S1E102 - NFLPA approves labor peace for 10 years; Gene Smith updates OSU Corona precautions; How to cope amid uncertainty
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The latest edition of the Spielman and Hooley podcast includes discussion about the National Football League Players Association narrowly approving a 10-year collective bargaining agreement to maintain labor peace in the league, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith\'s update on COVID-19-related precautions on campus and how those will impact the Buckeyes football team.
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\\n\\nCOVID-19 brings a halt to sports in America.
\\n\\nThis gives us an opportunity to pull together and sacrifice for each other.
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\\n\\nWhy the NFLPA made the right decision to ratify the new CBA.
\\n\\nThere will now be seven playoff teams per-conference, hence only one bye on each side of the playoff bracket.
\\n\\nA 17-game regular season arrives in 2021.
\\n\\nIt\'s impossible with 17 games to split the schedule evenly home and road. There are several options on how that can be handled, including one that plays the 17 extra games league-wide in foreign markets or domestic markets without current teams.
\\n\\nGene Smith held a conference call Friday to outline measures Ohio State is taking to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak and what that means for the athletic department.
\\n\\nOSU athletes, and all students, must be out of the dorms next week.
\\n\\nAthletic facilities are closed by order of the Big Ten until April 6.
\\n\\nOhio State hasn\'t cancelled the remainder of spring practice yet, but that seems inevitable.
\\n\\nSmith says he is in favor of an extra year of eligibility for both spring sports athletes, who have had their seasons wiped out, and winter sports athletes who did not get to compete for a championship.
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