I used to travel out there for work. The brewery is cool but that is a weird ass city, but it is a religious college town.
Did the brew tour and got hammered on Dragons Milk and new spirits they were testing. Went to a few bars and a cool one on the lake but got outta Dodge right after that
I'm still not sure how they proceed if something happens during the season like what's going on at Auburn right now.
At this point, especially in red states, there is no scenario where they go against dear leader and cancel. If Biden wins they will quit the week after and blame it on him.
Once the season is started, I don't know what it would take for the season to be canceled. Teams aren't stopping preseason practice with entire position groups wiped out and/or double digit positive tests. It's going to take multiple teams in a league needing to cancel/forfeit due to lack of players for the league to do something, probably, and even that won't shut down other leagues.
Fair. I should have said "some teams." It seems pretty likely at this point the SEC at least has some kind of protocol in place that can lead to teams shutting it down, while the Big 12 appears to allow teams to do whatever they want.
The Big 12 is about to implement a plan where you need to have 53 available players, which is insane because to even get to that point means you have 50 people out.
The Athletic had a story about postponing the season. Basically, the coaches in the story want someone to make a uniform decision (lol). Dave Aranda was probably the most dead on though; he said you can’t play if your lines take too many hits. And those kids are probably the most high risk due to being obese.
"WE have money to make so we're gonna need YOU to disregard medical advice and take on a shitload of liability."
It won't be real for anyone unless/until big name starters are out during big game weeks. Outside of that it'll be a bunch of people arguing about how it wasn't a big deal because the season went off fine with no mention of the dozens of scrubs on the team contending with the virus's after effects. No one will hear stories about the janitor getting it in the locker room and then giving it to his aunt who died, or any other viral chain scenario. We might hear about fans interacting in the dipping dots line going home and giving it to grandma, but it'll be written off because Grandma's got gout and clearly her death wasn't entirely covid related.
It's a political blunder to not have someone contact them as well, even if it was a lost cause. As is, it strengthens the position that the executive is selectively using taxpayer funded resources to maintain power. I'm not comfortable with the head of any political party acting in that manner or having that kind of power.
It would be great if there was a 2nd poster ITT who was both not a hypocrite and also had proven empathy. The hypocrisy and lack of empathy ITT can be overwhelming.
It should decrease risk when the majority of students are off campus. A lot of schools have talked about shortening the semester and having a longer winter break. But...football is different. For reasons.
Dozens of young guys in each team with bad after effects and dead janitors? Another crazy has entered the thread.
This couldn't have made the politics of it more clear. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio were his only concerns. Colorado and Arizona are also on that list for the Senate but he didn't make an effort because that doesn't benefit him directly. That's why I said this was so blatantly obvious.
I read the ESPN article on Kirk Cousins...saw it was on a podcast with Kyle Brandt and was lik Ahh. What a fucking moron. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29793295/vikings-qb-kirk-cousins-coronavirus-die-die
I always expected the Big 12 and SEC to power through, and simply wondered whether blue state ACC schools would not. 100% guarantee that the legislatures and governors in Texas, Oklahoma, and the SEC states would intervene politically to force their state schools to play if they cancelled. Clemson had 1/3 of their team positive by July.
When the P5 conferences cancelled nonconference games, it forced the hand of non-P5s to cancel. I’m not saying that they would not have cancelled otherwise, but the MAC can’t fund a football season with playing payout games in Big Ten stadiums. Now that the SEC postponed, and the Big Ten and PAC Ten cancelled, the other non-P5 conferences can muddle through financially because ESPN is dying to air anything.
Yeah I think we all understand that. Is your stance that the B1G should not have cancelled non-conference games? And if they hadn't then the "no CFB football this year" folks would be wrong? If so, LOL. And, so what? They did. In the context of what the "how do the no CFB football this year" folks are thinking, does it matter? Or are you looking for something to bill for?
Half the teams have cancelled and the other half postponed. Hard to say people were wrong about thinking there'd be no football given where we are on Sept 1