They’re being paid in the form of a free 4 year degree. That’s somewhere around $100,000+ to play a game at a non-professional level. Or is a full scholarship not considered money that the kid doesn’t have to spend/rack up as debt.
One school backs out of playing, and therefore the rest of the schools feel pressured to follow along because they don’t want to be accused of “trying to endanger lives”.
So...if they cut non-conference do we get a refund on part of our season ticket costs? 3 of the 7 games are home non-conference games. One of which I was looking forward to against BYU. So we’d get to see 4 games...I’m not paying those prices for to watch half the games.
Plenty of scenarios I’ve heard of and personally seen where someone was “assumed to have covid” but wasn’t tested and their symptoms match countless other illnesses. Plenty of terminally ill people that would have died of other illnesses, but were listed as covid deaths. I don’t buy the covid...
My grandparents could die tomorrow of something totally unrelated to covid. And if I had been social distancing from them, I’d have just lost 4-6 months with them that I can never get back. Do you know how many elderly people are dying alone in their homes? Family members that never got to say...
If there was total proof that I was the one out of 26 family members that had it and transmitted it to my grandparents directly, then yes. But I don’t have it, so it’s really a non-issue