There’s been so much kicked around, confusing dates, etc,etc. that I might have missed it, but a date for a season decision has to be out there somewhere. Anybody care to speculate?
idk about dates, but with the explosion in Covid cases as of late (and Fauci's warning that we could hit 100k new cases a day if we don't clamp down) playing football in the fall is looking more and more unrealistic.There’s been so much kicked around, confusing dates, etc,etc. that I might have missed it, but a date for a season decision has to be out there somewhere. Anybody care to speculate?
Give me these 2x every year instead of the johnny-come-lately schools! Can you imagine the excitement this would have the potential to generate every year? Might be incredibly tough for any team to make it through the gauntlet undefeated so I give it -423% chance of being implemented! But I 100% like your outside-the-box thinking.I think we have football. But I think we end up having some conferences sit out the season.
We may play LSU, UT and Auburn 2x each -- but I think we have SEC Football, at least!
Walt Maddox has done his part.There will be teams who get impacted by it...it will be a big part of the season, but I think the season will go on because of $$$.
That is a lot of money for a city to lose.
Play the Vols twice and then in the SECCG and they will be Sixteenessee.I think we have football. But I think we end up having some conferences sit out the season.
We may play LSU, UT and Auburn 2x each -- but I think we have SEC Football, at least!
I wish that didn’t have to be in blue. Number of reasons that couldn’t work, of course (examples being impact on eyesight and the fact the light couldn’t reach inside the body), but smart people brainstorming crazier suggestions have developed some miraculous ideas. That’s likely being done at some level now. Or is it? Cleaning up 100,000 people at a time sounds like a very human solution. Well, back to reality.Replace the stadium led lights with ultraviolet lights. It could be like one giant decontamination venue when we play TN, au, or lswho.
I agree with this sentiment. People have this conception that Sports are non-essential and we should not play them.I'll say again that I think "football" falls in the financial category of being "essential." Obviously I don't mean it's something we can't live without, but it has such a huge financial impact on schools, towns and businesses that I think it falls into a category that we proceed but use mitigation.
"Shutting down" huge parts of the economy is probably not coming back and moving forward with smart social distancing/mask-wearing steps is about the only approach that makes sense when there is no cure/vaccine on the immediate horizon. Mitigate to the best of our ability and move forward.
There will be teams who get impacted by it...it will be a big part of the season, but I think the season will go on because of $$$.
I disagree. There are social distancing measures that can be implemented at the campus level that aren't possible in spectator sports environments.If no football, then you really have to close campuses.
I'm now thinking it will be in the Spring...which will wreak havoc with the traditional spring sports. But, since CFB pays the bills...Money will definitely come into play.
But the sentiment that games will be played because too many powerful governmental institutions and private enterprises lose too much money if there are no games, leaves out a tremendous potential cost — liability.
An otherwise healthy fan, with no co-morbidities, gets COVID on a game day, and dies.
An OL who has always struggled with weight and conditioning goes on a ventilator, develops pulmonary scarring, and can’t walk 10 steps without oxygen. Najee Harris or Dylan Moses get permanently reduced lung function and go from top NFL draft choices to personal trainers.
What would their earning potential have been? And what are appropriate punitive damages to prevent UA, the SEC, and the NCAA from allowing this sort of thing in the future?
Your fingers are going to cramp up typing all those numbers into a calculation of appropriate compensation.
It takes just one tragedy, and no foolin’ money comes into play....money that makes a TV contract, Tide Pride fees, and ticket revenue look like my pocket change.
And those “waivers” I hear about requiring players to sign? Absent legislative immunity being enacted on this specific topic, they’d be about as enforceable as those “Stay Back 200 Feet. Not Responsible for Damage” signs you see on rock trucks.
Given the predominant ethnic makeup of most college football teams, and given the current political climate, what do you think the odds of such legislation actually coming to pass are?
I think they’re roughly the same as me dunking a basketball in Kevin Durant’s face, and making him like it.
Yes, money will come into play. Just not the way a lot of people think.
I sincerely hope I’m overstating the case. But I don’t think so, and therefore don’t foresee football in the fall of 2020.
I just can't see how they can play a spring season, then, after only a 2 or 3 month break, have a fall season. And that doesn't even take into account the conflict with the NCAA's other cash cow, the basketball tournament.I'm now thinking it will be in the Spring...which will wreak havoc with the traditional spring sports. But, since CFB pays the bills...
The visitors side might smell better if they had ultraviolet lights to kill the Auburn stench..Replace the stadium led lights with ultraviolet lights. It could be like one giant decontamination venue when we play TN, au, or lswho.
I hope you’re right, and see that as the best case.I'm now thinking it will be in the Spring...which will wreak havoc with the traditional spring sports. But, since CFB pays the bills...
I honestly have trouble, assuming laws and guidelines are followed, differentiating between the liability here and the with any other illness.leaves out a tremendous potential cost — liability.