Getting the discussion going.

 

Good chance the college football season will be postponed or played without fans.

 

I cannot see a path for having large at-risk crowds until there is a vaccine.

 

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/sports/college-football-season-hurt-due-to-pandemic

Play w/o fans.

or players.

Allow fans but all have to wear blue and gold bandana face masks. If season goes south bags would be allowed to cover head instead of bandannas.

 

Wow just think of the money Jack could make by requiring special ND head gear to be worn. Like the clear plastic bag rule after 911.

Edited April 14, 20205 yr by ND_JACK

or players.

 

Yeah just totally disregard the fact the peak hit. Let’s all just be huge vaginas and keep everything cancelled indefinitely.

Offered with a grain of salt given how quickly all this is evolving - I think CFB will end up taking the lead from what other "economy opening" occurs in the meantime - maybe advise that seniors/immunocompromised/currently ill folks take extra caution and stay home. More revenue comes from TV than tickets/onsite, so "just the players" could be an option, but would maybe not go over well with a local economy that makes a substantial portion of its income on football weekends and is likely already hurting.

 

It's also crazy to think how quickly Covid could tear through a football team. Many would likely be asymptomatic, but I'm not sure how you ask the players to practice knowing that there's a good chance one or more get hospitalized from Covid and there's a nonzero chance of someone dying.

 

Beyond CFB, it's also difficult to justify having any players/students back at school considering you're bringing in people from all over the country/world to live in close proximity to each other. It's kind of asking for a perfect storm of rapid Covid spread having 10,000 folks on campus.

 

All that said, this boils down to money - football revenue and student tuition - so I'm sure students will be back and football will be played unless this takes a huge turn for the worse.

 

Also, sorry to go off-topic - is there a way I can block someone on here so I don't see their posts?

Edited April 14, 20205 yr by Hank Skorpio

Sorry to go off-topic - is there a way I can block someone on here so I don't see their posts?

 

So a person who is too dumb to figure this simple feature out, thinks we should stay closed indefinitely? Doesn’t say much for the pvssies on that side of the aisle

Let’s all just live in a fckin bubble until we can guarantee everyone’s safety. Who cares if that means living under near martial law until 2025, at least a few thousand more people won’t get sick with a 98% chance of recovery. All of you pvssies make me sick. You’ll throw away all of our freedoms and the economy out of fear. This is fckin ridiculous, grow a god dam spine. Quarantine the sick and elderly, let the rest of us live our lives.

You’ll throw away all of our freedoms and the economy out of fear.

this is what happens when people start to panic. I wonder in this case if panic spread faster than the virus. if people are still hiding under their beds by august then I don't know what you can do.

back to football, I do believe that the navy game wont be played in Ireland (probably moved to DC, Philly, Baltimore or NYC). and if the season is postponed until October is it still a 12 game season?

So a person who is too dumb to figure this simple feature out, thinks we should stay closed indefinitely? Doesn’t say much for the pvssies on that side of the aisle

 

I know how the block/ignore feature works. I'd like to move beyond hiding the useless, uninformed, name-calling drivel of a poster and move myself into the bliss of forgetting they exist. I also don't think we should stay closed indefinitely, and am not on the side of the aisle you think I'm on. Keep it up though, you're doing great!

 

I'll say not more on that. Back to the football discussion.

Edited April 14, 20205 yr by Hank Skorpio

The season will need to be altered as we cannot have another Mardi Gras every weekend - rolling the dice.

 

I see miracle workers getting a working vaccine in record time and getting it to needy by Aug/Sept and masses Oct through Dec - thanks to Bill Gates and others leading the way.

 

Testing will be such that people in sports can be pretested. Possibly the populous will get tested and get certificates and people will only be able to attend public events within a couple weeks of getting the certificate.

this is what happens when people start to panic. I wonder in this case if panic spread faster than the virus. if people are still hiding under their beds by august then I don't know what you can do.

 

I think we took the correct precautions but these people who want to cancel everything until there’s a vaccine are idiots.

Let’s all just live in a fckin bubble until we can guarantee everyone’s safety. Who cares if that means living under near martial law until 2025, at least a few thousand more people won’t get sick with a 98% chance of recovery. All of you pvssies make me sick. You’ll throw away all of our freedoms and the economy out of fear. This is fckin ridiculous, grow a god dam spine. Quarantine the sick and elderly, let the rest of us live our lives.

 

I smell a time-out. Anon Bundy is that you?

Perhaps a topic title adjustment is needed... you almost gave me a heart attack...

Start 2020 season in 2021?

 

https://noontimesports.com/2020/04/14/could-college-football-be-postponed-to-february-2021/

 

I'll suggest - play half season and have 16 team playoff.

 

Queue Tim Prister to write article on all the above.

Edited April 15, 20205 yr by Domer Dude

My thought. How many people are going to feel safe going to games without a cure in September? Will they close it off to fans? Also, if there is still no cure, how would that be any different than now when all the sports leagues closed because a player,(Rudy Gobert) is touching everyone? I’ve thought I’ve read that they believe this will more than likely come back during the fall. I can’t see things moving along until a cure. Jobs will open and people will get back to work. But I can see this whole process coming back of staying at home...

My thought. How many people are going to feel safe going to games without a cure in September?

 

Okay so I might not feel safe but if football started in September and they allow me in .....I am there. Of course I would be wearing my blue and gold bandanna. But then they’d probably wouldn’t let me in the state of IN since I from NY state.

My thought. How many people are going to feel safe going to games without a cure in September?

 

Okay so I might not feel safe but if football started in September and they allow me in .....I am there. Of course I would be wearing my blue and gold bandanna. But then they’d probably wouldn’t let me in the state of IN since I from NY state.

 

Haha, probably true. Not because you are may have the virus but because you are from New York .

Here’s a thought... what if they only did half stadiums? Each seat sold has to have two seats between them unless with a spouse? I’m sure they could think of ways to make it work.

My thought. How many people are going to feel safe going to games without a cure in September? Will they close it off to fans? Also, if there is still no cure, how would that be any different than now when all the sports leagues closed because a player,(Rudy Gobert) is touching everyone? I’ve thought I’ve read that they believe this will more than likely come back during the fall. I can’t see things moving along until a cure. Jobs will open and people will get back to work. But I can see this whole process coming back of staying at home...

 

There might never be a cure, so we just give up sports for good? F that. If you’re young and in good health, it’s not dangerous. We can’t keep ruining our lives and the country to protect the elderly and sick’s feelings.

There might never be a cure, so we just give up sports for good? F that. If you’re young and in good health, it’s not dangerous. We can’t keep ruining our lives and the country to protect the elderly and sick’s feelings.

 

I would ask you to step up to the plate then and go assist one of these hospitals that are need. Since you are young and strong and don’t think it affects young people, I would ask you to also leave the PPO’s to the people that don’t feel the same way you do. Until you do that, I do t think your opinion matters...