I imagine they're going to have to pull the trigger on this fairly soon as well as processes for things like printing tickets probably aren't far off
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I imagine they're going to have to pull the trigger on this fairly soon as well as processes for things like printing tickets probably aren't far off
This will be interesting. ISU property is technically state land and state jurisdiction, not county and while they usually follow and work together, ISU doesn't have to listen to them if push came to shove. Since they only need to follow the state guidelines. At least that's my understanding. I could be wrong.
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But things are getting worse now, and it is going to continue until we as a society take this seriously. 0% chance we are watching games at JTS this fall. I really hope they just move football to the spring.
Yeah, that's why I'm not worked up about the no fans thing. Got to have games before having fans even matters.
I have been wondering if a shortened season would work though. Something staggered like a game every 3 weeks or something? Maybe you clear everyone for a game in week 1 and play that game. Then you are off for 3 weeks and clear everyone you can for a game in week 4? I'm also hoping that maybe the cases right now aren't as severe and we don't see hospitalizations go up.
I really want football, but it is getting harder and harder to see how it happens.
I think there are places where it’s getting worse. I wouldn’t classify Iowa as one of those places.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/iowa
This shows that we will not break our peak.
Any decision to not allow fans that would be made now would be idiotic. I’m not saying we absolutely have fans or even all fans there but it’s way to early at this point.
Juat becuse it’s not getting worse doesn’t mean it’s not staying bad. The whole country is failing.
This. It's almost July and not that much has changed. Some states up, some states down. Nation's plateaued and late summer and early fall no longer looks like a big valley between peaks.
Not sure when they have to decide, say as in a drop dead date. They will probably just kick the can down the road till the decision makes itself. And by "they" I mean the Big 12. The teams will probably lead before the leagues and the leagues will lead before the NCAA. The NCAA is maybe the wimpiest organization in the country when it comes to making decisions.
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There will be college football played this fall. How many games are played and how many universities end up opting out will be the ultimate question.
Fans attending games is starting to look more bleak but that decision will not be made for some time as we are still a couple of months out.
Fans attending games is starting to look more bleak but that decision will not be made for some time as we are still a couple of months out.
Games without fans would be a real possibility but what would they do about the tailgating especially some of the big groups. You wouldn't be able to close all the lots on a Saturday unless they put up police tape across all the lots and police at each entrance to keep people out because people will still show up even if they are allowed in JTS or not.
It'd be pretty damn easy to keep people out of the lots...don't make students move their cars and then put up concrete jersey barriers on the Iowa State Center and University parking,. They can't control what private owners would do but that would pretty much nip everything in the bud.
We are less than 2 months from when school normally starts. It is not going to magically disappear by then or burn out on its own now. I thought maybe things might be somewhat back to normal but look whats happening when just the football team comes back. Kstate has to suspend things for 2 weeks. How do you bring back 20-30K students without a massive outbreak?
High schools might be able to come back in some form in the fall but large colleges? I just don't know how you do it.
High schools might be able to come back in some form in the fall but large colleges? I just don't know how you do it.
If classes are allowed in person, I find it hard to believe there won’t be football of some manner.
Argubly, if it’s too problematic for 36k to come to JTS 7 times, it’s also an issue for 30k to come for an on-campus educational experience. Games can be watched on TV and classes held online, with both greatly limiting spread risk.
Argubly, if it’s too problematic for 36k to come to JTS 7 times, it’s also an issue for 30k to come for an on-campus educational experience. Games can be watched on TV and classes held online, with both greatly limiting spread risk.
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I got an email yesterday saying that the HS that I work at will be doing both in school and on line learning for the upcoming school year. The students will be in attendence M,T,TH, F and will doing online on Wed. All assignments given online will be required this time. The lunch periods will be staggered for kids 5-12, allowing them to space out more, and a couple of groups will be eating in one of the gyms.
There's pretty big differences between the two. The students won't be going back and forth from wherever they come from as much (part of why they are ending at Thanksgiving). Iirc ISU and other schools will also be limiting larger classes and moving more of those online to reduce that risk, which is probably the biggest parallel to football games.
Hell, the marching band may have a harder time rehearsing given there's almost no way to do indoor rehearsals of 300 people and maintain distancing.
