pluses to this.
 
Not for long.
Reasoning? 95%+ of Iowa baseball/softball teams finished the year. They’ve changed the rule on who has to sit. It’s no longer the whole team like baseball/softball did, just the impacted person.
 
Reasoning? 95%+ of Iowa baseball/softball teams finished the year. They’ve changed the rule on who has to sit. It’s no longer the whole team like baseball/softball did, just the impacted person.

Those aren't contact sports.
 
Sure. Two out of 14 are right. The other 12 are stupid. That's sound logic, exactly the kind of thinking that has resulted in this mess and the almost certain loss of fall football. Congrats.
They said 2 were right. Nowhere do they say the other 12 are stupid, just wrong. Being stupid and wrong aren’t one and the same.
 
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So players were never near each other? I understand not as much as football, but to say they won’t play is most likely wrong.
I do think it's different than baseball/softball because school will be in session so there is a greater chance that it spreads to more players on a team.
 
I do think it's different than baseball/softball because school will be in session so there is a greater chance that it spreads to more players on a team.
Not much. How much were people social distancing in June/July especially kids with sports camps, weightlifting, pools open etc.
 
Why don't they let those schools that want to play, play the games. Get a list of all schools in NCAA that want to play, then set a schedule. Maybe we end up playing in the big 12 or SEC. That would be fun! Or maybe we finally get a game with ND.
 
Why don't they let those schools that want to play, play the games. Get a list of all schools in NCAA that want to play, then set a schedule. Maybe we end up playing in the big 12 or SEC. That would be fun! Or maybe we finally get a game with ND.

There's a pesky little thing known as a contract that binds the B1G universities.

You want to benefit from conference membership? You want to collect 1/14th of the $.50/month from all of the cable/satellite subscriptions that exist in the B1G's footprint? You want 1/14th of the B1G's conference television revenue? You take the "good" with the "bad."

You simply cannot unilaterally claim "we don't like what the conference is doing so we are going to play games against other universities."

Say what you will but there is little doubt that the University of Iowa is a member of the nation's most powerful collegiate athletic conference and materially benefits academically and financially from the benefits associated with B1G membership.

Missing college football this season (assuming that it happens) will suck big time but there are larger picture concerns . . . and there is no chance that any of the B1G schools are going to risk leaving the conference for the chance to roll the dice on a 2020 Fall season if the B1G decides to postpone the season.
 
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So . . . now being reported that the Big 12 is split on whether to cancel the Fall 2020 schedule. Concerns about "uncertainties" associated with "long-term medical effects" cited as main reason why some university representatives feel it prudent to cancel/delay.

I guess the recovery/fatality rates is truly a false dichotomy.
 
So . . . now being reported that the Big 12 is split on whether to cancel the Fall 2020 schedule. Concerns about "uncertainties" associated with "long-term medical effects" cited as main reason why some university representatives feel it prudent to cancel/delay.

I guess the recovery/fatality rates is truly a false dichotomy.

And yet - they don't worry this much about all the other long term effects that are directly related to sport...
 
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