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Two of the Power 5 College Football conferences, the Big Ten and the Pac 12, decided yesterday not to have fall sports this year. They may try to play in the spring.
The other 3, The ACC, SEC and Big 12 are still evaluating if they will play in the fall.
College Football, sports in general, are not important in the great scheme of things. Have it or not, not important when bigger things like life are at stake. My father used to say when there is food on the table there are many problems. When there is no food on the table, there is only one problem. This is not a ‘food on the table’ issue.
Or, is it?
Is life at stake right now more than it is in any other year? Yes, but only because we have one more life risk introduced, COVID-19. Will people be dying if they play College Football? Maybe. Will people be dying if they don’t play college football? Maybe. More, less? Debatable.
I heard two things in the last 24 hours that I think puts this into perspective.
1. Clay Travis
The Battle For College Football Is Raging
Ultimately, it’s time for those of us in this nation who want to be able to go back to work, school and sports to be able to do so. Everyone doesn’t have to go back to work, school and sports, but we can’t continue to allow the most fearful in our population to dictate the choices the rest of us are allowed to make.
2. USA Today
College football’s demise perfectly represents America’s handling of coronavirus
University presidents in the Big Ten and the Pac-12 saw the trends, the data and the risks to young athletes of trying to play a season this fall and decided to fold up the tents Tuesday at least until the spring, following earlier decisions by the Mid American Conference and the Mountain West. Meanwhile, university presidents in the SEC, ACC and perhaps the Big 12 have looked at their own set of material from the experts and determined it’s worth pressing forward until something changes their mind.
If that doesn’t symbolize the American conundrum at this delicate and polarized moment in history, I don’t know what does.
And, then there was this exchange:
Hard to believe Hayden actually wrote this. https://t.co/tu3VPPmtxJ
— Brit Hume (@brithume) August 11, 2020
You’re an idiot. https://t.co/4JIYbDHfgm
— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) August 11, 2020