If some of them play, and they will because of the money and politics, they will end up with dead players and fans and, most importantly, long-term chronically ill players. Libility will costs will make missing the season look like peanuts.

BigTen yields under the pressure and begins play in a month.

Does the Pac-12 hold strong, or does it follow the herd?

The Pac 12 is going to have to follow suit, or fold the fuckin tent up and blow away.

I think it's a bad idea, but that's never stopped us before.

Is this the beginning of the end of sports/sports stars being the center of the universe? I'm okay with it, the sports culture seems like it's gotten outta hand with the hungry heifers that prowl between Starbucks and Walmart decking out in team gear and facepaint and the tone of their week is set by the outcome of Sundays big game.
Never been on a horse, but My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboy's....

These are college kids not high paid athletes.

Where do you 'spose paid athlets come from?

Montlake, Eugene, LA.

Rodman.

Maybe you'll have your way and there will be no money in sports. Then you can afford to go to a game. Although I'm sure Mariner tickets will be pretty cheap.Especially after what the Giants did last night,and we looked terrible. I think there were 8 walks and 2 batters hit,and it was 9-3 SF.

We're a farm team.

I'm throwing you a Dawg Bone here....

Sometimes, these paid athletes even come out of Pullman.....

I really don't see why the pro leagues don't have their own developmental systems like in European Futbol. Leave college to fully enrolled and active students.

Where's the money for the colleges in that...?

Like the minor leagues ? Or the developmental league in basketball ? But to sams point, college and high school football is king in the south.

Amen! Let's keep college football civilized and on Saturday's for all us ascot wearing, scotch drinking, and educated folks. Damn the NFL and all the hooligans who watch that wretched excuse for a football game!

I'll start by leading a Harvard Cheer for my fellow academia in my section:

Repel Them!
Repel Them!
Make Them Relinquish The Ball!

Tally Hoooo!

I believe that the colleges with "small" programs outnumber the Big Dogs, and manage to survive. And I do believe that football games are Fridays for HS, Saturdays for College, and Sundays for Pros. Basketball is a weekend (Fri-Sat), (Fri-Sun) exercise for colleges.

NFL games are now played on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Thursday.

So? Go back to Sundays. Give everybody a week tp recover/prepare. Just because you're doing something one way now doesn't mean it needs to continue that way.

The NFL make millions (billions?) more having their product on more than once a week. No way they would ever go back to just sundays.

There won't be a full B1G season with the way they set up the COVID rules. I.e. if 5% of a team tests positive, the entire team is shut down from competition and has to forfeit their next 3 games. All positive players are to quarantine for 21 days (instead of normal 14). No bye weeks in the schedule.

They can start playing football, but they won't finish a full season - IMO. I bet they don't make it 4 or 5 weeks with those rules.