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Plains states have been the hotspot for a few weeks now. Not sure if it got posted, but even Bill Hancock of CFP and his wife had COVID in late August, mild symptoms, both fully recovered now. They live in Overland Park.
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Probably throwing a bone to the masses, you get a NCAA tourney bid (and maybe even win a game or two against your fellow have-nots) in exchange for us canceling all the November-December "buy" games that you use to fund your existence. The logistics are impossible in a pandemic, and good luck getting CBS/Turner to air anything before it's cut down to 64-96 teams. Some type of expansion makes sense, since there may be some good teams that only play 18 games or so. But not 300+ teams
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Temple-Navy postponement is weird. Temple claims they couldn't get "game ready" because of local COVID restrictions, not positive cases. There were a couple hundred cases on campus when Temple came back to school, but no reported athletes. Seems like it had something to do with what Navy looked like trying to open the season vs BYU without having done full contact practices.
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That infamous high school in Georgia that went on-line after viral photos in the hallway won its first football game 24-7 the other day. School is partially re-opening this week as hybrid model
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Herbstreit to the Athletic below. Guess many of you think this is just an elaborate lie and that the producer and Maria Taylor (who were also quoted in the story) agreed to verify for him. Either way, I agree with the above comment, it sucks that Herbie crying is the big headline.
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"How do you listen to these stories and not feel pain, not want to help? You can't relate to that if you're white but you can listen and try to help because this is not okay." -- is the part where he started breaking up. Guess a lot of people have such visceral reactions to the guy they can't accept that at least in this case he said something meaningful. Even if it was pre-planned, I disagree that it "sucked ass". I will say it is possible Kirk did more harm than good today because his crying has attracted like 1,000 times the attention than the really cool segment with the players. Especially drawing out the mouth breathers like on the LSU thread. Maybe the whole panel should have just said we're gonna shut up and let the players have the last word here.
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I thought Kirk was genuine, even if maybe he knew he was going to choke up beforehand and just let it happen. The real question is, does it fucking matter if he faked it? Can we maybe listen to their words this one time? That whole segment was really good, as was the "should we play" discussion at the top. Wish we could save the hate for every other episode of this show this season.
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They don't have to tell us. SMU is a non-conference game so the threshold doesn't apply. As some people posted earlier, this may have a lot to do with TCU realizing what was gonna happen on the field vs a solid Pony squad that will have already played a game.
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Congrats Stars! Fun team to watch for those of us not overly invested in them
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Maybe they didn't want one team to have an extra day rest before conference finals, given both west series went the same length. And I assume the 5-hour gap between games is to allow for overtime(s). I'm no expert, but I think the quality of play looks the same as past years. It sucks not to have fans, but it might help that the teams' practice and lodging has been consistent for weeks.
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Great job on that! Your dad should have invented TikTok It's wild looking at all those old, crappy SWC arenas and then realizing, wait a minute we still basically play in one of those
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Oh well... waived by the Eagles
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Wolken knowingly smacks the beehive on a regular basis, especially the stereotypical SEC fan base. But I would argue that's more his personality rather than some football-related agenda. None of these guys are robots. Tony Barnhart is another great journalist who is kind of an anti-Wolken...he tends to assuage the SEC folks. I trust both those guys when they report something, even just "from a P5 source."
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Just like people promoting Clay Travis bullshit is a "tell" about them as a poster, so is shitting on Thamel, Mandel, Wolken and other national writers. The latter group are actual journalists so they sometimes have to update their reporting with new info, and sometimes their sources turn out to be off base. But none of them have an agenda. They may be complete assholes irl (I think we hate Thamel from some long-ago OU reporting), but you won't find them taking black/white ignorant stands on important issues like COVID.
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The Isles give up a lot of shots, but hardly any really good scoring chances. Then they force a handful of turnovers with their forecheck to score 2-3 per game themselves and that's enough to win against most teams. It's impressive, but Tampa has enough talent to finish their chances and also better discipline to not turn it over. The Flyers can't seem to put away enough of their decent chances. Big injuries last night on both sides, Couturier for PHI (looked like knee-to-knee contact) and Barzal for NYI (stick blade to the eye area). Probably won't know their status until game time.
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There are a ton of reasons the B1G presidents can't just reverse course. It was never as simple as getting rapid tests for the players, though that is a big deal and needs to happen either way. There would be an uproar about prioritizing publicly-funded tests. And they've already planted their stake about myocarditis and other unknown complications. This is another flesh wound for Kevin Warren either way. He looks silly for capitulating to Trump after a single phone call, and/or he becomes even more of a pariah to fans if it doesn't work out.
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This will probably fizzle like everything Trump does, but if he got them on the field in time to be CFP eligible, it could legitimately gain him several points in the WI, MI and PA polls (he's already safe in OH, IA among others)
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WIFE: I still need to hear those three words sometimes ME:
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The best would be 9-0 Cincinnati in the Rose Bowl semifinal the same weekend Ohio State trashes Michigan to improve to 6-0
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Starting on Thanksgiving would be in line with what NCAA basketball is looking at...most campuses are set to empty out at that time, so conditions would possibly be safer. But we've seen over and over that COVID doesn't respect anyone's timeline. It's a good move in terms of maybe keeping some NFL candidates on the field, since they could still hit the combine on time. It won't do anything in terms of influencing the playoff. No one outside Ohio and Michigan will care if those teams are playing opposite a CFP semifinal on Jan. 1. The by-the-books AP poll would probably go ahead and rank them once they kick off, so everyone would cry, "The No. 2 team in the country isn't in the playoff!" But CFP isn't putting a 5-0 team in over an 8-1 team that started in September.
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RE: Big Ten breakthrough Red October guy at desk: Let me understand...Abbott Labs developed ANOTHER 15-minute test?
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Between COVID denial and the police, we've lost a lot of sports this year because white people don't give a fuck when black people are killed
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We may as well keep using this thread even though the FBI is technically on the sidelines. As expected, the NCAA is using the FBI evidence is pursuing various cases such as LSU. They want to use the new "IARP" penalty system, the one you can't appeal once it rules on the case. ESPN: Wade part of impermissible payments to recruits, others
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Again, "little birdies" means it's complete bullshit
