In a followup to A&M pulling out of the Gator Bowl, there have been three outright bowl cancellations:
The 2021 Military Bowl has been canceled for the second year in a row. Boston College was forced to pull out of its matchup against East Carolina, scheduled for Monday, due to a combination of COVID-19 cases and injuries, according to 247Sports’ Stephen Igoe. Additionally, the Fenway Bowl, featuring SMU and Virginia, has been canceled after positive cases on the Cavaliers’ roster. The game was set to be the final one for coach Bronco Mendenhall at UVA after he resigned from the program earlier this month
The bowls are the second and third outright cancellations of bowl season, joining Hawaii pulling out of the Hawaii Bowl against Memphis on Christmas Eve. Additionally, Texas A&M was forced to pull out of the Gator Bowl due to COVID issues, but Rutgers stepped up to take the Aggies’ place as a 5-7 squad. Last season, 18 bowls were canceled by the pandemic.
The matchup is the second straight bowl game canceled for SMU, though the Mustangs would have been without a bulk of the coaching staff after former coach Sonny Dykes left for TCU. The Cavaliers, meanwhile, were searching for their third winning season in the last four years under Mendenhall before new coach Tony Elliott takes over the program.
For East Carolina, the cancellation is especially disappointing. The Pirates have not played in a bowl game since 2014 but earned a 7-5 record in Mike Houston’s third season. Boston College has not won a bowl game since 2016.
Also, Miami is out of the Sun Bowl, so that might not happen either.
Honestly, I don’t give a rat’s ass about college bowl games, and it’s probably been well over a decade since I watched one. (When did the Longhorns last have a good team?) But Flu Manchu doesn’t provide much of a threat to healthy college football players, and Omicron is so mild that it’s probably safer to contract and exhibits less side effects than the vaccination for it. Banning football games because of exposure in nannyism gone mad.
We’re cancelling bowl games over grossly antiquated COVID protocols. Almost everyone in the room knows how stupid it is and we’re doing it anyway.
Does anyone actually want to lead?
— Josh Pate (@LateKickJosh) December 26, 2021
No bowl game should be getting canceled over covid. Period. It’s embarrassing that any college kid is being held out of playing over an asymptomatic virus infection that poses zero risk to them.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 27, 2021
Update: Evidently they cancelled the Holiday Bowl just hours before kickoff when UCLA pulled out.
Tags: college, coronavirus, Football, Hawaii, Regulation, SMU
The Aggies cancelling a game because they didn’t have a large enough roster free of Covid, pretty much should end the whole “12th Man” deal they have going?
The entire point of this post.
The STUPID is STRONG in these ones…
“Academia” still has this public image of the absent-minded professor, leather elbow patched tweed jacket and mis-matched socks, but that’s completely false. Universities today more match the image of the soulless corporation, run by and for the benefit of the mediocrities populating The Adminstration.
Look at the DeanS. (I emphasize the plural – there’s a “dean” for everything.) They all are “Doctor”, but of what? Fluff. And those fluff cirriculae have been taken over by the idiots, the SJWs, the Karens -a Venn diagram of these groups will show an almost 100% overlap.
Look into A&M. I’ll bet that a large percentage of those that made this decision are females with a BA in Sociology and a PhD in Womens Studies, or the equivalent.
We used to have “football” majors- degree programs so easy that a guy who was spending 40-50 hours a week in conditioning and practice instead of study and homework could maintain a GPA good enough to meet eligibility requirements.
Then we got easy money in federal loans and this kind of program became a profit center. Now thus kind of nonsense dominates.
And here we are.
BC is just worried that ECU will kick it’s a$$ in a bowl showing how another Red State is demolished by a State where Freedom Reigns. Boston should be embarrassed. Losers.
Scott Adams said about a week ago … maybe Omicron is the best vaccine. I mean, its risk isn’t zero, but it’s lower than the jabs, and it gives far better immunity to the various variants than the mRNA gene therapy experiment does.