Move it to spring.
Theyre not going to play a season in the spring and turn right aroubd and have a fall season (if possible)
Play the season early
Move it to spring.
Actually, the WHO published something either yesterday or Wednesday stating they now think contact transmission is more prevalent than respiratory transmission. Like 60-40 or 70-30. But if you wait long enough they’ll change their mind again.
Also have the WHO, CDC, every health expert and politician urge mask wearing from the start. If they had done that, which includes Trump encouraging mask wearing, and wearing one himself publicly, I think you'd have like 90% compliance or better, which is probably good enough.Plan: use a time machine to go back three months and beat some sense into the weak minded idiots who raged against wearing a mask in public. Then we'd be pretty much fine like every other developed country.
Actually, the WHO published something either yesterday or Wednesday stating they now think contact transmission is more prevalent than respiratory transmission. Like 60-40 or 70-30. But if you wait long enough they’ll change their mind again.
You may not grasp how science, especially medical science, is supposed to work.If by "they'll change their mind again" you mean "additional evidence will become available as we learn more about the virus, and scientists will and should use that additional evidence to amend or revise our current thoughts and recommendations"......then yeah, they'll change their mind again. It's how science works....
Cancel the season if you have to, but be realistic about the impact. Basically kiss everything that isn't football and MBB bye-bye, and that may be optimistic.
The major expense for any sport is travel and coaches salary. Without games being played, their travel to and from games will be zero. The coaches will take a pay cut. The tuition, room and board for many of the students is already paid for by donations, and that money is already there.
Sure schools may struggle short term without revenue, but no college is going to allow their sports program to disappear if they do not play this year. It would be horrible for the school, and administrations understand that fact, if they have to, they will dip into their reserves to make up the difference.
Now D3 schools may be in trouble, but even them, they should be able to last a year without sports. It just makes it more difficult to recruit incoming students at the smaller school because many are athletes, and that is the reason they are attending those schools.
Oh Lord, I want this.I totally understand this will never happen, but it'd be pretty freakin cool for a year. Big 12-SEC alliance. Four pods of six
North:
ISU
KSU
KU
OU
OSU
Mizzou
South:
Texas
TCU
Tech
Baylor
A&M
Arkansas
East:
LSU
Bama
Auburn
WVU (didn't know where else to put them)
Ole Miss
Miss St
Farther East:
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Kentucky
South Carolina
Vanderbilt
Play each team in your pod and the other geographically closest to you. Top team in each pod goes to a 4 team playoff
You are correct in your first example. Say I’m positive, I contaminate a surface, then you come in contact with that surface and infect yourself by touching your face, whatever. The interesting thing about their study is they looked at what they referred to as “spreader events” which occurred at places that had mask requirements to gain entrance. These were all in Europe and Asia. I inferred from their description that each establishment served alcohol. So we have no idea how strictly the mask requirement was enforced or if the patrons were even wearing their masks correctly. What they did though was swab surfaces in each location and came up with an extraordinary number of contaminated surfaces. Long story short, you could spend all day shooting holes in their methodology, motivation, and conclusions.Contact like touch or contact like close long-term contact, and respiratory like it's freely floating exact in the air respiratory?
You may not grasp how science, especially medical science, is supposed to work.
It adds risk simply because it's not essential. I don't understand how people can't comprehend this. Going to class is a hell of a lot more essential than a football game. I'm pretty sure Campbell and Prohm are having discussions with players constantly concerning not going to the bars/partying/eating out/appropriate hygiene, etc.I imagine they would want to play. I don't see how football brings any more risk of them getting covid vs the rest of their lives. Unless classes cancel/go all on-line and we outlaw parties, shut down bars/restaurants, etc in addition to cancelling football.
Also have the WHO, CDC, every health expert and politician urge mask wearing from the start. If they had done that, which includes Trump encouraging mask wearing, and wearing one himself publicly, I think you'd have like 90% compliance or better, which is probably good enough.
Is this really the angle we're going to take? Blame all of this on the WHO, CDC, etc who didn't recommend wearing masks at the start?
There's a VERY good reason they didn't recommend masks at the very start. We didn't have enough supply for everyone. So they were forced to pick the lesser of two evils I'm afraid. They had no good options.
If they had told everyone at the start to wear a mask, there wouldn't have been enough for the hospital workers that we needed to save people's lives. So that's why they smartly made that decision.
Europe has proven that wearing masks works. We just have refused to do it in this country.
To be fair, I don't recall them communicating that. Instead they were wishy washy on masks' effectiveness even though there's other countries where it's a norm to help slow the spread of viruses during those seasons.