College Football in 2020 in danger?

[Grade of D as in David 13,253]

58 minutes ago, mdmost said:

aggy too

 

12th man story was always a crock of shit.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,817]

LSU/Bama postponed.

Cool, Wisconsin @ Michigan it is, I guess

[nnm 36,386]

I was assured by very confident sources that this would all be gone Nov. 4.  Huh. 

[Royalfan5 2,354]

I keep wondering if hospital capacity is going to come into play at some point. Lincoln is starting to get overrun now, and I would think you would have a hard time hosting a game if there was no local capacity available as a precaution. It was talked about this summer that NASCAR need assurances of available spots to run their summer race at Texas.

[mdmost 43,001]

The SEC is doing great. They're getting into the territory of having to play these games in the same weekend as the SEC Championship. 

 

Edited November 11, 2020 by mdmost

[The Ace of Aces 5,182]

15 hours ago, Royalfan5 said:

I keep wondering if hospital capacity is going to come into play at some point. Lincoln is starting to get overrun now, and I would think you would have a hard time hosting a game if there was no local capacity available as a precaution. It was talked about this summer that NASCAR need assurances of available spots to run their summer race at Texas.

Nationwide, hospitalizations have doubled since September and we're very quickly hitting peak hospitalization rate we had in the spring. (Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/10/933253317/covid-19-hospitalizations-are-surging-where-are-hospitals-reaching-capacity) 

It's gonna be a long, long winter with a lot of deaths. 

[Sgt Hulk 13,716]

Fire up the doom And gloom baby. We gonna be Italy next week.  The hospital beds track em

[4th&Five 41,535]

 

[mdmost 43,001]

Edited November 11, 2020 by mdmost

[Js1 85,321]

 

[UTCzech III 2,907]

Disney gotta be loving these cancellations, $EC payout ought to be great this year

[Newy25 7,668]

21 hours ago, Js1 said:

College football and the United States of America, obviously.

But sure, let's only blame the SEC and no one else.  No shared responsibility in this. Federal response? NCAA? The P5 as a group?

Nah. 

If it were up to you, we wouldn’t have had any games or a any kind of season. 

Edited November 11, 2020 by Newy25

[4th&Five 41,535]

 

[mdmost 43,001]

 

[alincoln 2,371]

Big 10 is about to be done

[Parliament 14,258]

So what's the fewest number of games Ohio State can play, and still get into the playoff? Ie, will a 5-0 team get in? 4-0?

[USNALonghorn 5,078]

I have zero sympathy for the B1G and PAC-12. Should've just stuck with your preseason "decision".

[Trey3216 15,346]

1 hour ago, Newy25 said:

If it were up to you, we wouldn’t have had any games or a any kind of season. 

Pr

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,905]

1 hour ago, Newy25 said:

If it were up to you, we wouldn’t have had any games or a any kind of season. 

And the way the things have gone, It turns out that I would have been ok with that 

[WhatTheBuck 28,779]

I was assured that Covid talk would go away on Nov. 4.

[4th&Five 41,535]

nm

 

Edited November 11, 2020 by 4th&Five

[dingleberryswitzer 2,724]

16 hours ago, USNALonghorn said:

I have zero sympathy for the B1G and PAC-12. Should've just stuck with your preseason "decision".

You have to laugh.  

[Doc Sam Beckett 5,793]

19 hours ago, Parliament said:

So what's the fewest number of games Ohio State can play, and still get into the playoff? Ie, will a 5-0 team get in? 4-0?

Everybody knows OSU is a top 4 team, and likely top 2 team. They'll figure out a way to get them in even if OSU doesn't play another game from here out. 

[JMFP 1,120]

9 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

Everybody knows OSU is a top 4 team, and likely top 2 team. They'll figure out a way to get them in even if OSU doesn't play another game from here out. 

All the committee has to do is say they're in because we say so.

[Parliament 14,258]

Everybody knows OSU is a top 4 team, and likely top 2 team. They'll figure out a way to get them in even if OSU doesn't play another game from here out. 

All the committee has to do is say they're in because we say so.

Good to know thx

[SurlyORama 164]

20 hours ago, mdmost said:

 

According to the Big Ten, "a team must play at least six games to be considered for participation in the championship game. However, if the average number of conference games played by all teams falls below six, with the average rounded up/down at .50 (i.e. 6.50 or greater would round up to 7, 6.49 or less would round down to 6), then teams must play no less than two fewer conference games than the average number of conference games played by all teams (i.e. four games played if the conference average is six)to be considered."

So, has nothing to do with "the majority of the rest" play 6 or not. It's the average number played. Might be correlated somewhat, but different. Even that's confusing, because it says "if the average ... falls below 6", but then uses 6.50 and 6.49 as examples.

Who here thinks that, if an undefeated OSU is only looking to get 5 games played, that a number of other games just "might happen to get cancelled out of concern for student-athlete well-being", so that the average number can get to 7.49 or lower?

 

Edited November 12, 2020 by SurlyORama

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

13 minutes ago, SurlyORama said:

Who here thinks that, if an undefeated OSU is only looking to get 5 games played, that a number of other games just "might happen to get cancelled out of concern for student-athlete well-being", so that the average number can get to 7.49 or lower?

no, I think the Big Ten has been itching to give Indiana the benefit of the doubt and put them over

[utee94 15,820]

1 minute ago, SwanderedTalent said:

no, I think the Big Ten has been itching to give Indiana the benefit of the doubt and put them over

No doubt.  Indiana in the B1G CCG would be a boon to ratings, and should they win, the CFP would eat that up, too.

 

 

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

1 minute ago, utee94 said:

No doubt.  Indiana in the B1G CCG would be a boon to ratings, and should they win, the CFP would eat that up, too.

 

 

I've heard a lot of crazy conspiracy theories about COVID, but the CFP and ESPN manufacturing the whole thing to engineer an Indiana-Texas A&M national championship game.... that's not crazy, that's just the way it is, bro.

[Sgt Hulk 13,716]

Guys I’m getting scared 

[Js1 85,321]

Still time for Tom to get his games against KSU and ISU cancelled!! 

[mdmost 43,001]

Joel Klatt was saying on the Ticket yesterday that what we're seeing is a lot of cancellations due to the contact tracing required after positive cases. It's working it's way through the Big 10 and SEC right now. The Big 12 will be next though, according to him. Any game we get right now is a gift. But seriously, time to do away with fans at the game. Notre Dame showed why it should be over. 

[Macklemore 2,876]

On 11/10/2020 at 3:44 PM, Js1 said:

College football and the United States of America, obviously.

But sure, let's only blame the SEC and no one else.  No shared responsibility in this. Federal response? NCAA? The P5 as a group?

Nah. 

We are getting a vaccine by the end of the month. Lighten the fuck up Francis. We have one month to go before the worst of this ends. Those that want to get the vaccine to the head of the line and can live life normally; those that don't - fuck off, stay home and don't complain.

Edited November 12, 2020 by Macklemore

[Js1 85,321]

5 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

We are getting a vaccine by the end of the month. Lighten the fuck up Francis. We have one month to go before the worst of this ends. Those that want to get the vaccine to the head of the line and can live life normally; those that don't - fuck off, stay home and don't complain.

LOL end of the month for the general public?  Sure Jan. 

[TexArcher 37,774]

6 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

We are getting a vaccine by the end of the month. Lighten the fuck up Francis. We have one month to go before the worst of this ends. Those that want to get the vaccine to the head of the line and can live life normally; those that don't - fuck off, stay home and don't complain.

Lulz

 

[General Specific 3,259]

We are getting a vaccine by the end of the month. Lighten the fuck up Francis. We have one month to go before the worst of this ends. Those that want to get the vaccine to the head of the line and can live life normally; those that don't - fuck off, stay home and don't complain.

Please please please show Surly your paystub proving you are a nurse. Or are you going to make a bet, and if you lose, fist yourself? The internets are serious business!

[aggie08 21,501]

18 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

We are getting a vaccine by the end of the month. Lighten the fuck up Francis. We have one month to go before the worst of this ends. Those that want to get the vaccine to the head of the line and can live life normally; those that don't - fuck off, stay home and don't complain.

Somehow, against all odds, you're giving Macklemore a bad name.

[mdleast 8,289]

[Macklemore 2,876]

18 minutes ago, Js1 said:

LOL end of the month for the general public?  Sure Jan. 

If Pfizer receives authorization for its vaccine from the Food and Drug Administration in the coming weeks, as expected, the company in theory could vaccinate millions of Americans by the end of the year, taking advantage of months of planning and decades of experience.

“I am very confident. I live and breathe this,” Tanya Alcorn, a Pfizer executive overseeing the supply chain for the vaccine, said in an interview on Wednesday. “We have developed a system that does not waste any precious vaccine.”

 

[utee94 15,820]

42 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Joel Klatt was saying on the Ticket yesterday that what we're seeing is a lot of cancellations due to the contact tracing required after positive cases. It's working it's way through the Big 10 and SEC right now. The Big 12 will be next though, according to him. Any game we get right now is a gift. But seriously, time to do away with fans at the game. Notre Dame showed why it should be over. 

Eh, our entitled wine and cheese fans aren't going to rush the field.  What do you think this is, November 10, 1990???

 

 

[mdmost 43,001]

Yeah, most of that will go to front line healthcare workers and the elderly. It's not going to college football players. 

[4th&Five 41,535]

5 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

If Pfizer receives authorization for its vaccine from the Food and Drug Administration in the coming weeks, as expected, the company in theory could vaccinate millions of Americans by the end of the year, taking advantage of months of planning and decades of experience.

“I am very confident. I live and breathe this,” Tanya Alcorn, a Pfizer executive overseeing the supply chain for the vaccine, said in an interview on Wednesday. “We have developed a system that does not waste any precious vaccine.”

 

A. The end of the month isn't the end of the year.

B. That article lists multiple challenges standing in the way of all of us returning to normalcy in the next few months.

C. You seem have a lot more faith in the public and private sector being able to roll this out without major hiccups than I do.  Especially since it has never been done before.

[4th_and_18 687]

The fact that the vaccine has to be stored at such a low temperature that all parts of the supply chain will have to be upgraded means that estimates of delivery schedule are all way too optimistic. When Fauci says maybe we start seeing general public vaccines by April that sounds more reasonable. The maybe part I mean.

[nnm 36,386]

1 hour ago, Macklemore said:

We are getting a vaccine by the end of the month. Lighten the fuck up Francis. We have one month to go before the worst of this ends. Those that want to get the vaccine to the head of the line and can live life normally; those that don't - fuck off, stay home and don't complain.

Man, why do we have to wait until the end of the month?  The whole thing just vanished on November 4, didn't it?

[Macklemore 2,876]

10 minutes ago, nnm said:

Man, why do we have to wait until the end of the month?  The whole thing just vanished on November 4, didn't it?

I said the worst of this will be over soon. With the vaccine coming out and with just a few weeks remaining in the season, we came out just fine in the end, when it comes to football, and have been able to have a season proving guys like Js1 wrong.

Edited November 12, 2020 by Macklemore

[Js1 85,321]

33 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

A. The end of the month isn't the end of the year.

B. That article lists multiple challenges standing in the way of all of us returning to normalcy in the next few months.

C. You seem have a lot more faith in the public and private sector being able to roll this out without major hiccups than I do.  Especially since it has never been done before.

It's 2020, you can't prove that. 

[wood 11,225]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

LOL end of the month for the general public?  Sure Jan. 

LOL, yep. I heard the other day that some essential workers might be getting it by the end of December, and I even questioned how that's gonna happen.

[gmr548 16,576]

We are getting a vaccine by the end of the month. Lighten the fuck up Francis. We have one month to go before the worst of this ends. Those that want to get the vaccine to the head of the line and can live life normally; those that don't - fuck off, stay home and don't complain.

Your alpha male toughness is only rivaled by your scientific literacy.

[BradInATX 9,208]

If Ohio State can't get six games in they can just scrimmage themselves and count it as a win. It worked for aggy.

[4th&Five 41,535]