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BevoBuck14

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  1. I get it our WR group, especially outside, doesn't look good. But it's also similar in quality to last year's with a higher upside if people like Whittington and Moore (Omeire healthy would be found money) remain healthy. Healthy Whittington will be better than any WR last year. Moore was our most productive WR last year. Worthy (and Money for that matter) should easily surpass Jake Smith's production and dependability last year. Those receivers alone can at least match the bulk of our receiving production from last year. Screw the backup depth dropping passes in practice who won't be counted on for significant production. Maybe Washington and Dixon catch better in games.

    Add in better receiving TE's, RB's, and average to slightly above average OL play and our passing doesn't look as pessimistic vs big 12 defenses. Oh and Sark actually running the best RB in college football and the offensive potential isn't purely doom and gloom.

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  2. 12 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    This seems unnecessarily reactive. Why don't they test for cardiac issues before an athlete tests positive? They should test all players prior to participation if everyone is already going to be laying out increased expenses for medical testing.

    This is probably alluding to enhanced testing for myocarditis/pericarditis and cardiomyopathy that develop as a result of covid with ultrasound, cardiac markers, ekg, etc for all. There's no reliable way to predict who will develop those from covid.

  3. 1 hour ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    I think it's that college aged kids aren't paid shit and that means even if the risk is small, there's a LOT of liability...especially the few that are looking at making millions of dollars in the pros.  

    Are you arguing there should be a disproportionate amount of liability resulting in cancellation of football season for covid compared to other statistically comparable things that can happen to an athlete, i.e. other forms of myocarditis, cardiomyopathies, heat strokes, rhabdomyolosis, car accidents, CTE? Why does covid warrant shutting down the season but the others don't? What is your solution?

  4. 53 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    I think that depends who you’re listening too.  I’d argue the B1G is biased one way and the SEC is biased in another way.  Not picking sides on this chain with you - just saying there’s a bias both ways.  

    I agree they are both obviously biased. However when we talk about the true statistical and evidence-based approach to the sequela of covid, the side effects are being disproprtionaly overblown based on data thus far. 

    After 5 months of covid data, I haven't seen a single article showing a significant increase in mortality or morbidity for college -aged kids. Right now the public is acting as if this is the first time anyone has heard of viral myocarditis; and we are screening cardiac enzymes in asymptomatic young adults. What does the data we have gathered the past 5 months shown?

    If there is a statistically significant enough increase in the incidence of myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, coagulopathy, fibrosis in college-aged kids, then that is what we should be examining from a medical standpoint. The financial gain or liability is for the other institutions, to decide.

  5. 6 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    You’re missing the point.  It’s the most important factor driving the bias against covid statistics and an evidence based medical approach.  

    Not yet. The evidence thus far has shown the loudest factors driving the bias of a true evidence-based medical approach has been financial liability (disproportionately related to covid) and journalistic hyperbole (overstated risk). The loudest factors have been overinflating the risk of covid, not downplaying.

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  6. 1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

    The most important issue during this decision making process is television money.

    That may be the most important issue, and there are several other issues. However, that is not the most important issue driving the bias of covid statistics and an evidence-based medical approach toward covid's risk on the athlete population.

  7. 49 minutes ago, DiceHands said:

    I cant believe we are at the point in history where we ignore doctors in favor of people far less intelligent because... football.

    We live in a world where all information is biased for political or ideological gain. A world where all viral myocarditis forms don't matter and only covid myocarditis matters.

    Also, we live in a world where all forms of threat to players don't matter, only those that are socially, politically, or emotionally relevant due. A similar small percentage of players die from or get heat strokes, rhabdomyolosis, cardiomyopathies, other myocarditis, CTE, etc. Those issues aren't as politically or emotionally relevant right now.

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  8. I guess you can debate whether it counts as a 2nd RB or not (for Giles accounting purposes), but you always wanna look for a hybrid-role guy who can change the game. A speedster guy like mookie or smith who can also take some carries. A pass catching RB who can run routes too like whittington, especially with the direction we are headed on offense.

  9. 5 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Look... I'm going to enter and come out on the other side... and you'll enter and wind up right here in Austin, Texas babay. Deal?

    ...and along the way you may pass thru a place called Seminole, TX. There, Mrs. Moore will show you the entrance to your next portal.

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