Big Ten commissioner shoots down Nebraska’s hopes of playing outside conference this season

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It feels like a simpler response because it’s Nebraska. We can all imagine the Big Ten without them.

What if Ohio State, Michigan, or even an OG like Minnesota or Purdue had threatened this?

Would they really boot Ohio State over a barnstorming fall season?
 

fmlizard said:
It feels like a simpler response because it’s Nebraska. We can all imagine the Big Ten without them.

What if Ohio State, Michigan, or even an OG like Minnesota or Purdue had threatened this?

Would they really boot Ohio State over a barnstorming fall season?
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Ohio State has the same number of votes as Nebraska...

I also think Ohio State would have told everyone "hey I think we might do this thing if we cancel the season" and so forth.
 


fmlizard said:
It feels like a simpler response because it’s Nebraska. We can all imagine the Big Ten without them.

What if Ohio State, Michigan, or even an OG like Minnesota or Purdue had threatened this?

Would they really boot Ohio State over a barnstorming fall season?
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Meaning these schools stooped to the level of Nebraska?
 

alchemy2u said:
Great and then Nebraska will have to join an FCS conference because the B1G would drop them like a hot potato!

UNL had better pull in the reins of their HC, etc or the B1G will just send them packing without any of the $57million in annual TV revenue...
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You must be a south pole elf.
 


nitramnaed said:
What secret does Nebraska have to keep their player safe that the rest of the B1G doesn't
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I have no idea but their medical staff led by the infectious disease experts at UNMC felt with their setup they could confidently do it. How do some schools feel they can safely bring in tens of thousands of students but not make a safe environment for 150 football players. Some schools also have the money and are willing to spend the money to create more stringent protocols.
 

I think if any school including Ohio state wants to walk from the conference, you let them
 

Some guy said:
I think if any school including Ohio state wants to walk from the conference, you let them
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If Ohio State left the big ten would be a shell of a conference. They are the straw that stirs the drink
 

GopherGod said:
I have no idea but their medical staff led by the infectious disease experts at UNMC felt with their setup they could confidently do it. How do some schools feel they can safely bring in tens of thousands of students but not make a safe environment for 150 football players. Some schools also have the money and are willing to spend the money to create more stringent protocols.
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My understanding is that the Big 10 has had10 student-athletes with diagnosed myocarditis that is likely linked to prior Covid-19 infection. That's 10 out of several thousand athletes tested, but cause for concern if true. It stinks that the FB season is canceled but its a very defensible decision. In the South, lets face it, they don't give a $hit.
 



Block M said:
My understanding is that the Big 10 has had10 student-athletes with diagnosed myocarditis that is likely linked to prior Covid-19 infection. That's 10 out of several thousand athletes tested, but cause for concern if true. It stinks that the FB season is canceled but its a very defensible decision. In the South, lets face it, they don't give a $hit.
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a Mayo cardiologist disagrees with calling off season.

 

GopherGod said:
If Ohio State left the big ten would be a shell of a conference. They are the straw that stirs the drink
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Many people would disagree with my take but here is my take on Ohio state.
I don’t care about them at all
 

Where would tOSU go?
The ACC has Clemson, the SEC has multiple teams that can equal tOSU and the Big 12 is a joke.
They are the bully boy of the BIG and winning the conference here guarantees them a final four.
Why would Frost and the NE administration be so desperate to play and the same with tOSU?
It must be fear of a mass exodus of their best players to teams that are playing this fall.
What else could it be?
 

Plato said:
Where would tOSU go?
The ACC has Clemson, the SEC has multiple teams that can equal tOSU and the Big 12 is a joke.
They are the bully boy of the BIG and winning the conference here guarantees them a final four.
Why would Frost and the NE administration be so desperate to play and the same with tOSU?
It must be fear of a mass exodus of their best players to teams that are playing this fall.
What else could it be?
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Maybe for tOSU, but does Nebby have players that any good Power 5 team would want now that JDS transferred?
 




GopherGod said:
they never at anytime said they wanted to leave the big ten or join another conference. They just want to play. The estimates I have seen is that not playing this fall would be as high as a 300 million dollar hit to the economy in Lincoln. The big ten won’t allow it fine, but I can’t get mad at any school that feels comfortable playing and doesn’t want to bankrupt their school and city.
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I agree with this. If the nation was under a mandate, then I could understand the outrage over Nebraska's decision. But, as it is, every state has different strategies and different levels of restriction in regards to the virus. I think there is quite a bit of pre-existing animosity toward Nebraska among some of the GH posters (for whatever reason), which is spilling over into this conversation.
 

GopherGod said:
they never at anytime said they wanted to leave the big ten or join another conference. They just want to play. The estimates I have seen is that not playing this fall would be as high as a 300 million dollar hit to the economy in Lincoln. The big ten won’t allow it fine, but I can’t get mad at any school that feels comfortable playing and doesn’t want to bankrupt their school and city.
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Every team and coach wants to play. But the conference made this decision and whining about it doesn't do any one any good.
 

GopherGod said:
a Mayo cardiologist disagrees with calling off season.

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May have missed it but I don't believe this medical condition was the sole reason for delaying the season. It was just one piece of the puzzle. If they based their entire decision on this one thing that would be pretty foolish but I feel confident that there were may more factors involved.
 

MNVCGUY said:
May have missed it but I don't believe this medical condition was the sole reason for delaying the season. It was just one piece of the puzzle. If they based their entire decision on this one thing that would be pretty foolish but I feel confident that there were may more factors involved.
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nah it was just this. nothing else.
 

GopherGod said:
I have no idea but their medical staff led by the infectious disease experts at UNMC felt with their setup they could confidently do it. How do some schools feel they can safely bring in tens of thousands of students but not make a safe environment for 150 football players. Some schools also have the money and are willing to spend the money to create more stringent protocols.
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UNMC is a completely separate institution from Nebraska, and is located in Omaha.
 




GopherGod said:
and your pointbeing. That is where their medical advisor works who was advising them.
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So this person is going to travel daily from Omaha to Lincoln, to be on site, every day with the team, to make sure they're following protocol? Then go back home to their family in Omaha and risk infecting them?

Doubtful. Sounds likely to fail or for positive tests to be covered up, given the corrupt history of Nebraska football.
 

GopherGod said:
And? He is still way more qualified that you will ever be to discuss cardiac related issues.
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He isn't qualified to discuss whether myocarditis caused by covid19 should be dismissed. No one is, frankly.

Is zero more than zero?
 

MplsGopher said:
He isn't qualified to discuss whether myocarditis caused by covid19 should be dismissed. No one is, frankly.

Is zero more than zero?
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if zero is what you are expecting then there will never be sports
 


In the battle of the dueling medical experts:

Dr. Carlos Del Rio, a chief medical advisor for the NCAA and Emory University professor, likened the possibility of playing football this fall to being on the Titanic. “We have a serious problem. I feel like the Titanic: we have hit the iceberg and we’re trying to make decision on when the band should play,’ Del Rio said during a briefing with the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
In the battle of the dueling medical experts:

Dr. Carlos Del Rio, a chief medical advisor for the NCAA and Emory University professor, likened the possibility of playing football this fall to being on the Titanic. “We have a serious problem. I feel like the Titanic: we have hit the iceberg and we’re trying to make decision on when the band should play,’ Del Rio said during a briefing with the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Screw the band. We want football.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
In the battle of the dueling medical experts:

Dr. Carlos Del Rio, a chief medical advisor for the NCAA and Emory University professor, likened the possibility of playing football this fall to being on the Titanic. “We have a serious problem. I feel like the Titanic: we have hit the iceberg and we’re trying to make decision on when the band should play,’ Del Rio said during a briefing with the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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I've got a tee time and then I'm meeting someone for drinks ... can this emergency wait?
 

Reality strikes and NE bends the knee to the BIG.
I hope they made the naughty toddler Frost stand in the corner for his tantrum.
The Lincoln Journal sports writers were hell bent yesterday to leave for the beloved Big 12 that NE fled from.
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Nebraska ends talk of playing outside Big Ten

Nebraska put an end to talk that the school would consider playing outside the Big Ten, which postponed fall sports.
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