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The First Team is melting down on XM Radio regarding Alabama's Bid Day yesterday

Posted on 8/17/20 at 6:31 am
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 8/17/20 at 6:31 am
They have been talking about Greg Byrne publicly shaming UA students on Twitter yesterday afternoon. McElroy isn't happy with Byrne and is calling him and others out for "virtue signaling" on social media yesterday. Horowitz believes this is a bad sign for college football due to the lack of people masking up and social distancing in those photographs. McElroy made a good point, however, in that if there were no football players there then this is not a big deal. Keep the team isolated and taking online courses is what he advocates, because he believes keeping them in a bubble is the only way football goes this season.
Posted by HailToTheChiz
Back in Auburn
Member since Aug 2010
52036 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 6:34 am to
It's all part of their plan to cancel.

These people are morons if they actually thought college kids would mask up and isolate
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
96949 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 6:44 am to
Football isn’t going to happen because college students are idiots
Posted by msutiger
Houston
Member since Jul 2008
70625 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 6:48 am to
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This post was edited on 4/15/23 at 7:17 am
Posted by Cshaw91
Member since Mar 2019
2664 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:03 am to
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Football isn’t going to happen because college students are idiots

That you Kamala?
Posted by Purple Spoon
Hoth
Member since Feb 2005
19334 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:06 am to
Why would college students, who have a minuscule chance of suffering significant symptoms from COVID continue to make themselves prisoners voluntarily?
Posted by bamaphan13
Member since Jan 2011
1098 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:17 am to
Using # of cases as the metric is going to being this whole thing crashing down.

You keep seeing tweets and stories about # of students required to quarantine.

Nobody says how many are sick versus asymptomatic.
Posted by Allthatfades
Mississippi
Member since Aug 2014
7987 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:19 am to
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McElroy made a good point, however, in that if there were no football players there then this is not a big dea


This is dumb. No football players might have been there but they’ll eventually interact with those who have been out and about. 18-22 players aren’t going to stay bunkered down in a dorm coming out only for football practice.
Posted by HailToTheChiz
Back in Auburn
Member since Aug 2010
52036 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:19 am to
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Football isn’t going to happen because college students are idiots


If this was that big of a deal, they would have told students not to come to campus
Posted by Purple Spoon
Hoth
Member since Feb 2005
19334 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:20 am to
Using number of cases as the deciding factor in every was a losing battle from the start.

Of course in the beginning we just needed to flatten the curve. It’s almost like they are cherry-picking data to fit their agenda.
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
68325 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:21 am to
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Nobody says how many are sick versus asymptomatic.


Are you really surprised? That's the way they've been operating since this pandemic began. The vast majority of people who have tested positive, particularly in the infant-40 crowd, have either been asymptomatic or have had very mild symptoms. I personally know only one person who for-sure had the virus and her symptoms were a sore throat and the loss of taste and smell. She didn't even have a fever.
This post was edited on 8/17/20 at 7:21 am
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
39917 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:22 am to
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Nobody says how many are sick versus asymptomatic.


Local highschool had to go virtual because over 1/4 of their students had to isolate. Headline was “Over 150 students sent home to quarantine”

Facts of the matter? Students went to a party for the graduated seniors hosted by the now seniors. 10+ of the graduated seniors tested positive so everyone around them and then everyone around those had to isolate. To my knowledge, none of the current students tested positive.
Posted by bamaphan13
Member since Jan 2011
1098 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:23 am to
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If this was that big of a deal, they would have told students not to come to campus


They told students to come to campus to avoid huge hits to their enrollment.A lot of bait and switch going on with # of in person classes for students.
Posted by Frac the world
The Centennial State
Member since Oct 2014
19358 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:27 am to
When will the goalposts ever stop moving? So now the number of people going into bars in your town affects whether your football team plays?

If the people in power, don’t start taking a hard stance and dealing with the consequences of their decisions no matter what we will never get back to a semblance of normal life. Ever. The virus will be here for the rest of time.

There will be outbreaks every year from now on, do we continually go through the outrage of people getting together to enjoy their lives from here to the rest of time?

So fricking tired of this. If you want to play football Byrne, nut up and quit being outraged at people going to bars.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
44045 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:37 am to
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When will the goalposts ever stop moving?


November 4th.

This has been about politics from the very beginning.

This post was edited on 8/17/20 at 7:38 am
Posted by SummerOfGeorge
Member since Jul 2013
105095 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:43 am to
Yea, I'm pretty much past caring at this point. Playing would be cool, but whatever. This whole soap opera sucks.

MLB has figured out how to navigate through the bumps of all of this and realized that just having games and doing creative things to get those games in is important - as long as I have that to watch through late October I'll survive.
This post was edited on 8/17/20 at 7:48 am
Posted by Leto II
Arrakis
Member since Dec 2018
22813 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 7:48 am to
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Bid Day


No pictures?
Posted by msutiger
Houston
Member since Jul 2008
70625 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 8:16 am to
Greg McElroy has been killing it. Every morning he call this nonsense out for what it is, partisan political bullshite.
Posted by 19
Flux Capacitor, Fluxing
Member since Nov 2007
35020 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 9:08 am to
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McElroy made a good point, however, in that if there were no football players there then this is not a big deal. 


Once again, Greg is the exception that proves the rule re: the gump intellect.

All kidding aside, it's difficult to not like the dude.
This post was edited on 8/17/20 at 9:09 am
Posted by lsufanva
sandston virginia
Member since Aug 2009
13114 posts
Posted on 8/17/20 at 9:30 am to
As if it wasn't obvious that people were gonna start testing positive once kids got to campus. It's just another example of either complete hypocrisy or extreme stupidity of our elected leaders.
All this concern expressed for 100 football players on each campus because of "interactions with the student body" yet no concern for the thousands of "ordinary" students and their interactions with the student body? It's so obviously see through. Everyone wants to grab their share of the money pie while throwing another group under the bus to "rationalize" each's reasoning. At a certain level it's not even politics. It's just each group of money hungry people "making concessions" in order to get their piece of the pie. The trickle down effect of following the government's lead. Eventually every group has been lobbied against that it's either open all of it up or shut it all down. There's no "victims" left to concede.
I'm for the approach of using the "experts" own words against them. Go with the assumption that covid isn't going anywhere. Adjust and move forward with as normal an existence as possible. Are they gonna keep the country shut down for eternity and destroy our economy even further than already? When taxpayers have no more money to give who's money is the government gonna use to "re-stimulate" the economy? Is a little virus with less than half a percent fatality rate really worth another depression or worse, complete failure of our economy? It doesn't matter who the president is if we are cowering to fricking China in a few years because our citizens have no money. Can't let our own leaders turn our country into anything less than the bully we are. No matter what side of the political aisle you're on.
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