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Bartles

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  1. Looks like they did a great job inside. I haven't looked up ticket prices but it appears they can carve the place into a bunch of different price points if they want, because the sections are so broken up. I hope it doesn't have the new Yankee Stadium effect of the lower infield sections always being empty due to high prices and no-show rich folk. Question: what is the area at the top level between home-1st base? Kind of above and to the right of the press box in the pics? I'm not sure I've seen a stadium that keeps that area open, but maybe it's a party deck or something.
  2. Yes, this is correct. I just think CFB has to follow the pro model as best they can. It's more similar to MLB in that players will be lodging on their own and it will be up to them to stay safe. Definitely the toughest element to control and there will be slippage.
  3. Imagine if Disney offered UT like $30 million to use the campus from mid August through Thanksgiving. The catch is they only need 200 student extras, all of whom would be COVID tested frequently and strongly encouraged to practice safety protocols. And those students would have to interact with a few hundred other students over the course of the fall, all of whom are also being tested frequently. All students and crew would be on campus voluntarily. I know that's over simplistic, but it boils down the question: if the risk can be low enough, why not take the damn money that is so badly needed for the good of the school and entire community?
  4. Exactly, and there's no reason to pussyfoot around it, especially right now. Switch every spot besides FB to the spring. There will be some "essential" students on campus like in the hospitals, science labs, community service orgs. Add FB to that list just for this fall. Other students and parents can rage all they want, but we are trying to keep this whole enterprise going for their benefit and that costs money. Everything is risky for the rest of 2020. Our pro sports are beginning to navigate the path to low-risk competition which will be vital to preserving the economy. It has worked overseas. CFB leadership has to exhaust all options to pull off the season SAFELY. I know it sounds crazy today, and time is running out but let's see how things look at the end of July.
  5. They can probably get out of the contract easily enough. I was just thinking in terms of safety (only one team would need to travel), operating costs (playing on a home campus for free) and logistics (safe, clean, updated locker rooms for both teams). I would lean to Cotton Bowl myself but sounds like teams hate it from a logistical standpoint and we know the locker rooms are cramped. They could also look at SMU, the Star or a high school, I guess.
  6. Edit - OK, he has now apologized and basically said he just posts a lot of shit that is sent to him. So again, total dumbass and he needs to continue to publicly stay in front of this. Eagles issued a standard "we strongly condemn" statement. He'll light up the Redtails for 150 + 2 TDs in week one and then get hurt again
  7. What a dumbass. The Eagles are in a tough spot because they allowed Riley Cooper to stay on the team after using the n-word at a Kenny Chesney concert. This is the same ownership albeit some different front office folks. The fact that D-Jacc didn't apologize makes me lean towards kicking him to the curb. Whatever they do should have some locker room input, and of course we let Malcolm Jenkins walk already...
  8. Fans' heads will explode, but if the stands are gonna be empty anyway, the safest, cheapest and most logistically sound thing to do is play in Austin or Norman
  9. They're buying time to keep the annual calendar somewhat intact. Hoping against hope that virus data looks better by the end of the month. Idea: Let the rando December bowl games serve as pre-season exhibitions in their normal time slots. That way you get some non-conf matchups in, whether they count or not, great TV ratings and a morale boost for holidays. Texas-LSU in the Independence Bowl, e.g.
  10. Not unreasonable to let the country's education system collapse with raging virus, teachers not showing up en masse and parents having to abruptly stop working (again). Maybe the teachers can just go take the parents' jobs, problem solved! If only we were governed by Wilie Mack's Facebook
  11. Welp, a team was eliminated from the round of 16 due to a player's asymptomatic positive test. That team goes home, and obviously their previous opponents are already gone...but makes you wonder if the virus is loose inside their bubble.
  12. Sorry to hear that, Horn of Gabriel. It seems like people's experiences are all over the board, but the vast, vast majority recover without anything more than over-the-counter treatments, and lots of patience. Hopefully you're already past the peak and start to feel better asap. Follow your doc's advice. Keep us posted if you can, and stay positive optimistic!
  13. Three posts above are my bat signal to remind y'all that the concept of returning to play is still sound! Obviously not in today's Texas but quite possibly in Sept/Oct/Nov. The idea is to get players under team control and test them often enough so that the occasional positive test doesn't affect the team any more than a normal injury. So many fans are assuming players are gonna run wild, which of course a few will, but I think teams at the highest level will have enough pride to safely field a full team every week. Can an NFL prospect (which they all think they are) manage to have one girlfriend for three months? I think it can be done. And don't forget there is already some level of immunity. And as for coaches playing guys they know are positive, again I suspect that number will be more than zero, but not widespread. It's a career killer and opens him and the school up to crippling legal action.
  14. That announcement and a little quote in the CBS story both leave room for football to play even if most or all classwork is online. I think the power leagues are gonna try to hold off on a decision until next week at the earliest.
  15. I put it on a few times mainly to see how they set up the court and distanced people. Zero people on the table between benches. A handful of workers and TV personnel on the opposite sideline, spread out. No cameramen on the baselines. They use the "Elam ending" which is pretty solid, though I can't see it taking hold for NCAA or NBA. You play a normal game until the final four minutes. After the next whistle under 4:00, the game clock is turned off and the teams play to a certain score which is determined by adding eight points to the total of the team in the lead. Example: Score is 71-67 and there's a stoppage at 3:53, the clock is shut off and the first team to 78 points wins. It allows the game to finish the same way it is normally played. The team with the lead has no incentive to bleed the clock out. The trailing team has no incentive to foul on purpose. And some potentially frantic swings if it's a close game when the target number is within reach.
  16. Not a word about football in this longish twitter thread, but it's a stark explanation of how colleges in general are pretty fucked if the virus situation doesn't improve dramatically asap
  17. Both those guys have actually been pretty vocal about safety protocols, including masks. Their fans probably think the stuffy university presidents put a gun to their head to make them say it
  18. One thing I don't see a lot of reporting on is what's to be done with other fall sports if campuses are able to open. If I was an AD, I would be lobbying to shift damn near everything except FB to the spring. Maybe soccer is OK, and cross country, if you can get enough COVID tests for everyone. But volleyball and maybe even basketball should be flexible enough to back their schedules up. Any pre-January activity by other large-roster sports (baseball, softball, swimming) could be delayed too. And I never understood why indoor track exists anyway. Besides student/staff safety, there is a cost issue with the amount of tests that would be needed. I'm sure there would be an uproar about special treatment, but as the last few posts point out...
  19. The entire P5 and most likely all of FBS would be back for the 2021 season assuming it starts on time. There are all kinds of gloomy projections, and I'm sure there's good evidence for those, but the guys in charge are no strangers to getting money when they need it. And unlike some industries, college football is a proven profit center which won't change after COVID-19.
  20. I think this pic was about 2 pm CT. Are we gonna have to endure that annoying sun-pattern in LF for day games? Also seems like an outfielder could easily lose a ball in those if it took a certain path. Can't wait for someone to discover a hidden jetstream to right center or whatever oversight gets exposed next
  21. RE: Beaches I agree the on-beach activities are very safe. But the act of traveling to/from the beach towns, all the shopping and socialization that goes on (even if outdoors)...it's nowhere near the protest level of outdoor crowding, but I would have expected some impact. Those outdoor patios and boardwalks feature a lot of drinking, hugging and loud talking. It doesn't seem to have blown up in the northeast, looks like it has created a rise in coastal Texas. Higher immunity levels, I hope.
  22. To me this is by far the most notable development we've had up up until the recent flare-ups. I don't see a lot of media reporting on this or even asking questions about it, but there almost has to be greater immunity in the northeast than we would expect. The NJ beaches have been open for six weeks and yet numbers in those counties, along with big cities that flock there, have not jumped up. I hope this is pertinent to Texas, because regardless of the cause(s), it may give some hope that if you ride this out for a few weeks, but follow up with continued mask-wearing and distancing, you can start to see the other side of this shit.
  23. If 10-20 percent are still in person classes, and presumably all students have access to those classes, that is plenty of wiggle room to have athletes on campus. You could legitimately argue sports would be safer that way than cramming them into spring when everybody comes back to campus (maybe). But I don't think the commissioners are crazy enough to make than announcement unless the hotspots level off noticeably in the next week. If they play in spring, it sounds like everybody realizes you're gonna lose most of the NFL quality guys. They would also probably have to reduce the schedule to 8-10 games. I think it could work...throws the CFP race a little more open, and gives fringe NFL prospects a chance to make an impression.
  24. Overwhelming favorite for sure...like Clemson to win ACC odds
  25. I have no idea who the guy is, and like I said I am very skeptical of his overall messaging. BradinATX did a more thorough reading of his threads and is not impressed. But yes, bad cat's narrow theory of why southern protest cities (inc. LA) have been slammed while northern ones have not is "the best analysis I've read" so far. Mainly because I haven't seen mainstream media even tackle the subject, they just assume it's all on "opening up". Feel free to post some links if you have any I think the phenomenon has a mixture of causes, but the early suffering of the big cities makes sense as an impediment to later outbreaks. Herd immunity isn't like "OK we have it, green light everybody!" Places that are closer to immunity can tolerate certain behaviors better than others.
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