{"id":43935,"date":"2020-08-08T22:09:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T22:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43935"},"modified":"2020-08-08T22:09:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T22:09:01","slug":"why-not-just-scrap-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43935","title":{"rendered":"Why not just scrap the season?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23LSC%20%23coronavirus%20%23WTAMU%20%23TAMUC&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Superball-Snacks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12840\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Superball-Snacks-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Superball-Snacks-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Superball-Snacks.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A part of the Lone Star Conference decision to &#8220;postpone&#8221; certain athletic activities has me puzzled.<\/p>\n<p>The LSC has decided to postpone intercollegiate football and other sports until the spring, meaning that the student-athletes can start blocking and tackling for real during, oh, <em>baseball season.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has rattled LSC officials. They aren&#8217;t comfortable letting the athletes participate in the fall when their regular sporting events occur. Who in the world can blame them?<\/p>\n<p>Why not just scrap the entire season? Just call it good. Football, soccer, volleyball and basketball will be there next academic year. So, why not just tell the student-athletes they will have to wait. Perhaps there&#8217;s a way to extend their eligibility a year to enable them to play these sports even if they have completed their academic work at their schools.<\/p>\n<p>The impact is going to disrupt a lot of activity in communities where these LSC&#8217;s 18 schools are located. I am saddened for those who like attending football games on Saturday afternoons and evenings.<\/p>\n<p>There will be some economic impact as well on the schools that derive income from attendance at football contests.<\/p>\n<p>The overarching issue is the safety of the student-athletes. Allowing them close contact with fellow competitors while the nation is fighting a deadly infectious virus exposes them to too great a risk.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just call it a season. Wait until the next academic year &#8230; and hope we have this virus contained a whole lot better than we do at this moment.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23LSC%20%23coronavirus%20%23WTAMU%20%23TAMUC&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A part of the Lone Star Conference decision to &#8220;postpone&#8221; certain athletic activities has me puzzled. The LSC has decided to postpone intercollegiate football and other sports until the spring, meaning that the student-athletes can start blocking and tackling for real during, oh, baseball season. The COVID-19 pandemic has rattled LSC officials. They aren&#8217;t comfortable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43935\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why not just scrap the season?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9257,9474,9261],"class_list":["post-43935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-covid-19","tag-lone-star-conference","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43936,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43935\/revisions\/43936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}