[Herky] Players mental health overlooked in Big Ten's decision

[June Hauck]

Fall football: This is a real conundrum.  Reading the comments on the Hawkeye Heaven Facebook page (not something I’d recommend), there are a lot of people who are very dismissive of any efforts to rein in the pandemic and seem to want to play football with full stadiums and no restrictions.  Others say that the players would be safer in a controlled environment than they would be with no football.  I do wonder, though, how “controlled” it would be.  I heard on the radio that for example, the MLB players are confined to their hotel rooms when travelling and can’t even share a meal in another player’s room.  I can’t see how that could work with college students.  The NBA and NHL bubbles are working, but again, that wouldn’t work for college football.  

I hate not having fall football, it’s my favorite time of year.  I’ll watch games from the SEC, ACC and Big 12, but I have to wonder what they will do when there’s an outbreak on a team.

Finally, this pandemic sucks 

June

From: Larry Edwards 
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 10:02 AM
To: herky at lists.herky.net 
Subject: Re: [Herky] Players mental health overlooked in Big Ten's decision

Frequency seems to be the issue:
“We know that if you have active cardiac involvement from a virus, this virus seems to do it more often than any other virus we’ve ever seen,” Matthew Martinez, consulting cardiologist for the NBA Players Association, recently told USA TODAY Sports.

“There are things about this virus that we have not seen before with other viruses. I do think that just with some of these reports that have publicly noted that they’ve had myocarditis, it affirms the need that a conservative approach still remains an appropriate plan.”
Dr. Jonathan Kim
Chief of sports
cardiology
at Emory
University



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From: "Gwen McNatt Enokian" <gmcnhawkeye at gmail.com>
To: Rneuf at netins.net, "Herky" <herky at lists.herky.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2020 5:56:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Herky] Players mental health overlooked in Big Ten's decision


yes that is correct  
I knew a young man who died from it many years ago. Got the flu in his dorm at Penn 

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 4:39 PM Rick Neufeld <Rneuf at netins.net> wrote:

  one of the reasons the big 10 cited was a possible heart condition as a result of the virus. The seasonal flu has the same possible side effect and we have ignored it for years. 



  Rick





  From: Herky [mailto:herky-bounces at lists.herky.net] On Behalf Of Gwen McNatt Enokian
  Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2020 1:23 PM
  To: Herky
  Subject: Re: [Herky] Players mental health overlooked in Big Ten's decision



  Good article!  I agree with the author 



  Gwen 



  On Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 12:45 PM Larry Edwards <larryed6124 at knology.net> wrote:

    https://247sports.com/college/iowa/Article/Big-Ten-Football-Cancel-Iowa-Hawkeyes-Football-Tyrone-Tracy-Jr-Kevin-Warren-Mental-Health-150337234/



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