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Biography:Tennessean born and bred, but only by the grace of God I am a graduate of the University of Alabama
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Registered on:11/3/2013
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re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

Posted by Diogenes on 8/25/20 at 1:01 pm
I fear for those parents that sent students to college. Once they contract the virus, they'll bring it home. My son is visiting his girlfriend in Knoxville this week and he'll probably contaminate everyone again, once he returns home. I still have SARS-covid-2 antibodies from last month but no on...
Word on the street is TV rights will triple in the next 2022 negotiation. The new TV players will be Amazon, Google, NetFlix driving up the payout for Disney. For that to be profitable, the expectation will force the top 40 teams to only play one another. I prefer to create rivalries within o...
1. Nebraska leads the nation in sellouts in Lincoln. The streak started in 1962. 2. Nebraska vs Oklahoma was a great rivalry game until 2010. This rivalry existed for 86 years, while Oklahoma leads, 45–38–3 3. Nebraska is the 8th winningest football team of all time with 902 wins. 4. Nebraska gen...
Nebraska is shopping around for a conference too... This will be the day that changed everything. The shape of universities. The fabric of college football. The strength and charm of so many college towns. The dominoes are about to fall and they’re going to land on a lot of good people. And...
what a novel idea, a super conference!!! Brilliant ! “The SEC is trying to see if they can pick off some of these schools and see if they want to join them,” Dan Patrick said. “If you can get Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12 and they’re going to join you in the SEC, you’ve got a super confer...

re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

Posted by Diogenes on 7/18/20 at 10:07 pm
The story that rings most true is vaccines aren’t profit centers for pharmaceuticals. When a vaccine works it’s a single dose instead of recurring revenue. If you jack up the price you’re ostracized by the public and investigated by the government. What pharmaceuticals are interested in is a t...

re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

Posted by Diogenes on 7/18/20 at 8:42 pm
Younger people aged 10 to 19 years old are more likely than other age groups to spread the coronavirus in their household, according to a large contact tracing study in South Korea soon to be published by the Centers for Disease Control, a concerning sign as U.S. school districts weigh whether to re...

re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

Posted by Diogenes on 7/18/20 at 8:25 pm
If you can’t tell right from wrong, then even the truth won’t set you free. ...

re: I voted for “fear the thumb”

Posted by Diogenes on 7/18/20 at 6:50 pm
Cognitive dissonance shows the soul dies in the process. Basic human rights are a bridge too far. The story of the good samaritan is a fairy tale. ...

re: I voted for “fear the thumb”

Posted by Diogenes on 7/18/20 at 11:06 am
What are Tuberville’s policies?...
According to the Mayo Clinic - However, there are some major problems with relying on community infection to create herd immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19. First, it isn't yet clear if infection with the COVID-19 virus makes a person immune to future infection. [link=(https://www.mayocli...
The payout was guaranteed $6m per team ...

re: Only conference game schedules

Posted by Diogenes on 7/9/20 at 10:35 pm
Multiple industry insiders tell @TheAthletic that they expect the Pac-12 to go to conference-only scheduling as well in the coming days:...

Only conference game schedules

Posted by Diogenes on 7/9/20 at 10:33 pm
To that end, the Big Ten Conference announced today that if the Conference is able to participate in fall sports (men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey, football, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s volleyball) based on medical advice, it will move to Conference-only schedules in those spo...

re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

Posted by Diogenes on 7/9/20 at 6:14 pm
The June 28 email to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was ominous: A senior adviser to a top Health and Human Services Department official accused the CDC of “undermining the President” by putting out a report about the potential risks of the coronavirus to pregnant wom...

re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

Posted by Diogenes on 7/9/20 at 5:26 pm
My son was diagnosed with covid19 today. Three folks in my house have all the symptoms so I’ve got to assume the same diagnosis. I had pneumonia for nine months last year and a couple of lung biopsies so I’m scared....

re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

Posted by Diogenes on 7/6/20 at 12:09 am
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...1xBhg/viewform At the Georgia Institute of Technology, which is scheduled to hold in-person classes, more than 800 of its 1,100 faculty members have published a letter outlining their concerns. The letter, reported by Georgia Public Broadcasting, criticize...

re: next man up

Posted by Diogenes on 7/4/20 at 5:12 pm
Saban isn’t a southern either so recruits must be more concerned about the character of man...

re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

Posted by Diogenes on 7/3/20 at 2:30 pm
A virus doesn’t care about your politics. Once a school is labeled typhoid mary, the doors will close. A virus has always been an ethnic cleanser that moves survivors...

re: next man up

Posted by Diogenes on 7/3/20 at 11:56 am
Folks that don’t have a plan will complain about those that do. ...