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I'm no medical professional, but is that guy from Utah saying that people that caught it, but hardly even knew it, are somehow at a risk of getting it again and "next time" it will do real damage? I mean, doesn't that fly in the face of all medical knowledge we have to this point? I mean, the person didn't have antibodies to COVID-19 before they caught it, so why would the lack of lasting antibodies make the second time around something to be concerned about. My struggle with this thing is all of the magical powers it seems to have, like the strokes it supposedly causes that everyone was up in arms about a month or two ago. What happened to those? It seems like we are throwing everything that we know about medicine out the window because of this novel coronavirus. I get that it is serious, and it isn't "just the flu". But that doesn't change the fact that it is a coronavirus, and almost every human on the planet has been infected by one of those at some point.

He was defending the temporary aggy sacred land in Lubbock just like they defend their sacred grass and sacred statues.

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I am already kicking myself for jumping into this shit flinging contest, but how in the hell do you link that tweet to school shootings?

This is where I am as well. Focusing on cases at this point also misses the point entirely. Clemson football has around 25% of their team infected by COVID. I am guessing that most of them would never know that they had it unless they were forced to do the test. How many others are doing the same type of thing before they let employees return to offices? I have no idea how many, but it would seem like a significant group of people are being tested that are not showing symptoms right now. Hospitalization was the reason for flattening the curve. It should be the metric we are all following now. I know the limitations with HIPAA, but a generalization of hospital stats should be what we focus on as decisions are made. Monitoring deaths still matters obviously, but it is a lagging indicator.

No doubt. Scam is the one who pulled back the veil on the cheating in the SEC and everyone seemed to just shrug their shoulders. Fuck that piece of shit and his daddy too.

We've got a pool and a beach. Beach would be good for you though

Heeeere's Johnny!

I have a 9 year old daughter as well. When all of the beaches were closed here in Florida, the depression was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Beaches opening gave everyone an outlet and a place to go other than the house. I'm worried they are about to close again. No one sleeps in my house anymore. We make the 9 year old shut down around 10, but the older 2 are up until midnight or later. Luckily I am still working from home and get up 15 minutes before I log in to work, so going to sleep at midnight isn't awful. The truly weird thing is the fact that I never leave the house anymore. I went from Friday to Wednesday a week or so ago and only left the house once to go buy stuff to put on the grill. I was out of the house maybe 30 minutes in a 120 hour period. I am pretty sure I am slowly losing my mind.

I kind of figured you were joking, but weight lifting is not a trivial matter. But, this quote was always my concern dude. Once I learned that liquor and beer were essential it significantly calmed my nerves.

Since this is now the "How much can you bench, bro" thread, I need to comment on this. 1x should be doable by most guys who have ever lifted weights. 2x is otherworldly. I weigh 200 and can do that weight probably 10 times. I would need 2 spotters to get 400 lbs off of me before my sternum cracked. Also, you nail the issue with women in a later post. I bet my wife and 2 teenage daughters couldn't do half of their body weight. My daughters are gymnasts and very strong, but they have no clue how to lift weights at all. Off topic, but may be of interest to the non-weight lifting bros: Florida just shut down all of the bars again and they are requiring masks in all businesses after 5pm today.

I'm gonna back away from this one, because I don't want to go too far out on this limb and give the wrong impression. I support the ongoing movement, and I am far from a right wing apologist. I get where the player is coming from, but I think we are on a very slippery slope if we let one side of a (very biased in my opinion) story damn a human being as racist and end his career as a result. It seems like that was the goal of the tweet, and the provided "evidence" is pretty speculative to me.

I'm viewing the comment from the perspective of a guy who wants to label his position coach a Slave Master because his high school coach said it (which he denied saying). So, sure there is a racist way to talk about the wall. The wall is also a fact that is very divisive and probably not a position meeting topic. I get the whole, keep politics out of sports topic, but that is for boards like this one. To think that a wide variety of topics don't get discussed between coaches and players that meet for 20 hours each week is ridiculous. Hell, my WR coach in high school used to tell us stories about Vietnamese prostitutes during football practice. Highly frowned upon and innappropriate sure, but we loved the stories.

I watch the news, and I am pretty sure the US is building a wall between the US and Mexico. Will we tear down the racist wall after Trump leaves office? I think there are valid arguments for protecting our borders. Sure it can take racist tones, but to declare that topic racist is unfair. It is a political hot button, but what isn't lately?

My issue is that a man has been accused of racism and mistreatment by one of his players, when all I see is a old white out of touch guy saying things that are no longer acceptable. The university has called these allegations serious, echoed the racism claim, and are taking actions to fire him. I haven't seen one rebuttal that says he was racist or mistreated his player, only that he acted innappropriately. I agree with that, and it may deserve some form of retribution, but being labeled a racist who mistreats his players doesn't seem to fit the crime. Are we just defaulting to any Republican Trump supporting Christian is a racist? That seems to be the claim to me.

It obviously doesn't, but at the same time I don't think this is an isolated event. There are plenty of coaches that are Christians that would use their platform to try to influence their players toward Christianity. Is that a fireable offense? And the player admits that he "changed" his religion, so he obviously has some questions going on that he is trying to get answers to. Regardless, I hardly see religious discussions as a fireable offense. Basically, what I see in this narrative by the player, is an old, white, Christian, conservative, Trump supporter that has a very hard time relating to younger primarily black players that he coaches. I am sure he has said and done some very politically incorrect things on a practice field in his decades as a coach. What I don't see in the narrative is a clear cut fireable offense. But what percent chance would you give that Coach Koennig coaches for WVU this year? I would go with less than 5%.

So my daughter would be one of the 3rd graders in your 25% that can't get her work done. The thing is, she is quite smart and very capable. She is an extremely social being and she struggles mightily with the isolation of the home school atmosphere. She has older sisters (9th and 12th) that would much rather gripe at her than help or encourage her, and me, a guy stuck working from home pushing 50 hour weeks while also trying to be a "3rd grade teacher". My wife is a nurse and obviously can't do that job from home. So, in my mind, it is a much more widespread problem than what you describe. If they are going to stick us with educating our kids at home, they are going to have to come up with a much better system than what I have seen so far.

ChiTownDoc was my past go-to for real and believable information. Looks like you may take his place. Thanks for what you do. Nurses don't get nearly the respect and compensation that they deserve. Hang in there, and know that there are lots of people thinking about you and praying for you.

I'm not saying that he doesn't need to be corrected and he may be the monster he is labeled to be, but there are some GIANT leaps of intent in this Twitter post. I agree that he shouldn't force his religion on student athletes and speaking about politics is not appropriate in team meetings. But some of these assumptions and labels are based on nothing but speculation. I'm not trying to victim shame here, but to label someone as a "Slave Master" because your high school coach made that comment, or to say you are treated "like property" because your coach tells you to go to a meeting is WAY too far.

Holy shit, where are we going with this? So talking about religion or politics is now offensive? Having your high school coach relay to you that after talking to your current position coach he "seems like a Slave Master" makes him a racist? This is heresay at best, and a man is likely to lose his job as a result. How did he happen to know that this player converted his religion? I would guess because said player made it known. So is this a one way street? It is apparently ok to be open about being a Muslim, but not a Christian. Telling your group of players to get to a meeting is treating them like property? This is craziness. I understand that it sounds like an old school coach needs to be spoken to about what is appropriate and what is not. But to have this guy outed as a racist because some player has some loose quotes that he says offended him shouldn't be the basis of letting a coach go.

Know which guy I don't want to hear the opinion of? ^

In the 90s most of the stadium was in a color other than burnt orange. I had a navy hat with block TEXAS in burnt orange and I loved that hat. The shirt I miss most was a Republic of Texas shirt that was a knock off on the old school Banana Republic white pocket tee with a Longhorn on the back. I would love to have that shirt again.

The simple fact that we never wear alternate unis would make the black jerseys that much more effective. I've never wanted alternates, but I could see that jersey for this cause.