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

[Larry Edwards]

Your last line is right! Bubbles are being discussed for college basketball, but I don't see how that would work. These are college students from a particular school, not professional athletes to move to a special location and isolate. 

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From: "June Hauck" <jehauck at bellsouth.net> 
To: herky at lists.herky.net 
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 1:08:41 PM 
Subject: Re: [Herky] Players mental health overlooked in Big Ten's decision 

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: 

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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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