What’s bold about this? Anyone with half ounce of common sense and or half a brain see the writing on the wall...I can see a conference schedule only March-April.

(07-03-2020 01:20 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  Same thing I’ve been saying to y’all for two months.

Same most of us have been saying...

Clearly no one picked up on my sarcasm in the title. Lol

(07-03-2020 04:44 PM)wh49er Wrote:  Just a reminder they still don’t have a vaccine for H1N1.

they didnt have a cure for ebola when it was only in africa. once it hit the us and there was a chance for profit the cure was discovered in one week. there will be a covid vaccine because the market is huge and so will be the profit.

(07-03-2020 05:36 PM)FriscoDawg Wrote:  

(07-03-2020 04:57 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote:  With the spike in new cases I don't see how they can hold camp as scheduled so how can they have a season? Plus if only one player on a team tests positive chances are that time is sidelined for two weeks. It makes NO sense to attempt to start a fall season.

If teams are smart and hold workouts in smaller groups that have close contact, the impact of any positive cases can be minimized.

For example, an Essendon player in the AFL came back with an inconclusive test result on Friday, June 19, as part of regular testing two days before a scheduled June 21 match with Melbourne. A follow-up test the next morning came back with a positive (just barely) result and caused the June 21 match to be postponed. No other games were impacted in that round.

AFL teams are currently training in close contact groups of no more than 8 players, and the league determined that only one other player in addition to the infected player would be in quarantine for Essendon's Round 4 match last week. All subsequent tests for the entire Essendon team have come back negative including for the player with the one positive test. All players were therefore available for selection to play in Essendon's match against Collingwood early this morning.

To be smart, coaches are going to need to mix training groups to not have all 1st team players and not all players of the same position group conduct close contact training together. If that can't be done, plan for a kickoff weekend in August 2021. A spring football season simply is not feasible.

Ha, I literally used this same example on the Rice forum right after McKenna tested positive...good to see another AFL fan on here.

This has to be my favorite clip that demonstrates the Essendon/Collingwood rivalry (from a few years ago)...go Bombers!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZAHCtWxqbo

(07-03-2020 12:28 PM)everyone Wrote:  

(07-03-2020 12:23 PM)THUNDERStruck73 Wrote:  Change my mind.

Not bold. I said the same about three weeks ago. I think a spring season is most probable.

Same here only it was only about 2 weeks ago.

(07-03-2020 01:38 PM)FIU4Ever Wrote:  I kind of agree with the OP, however Universities are pushing hard for in person classes and on campus living. Dorms, meal plans and parking are huge revenue sources for all universities. My daughter's school is sending out all kinds of promotions and discounts for campus meals, "sign up now!'.

If schools reopen, it becomes that much harder to say a student athlete is at a lower risk on a campus of 50k students than playing in front of 10k in the stands. It is even harder to justify if they go the route of no fans for games.

I think universities that take students back will end up operating in a bubble like situation, similar to what the NBA is setting up in Orlando, with student movements between being on and off campus being highly regulated. The issue with intercollegiate athletics is by its very nature you cannot maintain your 'bubble' while participating, especially with something as physical as football. So every time your team plays a game, you're inviting unknown variables into your 'bubble'. Where did that other team go while traveling to your campus? Were they able to account for everyone's whereabouts and adequately test all members? For away games, can you maintain your 'bubble' while traveling? If one or more members of the team/staff were to catch the virus, then they could easily become super spreaders and cause a mass outbreak on campus.

clt says this is just going away. Don’t worry.


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"Can the social media companies be more helpful on these issues? What creativity do we have? Sadly, the digital tools probably have been a net contributor to spreading what I consider crazy ideas," Gates said in an interview with American business magazine Fast Company.

The "crazy ideas" include misinformation convincing people to not wear masks, and conspiracy theories about vaccines to combat the disease.

clt says of course he would say this

Several developers will be starting phase 3 trials this month. There will likely be a vaccine available late fall or 1st of the year. We can wait until then for sports.

Not a bold prediction, Virus spread is accelerating and isn't going anywhere in the next 60 days. College FB is dead in the water for this year.

COVID19 is close to being considered "not a Pandemic" by the CDC because death rates have dropped 90% since March. Ages 20-25 death rate is virtually zero with a few outliers.

There won't be a proven vaccine anytime in the near future. College administrators could be facing same issue in Aug 2021. College campuses and athletics will just have to learn how to handle this like the PGA Tour is doing. They continue to go forward and make adjustments to the "new normal" or the whole system will be bankrupted.

(07-03-2020 06:39 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote:  

(07-03-2020 05:36 PM)FriscoDawg Wrote:  

(07-03-2020 04:57 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote:  With the spike in new cases I don't see how they can hold camp as scheduled so how can they have a season? Plus if only one player on a team tests positive chances are that time is sidelined for two weeks. It makes NO sense to attempt to start a fall season.

If teams are smart and hold workouts in smaller groups that have close contact, the impact of any positive cases can be minimized.

For example, an Essendon player in the AFL came back with an inconclusive test result on Friday, June 19, as part of regular testing two days before a scheduled June 21 match with Melbourne. A follow-up test the next morning came back with a positive (just barely) result and caused the June 21 match to be postponed. No other games were impacted in that round.

AFL teams are currently training in close contact groups of no more than 8 players, and the league determined that only one other player in addition to the infected player would be in quarantine for Essendon's Round 4 match last week. All subsequent tests for the entire Essendon team have come back negative including for the player with the one positive test. All players were therefore available for selection to play in Essendon's match against Collingwood early this morning.

To be smart, coaches are going to need to mix training groups to not have all 1st team players and not all players of the same position group conduct close contact training together. If that can't be done, plan for a kickoff weekend in August 2021. A spring football season simply is not feasible.

It's not just practice, which players are roommates, which ones interact socially away from practice, they are still college kids it's hard to keep them from activities that expose them to carriers.

They have to if they want to play. Suspensions have to be imposed for team bubble violations, even if no one gets sick.

It's either that or expose the entire team now to get herd immunity.

(07-05-2020 10:16 AM)CrushMI Wrote:  COVID19 is close to being considered "not a Pandemic" by the CDC because death rates have dropped 90% since March. Ages 20-25 death rate is virtually zero with a few outliers.

There won't be a proven vaccine anytime in the near future. College administrators could be facing same issue in Aug 2021. College campuses and athletics will just have to learn how to handle this like the PGA Tour is doing. They continue to go forward and make adjustments to the "new normal" or the whole system will be bankrupted.

Link?

Also, you mentioned PGA tour. Golf and tennis are sports where it is reasonably safe to spread people out.

If university golf and tennis were profitable, those sports could probably play safely.

Also to your point on the system. Everyone wants things to go back to normal, but I think people need to take necessary precautions. And that's not what's happening.

We still don't know what the level of immunity for this virus is.