The Baylor Bears football team has had quite the season already. They have cancelled two football games and postponed another for December. The football team has paused football activities on three occasions. Despite not playing a game on Saturday against Oklahoma State, which was set to be their homecoming game. They are planning to travel to Austin to play against Texas next Saturday.
The team was set to hold their homecoming ceremonies starting on Oct. 15 according to the Baylor website. The smart play would be to hold off on any homecoming with the football team pausing any activities. However, it doesn’t appear to be how the Bears are handling the situations. Talk about a tone deaf situation. According to their Twitter account, the Bears in fact held ceremonies at McLane Stadium in Waco.
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— Baylor Football (@BUFootball) October 17, 2020
With the climate of college athletics in a pandemic, this was a move that can only be labelled as terrible. Given that the team had 42 positive COVID-19 cases not even a week ago, one can only help but to question their motives with this stunt. The Southeastern Conference recently fined three schools for not adhering to social distancing standards so it will be interesting to see how the Big 12 Conference handles this situation.
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