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2020 CU football season POSTPONED until Nov 6th?

Kuratz said:
I did NOT say that COVID is insignificant. I said the risk from COVID to young healthy people is. Straight from the CDC: 280 people in the age 15-25 range died from or with COVID compared to 375 with influenza. The CDC has also suggested that the vast majority of severe cases are in those who have underlying conditions. Thus it’s absolutely not an unreasonable take to suggest that young healthy athletes should not totally upend their lives to stay at home with their much older family members, especially when the athletes with underlying conditions can opt out and still keep their scholarship and eligibility.
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So even if you discount the other potential/probable damage from the disease other than death you are still putting athletes at a risk they don't need to take. It isn't like football is an essential service.

Beyond that it isn't just the players. Every college football team also has a coaching staff, a training staff, an equipment staff, a facilities staff, an administrative staff, and many others. Every game involves a significant number of game officials including on field officials, chain crews, etc.

By the time you total it all up it can and does easily exceed the number of players and these are people who in many cases are not young and healthy and who also if they choose not to participate are replaced and permanently out of a job.

And I haven't even started with the risk presented by having this number of people travelling to games.
 
TSchekler said:
But they say that's happening because the players are getting it off campus and bringing it back to the meeting rooms and facilities, etc. The actual football field and playing the game (so far) isn't causing much spread.
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That has been the narrative. Some question about if it worked that way at CSU and Oklahoma.
 
SINKRATZ said:
This is some revisionist history - at the time CU joined the PAC 10 they were preparing to sign the largest media deal of all P5 conferences, Texas was bulldozing the entire Big12, and our alumni base was living in PAC 10 country, and fans were excited about trading road trips to Stillwater and Lubbock for trips to Los Angeles and Seattle. It was the right move at the time, unfortunately conference leadership has botched pretty much everything since.
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If the Pac10 was that great, they wouldn't have had to settle for a Mountain West team and a Big12 team that hadn't won the conference in over a decade...
 
Kuratz said:
I did NOT say that COVID is insignificant. I said the risk from COVID to young healthy people is. Straight from the CDC: 280 people in the age 15-25 range died from or with COVID compared to 375 with influenza. The CDC has also suggested that the vast majority of severe cases are in those who have underlying conditions. Thus it’s absolutely not an unreasonable take to suggest that young healthy athletes should not totally upend their lives to stay at home with their much older family members, especially when the athletes with underlying conditions can opt out and still keep their scholarship and eligibility.
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Death is not the only criteria to judge significance, but there are plenty of other forums to discuss why you are wrong
 
Kuratz said:
I did NOT say that COVID is insignificant. I said the risk from COVID to young healthy people is. Straight from the CDC: 280 people in the age 15-25 range died from or with COVID compared to 375 with influenza. The CDC has also suggested that the vast majority of severe cases are in those who have underlying conditions. Thus it’s absolutely not an unreasonable take to suggest that young healthy athletes should not totally upend their lives to stay at home with their much older family members, especially when the athletes with underlying conditions can opt out and still keep their scholarship and eligibility.
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A lifetime of heart disease is just fine, yeah?
 
SINKRATZ said:
This is some revisionist history - at the time CU joined the PAC 10 they were preparing to sign the largest media deal of all P5 conferences, Texas was bulldozing the entire Big12, and our alumni base was living in PAC 10 country, and fans were excited about trading road trips to Stillwater and Lubbock for trips to Los Angeles and Seattle. It was the right move at the time, unfortunately conference leadership has botched pretty much everything since.
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The PAC-10 was also a premier conference. The 2000s saw the P10 really play well and put a ton of players in the NFL. It looked to be a great move.
 
The PAC12 made the right call. Covid is not going away, and whether or not any players get serious complications from it (hopefully not), teams are going to have outbreaks and lose players for a few weeks at a time. There are not enough weeks in the year to reschedule games every time a team has a few players out with covid, so either there is going to be a large number of cancelled games resulting in very unbalanced schedules within each conference, or we'll be watching teams playing with significant numbers of 2nd and 3rd string players on the field. I predict it is essentially going to be a ****show that the PAC12 will be happy not to be a part of.
 
Dan Patrick on his show this morning gave a few more details regarding his tweet about the B1G yesterday:

- This is the same source that informed him of the B1G shutting down football a few weeks ago
- He emphasized this is IF they can get the proper testing protocols in place. Yes this is a big IF
- Not surprisingly, the reason for the October 10th date is that is the latest they could get started and still be part of the CFB playoff. Some teams are still practicing now
- If this were to happen then it's likely that not all B1G teams would play. Probably Northwestern and Rutgers wouldn't play and possibly a couple others.
 
CarolinaBuff said:
Dan Patrick on his show this morning gave a few more details regarding his tweet about the B1G yesterday:

- This is the same source that informed him of the B1G shutting down football a few weeks ago
- He emphasized this is IF they can get the proper testing protocols in place. Yes this is a big IF
- Not surprisingly, the reason for the October 10th date is that is the latest they could get started and still be part of the CFB playoff. Some teams are still practicing now
- If this were to happen then it's likely that not all B1G teams would play. Probably Northwestern and Rutgers wouldn't play and possibly a couple others.
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Pretty much all of that was debunked by the presidents yesterday so I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
 
CarolinaBuff said:
Dan Patrick on his show this morning gave a few more details regarding his tweet about the B1G yesterday:

- This is the same source that informed him of the B1G shutting down football a few weeks ago
- He emphasized this is IF they can get the proper testing protocols in place. Yes this is a big IF
- Not surprisingly, the reason for the October 10th date is that is the latest they could get started and still be part of the CFB playoff. Some teams are still practicing now
- If this were to happen then it's likely that not all B1G teams would play. Probably Northwestern and Rutgers wouldn't play and possibly a couple others.
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Reportedly Trump offer rapid tests from the national stockpile to help address one of your points above.
 
CarolinaBuff said:
It's not at all surprising that the school presidents would deny something like this, especially given that this story is less than 24 hours old.
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They aren’t denying a call was made to the commissioner of the league, they are saying it doesn’t change anything.
 
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