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  1. Bartles
    VT-NC State might win the prize for first game that has to be bumped to the scheduled open date
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    I kind of understand why they repeat stuff...a lot of listeners probably aren't on a station day & night so if there's a track they want to feature, they need to drop it in multiple times over a week or so in order to reach the widest audience. You could argue, who cares as long as the station is true to its format, just mix things up. For some reason they really pimp certain songs in a given time...can't count how many times I've heard the same song on 80s then First Wave on the same day. I also think they are beholden to certain artists, presumably for some financial reason. Just like in the days of terrestrial radio, you gotta pay to get airtime. It frequently pisses me off when XMU pounds us with Grizzly Bear and Deerhunter. I've grown to dislike those acts just due to repetition. But I assume they have a deal with Sirius for bonus airings.
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    Note Riley said it was the test that wiped out the players, not being sick. Presumably asymptomatic and thus just have to wait until they test negative a couple times. If they had more frequent testing capability, that could be pretty soon. The fact it was all the same position would indicate they infected each other, though.
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    Welcome to Philly! Swoopes signed with Eagles, whose 3rd string TE is banged up at the moment.
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    I hate to agree about media agenda but in this case it's true. They like positive stories like people getting off ventilators and finally coming home, but they won't report large hopeful trends. They constantly paste the year-long stats on screen with no context, so viewers have no choice but to think everything is awful. My only thought is TV news (and legacy newspapers) knows its audience skews older and those folks are skeptical of good news.
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    They told voters to do pre-season rankings as if everybody was playing. Once games start, they are only supposed to vote for teams who are playing in the fall. i.e. Ohio State about to go from #2 to unranked 1-Clemson 2-Ohio St 3-Bama 4-UGA 5-OU 6-LSU 7-Penn State 8-Florida 9-Oregon 10-Notre Dame 11-Auburn 12-Wisconsin 13-A&M 14-TEXAS 15-OK State 16-Michigan 17-USC 18-UNC 19-Minn 20-Cincy 21-UCF 22-Utah 23-Iowa State 24-Iowa 25-Tennessee Others receiving votes: Memphis 86, Virginia Tech 85, Boise State 68, Arizona State 66, Miami (FL) 42, Louisville 32, Appalachian State 26, Washington 21, Kentucky 20, Indiana 19, Baylor 15, California 11, TCU 9, Virginia 7, Navy 6, Florida State 6, SMU 3, Mississippi State 3, Air Force 3, Northwestern 1, UAB 1
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    I can't be the only one who thinks this is a coordinated effort by the entire family to set themselves up for a multi-year Kardashian type contract. Reality show at the center of the business, all kinds of other branding opportunities.
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    The college football world is in no way ready to delve into accurate COVID stats. Games start two weeks from today, the only numbers we'll hear are reported positive cases, and I guess we'll find out if there's a high enough number to shut down the sport. Or it may not matter if any major teams get too many cases to even practice.
  10. Bartles
    U of Bama clarified that the 29 percent sample was from a small group of people experiencing symptoms and/or those who were in close contact with people experiencing symptoms. So it's good news!
  11. Bartles
    The conferences had already bumped volleyball to spring a couple weeks back. This just confirms the NCAA will try to stage a tournament, which is great if it works out. No idea where it puts them for 2021, they will probably want to get back on their fall schedule to preserve the pre-xmas Final Four on TV.
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    Guess they are mainly doing it for media attention, which makes some sense from their perspective
  13. Bartles
    This Big Ten parent protest is bizarre. Why would anyone physically be working at the league office these days anyway? Why would the commissioner every really need to go to the office?
  14. Bartles
    Most of your questions have been answered. Eligibility was addressed yesterday. All players get an extra year. They can opt out and still get an extra year. Teams are going out of their way to break up into groups so the entire team isn't in the same closed room at once for any length of time. Sounds like most teams are even splitting the positional groups so that for example the entire WR corps can't all become infected. Who will enforce? What if coaches knowingly play a positive player? What if there are outbreaks and games are called off? There are no great answers to these, teams are expected to self-police and it's in their best interests to be honest and safe. But if you're assuming the worst of CFB/human nature, yeah things can get ugly and the season could abruptly end. But no conference is going to say right now, "We can't play because this is a corrupt sport run by evil assholes."
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    As a fan living in Philly, most people really supported the process although a lot of season ticket holders were upset (and left). Others rallied behind the guys like TJ McConnell and Robert Covington who we knew deserved better, and eventually got to enjoy some success. I mainly argue that what Hinkie started, within the rules, worked out almost exactly as planned in terms of collecting picks staggered over time to also allow financial flexibility. It should have resulted in a multi-year shot at the finals, instead they continually flubbed personnel decisions and the 2019 game 7 loss to Kawhi is probably as far as Embiid/Simmons will ever get with this team. I agree season-long tanking is not good for the game, and don't want to see it again to that extent. Obviously the current powers who either paid and/or developed their way to the top are a better model for others.
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    This will send some people to their fainting couches, but I think it's a good move. They can broadcast in the corner of an empty stadium without disrupting the pregame. Bring some coaches, etc. over for distanced interviews. Use zoom to still let people hold up signs. Corso can still do the mascot hat thing, assuming he's good with traveling (private plane I assume).
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    The process was a clear success, it's just that they made massive mistakes with some of the lottery picks that they tanked so hard to get. Jahlil Okafor, Markelle Fultz (plus the #1 pick we gave rival Boston for him) and Zhaire Smith provided nothing. Now this year they blew it on the contract side. But all that tanking put them in a great spot to build a contender for several years.
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    Sixers getting humiliated. Was gonna be tough without Simmons, but this has really shown the drop-off from last year's team, mainly letting Butler go and maxing Horford in his place. Probably have a new coach/GM next year, but it's hard to see them making much of an inroads against the top 3 in the east, not to mention some other improved teams.
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    They had to do that. Can't ask these guys/girls to endure all this shit with no reward. Next year will be messy either way, with high school kids not having full seasons, etc.
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    I want to ask people stop posting fringe nut jobs like Deace and C Travis, but I guess it's kind of instructive. This drumbeat of how it's all about fear of organizing is likely coming from a certain type of "believer". I won't cloak room this, just point out that I don't see a lot of very qualified local and national journalists touching the player organizing angle as a reason for not playing right now. The organizing issues are real, but: some issues (revenue sharing) have been around for decades, so buying a few months time is pointless; some like NIL are already well underway and postponing fall football does nothing to prevent their progress; the players themselves are mainly demanding health protocols that are being addressed for the most part. Also wish someone kept an accuracy rate of "little birdie told me" tweets, most are forgotten pretty quickly
  21. Bartles
    I wonder if this mess is an indication that some presidents weren't happy about Warren as Jim Delany's replacement and are using COVID as a power play, either to set him up to leave at some point or at least to assert themselves in future shaping future Big Ten policy. Kind of like Beebe never really had control of the Big 12 presidents.
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    A few weeks ago, I posted pretty much exactly that plan laid out by SI (football on campus with other "essential" students only) and people here got quite huffy about it. Was called something like "the dumbest thing ever posted on a message board" as I recall. I don't see it happening though, there are good reasons people would be upset.
  23. Bartles
    Those are great article clips by @Hurtlocker and @Sbbruin on this page. Thanks for pasting. Between them they clear up a lot of the misperceptions that ordinary fans have about this is all playing out. I know it wouldn't be college sports if we didn't get mad and insult other teams/conferences (and even each other), but everyone has to navigate COVID USA based on their own circumstances. Those articles do a great job explaining that challenge.
  24. Bartles
    SEC opening week promises at least six of seven games will be snoozer blowouts. How exciting! I know, maybe UKY hangs with Auburn but who cares.
  25. Bartles
    It's contagious as fuck. I don't care how ignorant, liberated, or "non-compliant" Americans are, we can't march tons of people into certain sickness. A college and its town can't function without adults doing maintenance, food service, security, IT, office administration, transportation...basically every job that exists. Even Tuscaloosa isn't gonna stay open if everyone is going around infecting each other.

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