COVID Sports Updates - Sir Yacht's Fan Club

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  1. snooks

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    And exactly when would they have camp to prepare for the season?
     
  2. Handcuffed

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    if you think clarifying your comment is "digging in your heels," then idk what to tell you
     
  3. Ingram

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    As you've thought about this a little more do you still think it's a good idea
     
  4. fucktx

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    “you can come to the game but you have to show up 6 hours before to get tested and if someone else there waiting to get tested has it you’re fucked!”
     
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  5. Tiffin

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    Me, a genius: aeresolize the vaccine and dump it from a crop duster for the flyover.
     
  6. NineteenNine

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    :notobamanotbad:
     
  7. electronic

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    You just invented chemtrails. I would absolutely subscribe to the Nebraska home board if this ever happened.
     
  8. Upton^2

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    AND WE'RE COMIN....TO YOUR CITYYYY
     
  9. Ingram

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    ***Unless your governor was mean
     
  10. Handcuffed

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    i still think sports returning in the fall is possible. you are correct that 60K+ people taking a 5 minute test at a stadium is impossible. But maybe it's a 1 minute test and it's 10K people, who are required to wear gloves and a mask and are strategically seated away from each other like SK is considering with kids in schools. or maybe each individual is mailed 2-3 tests/week with designated "outside days" where people show they pass it. or there are specific testing spots for every home that people need to go through before they go out in the world. considering we're likely talking 18-24+ months for a vaccine, i don't believe long-term social distancing is a viable solution and i think people will do whatever it takes for a return to normalcy before then, especially multi-billion dollar sports leagues that also bind a community.

    there are lots of challenges for this, the largest being that testing is neither fast enough now nor anywhere near widely accessible. there's an issue of risk enhancement with the larger gatherings and of resource constraint; even if there are great tests, using them for fans of sports is probably an issue, especially as there'll be news coverage of hospitals being completely overrun and perhaps hundreds or more dying daily.

    but the virus isn't going to go away for a long time so we might as well start talking about how to mitigate it. otherwise, all sports are cancelled next year, too, and not just the ones in the fall.
     
  11. Ingram

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    Yes I agree it would be great if we could mail between 650 million and 1 billion instant tests a week
     
  12. hood b. goode

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  13. wes tegg

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    They’ve already been tested.
     
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  14. Fusiontegra

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    Let’s be clear here: most of us morons want it played; very few of us expect it to be.

    This is Debose’s breakout year, I can feel it!
     
  15. Daddy Rabbit

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    We were totally kicking your ass down the steps in Neyland this year.
     
  16. Blu Tang Clan

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    I think the Handcuffed idea might work at Wednesday night Miami Marlins games.
     
  17. Blu Tang Clan

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    We’ll have to likely wean our way back into public gatherings. Movie theaters, bars and restaurants first then slowly expanding to small concert venues, lower-level sports, bigger arenas then stadiums.
     
  18. Redav

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    I think there's no way football is played this calendar year. Hope I'm wrong. Wonder if they'd do it in the spring
     
  19. Shawn Hunter

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    Regularly playing and practicing football with heat indexes at 100+ for the entirety of near entirety of the season sounds dumb
     
  20. Hawks11

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    I think the only way football is played this fall is without fans. Testing both teams, officials, staff and broadcast crew could become feasible.
     
  21. Mr. Bean

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    If there is no fall season, which I would say is in jeopardy with current projections, I think a spring season is more likely than no season at all.

    Obviously unprecedented but I would think the university admins, state and local government not to mention the media would find a way to make it happen to recoup the revenue lost in 2020. Also makes things less complicated with eligibility etc.

    Personally I love the idea of 2x as much football in 2021 and the novelty of SEC games with spring in full bloom etc.
     
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  22. Redav

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    Would be really trippy watching college football in the spring. Then you get another season a few months later. :ohgosh:
     
  23. Shawn Hunter

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    That’s a logistical disaster if you’re still going to have your winter and spring sports going.
     
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  24. DeToxRox

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    If CFB is postponed; it means CBB will be as well. Play the CFB season Jan - Mar (pause a week for the SB) and then delay the tournament until April/May.
     
  25. Mr. Bean

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    Correct. But the revenue of football is not going to be the sacrifice if there is a decision to make
     
  26. Fusiontegra

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    Like you’d be conscious for the final quarter anyway
     
  27. Daddy Rabbit

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  28. Shawn Hunter

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    Title IX would make it a problem
     
  29. Mr. Bean

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    In what way? Women’s sports would benefit as well
     
  30. Shawn Hunter

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    lol at the notion women’s spring sports will benefit in any way from having to compete with football
     
  31. Mr. Bean

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    Compete? For parking maybe. In no way a title IX issue.

    women’s sports held in the fall would also get an opportunity to play their 2020-21 season
     
  32. Shawn Hunter

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    You just want anarchy don’t you? It’s going to be impossible for the vast majority of schools to have every fall and spring sport playing at the same time without having to spend a shit ton of money for manpower. The vast majority run on a shoe string of manpower resources just to get by with the status quo and that’s with much of that manpower putting in 50-60+ hours a week on a regular basis.

    Unless you stagger it somehow, which would mean some sports playing deep into the summer, you’d be looking at the scenario of every single sport offered by every school practicing and competing at the same time from January-March.
     
  33. Mr. Bean

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    I’m well aware of the effort required. I’m saying the every athletic dept that plays football is going to want a season to be played in the academic school year 2020-21 because of the cash flow involved. Not saying it’s easy. Don’t be dense.
     
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  34. Degausser

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    I don't think we're playing CFB during a 3 month stretch where it's very possible we're getting hammered by this again with still no vaccine.
     
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  35. Clown Baby

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    It’s all bullshit too because this was very likely Georgia’s year
     
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  36. Degausser

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    I just hope they still award Jamie Newman the Heisman
     
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  37. Festus McBadass

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  38. Festus McBadass

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    God really doesn’t want me to witness my team win a natty
     
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  39. IHHH

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    And you are giving them attention.
     
  40. Ingram

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    I thought Georgia was probably gonna suck this year isn't it better for them to get to skip a year?
     
  41. Clown Baby

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    Look man, whenever football resumes that will also be Georgia’s year
     
  42. TC

    TC Peter, 53, from Toxteth
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    I’m fine with cancellation bc we suck and imagine how mad Dawgs and Clemsons will be :mulletsmug:
     
  43. Hank Scorpio

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    You're apparently unaware that they're coached by elite roster manager Kirby Smart.
     
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  44. NilesIrish

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    ND is a disaster area when the hockey and basketball teams play on the same day. Add in football and you may as well nuke the parking lots.
     
  45. Joe_Pesci

    Joe_Pesci lying dog-faced pony soldier
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    Euro are you going to take that shit?
     
  46. Doc Louis

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    Yeah just have the games in indoor practice facilities for teams that have full length ones.
     
  47. Boo MFer!

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    SEC fans as the mist rains down on them:

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  48. Prospector

    Prospector I am not a new member
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    The "Spanish" flu pandemic lasted over three years
     
  49. billdozer

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    Nearly one-fifth of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) athletic directors believe there is at least a 50 percent chance a full college football season won’t be played this fall because of the impact of COVID-19.

    And if there is no college football, a majority of the 130 FBS athletic directors contacted by Stadium predict dire consequences for the sport.

    “There better be (a season) or many programs will be out of business,” an athletic director said.

    “Quite simply,” added another AD, “it would be devastating.”

    Another AD was more direct: “If there’s no season, we will be f*****.”

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    Without the millions of dollars of revenue generated by college football programs (media rights, ticket sales, sponsorships, donations, etc.), some ADs fear there would be incredible consequences, including schools having to cut or eliminate Olympic/non-revenue sports.

    In a survey conducted by Stadium, all 130 FBS athletic directors were asked to rank their optimism on the upcoming season being played from “1” (will not be played) to “10” (definitely will be played). Of the 130 ADs contacted during the past week, 112 participated in the anonymous survey.

    None of the ADs gave lower than a “5” ranking (meaning a 50/50 chance there is no season). However, several admitted they probably provided a higher-numbered response because they wanted to remain positive and optimistic about having the season.

    “I’m optimistic we’ll have a season,” a Power Five AD said. “But, ask me again in May what I think.”

    The most popular response was a “7” ranking from 27 percent of the ADs, followed by an “8” ranking from 24 percent and a “5” ranking from 18 percent of the ADs.

    Overall, Power Five conference ADs were less optimistic than their Group of Five conference counterparts in believing that a complete season would be played this fall, with 26 percent of the Power Five ADs giving a “5” ranking, compared to only 12 percent of the non-Power Five ADs. Two-thirds — 66 percent — of the Power Five ADs gave a “7” or lower ranking, compared to only 37 percent of the Group of Five ADs.

    The Power Five conferences consist of the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC, plus Notre Dame. The remaining FBS programs make up the non-Power Five schools.

    The athletic directors lamented the uncertainty of not knowing when the COVID-19 situation would allow for life — and collegiate athletics — to return to normal. Until that happens, no one knows how that would impact the upcoming season.

    If there is a season.

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    Last week, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said on a conference call the next 60 to 90 days would determine if there was a football season and admitted “the fall is in jeopardy.”

    If there is no season, Bowlsby said, “It’s a whole new ballgame. It affects everything we do. It affects the largest portion of our TV contract. If that doesn’t happen, the underpinning of what we know as normal goes away, and we’ll have some major changes to make.”

    A Group of Five athletic director listed a myriad of unknowns facing college football.

    “There is still so much to be assessed over the next several months,” the AD said. “Concerns with finances, adequate practice for teams, potential looming restrictions in regard to travel to certain states, TV scheduling, the uncertainty of what the stadiums will be — what will be the fans’ perspective of sitting so close to another?

    “You get the idea. I could go on and on and on.”

    Several ADs mentioned the ongoing anxiety of not knowing what will happen and when “the all-clear” will be given to return to normal.

    “This has been crazy with high anxiety,” a Power Five AD said. “The potential financial impact is starting to be understood.”

    Added another Power Five AD: “As of right now, I have no clue if there will be a full season. But if we don’t, it will get ugly.”

    “Most of the Power Five schools wouldn’t miss a beat,” a Group of Five AD said, “but it would be devastating to the rest of us.”

    Yet another predicted an even grimmer outlook: “If we’re aren’t back (playing) by the fall, it will look like the Great Depression, and we will be in soup lines.”
     
  50. Degausser

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    So much of what "returning to normal" looks like depends on serology testing. Until it's universally available and shows that a significant portion of the population has contracted and recovered from this shit, I don't see how you convince people that gathering in gigantic groups is a good idea. There's no chance in hell I'd go to a game without either that assurance or a vaccine.

    College football without crowds and pageantry just wouldn't be the same either imo.