Will there be football in 2020?

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OrangeVolMan said:
Not if UT says you can’t be there.
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Did you NOT see the thread about 'Who's been inside Neyland when you weren't supposed to be inside Neyland"??

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Experts with agendas are exactly what we don't need. Most "experts" that get media attention want doom and gloom and will be just great with them if we had no football this fall or baseball this summer. They are the same ones who get a steady paycheck and are not concerned with people feeding their kids or just enjoying a sporting event.
 
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dobre_shunka said:
90k for half a day for 8 days versus 28k plus thousands of faculty and support staff for most of if not all of the day for 3 months. Which is worse?
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I was told there wouldn't be math. If they can open, I imagine they will enforce distancing guidelines as far as seats go. Not much you can do for vendors and the pissers.
 
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05_never_again said:
Easier to enforce some measure of social distancing when allowing students to return to classrooms than having 102k in a football stadium. I know they are going to try and have classes, but I bet you all the common areas will still be closed off.

Having football with no fans is much better than nothing. It'll be really weird watching games on TV with no crowd presence/noise.
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They just need to study Vanderbilt football to get the social distancing thing right. Vandy has been doing it for years. Over 85% of the deaths are in people over age 60. The 15% under age 60 mostly had underlying conditions with a few exceptions. They may or may not develop a vaccine. HIV is a virus and they have not developed a vaccine for that in 40 years. They are making some progress it seems on treatment. Maybe they need to say if you are under 60 with no underlying conditions go ahead with your normal life. Then maybe we can get some immunity going with the herd thought process. By the way I am in that over 60 group. Just some thoughts.
 
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JacketVol said:
No vaccine for the common cold or flu has ever been 100 percent effective. So, you will never see a game in Neyland again.
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I assumed everyone knows that, but the Flu is not Covid-19........Covid-19 is not the FLU, it is x10000000000000000000000000000000 and then some. Do some research, look at some studies, there is a lot of info that isn't on HLN or CNN. This virus is evolving/mutating in less than 6 months..........that is science fiction nightmare stuff. If you are listening to politicians and billionaires...........just remember who is the minion.
 
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MontyPython said:
Guys. There is literally 0.00% chance of a college football season this Fall. Why?

(1) Covid-19 isn't miraculously disappearing;
(2) There won't be a vaccine by the Fall;
(3) Crowded stands with fans shoulder-to-shoulder is an impossibility;
(4) Teams playing in empty stadiums also impossible. The legal liability is a non-starter to "force" kids to play.

Adjust your mindset. Find another hobby.

Hopefully, we'll get either a vaccine, herd immunity or viable treatments prior to the '21 season.
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Welp let’s just shut down the whole damn website then . Except maybe the PF so we can adjust our thinking and find a new hobby.
 
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MontyPython said:
Guys. There is literally 0.00% chance of a college football season this Fall. Why?

(1) Covid-19 isn't miraculously disappearing;
(2) There won't be a vaccine by the Fall;
(3) Crowded stands with fans shoulder-to-shoulder is an impossibility;
(4) Teams playing in empty stadiums also impossible. The legal liability is a non-starter to "force" kids to play.

Adjust your mindset. Find another hobby.

Hopefully, we'll get either a vaccine, herd immunity or viable treatments prior to the '21 season.
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Want to bet on that?
 
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Opinion: Get ready for college football chaos this summer, with no one in charge and leagues itching to play

Seriously stupid article. For example:

"Some schools are in talks with architecture firms about how to create more open space and ways to build more strict entrance and exit models so that people aren’t crowding. Notre Dame athletics director Jack Swarbrick mentioned tailgating as a concern.

Traditional ways teams move through crowds on game day -- like Auburn’s Tiger Walk or Tennessee’s Vol Walk -- are almost certainly not going to happen. Teams may need to reconfigure locker rooms so that players are farther apart from each other. South Carolina athletics director Ray Tanner said in a university town hall that it was “likely that social distancing will be in place at Williams-Brice and our other venues,” meaning reduced stadium capacity. That, of course, spawns other issues like who gets priority for those tickets."

Mkay.

(1) Fans in the stands are PACKED in like sardines. Creating more "open space and ways" for ingress/egress.... who cares?
(2) Reconfiguring locker rooms so that players are "farther apart from each other". LMAO. They gonna outlaw tackling on the field and piles of players ontop of one another? Pure drivel.
 
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FlyFishnVol said:
I assumed everyone knows that, but the Flu is not Covid-19........Covid-19 is not the FLU, it is x10000000000000000000000000000000 and then some. Do some research, look at some studies, there is a lot of info that isn't on HLN or CNN. This virus is evolving/mutating in less than 6 months..........that is science fiction nightmare stuff. If you are listening to politicians and billionaires...........just remember who is the minion.
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Thats a lot of zeros. Take away all the zeros but 1, and you get close.
 
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My thought is play modified schedule SEC slate only on every other week schedule into end of Dec. Every other week allows safe monitoring of players for exposure to other players/teams...and see how that goes. No meaning in playing cupcake games this year. Fans in seats tbd...
 
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I call BS. the games are nothing without fans in the stands. Even if they have to implement half capacity there will be fans in the stands.
 
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Just open, this stuff while serious in no way should stop people from going to games. We are still months away still and plenty of time for things to get better. Let people make their own minds up, the impacts of no people would be DEVASTATING to the economy of all big time college towns. Just like the country, we are making the cure worse than the disease. Couple that with some that want America to stay inside and not work we are fighting for our freedom literally. I wouldn't go to a game if I was sick, but I would go tomorrow if I felt fine. I have been exposed to people in grocery stores and gas stations and have seen the crowd at the hardware stores. I am sick and tired of it, just open up already. God Bless and GBO!!!!!
 
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golfballs said:
Gene Smith the AD at Ohio St made a comment recently that he didn’t think it made sense to play games without fans in attendance. Of course if it’s either that or not playing at all I’m sure he wouldn’t scrap the season
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Humm - let's see here ….. Do I want millions in tv money and no fans or don't I? Gene Smith might want to rethink his approach, if he thinks it wouldn't make sense to have games played and no fans. Watching the games on TV with no fans sure beats watching replays of the 1986 Iron Bowl. If the coronavirus is still with us to any serious degree ……. we will be watching on TV or not watching at all.
 
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If the reports only gave us the number of people who died FROM Covid-19... there wouldn't be a panic and people wouldn't be scared. They are inflating the numbers by counting any death of a person positive or suspected of being positive as a Covid-19 death.

This virus is NOT as deadly as we've been led to believe except for people with weak immune systems. One sure way of weakening the immune systems of healthy people... is social distancing and excessive sterilization of surfaces. We NEED exposure to germs including viruses to maintain a healthy immune system. Social distancing had one legitimate purpose- to prevent health systems from being overwhelmed. That is past. Continuing to deny healthy people exposure to things that make them resistant to diseases will cause more people to get sick and die.

Between 90% and 97% of us will fight Covid-19 off in casual contact... like an open air stadium for 3 hours. Most of those who contract it will NOT have symptoms. Most with symptoms will not be severe enough to seek a doctor. A very small minority will get very sick. A fraction of that minority will die. This is all very much like the flu.

Before you argue with me about the numbers being VERY overinflated... watch this short video. A health official would NEVER say this of the flu. You don't label something as a "flu" death if the actual cause of death is "clearly something else".

 
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05_never_again said:
Easier to enforce some measure of social distancing when allowing students to return to classrooms than having 102k in a football stadium. I know they are going to try and have classes, but I bet you all the common areas will still be closed off.

Having football with no fans is much better than nothing. It'll be really weird watching games on TV with no crowd presence/noise.
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Just pretend it's a vandy home game
 
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OffTackleVol said:
was quoted by SDS as saying we will not have fans in the stands this fall. Wow, what a bold statement. Contrary to what he's saying, SEC campuses, with Vandy being the exception, have all said students will be back on campus this fall. I'd say football season is a go with fans in the stands......no doubt in my mind. Somebody needs to reel this guy in..........
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So nothing out of the usual for Vandy.
 
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Illinoisvolfan2 said:
I’m 64 and in excellent health. I’ll roll the dice and go. 102k of my closest friends
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I'm in the same boat and fought of sepsis, mersa, rhizmocur, and several others after my gut split due to that hernia patching procedure. I also smoke and I daily take liquid oxygen and recently purchased a nebulizer and inhale a mist of collidial silver and supplement that with zinc. IMO the human body is a magnificent machine...learn to care for it on your own because when you rely on others to do it they may be having a bad day!
 
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