Looking how difficult it has been to restart the NBA and MLB and requiring closed off facilities and games from the outside world. And still we do not have a set date for those sports to return as of yet.
And after reading what the UCLA players demand, and I don't blame them in the least for their demands. I would say the chance of a season taking place is zero percent. All it takes is one player or coach or support staff at one school to test positive during the season put a wrench in things. The whole team goes under quarantine, the other team they played if its within a few days does also. The next two games for both schools are postponed. And its going to happen all over the country.
Tell me what I am missing here? I think they are going to try to do a season but it seems impossible.
I read those first couple of paragraphs and I wonder exactly what they are referring to when they mention "neglected and mismanaged injury cases", muffled voices, and "health and safety in the hands of those who have perpetually failed us". I shudder to think what our Bruin student-athletes have experienced that makes them describe events this way and which certainly played a big role in creating this current list of demands.
As winkleman and DD eloquently discuss above, I don't see how college football happens when you look at it from a public health perspective while I also don't see how there isn't college football when you look at it as a commodity. Our Bruins and the NCAA seem to be taking opposite sides. Good on our players for their stance.
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health epidemiologists would be a good source for the selection of and/or approval any third-party officials overseeing the health and welfare of UCLA athletes.
Well played by DTR
Looking how difficult it has been to restart the NBA and MLB and requiring closed off facilities and games from the outside world. And still we do not have a set date for those sports to return as of yet.
And after reading what the UCLA players demand, and I don't blame them in the least for their demands. I would say the chance of a season taking place is zero percent. All it takes is one player or coach or support staff at one school to test positive during the season put a wrench in things. The whole team goes under quarantine, the other team they played if its within a few days does also. The next two games for both schools are postponed. And its going to happen all over the country.
Tell me what I am missing here? I think they are going to try to do a season but it seems impossible.
The number of people college-aged, not to mention elite athletes, impacted in any way by covid is microscopic.
Well imagine that, student-athletes acting educated and informed. Go Bruins!
I read those first couple of paragraphs and I wonder exactly what they are referring to when they mention "neglected and mismanaged injury cases", muffled voices, and "health and safety in the hands of those who have perpetually failed us". I shudder to think what our Bruin student-athletes have experienced that makes them describe events this way and which certainly played a big role in creating this current list of demands.
As winkleman and DD eloquently discuss above, I don't see how college football happens when you look at it from a public health perspective while I also don't see how there isn't college football when you look at it as a commodity. Our Bruins and the NCAA seem to be taking opposite sides. Good on our players for their stance.
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health epidemiologists would be a good source for the selection of and/or approval any third-party officials overseeing the health and welfare of UCLA athletes.