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Hurtlocker

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  1. Master Plan to Save CFB Being Considered TLDR: 1) Universities considering sending 80% of the students home and keeping football players with the 20% on campus to mitigate spread 2) Oklahoma doesn't want to play.
  2. SEC is requiring them at all times. Some Big 12 have as well but I don't think its a conference requirement yet.
  3. I'm guessing its all about the money. And lets be fair, this is all about money. They just launched a network and need content. The northern schools aren't in outbreak mode and the southern schools risk losing more ground to the SEC embedded around them.
  4. Valid, so instead of being $12m a game to the town its $4m
  5. More financial thoughts. Only because it is more important than people dying, obviously. Why discuss it otherwise? Football’s Economic Impact on College Towns, College Players and the NFL This was also an interesting take, keep in mind his job is writing about the business aspect:
  6. As a sign the season is about to start, the Coaches have released their poll and, as tradition dictates, I have serious problems with some of the teams on it:
  7. The silver lining to the pandemic I guess (from a sports board CFB perspective) is that the SEC finally has to play a season without being loaded with non-P5 cupcakes. I cannot remember the last time the SEC had more than one team, usually Georgia, have 10 P5 opponents on their schedule.
  8. Ha, the point wasn't network profits mattered as the concern, it was that if they aren't in great shape they could choose not to pay because there isn't a stream of money to cover the loss. This, in turn, would hit the Pac/Big with $30-50m in losses, per school, in addition to gate/donations/etc. The Iowa AD predicted $100m shortfall. That will start to have a lasting competitive impact, especially since the Pac has already been trying to secure a loan to cover the losses. That's going to leave a mark.
  9. Per above, it is only three data points; win percent in conference: Big 8 = 81.1%, which includes going 36-1 between 93'-95' Big 12 = 71.6%, which includes going 45-7 to wrap up the 90s, moved to Big 12 in 1996 Big Ten = 56.5%, which includes a lot of suckage after moving in 2011 By Decade: 1970s record: 98-20 (83.1%) 1980s record: 103-20 (83.7%) 1990s record: 108-16 (87.1%) 2000s record: 84-44 (65.6%) 2010s record: 75-54 (58.5%) That help?
  10. Comcast and company are rebating customers for regional sports networks that don't play sports, reducing the sports networks' carriage with no content, and the mouse is hemorrhaging money. This could end up being a big financial wound that won't heal for a while. ESPN and Fox owed the Pac-12 hundreds of millions for the 2020 football season: Will they pay? Excerpts:
  11. Probably far too late for anything to happen, but what the fuck, let's pile on:
  12. Covid-19 is now the No. 3 cause of death in the US.
  13. Because its the classes that caused the issue.
  14. Goddamn it Don, stop fucking posting sports stuff in here! Nobody cares about that.
  15. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
  16. Oh I want to play! Sweden Population density: 25/km2 Finland: 18/km2 Norway: 15/km2 US: 36/km2 World: 60/km2 UK: 275/km2 NY State: 159/km2 NYC Population Density: 38,242/km2
  17. personally, I prefer sports over religion or Covid. Do we get to vote on this?
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