Sources: MAC postpones all fall sports, including football

[guest44]

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBGSU/p ... 912895004/" target="_blank


In true BGSU fashion. The groundskeeper was recently featured as "Today's Essential Employee Spotlight" on August 14, 2020. All posts have since been deleted.

[threestooges]

BGSU coaches & athletic administrators spent part of the afternoon at the protest on campus over the Facebook comments of a BGSU groundskeeper. The guy who mows lawns.

Glad to hear it.

Agreed -- glad to hear it! Whether it's President Rogers or "the guy who mows lawns," there's no place at BGSU for anyone making racist comments. I suppose if you're stupid enough to be racist, you're also too stupid to keep those thoughts to yourself.

[guest44]

A quick google search shows BGSU promoted the groundskeeper in the Essential Employee Spotlight on multiple occasions over the summer on all social media platforms. Now, nobody on campus knows who he was. This is the same BGSU that had it’s own General Counsel get arrested in 2019. All the posts were deleted. This is after cutting 119 positions in May. Hypocrisy happens at BGSU.

[Flipper]

Iowa State will allow 25,000 people into their stadium for the football opener on Sept 12th. Why can't we have nice things too?

[Schadenfreude]

Iowa State will allow 25,000 people into their stadium for the football opener on Sept 12th. Why can't we … too?

Because we aren't selfish or stupid.

[threestooges]

They're breaking all kinds of records in Ames.

https://iowastartingline.com/2020/08/30 ... the-world/" target="_blank

[guest44]

We are selfish too. Allowing our AD to make 275K off student fees, while sports aren’t happening. That’s selfish too. But he protested and cried in a Zoom call cutting baseball, so he is essential.

[Flipper]

Iowa State will allow 25,000 people into their stadium for the football opener on Sept 12th. Why can't we … too?

Because we aren't selfish or stupid.

But we are hysterical...living in fear of a situation that poses no real threat to the general public. The data has been widely disseminated...the numbers are clear. This virus is no longer a broad threat...if it ever truly was

[guest44]

Bowling Green would be playing sports if the decision makers wages would have been threatened. 13 million in student fees made it the easy decision.

[footballguy51]

Ugh. It's actually disheartening to read this forum sometimes. I feel like I'm in the Facebook comments section of a news story.

The virus is a real thing. It impacts people. It probably doesn't impact most people too severely. Wearing a mask is to protect others, but it's probably not as effective as everybody would like you to think. We also know so little about this virus that it's hard to say if it's sort of bad, pretty bad, or plague bad.

Students pay fees. Get over it. Think of it like taxes. That's just how it is.

[guest44]

Students pay fees. With those fees students gets admission to games. With no games, students get to pay fees for fellow students to have certain access, the other students don't get. That's not like taxes. Billy the aviation major, can't just walk into the Sebo and start lifting weights, nor did he get a hotel to sleep in this summer. Also, students do not get to elect the athletic director, or make any decisions regarding how Bob cooks the budget to protect his wage. Once again, not like taxes. It's a completely broken system used to overpay coaches & administrators, to now do even less than before.

[Flipper]

They know a lot about this virus...at least in terms of the impact it's had and has on people. Outside of older people with multiple underlying health issues, this is not a deadly disease. There is no valid reason to continue this charade

[Falconwriter]

They know a lot about this virus...at least in terms of the impact it's had and has on people. Outside of older people with multiple underlying health issues, this is not a deadly disease. There is no valid reason to continue this charade

It's not just older people with underlying health issues that are at risk...it's PEOPLE who have underlying health issues that are at risk; being older is yet another risk factor, and it happens that as humans age, other chronic health issues become more common.

More than 50 percent of U.S. adults have some type of health condition that makes them more susceptible to a bad outcome if they contract Covid. Obesity is no. 1 on that list, followed closely by high blood pressure and diabetes (or metabolic syndrome, which is pre-diabetes). A solid 45 percent have a chronic illness (not obesity) that puts them at-risk (heart disease, cancer, stroke, COPD and diabetes.) Young, otherwise healthy people have the least risk, obviously.

But let's not act like it's only the elderly who are at risk here. Yes, they will be the ones most likely to die, but others will be more at-risk for chronic health issues.

[Flipper]

It largely is the elderly...or at least people over the age of 55.

https://data.cdc.gov/widgets/9bhg-hcku" target="_blank

[footballguy51]

Students pay fees. With those fees students gets admission to games. With no games, students get to pay fees for fellow students to have certain access, the other students don't get. That's not like taxes. Billy the aviation major, can't just walk into the Sebo and start lifting weights, nor did he get a hotel to sleep in this summer. Also, students do not get to elect the athletic director, or make any decisions regarding how Bob cooks the budget to protect his wage. Once again, not like taxes. It's a completely broken system used to overpay coaches & administrators, to now do even less than before.

Student fees are NOT just so they can go to games without an additional charge. In fact, many schools charge student fees and then require their students to buy tickets to games on top of that. Without the student fees, there are no Division I athletics at BGSU. I wonder how many students we would lose (excluding the athletes, obviously) because BGSU would no longer be that caliber of institution. I mean, there's a reason why I chose to go to BGSU and not Mount Union, Ohio Northern, Ashland University, or Heidelberg. Yes, BGSU has fantastic educational programs, but BGSU was actually a school people had heard of outside of the alumni network. In fact, now as an employee of BGSU, when I go to professional events and mention I work at BGSU, people don't go, "Where is that?" like they do with people that work at, say, Shepherd University (apparently located in Shepherdstown, WV).