This tells you where their priorities are..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...safety-meeting/#click=https://t.co/ZNwKeEPxEa
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...safety-meeting/#click=https://t.co/ZNwKeEPxEa
SEC conference call with players leaked
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Post the article please. Wa Po asking me to pay
It’s all about money
Those kids may not like it but they don’t have a choice
They’re going to play
Those kids may not like it but they don’t have a choice
They’re going to play
This says it all.
Plantation owner mentality at work.
Student safety is lower priority than SEC standings.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, who earned a $2.5 million salary in 2018, responded: “Part of our work is to bring as much certainty in the midst of this really strange time as we can so you can play football in the most healthy way possible, with the understanding there aren’t any guarantees in life."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...safety-meeting/#click=https://t.co/ZNwKeEPxEa
Plantation owner mentality at work.
Student safety is lower priority than SEC standings.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, who earned a $2.5 million salary in 2018, responded: “Part of our work is to bring as much certainty in the midst of this really strange time as we can so you can play football in the most healthy way possible, with the understanding there aren’t any guarantees in life."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...safety-meeting/#click=https://t.co/ZNwKeEPxEa
Yeah, the difference is these kids have an option. I get that many are on scholarship, but they are not being forced to go out there.
The greedy white white folks will be greedy, but these kids don’t have to go out there and risk their health.
They do but they don’t
Most of those kids are there for football. A shot at the NFL
Whatever education they’re getting will do them no good because of them are working towards useless degrees
Man, you already know these kid have to learn to versatile themselves. However, they would need some type of guidance to tell them that.
That pro-sport dream fucks up a lot of kids every years because of a possibility and no backup plan.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, who earned a $2.5 million salary in 2018, responded: “Part of our work is to bring as much certainty in the midst of this really strange time as we can so you can play football in the most healthy way possible, with the understanding there aren’t any guarantees in life."
Jesus......
Just do not care about human life....just the bottom dollar...
College football’s most powerful conference, the SEC, announced Thursday that it plans to forge ahead with a season this fall. But a day earlier, in a private meeting with conference leaders and medical advisers, several football players raised concerns about their safety, only to be told that positive cases on their teams were a “given,” according to an audio recording obtained by The Washington Post.
The meeting, which took place Wednesday, included more than a dozen SEC football players, members of the conference’s medical advisory board and SEC officials, including Commissioner Greg Sankey. It was designed as a “confidential free exchange,” an SEC spokesman said in an email, in which the league’s medical advisers could “hear questions and our student-athletes were able to hear answers.”
But the recording offers a window into how conference officials — keen on keeping a multibillion-dollar industry afloat amid the novel coronavirus pandemic — are and aren’t reassuring the athletes they need to make the season a reality.
“There are going to be outbreaks,” one official told players on the call. (The official didn’t identify himself, and the SEC spokesman declined to identify him to The Post.) “We’re going to have positive cases on every single team in the SEC. That’s a given. And we can’t prevent it.”
“We’re never going to be 100 percent."
As the 2020 season barrels closer, several high-profile programs already have grappled with outbreaks. Some have had to temporarily suspend workouts, including Michigan State and Rutgers, which are both in isolation after several players tested positive.
Players in the SEC and other conferences have the option to opt out of this season and retain their scholarships. But just a handful of players at top schools have done so, preferring to skip the season and preserve a year of NCAA eligibility rather than risk infection.
Caleb Farley, an NFL-bound cornerback from Virginia Tech, said this week that he lost his mother to breast cancer and couldn’t stomach the idea of losing another family member. Ra’Von Bonner, a reserve running back at Illinois, told The Post the risks of playing outweighed the reward.
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Players on the SEC call, who were part of a student-athlete leadership council, raised similar concerns, with one player asking: “For so much unknown in the air right now, is it worth having a football season without certainty?”
Sankey, who earned a $2.5 million salary in 2018, responded: “Part of our work is to bring as much certainty in the midst of this really strange time as we can so you can play football in the most healthy way possible, with the understanding there aren’t any guarantees in life."
In university towns across the United States, local businesses face the unthinkable: a year of college football wiped off the calendar because of a pandemic. (Reuters)
The players were especially concerned with what happens once their universities reopen. When they returned for workouts this summer, their campuses were largely empty. Most of the people they interacted with were those inside their cloistered and regimented football programs, where regular testing and the potential ire of their powerful coaches made adherence to public health guidelines a must for many athletes.
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MoMo Sanogo, a linebacker at Mississippi, asked the officials on the call why his school planned to bring thousands of students to campus for fall classes. Sanogo said he has four classes per week and he fears some of those classmates will go to bars and parties at night, then unknowingly infect football players during class.
"Why have students been allowed to come back on campus if we're trying to have a football season?"
The answer Sanogo received shed light on the pressure that university presidents, who rely on college football for prestige and revenue, face to reopen their campuses this fall, even as the pandemic surges. “It’s one of those things where if students don’t come back to campus, then the chances of having a football season are almost zero,” an official who did not identify himself said.
The official told Sanogo that class sizes would be smaller so students can sit six feet apart from one another and that face coverings should help keep students safe. But he admitted the arrangement was “not fair” to athletes, who might take every precaution but still be infected by the students who don’t.
He suggested that Sanogo, 21, remind the people around him to behave responsibly. “As un-fun as it sounds,” the official said, “the best thing that you can do is just try to encourage others to act more responsibly and not put yourself in those kinds of situations. I’m very comfortable with what we’ve done on campus. I’m concerned about what happens from 5 p.m. until 5 a.m.”
Sanogo kept pushing. “How can y’all help us?” he asked. He referenced bubbles, the insular playing environments employed by the NBA, the WNBA and the NHL, and compared them with his bustling campus. Another member of the task force told him that his mask would offer protection and he could be a role model for others to wear one. She told him to sit at the back of classrooms and not engage in close conversations.
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The officials’ uncertainty was not lost on Keeath Magee II, a Texas A&M linebacker, who wondered aloud whether starting the season with so many unanswered questions would be something the officials would come to regret.
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“You guys have answered a lot of questions the best way that you guys could, and we really appreciate it. But as much as you guys don’t know … it’s just kind of not good enough,” he said. “We want to play. We want to see football. We want to return to normal as much as possible. But it’s just that with all this uncertainty, all this stuff that’s still circulating in the air, y’all know it kind of leaves some of us still scratching my head. … I feel like the college campus is the one thing that you can’t control.”
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"It's not good enough."
Sankey highlighted how much decision-makers in sports have learned in the past four months and how they will continue to adapt. He said the SEC and member schools are committed to creating the “best environment possible in this new reality.”
Another athlete, who did not identify himself, sought more information about the effects of the virus itself: “What information do you have about the lasting effects on players who may contract covid?”
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The moderator promptly directed the question to Shawn G. Gibbs, dean of Texas A&M’s School of Public Health. Gibbs promptly punted. “Remember,” he said. “I’m an industrial hygienist, so I’m not the medical person here.”
Marshall Crowther, a sports medicine physician at Mississippi, stepped in. “The problem is a lot of this we don’t know,” Crowther said. Most people, he said, seem not to have lasting effects. He acknowledged the growing concerns among medical experts about how the virus affects people’s hearts but said there has not been enough time to conduct long-term studies.
The college football season is in trouble
Catherine O’Neal, a professor of medicine who specializes in infectious diseases, chimed in then, describing how young medical residents at her hospital who have contracted the virus have complained of being exhausted for four to six weeks. If that happened to college football players, she pointed out, it could affect their performance.
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“Even though we’re saying you’re great because you’re not hospitalized,” O’Neal said, “it’s going to take something out of you.”
O’Neal did not return a request for comment Friday. Nor did Crowther or Gibbs.
Another player, who was not identified on the call, asked the medical experts plainly: “If we were your kids, would y’all let us play in this same football season with the same protocols and uncertainty?”
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“If we were your kids, would y’all let us play in this same football season?"
“One of my sons has played baseball for the last five, six weeks,” said one official, who didn’t identify himself. “And I can tell you, I have a couple of kids that have played soccer over the last four weeks. I don’t have great concerns about them contracting it during play.
“We can’t be 100 percent,” he went on. “We’re never going to be 100 percent.”
Several players who participated did not respond to requests for comment or could not be reached. The SEC spokesman, Herb Vincent, said the players found the meeting “productive” and asked for another, which Vincent said the conference will schedule.
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After this story published online, the SEC issued a statement that said: “The SEC hosts videoconferences with the SEC Football Student-Athlete Leadership Council to engage in candid conversation, share information and develop greater understanding of issues important to our student-athletes. … The information we gather while engaging with student-athletes helps inform Conference decisions and provides an opportunity to share information with our campus leaders to further enhance our continuing support of the student-athlete experience.”
During the call, Sankey, the commissioner, also relayed a conversation he had with his two daughters about how they should continue their lives during this pandemic by taking personal responsibility and encouraging others to do the same.
“My advice is you’re going to have to go live your life in this environment,” the commissioner said. “I think that’s the challenge that we’re trying to meet.”
Kevin B. Blackistone contributed to this report, which has been updated.
Just opt the fuck out. Risking your life for FREE, with no protection, while some white man makes millions in a protected environment, is just assinine.
Stop complaining, and make the responsible, calculated decision. And oh yeah, transfer to a HBCU or at least a team with a Black head coach or AD.
Stop complaining, and make the responsible, calculated decision. And oh yeah, transfer to a HBCU or at least a team with a Black head coach or AD.
“You guys have answered a lot of questions the best way that you guys could, and we really appreciate it. But as much as you guys don’t know … it’s just kind of not good enough,” he said. “We want to play. We want to see football. We want to return to normal as much as possible. But it’s just that with all this uncertainty, all this stuff that’s still circulating in the air, y’all know it kind of leaves some of us still scratching my head. … I feel like the college campus is the one thing that you can’t control.”
Whatever ya'll gotta do to make sure I get my college football this fall, just go ahead and make it happen.
"I’m very comfortable with what we’ve done on campus. I’m concerned about what happens from 5 p.m. until 5 a.m.”
and the will be the case for every school. after these kids are out of the classroom, they are beyond the university's control for the safeguards that they have put in place. Football is the financial backbone of most of these schools. They are more concerned about money, than the safety of students.
Best believe they're gonna try their best to make sure that there is a season this year, and will try to fill every seat in the stadium if they can.
and the will be the case for every school. after these kids are out of the classroom, they are beyond the university's control for the safeguards that they have put in place. Football is the financial backbone of most of these schools. They are more concerned about money, than the safety of students.
Best believe they're gonna try their best to make sure that there is a season this year, and will try to fill every seat in the stadium if they can.
They won't say it directly but a year without college football/basketball could bankrupt some of your favorite schools.
Covid once again exposing the emperor's lack of clothes.
Covid once again exposing the emperor's lack of clothes.
A Pimp and A Ho situation., universities be like "Bitch, walk that stroll & bring me back my money."
Good luck getting SEC players to sit out. Some of them on the edge of making it to the league, plus some of them dont have shit to go back to if they dont play.
Im not with ya'll on this feeling bad for athletes train.
They know the deal when they sign to join a school.
When you sign on to play for Clemson, the reason why you getting the best training facilities, the best medical staff, the best campus accomodations, the best nutrition, the best football coaching, the best strength coaches... AND you can ask for extra benefits on the low... AND you dont even have to pretend that you are a student...You get all that because playing football on Saturday makes the school ALOT of money, and you knew it when you signed.
So I dont wanna hear "we are not your entertainment". The game hasnt changed.
That said i fully support players who decide to sit out. Its a personal choice we all gotta make. Just dont give me the woe is me story.
They know the deal when they sign to join a school.
When you sign on to play for Clemson, the reason why you getting the best training facilities, the best medical staff, the best campus accomodations, the best nutrition, the best football coaching, the best strength coaches... AND you can ask for extra benefits on the low... AND you dont even have to pretend that you are a student...You get all that because playing football on Saturday makes the school ALOT of money, and you knew it when you signed.
So I dont wanna hear "we are not your entertainment". The game hasnt changed.
That said i fully support players who decide to sit out. Its a personal choice we all gotta make. Just dont give me the woe is me story.
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Now is the time for the players to form a union.
Damn right!