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The ACC will delay the start of competition for all fall sports until at least Sept. 1
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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 735431" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>(1) You only have to PROVE to a jury that the athletic department is responsible for your condition. Juries are funny sometimes. If the season starts and it turns sideways, people will remember that the SEC or whoever ignored what the other conferences were looking at and put people at risk. A jury is supposed to go into a trial and pay attention to only what is presented in the trial. However, in this case they would all remember the conference/conferences that "ignored science and put kids at risk". (the public sentiment if a season goes sideways, not my view)</p><p></p><p>Also what about a kid dying during this season because of an undiagnosed myocarditis from asymptomatic COVID-19. If it comes out in a trial that Warren told Swofford about kids in the Big 10 that were found to have undiagnosed myocarditis from asymptomatic COVID-19 and that was a big part of the reason the Big 10 presidents voted to not play, that would go a long way in PROVING that the ACC knew about potential risks and ignored them.</p><p></p><p>On top of that, I saw a report that several law firms who have been involved in trials such as the tobacco lawsuits are already started circling college football looking out for situations to exploit. Those law firms have more money to litigate against the conferences than the conferences have to defend themselves. (Quite a turn on normalcy for the conferences)</p><p></p><p>(2) The long term risks of brain damage are better known than potential risks from COVID. COVID isn't the flu. I don't know that it is any more or less dangerous than the flu, but effects are not well known. If there are 10 Big 10 football players who have been diagnosed with myocarditis, that is about 0.6% of the football players. In the US annually it affects 0.03% of the population. It is an alarmingly high number of the players who have been diagnosed with COVID-19.</p><p></p><p>Can football be played without having anyone die of a heart condition caused by COVID-19? Maybe. Maybe even probably. But is probably good enough when discussing amateur athletics?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 735431, member: 2426"] (1) You only have to PROVE to a jury that the athletic department is responsible for your condition. Juries are funny sometimes. If the season starts and it turns sideways, people will remember that the SEC or whoever ignored what the other conferences were looking at and put people at risk. A jury is supposed to go into a trial and pay attention to only what is presented in the trial. However, in this case they would all remember the conference/conferences that "ignored science and put kids at risk". (the public sentiment if a season goes sideways, not my view) Also what about a kid dying during this season because of an undiagnosed myocarditis from asymptomatic COVID-19. If it comes out in a trial that Warren told Swofford about kids in the Big 10 that were found to have undiagnosed myocarditis from asymptomatic COVID-19 and that was a big part of the reason the Big 10 presidents voted to not play, that would go a long way in PROVING that the ACC knew about potential risks and ignored them. On top of that, I saw a report that several law firms who have been involved in trials such as the tobacco lawsuits are already started circling college football looking out for situations to exploit. Those law firms have more money to litigate against the conferences than the conferences have to defend themselves. (Quite a turn on normalcy for the conferences) (2) The long term risks of brain damage are better known than potential risks from COVID. COVID isn't the flu. I don't know that it is any more or less dangerous than the flu, but effects are not well known. If there are 10 Big 10 football players who have been diagnosed with myocarditis, that is about 0.6% of the football players. In the US annually it affects 0.03% of the population. It is an alarmingly high number of the players who have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Can football be played without having anyone die of a heart condition caused by COVID-19? Maybe. Maybe even probably. But is probably good enough when discussing amateur athletics? [/QUOTE]
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