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Warning: Political Takes 2020 College Football: the “season” has officially started
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Why is the COVID liability any worse than the head, spine, heat, clubs & guns, PED or drugs liabilities?
I expect each of those others are statistically much more dangerous to college athletes.
Madness.
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Exactly. Ruinous. Idiotic. The health-related consequences of this will far exceed the COVID risk.
And they are clamping off opportunity for thousands of athletes. No season...what happens to the ‘21 class?
What about all the students who depend on jobs to get through school?
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They will figure all of those details out later, they have only had 3 months to plan so no real rush, its only these kid's livelihoods and everything they have worked for.
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It's like natzi Germany. That's too controlling
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There are ways to proceed and minimize liability, i.e., waivers. The money lost from canceling the season would dwarf the potential payout from liability exposure.
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At the very least, allow individual schools to opt in or out and have a season (and national champ) with teams that aren't cowering under their mother's skirts. Conferences shouldn't have to be an all or nothing proposition.
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I know for a fact some departments within the college of liberal arts and sciences at UF are not coming back on the undergrad level. I'm sure the same people/ professors pushing this cower at home agenda are working hard to torpedo the football season.
They have obviously already got to the presidents of the Big 10.
They have obviously already got to the presidents of the Big 10.
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This. For math purposes, let's say UF averages $2,000 per season ticket with 30,000 season ticket holders (and I am lowballing). That's either $60 million in refunds or $60 million diverted to next season. Not to mention lost single game tickets, merch, food, and other revenue. That's a ton of money that will not go to the non-revenue sports. Not to mention TV revenue or whatever and we are talking well over $100 million.
For liability in a lawsuit, you would have to prove two important things that I think would be a major problem:
- Causation- You would have to prove that the Covid was caught through football related activities and not from a trip to the grocery store, the girlfriend, that party you just had to go to, etc. You would have to show that the Covid was caught through football. Further, if you caught it through the football, I would argue is that the cause or did one of the teammates violate any team/university rules and do one of the things listed above.
- Damages- You would have to prove the damages for the lawsuit. UF already pays for the player's medical care so damages would be limited. Now if a player died, due to Covid, that's where the taboo thing of proving that it was the Covid and not something else that killed them. I.e. a scooter accident, but the hospital saw they had Covid so its a "Covid death". Look, we are all somewhat intelligent here, if the Florida health officials admit to this happening with a motorcycle accident and then do not recount the deaths, can we trust any of the numbers? I digress. Anyways, in the statistically low percentage that a physically fit, 18-22 year old were to die, then the damages would be intriguing. UCF was found to owe $10 million in damages for the death of Erick Plancher in the last decade. It would be interesting.
Now I know, there's a whole "if it saves one life don't play" mentality. I get that, I empathize with that. However, do you feel the same if the players do not play, let's say Clement from New Jersey, and he goes back home for the semester and gets shot and dies. Tragedy, that would have been avoided, is that risk worth taking? I'd say statistically there is a greater chance of a college football player dying from a situation like that or suicide from depression from not being plugged in to the supportive community (Hilinski's Hope plug here) than a Covid death. No, that's not saying there isn't a chance, but I'm comparing the statistics of the two. If the answer is take the chance on sending kids back to potentially violent, depressing, or whatever homes, without more, then it's not about the kids safety, it's about pushing an agenda. I respect both sides of the argument, but it seems like one seems to disregard anything other than a specific set of factors.
