ftsandersvol
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This could be delusion, but I feel that the most realistic options in play are either pulling the plug sometime before September 26th due to skyrocketing case counts on SEC campuses/locker rooms or the conference season ending with a champion being crowned in Atlanta. Of those, every subsequent Friday is going to serve as a benchmark of sorts and I just can't see ADs and school brass backtracking once we hit August 28th unless the situation turns truly catastrophic.
I wouldn't go so far to say that none of the fourteen teams will have a game or two scrapped, but every matchup brings two programs 10% closer to a completed season and I can absolutely envision that momentum outweighing a few player quarantines given the money on the line.
I believe they will try to do anything in their power to have a season solely for monetary purposes. I also believe a few games in they'll realize it won't be possible.Curious, what do my volnation brothers and sisters think about this.
I have been back and forth on this..... I will reserve my thought for a few days and let volnation speak.
Should be zero.
The pattern of the virus would suggest that those states now with significant outbreaks will have a curve like that of NYC, Sweden, and other places. Cases and deaths will peak (if they have not already) and then drop sharply.
That's the "science" of it. The politics of it suggests that anyone who tries to use a level head and not take unnecessary, radical actions will be demagogued and demonized.
Agree. If this is too much risk then college football should never be played again... and the folks here buying into and promoting the Covid narrative may indirectly be working toward that very end.There is very little science that suggests college athletes are at a high risk. CF should be played normally but people have bought into the fearbporn narrative that this thing is a super super killer.
There is very little science that suggests college athletes are at a high risk. CF should be played normally but people have bought into the fearbporn narrative that this thing is a super super killer.
Why should "cases" have anything to do with it if the IFR stays as low as it is now and particularly among athletes or people likely to show up for a game? Wouldn't the better answer be to tell those who are vulnerable to stay at home and as a general rule advise those living with a high risk person to wear masks when at home and in their presence?Everything will hinge, I think, on the number of new COVID cases generated once the student body is back on campus. If we go into a second wave and they send everyone home then you can forget it.
Why should "cases" have anything to do with it if the IFR stays as low as it is now and particularly among athletes or people likely to show up for a game? Wouldn't the better answer be to tell those who are vulnerable to stay at home and as a general rule advise those living with a high risk person to wear masks when at home and in their presence?