Quote Originally Posted by MetEdDawg View Post
You are naive as hell if you don't think kids feel pressured to play. May not be verbally, but the system isn't set up for people to succeed by not playing. And for coaches, their livelihood goes away if football goes away. Duh they want to play.

Also, this board talks all the time about how these kids make bad choices for what college they commit to. But now, all of a sudden, you are saying they are smart enough to know the risks better than medical professionals? Makes zero sense.

I get it. You want everyone to call off the dogs and fend for themselves. Football and everything else needs to go on like normal and forget any measure of safety because hell everything is a risk. That's not practical when we are taking about something that the vast majority of our population doesn't know one little shit about, regardless of what they say on message boards and Facebook.
Which of our players has told you he is being pressured to play? And pressured By whom? Or are you just assuming you know how they feel? Do you also think they are being pressured to go on social media and say they want to play? Kylin has already shown he is not willing to play over Smn important to him, but you think he is incapable of saying he is not willing to play over covid? Kinda insulting.

Again, don't equate their covid risk in playing to ours in every day life. I don't think everyone should fend for themselves, but I do think decisions should be data driven. And the data overwhelmingly supports playing with little or no fans, especially when the players are willing to accept what minute risk they have in playing with respect to catching covid.

Finally, So we know nothing about the virus, yet you know it has "really bad outcomes" that will last "the rest of your life." Unh?