Everything posted by Bartles
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The end of the current form of colleg football
Couple comments in the article about football travel made me wonder, can schools use force majeure clauses to get out of all those future non-league games if they want? Not that it would be a big issue, but if a new AD decides he'd rather not make a long trip five years from now, maybe he could blame the virus and back out?
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XFL: The sequel
@ProFootballTalkIn 2018, Vince McMahon said that XFL 2.0 would be "strictly funded" by him, with no WWE involvement; the XFL bankruptcy filing shows that the WWE owns 23.5 percent of the Class B stock
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SNL 45
You gotta lower the bar a ton for them right now. They did a nice job with editing and graphics. The Ego Nwodim (had to look her up) makeup bit and the teen film reviewer were pretty good imo. Still, I'd rather they took a couple more weeks off to work on the next one. But I guess NBC can't resist the ratings potential with everyone stuck at home.
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
That's a great point about not trusting the coaches. It should be taken out of their hands, but Nick Saban isn't going to let some doctor tell him his best pass rusher can't play the morning of a game. And I agree the mass testing looks impossible as of today. But the leagues that are doing serious planning at the moment are counting on it. Another thing I know sounds preposterous today: at some point we will have "public life" again, pre-vaccine. It will be dangerous, but the goal is for immunity, testing and treatment to make it low risk.
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
They're tested at least once per week. (Again, this is minimum four months from now, probably more like 10 months. Ideally most of the population is being tested regularly at that point.) Temperature and symptom checks daily. Still somewhat social distanced, like no mingling in large crowds. Schooled on hygiene. So chances of them getting COVID and having time to spread it widely should be very small. Maybe that's crazy talk. Hard to visualize it now, but things could look quite different as the months go by.
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Realignment talk not going away
- College Football in 2020 in danger?
"As soon as someone tests positive" is understandably a big talking point NOW, but the idea is for testing & treatment to get to the point where one positive COVID is no different that one positive winter cold popping up in the past. Yes, it might take out more than one person for a brief time, and yes we all know it can be fatal for some people. But the medical consensus is we can reach a good comfort level on sports prior to a vaccine. Not sure the doctors want to talk about full stadiums yet, since that crowd could include at-risk, untested fans.- College Football in 2020 in danger?
Chris Fowler video on Instagram with "informed speculation" he is very confident there will be a season played during the upcoming academic year. He is skeptical of the normal schedule, pretty iffy on a "late" schedule that goes from fall into winter. Sounds like he's preparing for a February through May season, since it gives the medical side a chance to settle in and maybe even have fans. He pointed out that this decision will be made on the governmental level, ADs and commissioners won't have much say. That's nothing too different from what national writers have reported, but you know Fowler has high ESPN connections so his guess is as good as any. They've probably talked to him about whether he'd prefer CFB or the Australian Open which he usually does after the season.- 2020 Soccer Catchall Thread
I just finished the series. From what I've read, they weren't exactly accurate on the PR girl who appeared to quit or get fired nor more importantly the Maja negotiations. But I agree, what a dickpunch life for the fans. Their 2019-20 ends (hangs in limbo, maybe) with Sunderland tied on points for the last playoff spot, but having played an extra game. Several teams bunched up ahead of them.- I think I may have Covid-19 thread - 2 confirmed cases
Wow, the stories are so varied. Hope those that have beaten it are good to frolic about until well after the vaccine debuts- CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
As horrible as Trump and the federal govt has been, it seems like all governments have strong dis-incentives to testing: - Testing costs money and is logistically challenging - High positive numbers are bad PR (people freak out and think they're not being protected) - The vast majority of positives don't need to go to the hospital before they recover - Many positives don't even know they have it before it's gone - Serious cases end up in hospital anyway, so testing seems redundant Obviously, from a medical and societal standpoint, widespread testing should be a tremendous priority because we can't "re-open" without it. But I can see why even local governments would slow-walk it. Hope I'm wrong- 2020 General MLB off-season
- 2020 New Music Thread
If you remember "Future Me Hates Me" from a couple years ago, The Beths have a new album this summer- Mike Gundy solves college football's fake injury problems but not coronavirus or BLM
OK, put another way, "why he won't even get an offer from another major school"- Mike Gundy solves college football's fake injury problems but not coronavirus or BLM
Pete Thamel de-mulleting column aka why he's never leaving OK State- SURLY ROAD TRIP 2020: Baton Rouge - Texas at LSU, Sept. 12
When the season gets pushed back a semester, we can look forward to trips to both Kansas schools in the dead of winter- Favorite Virus Songs
Two different Belle & Sebastian songs in one thread, not sure if that's allowed but...- College Football in 2020 in danger?
Typical sensationalist Finebaum messaging. I don't know anything about the KSU guy, but we'll be lucky to have a vaccine "in place" (like, for everyone) by July 2021. To have CFB games, we need campuses open which will mainly be about immunity and ability to test quickly. Consensus on that seems to be 2-4 months after whenever the curve comes all the way back down.- College Football in 2020 in danger?
More possibilities from The Athletic. Noninvasive temperature checks at stadium gates "Checkerboard" seating for fans (How do you enforce? I can't see this working in CFB or NFL at all) CLEAR-type preregistration so fans can prove they are healthy and jump to front of line. CLEAR is already set up at some venues- Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
They're still gonna scavenge Texas, Pa and Fla for recruits- College Football in 2020 in danger?
McMurphy on some of the radical options being considered, such as the CFP games held after the NFL draft around Memorial Day. Some very awkward conversations will be needed on most campuses. Sounds like a serious disagreement on whether athletes should be allowed on campus if all other students are not. This should come more into focus by late May https://watchstadium.com/spring-football-eight-game-season-ads-ponder-contingency-plans-04-01-2020/- FBI vs. NCAA Coaches
The Scheme was interesting but it was obviously going to be a Christian Dawkins "I'm not a villain, I'm a hero" piece. The producers clearly spent a bunch of money dressing him up and having him do re-enactments around the country, with which he happily complied of course. Most of the documentary was focused on his story, which was certainly interesting and he is an engaging interview. But the stuff CBB fans are looking for is mostly hurried out in the final 30 minutes. The Jay Bilas soundbite kind of summed up the whole thing - NCAA powerless, and the FBI/SDNY whiffed. Not sure why Kansas was only briefly mentioned, maybe they were more involved in the Merl Code proceedings as opposed to Dawkins.- Name the best album NAME that isn't a track
Women and Children First Yankee Hotel Foxtrot The White Album (and The Black Album)- Running Thread of Famous People With COVID 19
Actor John Callahan, 13 years on All My Children and a bunch of other soaps, passed away ESPN's Doris Burke and Kaylee Hartung both have it but seem to be mostly recovered- 2020 New Music Thread
Bright Eyes promises a new album some time this year, first since 2011. A single is available now: - College Football in 2020 in danger?
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