LSU Football Coach: Most of the Team Has Tested Positive-But the Good News Is....

[Stallion]

COACH: "Hopefully that once you catch it, you don't get it again," he said. "I'm not a doctor. I think they have that 90-day window, so most of the players that have caught it, we do feel like they'll be eligible for games."

These coaches (Texas Tech, LSU, Alabama, Clemson etc) are intentionally letting the virus sweep through their team for a later competitive advantage. There are schools that have been pro-active in attempting to contain the virus and have had minimal covid infections. Suckers

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29892180/lsu-coach-ed-orgeron-most-team-contracted-coronavirus

[Dream Girl]

1. They don't give a fuck.

[padah513]

3. It's all about the money

[Arazi]

2. The players should boycott. Their coaches are risking their lives and/or permanent injury

Sickening

Sociopaths

[Dream Girl]

9. I don't think the players or their parents care either

Their whole lives have been focused on getting to play D1 football and then maybe go pro. I think they are willing to take their chances

[gratuitous]

14. I decline to put this on the players

Someone has to be adult in this situation, and the guys who can go into the bar and order a drink legally are the ones responsible. That and their multi-million dollar contracts.

A few years ago, Oregon had designs on a national championship and a very good quarterback in Dennis Dixon. Dixon was a little undersized, but faster than greased lightning, able to avoid the rush long enough for receivers to work open, or to run down the field to turn a busted play into a positive gain. As the season went on, Dixon got hit and was gimpy, but still game to play. Somehow he convinced the Oregon coaches to play him against Arizona, which had a fearsome pass rush. I don't recall if he didn't make it out of the first quarter or got caught before halftime, but his season and his career came to an end that game. These guys in their early 20s fancy themselves invincible, and always want to play. The coaches get the big money to run these programs; it's on them to tell their players "no."

[grantcart]

4. Lawsuit

[oasis]

5. Myocarditis can linger. Don't fool your athletes, coach.

[empedocles]

15. Myocarditis may tell

[Iliyah]

6. This is just wrong . .

[Chainfire]

7. FSU had their season opener a few days ago

Of course they were hyping the "safety measures" put in place to make sure that the fans were protected. Most of the fans wore a mask past the ticket counter then took it off once they were seated. There was a rain delay, and when it started raining, of course everybody forgot all social distancing and crowed out like a herd of cattle.

I don't think that there is any way for the team or for the fans to be protected from the illness unless they just don't play. But a previous poster was right, there is just too much money at play to have to worry about whether someone gets sick or not. There seems to be a cost/benefit analysis in play and the results is screw the disease play football.

[misanthrope]

10. You're exactly right

I worked in sports information at an SEC school while in college and I've been around all of this for a good deal of my life. College football is a huge economic engine now.

That's even the case with the players. All of them sign scholarships as the best athletes in their programs, maybe in their counties and think they will one day be pulling in millions in the NFL. Everyone is looking to cash in, one way or another.

However, the players don't make out nearly as well as the coaches do. The SEC coaches make unholy amounts of money while the players take all the risks. Even if an SEC coach fails spectacularly, their lucrative contracts operate as a golden parachute.

If you want to see top-level talent in what is a de facto developmental league for the NFL, watch the SEC. If you want to see something a little closer to the ideals of what college football should be, watch Division III ball where there aren't scholarships and the coaches are paid a middle class wage.

[Stallion]

16. I Volunteered in the Sports Information Department Too at a SWC School

it was fun but I couldn't stand sitting in the press box during games because you couldn't cheer. Watching game from the sideline was like an entirely different perspective-you realize just how much punishment these kids take

Just call us SID

[misanthrope]

19. Most people that see the game on TV

have no appreciation for the true speed, size and strength of these players unless they see it from ground level. Especially the speed.

[LakeArenal]

13. I feel the same about classes starting.

No way kids are going to think virus first.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. They care zero about their players

There are heart issues, we don't know exactly how they'll be long term though. These coaches just don't care.

Every athlete should have a cardiologist examining them before they train again after Covid-19, myocarditis should end their season.

[lynintenn]

11. LSU plays Mississippi State Sept 26

Their first SEC games. Mississippi State had several players test positive in August. I think these athletes are tested on a regualr basis. Some of these schools will not be able to survive without their sports. No win situation for them.

[Jeebo]

12. They should be living and playing in a bubble.

Don't Orgeron and Saban and Swinney and those other coaches know that the virus leaves permanent scarring and damage to the heart and lungs? Guys who go to those big football schools to play football want to play in the NFL, they're essentially majoring in football, but if the virus is going to damage their heart and lungs, how is that going to help their chances of making it in the NFL? Damage to the heart and lungs is going to detract from their ability to function at that next level. Besides, if many of the guys on the team have had the virus, even if they've gotten over it completely, doesn't that still pose a risk of transmission of the virus to the other players on the team who haven't had it?

-- Ron

[Elwood P Dowd]

17. Insane amounts of money involved.

I'm old enough to remember when SEC head coaches made about 20K a year. Adjusted for inflation, that's about $200,000 a year today. Now the top ones make 4-8 million a year. Back in the old days most schools only had 6-7 other men's sports besides football. Now they have far more plus the women's sports to fund including - soccer, tennis, golf, track, cross country, swimming, gymnastics, volleyball, softball and more. The profits from football funds most of those sports because revenue from attendance and TV is tiny compared to football. Football TV revenue alone brings in 40 million a year per team. Some schools bring in over 100 million in total revenue after TV, ticket sales and bowl revenue.

Money and greed has ruined what was once called "amateur sports".

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[sarcasmo]

18. Covidiots.