Uconn cancels football season

[phillionaire]

we could always join the ACC ala Notre Dame for a season to help balance out the divisions...

And I could get a date with Scarlett Johansson

 

[Adios]

Meanwhile...

Rutgers!

 

[OldBosd]

Taking the politics out of this completely, it’s a pretty funny tweet.

It's a great tweet. Funny but not mean spirited.

 

[FatHank]

Taking the politics out of this completely, it’s a pretty funny tweet.

Total gold. At least we are getting some national attention!

 

[Deepster]

Season is cancelled.....and the number of projected wins is the same! :rimshot

Season ticket money will be returned next week.....to the 24 people who bought them this year! :rimshot

 

[UofCT]

I honestly thought that was a joke at first

That's not a joke?! Dear lord.

 

[phillionaire]

That's not a joke?! Dear lord.

I think it is a joke, but I honestly can’t tell anymore. Some of the stuff conferences are instituting sound like jokes.

 

[OldBosd]

I think it is a joke, but I honestly can’t tell anymore. Some of the stuff conferences are instituting sound like jokes.

It isn't.

The idea is that teams on quarantine will miss practice so this is a way of evening it out slightly.

 

[phillionaire]

It isn't.

The idea is that teams on quarantine will miss practice so this is a way of evening it out slightly.

Wow I guess that makes sense but that’s so stupid

 

[HitDog]

It most certainly is a joke.

 

[HuskyHawk]

No surprise here. I'm not sure people are ready to face the reality that a vaccine changes nothing for these players, although it helps the coaches and others they come in contact with. Most likely scenario is that COVID 19 is around for the rest of our lives.

 

[uconngb]

Win total will be the same as if they had a season, and no chance of injuries.

Win/Win........

 

[UCDaveD]

I have 2 jokes. One about a tree falling in the woods and another about Hydroxychloroquine.

 

[Caronimo]

"The new normal" cancel everything

 

[Caronimo]

I have 2 jokes. One about a tree falling in the woods and another about Hydroxychloroquine.

I'm no doctor but if I am near death with covid, I would be willing to try hydorchdsakhdakujdskad however you spell it

 

[UConnTrumbull]

If you’re mad about this buy football season tickets from 2021 onwards. Most of you wouldn’t have been going to UConn vs Liberty any way.

 

[CTBasketball]

If you’re mad about this buy football season tickets from 2021 onwards. Most of you wouldn’t have been going to UConn vs Liberty any way.

I’ve drank more beers the past 6 years at that stadium than anyone else on the basketball board!

 

[NEforceUConn]

I’ve drank more beers the past 6 years at that stadium than anyone else on the basketball board!

And if hassled by Liberty security you replied,” Jesus told me it was OK”?

 

[HooperScooper]

The football team’s games against Illinois, Indiana, Maine and Mississippi have already been taken off the schedule by those schools’ respective conferences, and with the Atlantic Coast Conference likely to restrict its teams solely to conference play as well, games against North Carolina and Virginia were in doubt.

So would this same decision be made if UConn were in a conference that was only playing intra-conference teams so they had games to play? In other words is this really about the health and safety of the players as the press release says or because the team just can't get a schedule of games to play? Some of both?

 

[superjohn]

"The safety challenges created by COVID-19 place our football student-athletes at an unacceptable level of risk." - AD DB

I had been holding on to hope that there would be a college basketball season starting sometimes this spring, but reading the tea leaves of this comment, it doesn't look too good. If they feel competition is too dangerous for the football guys, don't see how basketball is any different.

Even if a vaccine is available by spring, it probably isn't going to be given to healthy 20s somethings in peak physical condition with access to world class health care, it's going to the old and high-risk first.

No surprise here. I'm not sure people are ready to face the reality that a vaccine changes nothing for these players, although it helps the coaches and others they come in contact with. Most likely scenario is that COVID 19 is around for the rest of our lives.

It will be like the flu and every other thing that's around and a part of our lives but we will be heading back towards normalcy once the vaccines start being released months from now.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Season is cancelled.....and the number of projected wins is the same! :rimshot

Yes, but a big win for the Boneyarder whose avatar has "...predicting undefeated seasons..." beneath it, unless he removed it.

 

[upstater]

It will be like the flu and every other thing that's around and a part of our lives but we will be heading back towards normalcy once the vaccines start being released months from now.

SARS is around but almost no one gets it. Polio is around too.

 

[superjohn]

The football team’s games against Illinois, Indiana, Maine and Mississippi have already been taken off the schedule by those schools’ respective conferences, and with the Atlantic Coast Conference likely to restrict its teams solely to conference play as well, games against North Carolina and Virginia were in doubt.

So would this same decision be made if UConn were in a conference that was only playing intra-conference teams so they had games to play? In other words is this really about the health and safety of the players as the press release says or because the team just can't get a schedule of games to play? Some of both?

It's 100% because we didn't have anyone to play.

 

[upstater]

It's 100% because we didn't have anyone to play.

I think you're going to find a lot of schools (with schedules and teams to play) following UConn's decision quite soon

 

[huskymedic]