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Bartles

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  1. Well, I didn't like that Thamel column. I don't doubt he has some high up sources being fatalistic as he describes. And it could certainly come to that if the situation stays so dangerous in much of the country for a couple more months. I am getting tired of people shitting on the pro leagues, even MLS, for their return plans. Those are basically working as intended, with a few hiccups. There were never going to be zero COVID cases when they set those plans. But they've dealt with them and those leagues are still on schedule. It would take some real carelessness by players to shut them down. As for CFB, of course that is a much bigger challenge. I continue to wish they would stop playing nice and tell the presidents that we need to bubble the FB players on campus and postpone the other sports. Maybe even postpone the general students in many cases. That was heresy a couple months ago, but it could be the only safe way to get the season in and collect the money.
  2. Canceled by Showtime! How's that due process taste, dickhead?
  3. I agree, but it would be too much of a system shock for everyone who's made their careers the old way. Bleeding out the clock with a big lead, and the chance for "teachable moments" anytime your NCAA team is down 10 with 1:30 left and a couple timeouts.
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    2020 MLS Thread

    Both players next tests were negative. The DC guy probably unknowingly had COVID before coming to Florida, and remnants of it caused the positive test the other day. My guess is this would have been prevented by having teams report sooner, but players were against that.
  5. The tab is nothing compared to the TV income from each game that gets played. P5 schools can do it once per week, though it really should be much more often than that, and there is the obvious problem that gen pop students are not being tested at all.
  6. They put us in this Daily Texan thread instead of here. People were discussing the case a couple years ago
  7. Yes, the power leagues plan to test weekly (at least). Money talks, and it's not the conferences' fault that US government has been suppressing test availability the entire year. If we do get a season, I bet there will be times when teams have to practice before they get test results back due to delays.
  8. But isn't the county over its listed population this time of year? Again, just grasping for anything
  9. NBA isn't removing whole teams, that would never have been agreed upon. But they do have plans to isolate and replace positive players. Since they are testing daily, any infection shouldn't get very far. The nightmare scenario is an infected guy gets into a game, like if he tests negative but then the virus becomes contagious that same day. We'll see soon enough
  10. Dallas Co two straight days with modest drops in cases (1201 - 1164 - 1101). Grasping for anything here
  11. Let's call it what it is -- a simple way to buy some time when it became obvious no one is kicking off on Sept. 5. They'll look at the virus numbers again in a couple weeks, which will probably be coming under control but still way too high to start the 6-week countdown to a season.
  12. @JeremySWallace I've got to share this. I spoke to a woman who works at an assisted living center today. She was in tears. They have so many COVID-19 cases, workers are calling in sick and they are receiving instructions on how to preserve bodies because of delays in the morgue from getting them ^ See, that's the kind of thing where three weeks later you can't release a football schedule. Or have teachers setting up hand wash stations in classrooms. And if there's one story like that, there will be more in the next couple weeks. I've been a supporter of the return-to-football plan, but it's getting tougher to envision
  13. Bama actually scheduled to play UGA this year (and Tenn). So I'd expect them to add Vandy for sure from the East. Maybe also Mizzou or SC if they need two new opponents
  14. I can see why people are framing the RR thing as a gun to the teachers' head. But one of the three "outs" that are offered are probably pretty achievable even for young, healthier teachers. And a bunch may actually want to quit anyway.
  15. The Cummings redemption tour is odd, seems like she turned her whole career into fighting for the wrongly convicted, but in the middle of that she made every effort to keep Kelley locked up. Here's a glowing story about her Philly department from Feb. 2020. (No idea why the font size freaks out in parts of quotes)
  16. Even if he loses, we'll have less than a year before the heavy Tea Party pendulum starts swinging back to try to reclaim the House of Reps and whatever statehouses are in play in 2022. The 2021 economy will suck and it will be blamed on Dem spending. An ugly fight, but maybe sanity can stave them off this time since they will have zero new ideas besides racism and lower taxes.
  17. The unscientific hope things won't be worse is the fact that the entire northeast region of the country, and much of the midwest, has really settled down after the March-May surge. If that happens down south by mid-August, mf'ers are gonna demand we play some ball. Of course we have the impending second wave, but we've still got people denying the current wave exists so no way people are gonna plan ahead for wave two. Shit, I have questions about that myself, COVID-19 seems to behave a lot differently than its predecessors in some key ways (weather effects, inconsistent transmission, etc).
  18. Remember there was a 2-3 day window in March when we thought: conference tourneys would finish with no fans, then NCAA tourney would be played with no fans, then a mini-tourney could still be held to salvage the Final Four...this feels like an extended version of that period.
  19. But every other conference has enough members to play 10 games if they want. Big 12 could stand pat but that would be leaving money on the table if others are playing 10. That said, and again I still like this concept, but it smacks of something that is just a placeholder until they have to postpone everything indefinitely. It is bizarre how many local rivalries are being tabled at the moment just in the name of conference play.
  20. I wouldn't worry about Notre Dame finding 10 opponents or however many are needed. I mean, the Big 12 is sitting right there with no way to get to 10 games without a non-conference addition. I like the direction the powers-that-be are going. Give yourself a few more weeks to see if the virus settles, not to mention improving the safety by keeping everything in the family.
  21. Media making a little too much of the Ivy being the canary in the coal mine back in March. Their tournament is a total of three games. They were prepared to send the regular season champion to NCAAs if there had been a tourney. Still, I can see this making some P5 presidents think hard about delaying football. I predict they wait a couple weeks to see if COVID starts to settle down and maybe they can salvage 8-10 games this fall. Better to try to bank some money in the fall, because if they postpone to spring and the virus flares back up, it's apocalyptic damage
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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?
  25. 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.
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