re: Troubling Word from UT Austin, Texas that may signal short season

quote:

---

What an idiotic comparison.
Heat stroke isn't contagious.

Want to try again?

---

What? Are you this obtuse?

Football directly led to this kids death. Actually, football has DIRECTLY led to many kids deaths, yet it isnt cancelled.

So, how can someone say "one death is too much", and at the same time not have been arguing just agame like football be cancelled?

quote:

---

Member since June 2020

---

Tells me everything I need to know about how little attention to pay to you

Have no trouble believing that these universities are only opening long enough time get money refundable tuition checks then shut it all down and laugh all the way to the bank.

Texas, it depends on where. East Texas generally is about as Southern as it gets. El Paso, not so much.
Rural Panhandle Florida isn’t known as Lower Alabama for no reason.
Virginia isn’t defined as No. Va. or Charlottesville.

It's amazing how irritable people are getting... one look at this thread is proof. People are arguing about every little detail, including things not relevant to the topic.

My guess, fwiw: if a student dies, it's very likely that campus will lock down, go online, empty the dorms etc. Quite probable that any organized social gatherings, including sports programs, will be shut down for the semester.

If a student ATHLETE dies, almost definitely the entire athletic dept will shut it down.

Odds of that happening- very low for any one specific university; but if we say the entire P5/G5 D-1 group, odds are actually pretty high. That's going to be a lot of young people who are together, so people will get infected, and sooner or later a death will occur somewhere.

I also think faculty or staff (age groups with higher chance of death), if someone passes, everything shuts down.

If, say, Alabama or LSU shuts it down, I can see the rest of the SEC reacting and doing the same... by the end of that day. If it's outside the conference, I think it takes a couple days, but don't think we'll see another game.

People who argue about the flu and heat stroke etc... that's not relevant. It's not about what WE want, it's about what we expect schools, government etc to do. These entities are napalming industries right now, I don't expect them to suddenly act differently just because 'football'.

quote:

---

The South" in current vernacular, in my opinion, is not the states of the confederacy 160 years ago, but the geographic region with a comparable cultural identity. In that sense, most of texas, and quite a bit of Florida, are not "the South"

---

If you go that route, then no, Texas, Florida and Louisiana are not "The South". Neither is Virginia, or probably North Carolina anymore.
Hell, Arkansas gets questionable; it starts to resemble more of a Texas/Oklahoma thing.

nothing can stop this virus but a vaccine. Hiding from it does no good. It has to run it's course until vaccine is created. You may hide from it and not catch it, but until a vaccine is out it is still there.

quote:

---

Tells me everything I need to know about how little attention to pay to you

---

logic is hard. I understand.

Your daughter was right to go to Texas. It is a Top 50 school and much better than any of the others you listed. You should be praising her rather than running her down for her choice.

As for your question -- If a player dies, we have much much bigger problems on our hands than this one season. Coaches and ADs will be fired, universities will be sued. Programs will be hit with the ban hammer. Signed waivers be damned, if a university is negligent enough to let one of their players die they are super fricked for the foreseeable future.