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The 2020 College Football Season

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Jake said:
Anyone who thinks the Covid shit is going to get better come November/December is likely setting himself up for disappointment. Typically the beginning of flu season, now you have people who haven't seen grandma in months. Are they really not going to get together for Thanksgiving and Christmas?

There's already Covid fatigue. Another couple months and people will be set on having their holidays as usual - indoors, in groups. Good luck.
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This is a good point.

Looking at the numbers around the world and in the US, there are several interesting trends, one of which bolsters Jake's point.

  1. Places that got used to wearing masks during previous epidemics were much less affected
  2. Places with high population density that were not protected by #1 were more affected
  3. Places with a lot of swamp land were much more affected (sort US states by # of cases per 1M pop)
  4. Places where a significant amount of the populous lives at high elevation seemed to be more affected, but less so than swamp land
  5. To Jake's point: The Southern Hemisphere, whose winter is in its final month, is well represented among places with a lot of cases, especially when you consider the fact that just over 10% of the world's population lives south of the equator, and most of those live close enough to the equator that their winter is not harsh.
This virus is going nowhere, and Winter is Coming

Are we really supposed to believe that people who are smart enough to become the presidents of universities really think they're going to have a season that starts in January? The decision makers, who give every appearance of being more cautious than everyone else, are not going to look at the rebounding numbers and put players on the field. If it's not started before Thanksgiving, it's highly doubtful it will start at all.
 
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DaddyBigBucks said:
This is a good point.

Looking at the numbers around the world and in the US, there are several interesting trends, one of which bolsters Jake's point.

  1. Places that got used to wearing masks during previous epidemics were much less affected
  2. Places with high population density that were not protected by #1 were more affected
  3. Places with a lot of swamp land were much more affected (sort US states by # of cases per 1M pop)
  4. Places where a significant amount of the populous lives at high elevation seemed to be more affected, but less so than swamp land
  5. To Jake's point: The Southern Hemisphere, whose winter is in its final month, is well represented among places with a lot of cases, especially when you consider the fact that just over 10% of the world's population lives south of the equator, and most of those live close enough to the equator that their winter is not harsh.
This virus is going nowhere, and Winter is Coming

Are we really supposed to believe that people who are smart enough to become the presidents of universities really think they're going to have a season that starts in January? The decision makers, who give every appearance of being more cautious than everyone else, are not going to look at the rebounding numbers and put players on the field. If it's not started before Thanksgiving, it's highly doubtful it will start at all.
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Plus, as UFM put it on the BTN the other day, the number of games you can expect to play healthily in one calendar year. He was of the impression that was enough for them not to have spring football, and I am inclined to agree with him.
 
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Realizing that hindsight is 20/20...
I wonder what could've been done for the football season if the B1G's leadership had "planned for the worst" instead of what appears to be just "hoping for the best".
The task force should have been established in April (if not March when the tourney was cancelled), time lines laid out for milestones, meetings for hashing out and refining (as goals are met/variables arise/strategies change/etc), then rolling out something that looks like a solidified plan of execution. This could have and should have been done by such an accumulation of knowledge and intelligence in this conference.
 
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muffler dragon said:
Realizing that hindsight is 20/20...
I wonder what could've been done for the football season if the B1G's leadership had "planned for the worst" instead of what appears to be just "hoping for the best".
The task force should have been established in April (if not March when the tourney was cancelled), time lines laid out for milestones, meetings for hashing out and refining (as goals are met/variables arise/strategies change/etc), then rolling out something that looks like a solidified plan of execution. This could have and should have been done by such an accumulation of knowledge and intelligence in this conference.
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That would have been the common sense business strategy..they are academia
 
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muffler dragon said:
I understand what you're saying, but the schools and the conference are a corporation. They are in the money business.
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Well they must not be profit driven, because their decisions are not positive from a financial standpoint and are killing all non revenue generating sports.

And yeah there is the lawsuit side of this, but that’s what they pay insurance for.
 
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