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Legend [16121]
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It's not about player safety, it's about liability...The
Aug 9, 2020, 10:32 PM
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school Presidents don't want to be on the hook for future lawsuits, it has nothing to do with what's best for the players at all
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Legend [15995]
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Sad, but most likely, true.***
Aug 9, 2020, 10:36 PM
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All-In [44000]
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Why is it sad?!?
Aug 9, 2020, 11:33 PM
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Do you want Clemson getting sued because a player dies from COVID? That is a PR nightmare. No thanks.
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Rock Defender [53]
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Re: Why is it sad?!?
Aug 9, 2020, 11:37 PM
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Legend [16121]
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If you think the players are safer out in the world than on
Aug 10, 2020, 12:01 AM
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campus you are an idiot...A third of our team showed up with it, if you truly care about the players, you want them in our program, getting tested regularly and treated if anything does happen...The real world doesn't stop just because you get scared guy
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Legend [15995]
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Do you want Clemson sued because a player...
Aug 10, 2020, 12:10 AM
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...had to return home to a much less safe environment? Contracted Covid and died? What safer place could these kids be in right now than our athletic dept with constant testing and medical care? Get off your high horse and think. So many personal injury lawyers are licking their chops waiting on these cases either way so it doesn't even matter. The politics and scare tactics of all this is getting old.
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All-In [30766]
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Do you remember tucker hips?
Aug 10, 2020, 9:03 AM
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If they stay on campus and get sick, clemson gets sued.
If they are sent home and get sick, clemson gets sued.
I don't think there is a way clemson doesn't get sued
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Orange Blooded [4760]
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You can sue for more reasons than death.
Aug 10, 2020, 10:12 AM
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Personel injury, mental anguish, negligence, unsanitary conditions, financial exploitation, malpractice, to name a few.
I think the lawyers already have the football program covered because any of those things could
happen, including death, which happens in college football.
Thirty-seven players as reported by the "State" have tested positive for Covid.
Are they poised to sue?
It's not the liability, it's the negative Public Relations they are are afraid of if someone
dies from the covid.
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Re: It's not about player safety, it's about liability...The
Aug 9, 2020, 10:38 PM
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True yet three Big10 schools let pervy docs molest student athletes for years and did nothing. I guess those $ settlements woke their sorry behinds up and now they're skeered
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Yep, once they ask their schools’ legal advisor about
Aug 9, 2020, 10:39 PM
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potential liability if one or more players die, that will be a huge negative.
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CU Medallion [53716]
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And the same lawyers that will be waiting for a chance to
Aug 9, 2020, 11:26 PM
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represent a player in a wrongful death suit, will also be lined up to sue a universtiy for not honoring a scholarship they can no longer pay for....
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Legend [17249]
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Agreed _ this thread is hitting on the issues.***
Aug 9, 2020, 10:55 PM
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Legend [15212]
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How is the school liable if a player decides to play?
Aug 9, 2020, 11:08 PM
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Schools have already said that the scholarships are going to be honored if you "opt out".
Seems like, inherently, kids are taking on the risk of covid, the risk of knee injury, the risk of heat exhaustion, etc
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Rock Defender [53]
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There still would be settlements and legal costs
Aug 9, 2020, 11:29 PM
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Re: It's not about player safety, it's about liability...The
Aug 9, 2020, 11:36 PM
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Then they are doing the right thing if that is their thinking. It is a business.
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Rock Defender [53]
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It’s irrational though
Aug 9, 2020, 11:39 PM
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Re: It’s irrational though
Aug 10, 2020, 1:01 AM
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True, but the liability is different. I think they should play, but just being devils advocate.
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Legend [16121]
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If you haven't noticed, the leagues where sports IS their
Aug 10, 2020, 12:05 AM
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business are going to actually play...If the NFL starts regularly airing games on Saturday, college football is screwed when it tries to come back, the $ will follow the NFL
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Re: If you haven't noticed, the leagues where sports IS their
Aug 10, 2020, 1:03 AM
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They will always be back for college. College allegiance and loyalty is so much stronger. I think they should play of course. If there is a strong a liability issue that's a tough one to not comply to. It's just a reality of business.
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Re: It's not about player safety, it's about liability...The
Aug 9, 2020, 11:53 PM
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They better send all the students home, then, because cancelling football is essentially admitting risk. There is not one shred of medical evidence that varsity sports present a greater risk of COVID-19 transmission than the activities that regular students will be permitted to engage in. In fact, plenty of common sense says regular students (less supervision, less medical care, less well-conditioned bodies, less motivated to avoid risky behaviors, less easy to contact trace) are at higher risk. Unless they’re ready to send everyone home, cancelling sports isn’t avoiding lawsuits, it’s inviting them.
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Now that's thinking like a tort lawyer...***
Aug 10, 2020, 3:01 AM
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Re: It's not about player safety, it's about liability...The
Aug 9, 2020, 11:56 PM
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This is very obvious. When a practice or activity can cause an entity to be sued out of business, the entity will cease the activity out of self preservation.
There is nothing wrong with that at all.
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Orange Blooded [4988]
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Hasn't like half the team gotten Covid? They haven't seemed
Aug 10, 2020, 12:57 AM
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worry about any liability thus far. I think the future would only be safer for them in a football bubble now!
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The diving board syndrome***
Aug 10, 2020, 8:37 AM
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CU Medallion [53716]
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Exactly!***
Aug 10, 2020, 9:22 AM
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This whole premise is nonsense.
Aug 10, 2020, 8:49 AM
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You can barely rely on test to tell you if you have the Rona. There is zero way to prove where you got it.
I believe this is all politics and the ones pushing for shutdowns are grasping at straws to find logical reasons to do so.
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Re: It's not about player safety, it's about liability...The
Aug 10, 2020, 8:57 AM
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Seems like it is about the money (as always). If there is no college football (also no liability for the universities), then the NFL has no competition. I wonder if the NFL suddenly got the bright idea to share some revenue with the Power 5 if they would cancel the season? Just a conspiratorial thought.
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All-TigerNet [10822]
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That’s right. They players just want to play
Aug 10, 2020, 9:01 AM
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Nobody is forcing anyone to play football.
It usually is about liability and covering your ###. Sad state of affairs
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LAWYERS vs ACCOUNTANTS will decide CFB/CBB 2020
Aug 10, 2020, 9:35 AM
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It all depends on which of these 2 scenerios play out with the University BOT's & Presidents. Which is the greater risk--- lawsuits or financial disasters for the schools. Many of these schools (and towns like Clemson) will not ever recover without the revenue of college athletics. These players are MUCH better off medically on campus & under constant testing protocols than 'off the grid'.
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