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re: There will be no football played in the Fall of 2020
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:39 am to Oilfieldbiology
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:39 am to Oilfieldbiology
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And this is why they need too. Football in its current form takes 3+ hours of your day if you watch on TV and all of your day if you go in person. People are liking their Saturday’s and Sunday’s and learning they can survive without it.
I think a lot of people are also getting tired of hearing entitled athletes cry about every little thing.
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:27 am to sand mountainDvalues
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Per my source close to the situation.
1. There isn't one single situation controlling all of football.
2. There's no source (singular) who could possibly be involved with all of the decisions to play or not.
3. If they already know they aren't playing what is the incentive to withhold that decision? players are currently practicing.
4. Why would this one source tell you, who has immediately gone and blabbed to the internet?
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:45 am to SidewalkTiger
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I think a lot of people are also getting tired of hearing entitled athletes cry about every little thing.
Yep. I'm losing interest in all sports, not because of the pandemic, but because of the insufferable behavior of the millionaires who play them.
College kids are a little different, but many of them are behaving similar. Lost of kids would love tuition, room, board and stipend to go to school. Don't forget the benefits you have because you are decent at a sport.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:48 am to TigahTeeth
quote:stop talking logic.
Can someone please explain to me this “risk” I keep hearing about? Are they afraid everyone is just gonna drop dead? Because it hasn’t happened yet! Anywhere! So are they just scared to put players at risk of possibly catching a virus that will more than likely not even show symptoms? The players literally have a higher chance at dropping dead due to heat exhaustion instead of Covid!
Yes, anyone who takes a step back and looks at things objectively would see that the "putting our players at risk" narrative is absurd.
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 8:13 am
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:54 am to clamdip
quote:Schools and conferences are looking at potential liability if some athletes happened to get sick. Not sure why people can’t grasp this.
Yes, anyone who takes a step back and looks at things objectively would that the "putting our players at risk" narrative is absurd.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:01 am to sand mountainDvalues
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Per my source close to the situation.
Heard it through the grapevine
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:14 am to au4you
quote:if players can voluntarily opt out this season and keep their scholarships, where's the liability concerns? Doesn't hold water.
Schools and conferences are looking at potential liability if some athletes happened to get sick. Not sure why people can’t grasp this.
It's PR concerns that are in the middle of this. Not sure why people can't grasp this.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:15 am to au4you
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Schools and conferences are looking at potential liability if some athletes happened to get sick. Not sure why people can’t grasp this.
No they aren't and that is now how all of this works.
You are just shite posting because you are an SJW.
Like saying the University is on the hook if someone gets the common cold/flu.
And even if you allowed for such a thing you are talking about, what happens in 2021 or 2022 and beyond when an Athlete tests positive for Covid ?
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:22 am to au4you
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Schools and conferences are looking at potential liability if some athletes happened to get sick. Not sure why people can’t grasp this.
Please explain how anyone can definitively prove how they got the virus. By your logic, everything should remain closed to avoid liability.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:26 am to sand mountainDvalues
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It will not be played this fall.
100%, will not happen.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 10:32 am to TigahTeeth
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Can someone please explain to me this “risk” I keep hearing about? Are they afraid everyone is just gonna drop dead? Because it hasn’t happened yet! Anywhere! So are they just scared to put players at risk of possibly catching a virus that will more than likely not even show symptoms? The players literally have a higher chance at dropping dead due to heat exhaustion instead of Covid!
Players are much more likely to be shot during the off season than dying of COVID...that isn't the issue...the issue is the perception that we are all doomed and not College is going to put itself in a position to be second guessed about deciding to play football when a player dies of COVID, as slim as that possibility is. I know this doesn't have to be said but we do need reminding from time to time because it is hard to remember...but we are not living in normal times. I am not downplaying the potential threat that is COVID...it is real and it is going to kill people and has killed people....that in and of itself is not a normal situation. Couple this reality with its being politicized and our new normal where we are supposed to get worked up over anything that is different and the trend toward folks taking to social media and lambasting people over trivial shite and it is a perfect storm that I wouldn't expose myself to were I the person charged with making that decision.
Our society is a victim of our success....we are so successful that we have way to much time on our hands to get worked up over shite we have zero control over. Our DNA tells us that survival requires constant and never ending attention yet our survival today barely requires our getting out of bed....for the majority of man's existence we have spent our entire lives either looking for food or starving. The same is true of mere survival...we were not unlike a seagull up until a couple of generations ago...a seagull goes to sleep at nigh nearly starved to death and wakes up every morning even closer to starving...and spends its entire life doing one of four things...hunting something to eat, fricking, fleeing for its life from a predator, or sleeping so it can do it again the next day. Our DNA directs us to survive and today for most of us that merely means waking up and almost all of our needs are met...safe water at the tap of a handle, the furnace is on and the cave is toasty...but we know in our heart that this is a VERY special set of circumstances for any of God's creations so we worry about when it will all come to a screeching halt and we are forced to once again live like a seagull. That angst, coupled with a lot of free time not spent looking for food, fricking, running for our lives or sleeping, drives to do all sorts of shite like buy boats and campers and watch TV and write shite on message boards...and none of it quells that angst that we rightfully feel about the day we are, once again, like most animals on the planet, spending every ounce of energy we can get on merely surviving. COVID is just the current item on a long list we have seen as the impetus that does indeed force us to live like man always has....and it could be, who knows? There ain't shite we can do about it but that ain't in our nature...we solve problems and fix shite and when something comes along that challenges us to do so we act a damned fool....this is why we run out and buy toilet paper...we are powerless and we know this intuitively but by god we can make damn sure we have a clean arse when the boogey man gets us! It is something we can control, as is college football....it won't make a meaningful difference in the outcome of the number of people who die but by god it is something we can do....and that is what is driving us as a society...we have to have some sense of control even when we know damn well we really have no control.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 10:41 am to PrattvilleTiger
quote:I just stocked up on camping gear. I'll be taking my nephews to the great outdoors this Fall.
I'm fine if they play, fine if they don't. I'm learning to enjoy other things besides sports.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 10:51 am to au4you
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Yes, anyone who takes a step back and looks at things objectively would that the "putting our players at risk" narrative is absurd.
quote:Players have already gotten sick. Didn't Alabama have a dozen or so test positive back in June? LSU had a bunch too.
Schools and conferences are looking at potential liability if some athletes happened to get sick. Not sure why people can’t grasp this.
Oddly enough, I have seen a single headline showing college players testing positive for covid in over month.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:07 pm to sand mountainDvalues
The SEC originally said they'd make a decision on the season around August 1st. But then they pushed the start of the season out 4 weeks. That tells me that they have until September 1 to actually make a call on whether or not to play the season.
I believe that by September 1, the COVID situation will have drastically improved.
I've begun tracking the entire SEC Geographic footprint as a whole, and this is where things stand today:
7-Day Average Positive Test%: 13.0% as of today
This is down from a high of 15.3% back on July 6th.
7-Day Average New Cases: 30,341/day
This is down 15.5% from the peak of 35,902 cases/day achieved back on 7/22
7-Day Average Daily Fatalities: 591.6/day
This is down 11.8% from the peak of 670.9/day achieved just this past Saturday.
With both New Cases and the Positivity Rate dropping, the fatalities should continue to drop as well as there is typically a 1-2 week lag in the category. New cases in the SEC Footprint peaked two weeks ago, and New Fatalities peaked exactly 11 days later.
With each passing day the peak of the crisis will get further behind us, and the situation should continue to noticeably improve. I think by the time we get to the final week of August, it will be evident things have drastically improved, which is why I feel confident they'll at least attempt to kickoff the season on 9/26.
I believe that by September 1, the COVID situation will have drastically improved.
I've begun tracking the entire SEC Geographic footprint as a whole, and this is where things stand today:
7-Day Average Positive Test%: 13.0% as of today
This is down from a high of 15.3% back on July 6th.
7-Day Average New Cases: 30,341/day
This is down 15.5% from the peak of 35,902 cases/day achieved back on 7/22
7-Day Average Daily Fatalities: 591.6/day
This is down 11.8% from the peak of 670.9/day achieved just this past Saturday.
With both New Cases and the Positivity Rate dropping, the fatalities should continue to drop as well as there is typically a 1-2 week lag in the category. New cases in the SEC Footprint peaked two weeks ago, and New Fatalities peaked exactly 11 days later.
With each passing day the peak of the crisis will get further behind us, and the situation should continue to noticeably improve. I think by the time we get to the final week of August, it will be evident things have drastically improved, which is why I feel confident they'll at least attempt to kickoff the season on 9/26.
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:10 pm to BHMKyle
Kyle we aren’t playing football this fall
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:12 pm to JustSmokin
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Please explain how anyone can definitively prove how they got the virus.
Contact tracing will be a thing if the season goes as planned.
Workplaces are already doing this.
Pro leagues are already doing this.
Stop being ignorant.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:12 pm to Mithridates6
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Would people watch if only the Sunbelt played? Be honest
Hell yeah, Arkansas State Red Wolves be howlin' n shite!
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:14 pm to sand mountainDvalues
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Kyle we aren’t playing football this fall
Get the SEC basketball bubble started early
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:17 pm to rockiee
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Get the SEC basketball bubble started early
Posted on 8/5/20 at 1:33 pm to sand mountainDvalues
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Kyle we aren’t playing football this fall
It's certainly a possibility. But there is no one on earth that knows definitively yet. There is too much $$$ on the line for them to not do everything possible to play the season for the television revenue.
They aren't going to make that decision until they absolutely have to, and they have at least another 3 weeks to make the decision. So anyone pretending they know the answer now is full of shite.
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