re: so you think we're going to have a football season?

And looters, protesters, Antifa, BLM. They all get a pass because they are leftists. When right wing groups start to protest , they will bring in the National Guard to shut them down. The left is living their dream. Destroy freedom, liberty, the constitution, hell everything good they are destroying

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If you have 6 weeks of practice before the next season or 2 years before the next season, which do you think will allow for more preparation, not to mention recruiting a quarterback

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Still stupid. In two years LSU would have a new qb who hasn't started a game. What a huge benefit for LSU. Geeze...

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I was very optimistic up until last night watching “Out Front” and hearing what Dr Fauci said. I wanted to reach through the TV screen and choke that bastard. It’s a pipe dream at this point to expect an entire, pure, uninterrupted ncaa football season.

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Fauci will ruin the season if given the chance. The play here is to stop giving him so much power.

The NCAA needs to find a doctor to lead the task force that is in favor of quarantine only for the sick and not shutting everything down for one positive case. It’s not going away, but it certainly can be worked around

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LOL. The op, another LSU fan, starts a thread about not having a season, and you hope it shuts down for two years, not because your team has only 7 or 8 starters back and needs time, but because you are concerned for UF and UGA.

Right

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I want the season to be played, and for the record I want LSU to beat Fla (and Alabama too, ya damn Gump! )

But even more than that, I love a lot about our way of life. I'm not a Gator fan, but man, I can definitely appreciate the Gator Bait and chomp, all the traditions involved with a major college football team. All of that. I don't hate Florida or Alabama football and fans, I love their passion towards their team. I love playing them, I "hate" losing to them.

What's happening right now sucks. It's not welcome, and it's not right. People chanting Gator Bait aren't being racist, they're being Pro-Florida Gators and anti-[insert the day's opponent here].

A little off-topic, but I went with family to the last Final Four LSU made, the year Florida won. We ran into Fla fans around town beforehand, and they were rowdy, shite-talking, ... and you could drink a beer with them and talk shite back. And it was fun.
George Washington also made it, and they were nice and humble and just happy to be there, and nobody gave them grief.
UCLA, on the other hand, was a different animal. Whereas I saw a lot of purple and gold, and orange and blue, we really didn't see that much powder blue from the UCLA fans. They were all in designer clothing and "cool", and basically snooty. Very little interaction with the other groups. Very little passion or joy about the event. Just, cool guys, kinda above it all.

I enjoy the passion and emotion involved with bigtime sports in the SEC, and I hate to see anything attack that. Even if it's not my team, it's still "my people"

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CFB are gonna sky scream over unpaid athletes risking COVID for the profit of the big bad universities

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Players want a season as bad as everyone else. Players are on the cusp of getting payed legally.

We need to wear masks and avoid close contact and enclosed places. The virus wins when people are stupid.

My take-

Yes I think there will be a season, but it will be with reduced or no fans.

My actual thoughts-

I think at this point its ridiculous that healthy people are not going to be allowed to watch a game if they choose to at their own risk. I think the issue of players safety is a big one. Schools should be required to test the entire team the morning before every game and if a player tests positive, they must sit out. Players should also be given the option to not practice and play and still be able to keep their scholarship through the end of the next academic year.

As for the crowd in the stands, I would strongly encourage anyone older than 60 to not attend games. I would do the same for younger folks with underlying health conditions including obesity and diabetes. But if anyone wants to personally take the risk to go watch a game, they should be able to. No masks required.

We are playing this fall. Players are going to test positive, but it up to the SEC and each schools athletic administration not to freak the hell out when a few do. Increasing cases in the south may not be a bad thing as we build towards that herd immunity or whatever you want to call it. Way more people have/have had covid that we can imagine.

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I thought we'd have a college season a month ago, but the southern states going full moron and running around without masks on is, as predicted, causing covid spikes.

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Is it really though? Yes a lot more people are testing positive, but there is also a lot more testing being done.

Case in point: a coworker of mine has a son that works in a restaurant that just opened for dine-in about two weeks ago. This restaurant is mandating their employees get tested weekly. This week a total of six employees tested postive yet zero had symptoms. That's six positive tests counted yet two months ago, there could have easily been a group of six people somewhere who had it and were also asymptomatic, but without their employer demanding they be tested they never would have known.

Meanwhile, fatalities continue to fall everywhere...

FLORIDA:
Despite cases currently increasing and at an all-time high, the 7-day average for fatalities is at 30.... that's a 41% decrease from the peak in fatalities back on May 8.

TEXAS:
Similar to Florida, cases are increasing and at an all-time high. The 7-day average for fatalities is 28... that's down 26% from the peak in fatalities back on May 3.

ALABAMA:
Cases also peaked this week... yet fatalities are averaging just 6.86 per day. That's down 62% from the peak back on May 12.

I have a hard time believing that cases are increasing so dramatically yet the virus is somehow also mysteriously less deadly. If the fatality rates across the South are so drastically down from the first half of May, I suspect true cases (both tested and untested) are also down. The difference is that testing is more readily available and certain employers are now mandating it.