The last week has been utter chaos. Is the chaos over?
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GamingGlen
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Lightbulbs (and Debbie Boone) light up your life while lawyers don't?
I don't see much difference as the exclamation point seems redundant.
Toe
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Roundball Shaman
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Chaos is going to be the modality of our lives from now on. Not just in sports but in everything else, too.
It’s no surprise that players want to play. That’s what (most) players want to do without looking too much or deeply at other aspects and consequences of other options. Just comes natural to them to want to do their thing.
It’s no surprise that coaches want to coach. That’s what they do, and that is the source of their very lucrative contracts.
It’s no surprise that a university would want to play. You already know why. Lots of you-know-what is at stake and all that you-know-what finds its way to many places of need all around the campus and system.
But... there’s the two big other elephants in the room.
First, considerable legal liability for God-knows-what that could come. The League and NCAA could be in the crosshairs for any number of major lawsuits due to health risks and other concerns if and when any season is played.
And the other elephant? Nobody still has a clue in what we are dealing with in terms of what this virus is, how it functions, how it mutates, how it is affecting different groups of people, and what it might do to us in the future or what its long-term affects really are. And any vaccine to come has already been declared by some experts as probably ineffective.
To have a game plan you have to understand your opponent. To this point, nobody understands This Virus Opponent and so Chaos will rule our days. There is virtually no area of our lives that is not in chaos.
It’s no surprise that players want to play. That’s what (most) players want to do without looking too much or deeply at other aspects and consequences of other options. Just comes natural to them to want to do their thing.
It’s no surprise that coaches want to coach. That’s what they do, and that is the source of their very lucrative contracts.
It’s no surprise that a university would want to play. You already know why. Lots of you-know-what is at stake and all that you-know-what finds its way to many places of need all around the campus and system.
But... there’s the two big other elephants in the room.
First, considerable legal liability for God-knows-what that could come. The League and NCAA could be in the crosshairs for any number of major lawsuits due to health risks and other concerns if and when any season is played.
And the other elephant? Nobody still has a clue in what we are dealing with in terms of what this virus is, how it functions, how it mutates, how it is affecting different groups of people, and what it might do to us in the future or what its long-term affects really are. And any vaccine to come has already been declared by some experts as probably ineffective.
To have a game plan you have to understand your opponent. To this point, nobody understands This Virus Opponent and so Chaos will rule our days. There is virtually no area of our lives that is not in chaos.
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GamingGlen
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Roundball Shaman
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Play Options that were available for The Large Fourteen to play a “season” in the fall:
1. Throw a “Hail Mary” and just pray that The Virus goes away or somehow you can play through a pandemic no matter what. Chances of success: About the same as any other Hail Mary.
2. Run the “Ground Game” or “Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust”. Go week to week and just grind it out. Grit your teeth. Bow those shoulders. Put your head down and plow ahead. See how it goes and pray. Finish each week’s games and watch out for what’s in that cloud of dust you played through. Chances of success: Not promising. Look at what’s going around the country right now for school systems that tried to have in-class learning. Shut downs and quarantines already.
3. Run a Reverse. Start going in one direction, then hand the season off to somebody who starts going in the other direction. Chances of success: Get ready to go out of bounds.
4. Try for a “Music City Miracle”. Just keep the last bit of hope for a season alive as long as possible, keep floating vague hopeful statements then backtrack and toss the season backwards and hope somebody catches it and doesn’t get tackled before it all ends in a heap. Chances of success: Almost nil.
5. Punt the season away. Not even worth trying. Either Quick-Kick the season away on Third Down or wait until the very end and punt it to the Spring or Fall of 2021 or even further out. Chances of success: Least likelihood of getting sued and gain the PR look of having the players “best interests” at heart.
Best Option: None. There are problems in every direction they could have chosen. There was no good answer. Throw the playbook out and start drawing up play ideas in the dirt.
1. Throw a “Hail Mary” and just pray that The Virus goes away or somehow you can play through a pandemic no matter what. Chances of success: About the same as any other Hail Mary.
2. Run the “Ground Game” or “Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust”. Go week to week and just grind it out. Grit your teeth. Bow those shoulders. Put your head down and plow ahead. See how it goes and pray. Finish each week’s games and watch out for what’s in that cloud of dust you played through. Chances of success: Not promising. Look at what’s going around the country right now for school systems that tried to have in-class learning. Shut downs and quarantines already.
3. Run a Reverse. Start going in one direction, then hand the season off to somebody who starts going in the other direction. Chances of success: Get ready to go out of bounds.
4. Try for a “Music City Miracle”. Just keep the last bit of hope for a season alive as long as possible, keep floating vague hopeful statements then backtrack and toss the season backwards and hope somebody catches it and doesn’t get tackled before it all ends in a heap. Chances of success: Almost nil.
5. Punt the season away. Not even worth trying. Either Quick-Kick the season away on Third Down or wait until the very end and punt it to the Spring or Fall of 2021 or even further out. Chances of success: Least likelihood of getting sued and gain the PR look of having the players “best interests” at heart.
Best Option: None. There are problems in every direction they could have chosen. There was no good answer. Throw the playbook out and start drawing up play ideas in the dirt.
Bledred
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There is no legal grounds to remove Nebraska from the conference should we play out of conference games this fall. I believe Nebraska will be calling Kevin's bluff by scheduling games to play. This along with the SEC, ACC, and Big 12 all playing games without issue (start of the season) will force Kevin to remove his cancellation of all fall sports with a massive helping of crow pie OR move towards removing Nebraska from the conference. Everybody who knows Kevin in the sports world is saying that his ultimate goal is to be the Commissioner of the NFL and that the Big Ten is just as stepping stone for him to that end. If people believe he will not stir the pot and kick us out, you bet he will to save face and ego.
Bledred
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Would be fun to play them, but would be a serious chance (70%+) of losing and maybe losing big. Not something that would help our National brand and recruitment pull, but would definitely boost them in those categories. ESPN would be salivating to scream to the world on our losing to an FCS NDSU.
70% of losing to NDS and possibly losing big? If you seriously think that’s the case then we don’t belong in a P5 conference being an underdog to NDS. Not saying upsets don’t happen, but to be a Vegas underdog in your mind. Not buying it.
gossamorharpy
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mrandyk
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NDSU has been a better program than Nebraska for many years. It's not even debatable.
gossamorharpy
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common man. theyve had great success no doubt but theyre beating up on schools like youngstown state. At our absolute lowest, with us coughing up the rock, and going 3 and out and just having a random crap husker game, sure they can beat nebraska. But 70% likelihood and saying they've had a better program for many years? thats not based in reality
Go look at the season record and who theyve played - some close games against some schools no one has heard of. Also some pretty bad losses to schools no one has heard of
Great progrum no doubt and I dont mean to disrespect them, but we have a major f'n issue on our hands if we're treating an FCS program as superior to us