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Greg Sankey releases statement following meeting with SEC athletic directors
Posted on 7/13/20 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 7/13/20 at 5:48 pm
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“We had a productive meeting on Monday and engaged in discussions on a number of important issues that will contribute to critical decisions to be made in the weeks ahead,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement. “The ability to personally interact over the course of an entire day contributed to the productivity of the meeting.
“It is clear that current circumstances related to COVID-19 must improve and we will continue to closely monitor developments around the virus on a daily basis,” Sankey said. “In the coming weeks we will continue to meet regularly with campus leaders via videoconferences and gather relevant information while guided by medical advisors. We believe that late July will provide the best clarity for making the important decisions ahead of us.”
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Here's some more stuff from The Advocate in Baton Rouge after the meeting...
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"We have to see a change in public health trend to build the comfort that we'll have an opportunity to compete this fall," Sankey told ESPN's Paul Finebaum on Monday evening.
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The SEC has members in 11 states, and seven have 40,001 or more COVID-19 cases this year, the highest category in the CDC's database. The increase of cases in the region in the past few weeks is "not a positive factor," Sankey told Finebaum, though he said the league will analyze similar data before it reaches a final decision on the season.
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"I'm done with predictions; I'm done with models," Sankey said. "We're going to look at facts, and that's what we've been doing diligently for months now and will do over the next few weeks."
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"Things are going to have to improve and get better, but we have time," LSU athletic director Scott Woodward said. "This thing has had trends go up and down, and hopefully they'll go down and people will take what's going on seriously. Because if not, it's going to be difficult for us to safely play these games."
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Woodward said "I'm still planning like I'm playing opening weekend," a sentiment that he said was shared by most of the athletic directors who attended Monday's meeting. If teams can play, they'll play, Woodward said, but they'll have to "listen to the health experts and go forth from there."
This post was edited on 7/14/20 at 6:27 am
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Posted on 7/13/20 at 5:50 pm to TigerLunatik
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“It is clear that current circumstances related to COVID-19 must improve
Season is done
Posted on 7/13/20 at 5:50 pm to TigerLunatik
That's not good. The "must improve" part of that makes me think that College Football will not happen this fall.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 5:51 pm to TigerLunatik
Sounds pretty non-committal either way to me
Posted on 7/13/20 at 5:57 pm to TigerLunatik
Stankey is a turrible leader. Just cancel the season already. My Arkansas Undefeated Fall Champs trophy gets here tomorrow.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 5:59 pm to TigerLunatik
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We believe that late July will provide the best clarity for making the important decisions ahead of us
So like 2 weeks? Nothing is changing in 2 weeks.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 6:01 pm to TigerLunatik
Here’s the thing Sankey doesn’t seem to get. If all of the other conferences go to conference-only games, it doesn’t matter what the SEC decides to do. By default, they have to go to conference-only games too for the simple reason everyone else already has. There would be no choice.
The other conferences are getting ahead of it, therefore dictating what the SEC will be forced to do. If they wait until the end of July to make a decision, but everyone else has already made theirs, then by default the SEC’s decision will be made for them. They will have no other non-conference games to play because they have all decided not to play them.
The other conferences are getting ahead of it, therefore dictating what the SEC will be forced to do. If they wait until the end of July to make a decision, but everyone else has already made theirs, then by default the SEC’s decision will be made for them. They will have no other non-conference games to play because they have all decided not to play them.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 6:20 pm to TigerLunatik
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“It is clear that current circumstances related to COVID-19 must improve and we will continue to closely monitor developments around the virus on a daily basis,” Sankey said. “
Name the one singular person responsible for the situation above?
Now think about all his toadies that hang on every word he speaks, and follow his anti-Science, anti-Medical Establishment claptrap that he spews in every interview
When you have poor leadership in place, the situation we're in is easily explained
Posted on 7/13/20 at 6:36 pm to TigerLunatik
Sankey seems to be the only adult in the room among conference commissioners.
He's not making any rash or emotional decisions. Livelihoods are on the line.
This thing has been changing every 2 weeks. If the situation is in a much more positive position on July 31st, the B1G and Pac12 are going to look very foolish.
Time is on your side. Stupid to make a decision on July 13th. You only set yourself up by doing that.
You decide no football now and it looks better in August, well...no takesies-backsies and thousands of kids lose their scholarships, low-level staff lose their jobs, college town businesses close permanently.
He's not making any rash or emotional decisions. Livelihoods are on the line.
This thing has been changing every 2 weeks. If the situation is in a much more positive position on July 31st, the B1G and Pac12 are going to look very foolish.
Time is on your side. Stupid to make a decision on July 13th. You only set yourself up by doing that.
You decide no football now and it looks better in August, well...no takesies-backsies and thousands of kids lose their scholarships, low-level staff lose their jobs, college town businesses close permanently.
This post was edited on 7/13/20 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 7/13/20 at 6:57 pm to TigerLunatik
Season is over book it!
Glad I dvr’d every LSU game from last season. I’ll watch them since you know they were the best team ever!
Glad I dvr’d every LSU game from last season. I’ll watch them since you know they were the best team ever!
Posted on 7/13/20 at 7:13 pm to TigerLunatik
frick Sankey
Posted on 7/13/20 at 8:58 pm to TigerLunatik
Sankey is a pussy
Posted on 7/13/20 at 9:15 pm to TigerLunatik
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circumstances related to COVID-19 must improve
They've already improved, yet the media and power hungry politicians don't care. They want to make us miserable.
Taking away college football furthers our misery. So yeah, that's probably what they'll do.
Posted on 7/14/20 at 8:53 am to TigerLunatik
Multiple testing site in Florida reporting positive rates between 88% and 100%. The numbers are crap...especially when combined with the practice of double, triple, quadruple (if not more) counting of positive cases that get tested many times to determine when they're free of symptoms. Other countries are handling it better than the US? Maybe other countries can count better? Maybe other countries don't have elections coming up?
https://twitter.com/Fox35Amy/status/1282982855430340610?s=20
https://twitter.com/Fox35Amy/status/1282982855430340610?s=20
Posted on 7/14/20 at 11:13 am to TigerLunatik
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The SEC has members in 11 states, and seven have 40,001 or more COVID-19 cases this year, the highest category in the CDC's database. The increase of cases in the region in the past few weeks is "not a positive factor," Sankey told Finebaum, though he said the league will analyze similar data before it reaches a final decision on the season.
The South: We need our football!
The SEC: Cool. Wear masks and show you care about reducing the Covid number.
The South: Guess we're not havin' football this year...
Posted on 7/14/20 at 9:03 pm to TigerLunatik
They are setting us up to cancel the season.
Nothing in those statements gives any hope that there will be football this fall.
Nothing in those statements gives any hope that there will be football this fall.
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