The Reasons To Cancel College Football Are Idiotic

The most common reason that people say college football players can’t come back is because they say it’s not safe.

Two different categories here: Not safe for the players and it isn’t safe to play football.

If you are concerned about the health of players. Aren’t they safer on campus than they would be off campus?

Why are players more likely to die on campus where they are tested weekly and they are surrounded by medical professionals than they are off campus in home, or a condo, or an apartment, or at home with their parents?

there is no argument I can see that the danger is greater for college athletes on campus.

But that is the number one argument: It’s not safe.

Well, life isn’t safe. Explain to me why when you look at the data, the data would not be greater for athletes off campus than on campus,

Cornell did a study and they if kids aren’t in class. If they are learning remotely, everyone will show up in the college town anyway, live in their apartments or off-campus housing. Because they don’t want to be stuck in home with Mom and Dad.

So many of these college towns are going to end up with a lot of college kids anyway.

If you aren’t testing them as a part of the college experience than they are likely to get higher rates of infection off the campus than they would be if classes were open.

It’s an interesting study from Cornell. I don’t know how many of you are college kids who watch this, but if I was a college kid the last thing I would want to do is for an entire year is sit in my house and watch school on the computer without friends around in my parents house.

I went to school in Washington, DC and I lived off campus. I would rather go back out to Washington, DC and live in my off-campus apartment and be close to friends in college than staying back home by myself.

Another argument is that older people aren’t safe around younger people. Well, if you are an older person with a significant health risk, you shouldn’t be on a college campus this year.

If you are over the age of 65 and not healthy — health matters a great deal because Nick Saban is 68 but Nick Saban probably tests like a 55 year old would.

He’s working 80 hours a week and I’m sure he is likely to be much healthier than your average 50 year old even though he’s almost 20 years older

I don’t understand the argument that you can allow younger people with no risk but you can’t tell the older people to quarantine.

This is my bigger audience. To me, the best way to get over the coronavirus is not to wait for a vaccine which may or may not work anyway, it’s to get the young people infected with the virus while the older people stay away and quarantine themselves.

That’s what should be happening on a college campus. It is going to spread widely when these kids get there.

I don’t know any other data point? What are other arguments that college football shouldn’t be happening.

I want a legitimate argument for why college football should happen based on college campuses being more dangerous.

How about professionals versus amateurs. This doesn’t make sense either.

Professionals are getting paid, yes. But the amateurs — many of them — are hoping that one day they will get paid.

And we aren’t insisting that players have to play. If you believe that you are under risk and don’t want to do it, it’s already been announced that you can keep your scholarship and not have to play the sport.

That doesn’t make any sense at all to me.

There have been 150 kids under the age of 24 who have died with the coronavirus. 30 under the age of 15 in the entire country.

You are far more likely on a college campus to die from alcohol poisoning. I believe there are 1,845 alcohol-related deaths per year on a college campus.

You are nearly 10 times as likely to die from alcohol poisoning than you are to die from the coronavirus.

Amateurs, yes. But they get to choose whether they want to play or not. And I think 99% of college football players would say yes, I want to play.

That is the argument.

People keep saying if a death happened. Deaths could happen if kids aren’t on campus,. I can spin that and argue that a death is more likely to happen for a college kid off campus where they don’t have health care or testing than it is to happen on a campus.

When you argue that someone might die. Someone might die off campus and the odds off campus are more substantial because most of us don’t get tested weekly and most of us don’t have access to medical professionals every day and most of us don’t get our temperature taken every day.

If you look at all the facts, the safest thing is for college football players and college athletes in general on campus in protocols getting tested on a regular basis.

This doesn’t make any sense. I don’t buy into these arguments at all.