I love this post nutting all over the very concerned people in this thread. Get in the car bitches, we’re saving college football
We already know with certainty that some percentage of them will experience permanent brain damage as a result of entertaining us. If that doesn’t stop us from wanting the games played, I don’t see why the slight possibility of permanently reduced lung function would.
as much as I want sports, and agree that pro sports can probably do this in an isolated place and minimize risk. They also can have their own testing and all that. They're also pros and can sign whatever waivers they want. Not sure how that translates to college sports. Most concerned that as soon as sports start it's just more ammo for the "it's just the flu, bro" and trump will use it as HH is mission accomplished moment which will lead to even more people abandoning precautions
Well nutting on certain posters is my own extrapolation, but there are quite a few takeaways / data points in that post
Woah hold your horses there bud. Players are gonna be fine. Also have to consider while 99.9% of college athletes who get it will be completely fine and recover, what happens if that 0.1% get it and get seriously ill or die from it? Schools have liability? What about all the old and fat coaches who have shitty health conditions because they don’t take care of themselves? Their risk is probably closer to 1% or more. also, There’s no way fans should be allowed at games. That’s an absolute disaster waiting to happen. in all, it’s probably doable without fans but oh god are you gonna have to have some lawyers lock down some iron clad waivers or schools are gonna get sued into bankruptcy
Most of these schools are public state universities and therefore part of the state government. I don’t think legally/constitutionally that states can go bankrupt and I imagine that means state universities can’t either. But everything I know about bankruptcy I learned from dome foam
Also, I will wager that a vast majority of schools are already financially fucked from these. Even at the Power 5 level.
UofSC gets about 10% of its budget from the state. If we stripped it back to what they pay we’d have like one professor and 5 students
Points well taken and appreciate your contributions the last few months awesome. My post was in reference to the cites in here talking about the supposed long-term effects on young people based on a few isolated incidents which you pointed out can happen with many viruses. Thought it was entertaining to have a doctor come in and let us know that all of his patients (N=1000) have made a full recovery less the obvious points about organ failure / severe cases on older folks. Not anticipating many fans (if any) and that older coaches will probably need to be in the press box if possible
I believe South Carolina is only testing everyone once and then doing it only for symptomatic players. That still isn’t good enough imo.
It’s not even about the players. It’s about protecting everybody else that’s going to come in close contact with them during training. You should test everybody when they come back if for no other reason than to establish a baseline and know what you’re dealing with. The only reason not to test is so you don’t have to answer the question “what do we do when someone tests positive?” It’s bad science, bad policy, bad faith, and cowardly.
Hey how do you coach from a press box? I get there's a small percentage of their job they could do from a press box but what about actually instructing players?
I guess I just don't understand your question, a lot of coaches and analysts coach from the press box. Headsets transmit electrical signals bringing the voice of a coach to a player / coach with a headset? Does that help? Even head coaches (Hugh Freeze example) have done this. Maybe there's a way to prioritize the older coaches, leave the younger ones out on the field. Just spitballing
It would far easier to do for practice than a game. Practice fields are typically a lot larger than playing fields and no opponent allows you to spread out a lot farther. Older coaches watch from a few feet away (outdoor transmission has proven to be far less likely/risky than indoor) while younger coaches provide hands on instruction. Any more brain busters?
Isn’t Arkansas paying Bielema, Morris and Pittman right now? Yeah those costs suck but if you can pony up to fire a coach after two years like Morris, you can also pony up to test players and staff every few days.
It would probably cost Arkansas a mil to test 150 people twice a week from June until January. For a school that made 140 mil in revenue last year, I think they can find the money.
The real question is whether SEC teams will place decals on helmets or patches on jerseys to remember fallen teammates.
“Hey Jimmy, sorry we didn’t test you and you went and saw your mom after the game and now she’s dead. We just couldn’t find it in the budget to test everyone a few times a week. But hey, look on the bright side, the new football only go kart track should be ready after the Zoom funeral”
Hard to fathom how universities with 30k+ ppl on campus can manage to test/trace with accuracy. We'll see.
couple of things. 1, no shit people are still going to get the virus during a lockdown. shutting down businesses isn’t going to kill the virus. 2, that’s a very reasonable response to the positives. those people will quarantine. nothing about shutting down the whole team for 2 weeks, ending the season, or any drastic measure that would be complete overkill