September 23rd, 2020 at 5:13 PM ^
Houston-N. Texas is also cancelled. I think that's their fourth cancelled season opener. I wonder if we'll play our first game before some other Power 5 teams.
September 23rd, 2020 at 5:28 PM ^
That all depends ... stay positive / test negative
September 23rd, 2020 at 5:59 PM ^
Houston is really getting a lot of return on that Dana Holgerson contract!
September 23rd, 2020 at 6:02 PM ^
Do people actually still believe that this new October season startup will actually take place.
I sure as shit won't be holding my breath.
September 23rd, 2020 at 6:48 PM ^
Who knows? Michigan's numbers look pretty good, not so sure on MInny:
https://safe-campus.umn.edu/return-campus/covid-19-dashboard
Not a lot of testing taking place
September 23rd, 2020 at 8:43 PM ^
If the Golden Rashod Batemans have to forfeit due to lack of healthy players, so be it.
September 23rd, 2020 at 11:16 PM ^
19 in the past week with a 9.1% postive rate after previous weeks of 2, 4 and 4 is a troubling trend.
September 24th, 2020 at 1:44 PM ^
Gopher Athletics has conducted 1,406 COVID-19 tests since June. There have been 43 total positive test results.
https://gophersports.com/news/2020/9/2/athletics-minnesota-announces-updated-testing-numbers.aspx
September 23rd, 2020 at 7:23 PM ^
I think that's why they did late October, give everyone false hopes and to not transfer / declare for NFL and have enough time to still cancel and point to examples like these.
September 24th, 2020 at 5:24 AM ^
Late October was chosen to give teams the full four weeks for camp. It gives them the additional benefit of watching others play for a few weeks and the option to still back out if things go bad, but it was more about getting camp in (Some schools had completely halted football activities) and getting the testing procedures and equipment in place before games start.
September 24th, 2020 at 6:18 AM ^
I actually think they will. The Big Ten actually seems to have their shit together unlike a lot of southern leagues which are just fingers crossed and let's play. Amusing to me people still say the Big Ten overreacted in cancelling initially as games continue to be cancelled elsewhere due to this
September 24th, 2020 at 10:33 AM ^
To be fair I didn't say the B1G overreacted with their initial decision to cancel the season.
I'm saying that it is weird that people still are holding hope that there will be a season come late October.
Also, while you might be right with the B1G having their shit together with things, that really doesn't do anything for the few boneheaded players whom will eventually go to a house party, catch Covid, and fuck it up for everyone.
So again, no matter how well the B1G is handling this situation - all it takes is one bad apple to fuck everything up.
Its bound to happen.
I'm not holding my breath.
September 24th, 2020 at 11:08 AM ^
I'm thinking there's a good chance Michigan finishes the season undefeated with a 2-0 record.
September 23rd, 2020 at 5:28 PM ^
I don't understand. People want football. Why don't they write fierce emails, show up to protest again, and threaten to sue? Surely, angry huffing and puffing is still a worthy response to disease.
September 24th, 2020 at 9:22 AM ^
So is making smart choices and deciding not to live in fear.
September 24th, 2020 at 10:12 AM ^
I’d like to signup to join the group of people making “smart choices”, when does that start and where are we gonna meet? I’d like to propose anywhere but Florida.
September 24th, 2020 at 1:29 PM ^
Depends where you are in Florida. It's a big, not uniform state. Definitely not South Florida, though!
September 23rd, 2020 at 5:54 PM ^
Notre dame spreading disease as usual.
September 23rd, 2020 at 6:39 PM ^
"There's no crying in baseball!!"
September 23rd, 2020 at 6:45 PM ^
^^^^^Username checks out^^^^^
September 24th, 2020 at 7:23 AM ^
That’s good advice!
September 23rd, 2020 at 5:56 PM ^
I expect the Big Ten to fair much better than these southern schools in part due to the rapid daily testing and in part just due to the southern red state mentality.
That said, I also think some schools like LSU are not accidentally letting their whole team get infected. It's a calculated move to get herd immunity and move forward. The weak September scheduling only supports this. And before you lecture me on the permanence of immunity or myocarditis, I'm not opining on the morality of the approach only that it may be intentional.
September 23rd, 2020 at 6:47 PM ^
Is this a real take? You think LSU is intentionally letting Covid spread to the entire team in order to get to herd immunity?? Lmao. Is this Jesse Ventura? Smh
September 23rd, 2020 at 6:58 PM ^
Since they won the championship last year per mgobro bible it’s because they put football in front of life itself. We are better than that so it’s ok if we never make the 4 team playoffs
September 23rd, 2020 at 7:22 PM ^
Schools ignore the long-term affects and look the other way when their players are juicing. They keep their QBs out there despite showing clear signs of concussion. You really think they’re opposed to herd immunity with a virus that sees a near-zero death rate within this age group?
September 23rd, 2020 at 7:40 PM ^
I see the term herd immunity thrown around a lot lately, but isn't that when enough people have had it that the others *won't*? I don't think "everyone got it already" is the same thing...
September 23rd, 2020 at 8:16 PM ^
Herd immunity means given a specific r0 value there is a threshold where the virus will die out in a given population because there are not sufficient interactions with vulnerable targets for a disease to propagate. In this case the population is a football team. Not every player at LSU needs to get covid for the intra-team spread to dramatically fall off. The problem is these players aren't in a bubble.
September 24th, 2020 at 11:42 AM ^
I thought herd immunity was when Ohio State cheerleaders went out as a group and none of them get hit on
September 24th, 2020 at 2:08 PM ^
Having COVID-19 protects some people from getting it again, but that immunity appears to wear off and wear off quickly for some. It is not a one-and-done virus.
Getting a vaccine in the future will protect some (but not all) people from contracting COVID-19 for some period of time.
"Herd immunity" under these conditions is fantasy.
September 23rd, 2020 at 7:23 PM ^
I don’t know if LSU intentionally pursued herd immunity... but I also don’t think it’s far-fetched. Ed Orgeron’s very casual and laissez-faire comments about most of the team already having had covid seemed pretty odd. Also, his beliefs do align with some prominent people who have hyped up herd-immunity.
September 24th, 2020 at 2:37 AM ^
The herd mentality?
September 23rd, 2020 at 11:27 PM ^
It spread to most of the team. There's no way that could happen if you had any intention of that not happening. Maybe they didn't have specific cough in face drills, but short of that, they basically let it happen.
September 24th, 2020 at 8:33 AM ^
You don't seem like a person that remains aware of his surroundings...
"I think most of — not all of our players — but most of our players have caught it," Orgeron said on a teleconference on Tuesday. "So, hopefully they don't catch it again, and hopefully they're not out for games." --Ed Orgeron, LSU Head Coach
"The beauty of this is Coach O is totally transparent and honest to a fault," Woodward said when asked about Orgeron saying most of the team has had the virus. "This is very similar to what we're seeing across all schools that have been doing this." -- Scott Woodward, LSU AD
Aside from just saying it outright, this is as close to an admission as one can get.
September 23rd, 2020 at 7:32 PM ^
What exactly is the red state mentality?
September 24th, 2020 at 7:49 AM ^
Not being sheep.
Not being perpetual whineasses.
Not following whatever some "expert" says just because this "expert" is telling them what they want to hear.
Thinking for themselves and making logical choices.
Being able to go off the pavement and survive more than 10 minutes.
September 24th, 2020 at 8:00 AM ^
Think you just described a moronic snowflake.
September 24th, 2020 at 9:33 AM ^
You must be well entrenched in the partisan battlefield to believe one side (aka yours) thinks for themselves and the other side is a bunch of sheep. In any event, I'm sure there are better forums than Mgoblog to have this type of discussion.
September 24th, 2020 at 1:45 PM ^
It seems every forum is having these “discussions”
September 24th, 2020 at 9:49 AM ^
You’re so self sufficient and independent and logical. Also, dumb if you actually believe that.
September 24th, 2020 at 11:49 AM ^
Not being sheep. (FAIL: You're on the same team as the QAnon morons.)
Not being perpetual whineasses. (FAIL: Your leader behaves like an insecure 12-year-old. He's as thin-skinned as they come.)
Not following whatever some "expert" says just because this "expert" is telling them what they want to hear. (Pretty much everyone fails at this. It's bipartisan.)
Thinking for themselves and making logical choices. (FAIL. Major fail.)
Being able to go off the pavement and survive more than 10 minutes. (Well, if you have a high-powered rifle, you're probably ready to go. You do have one, right?)
September 24th, 2020 at 2:20 AM ^
I did a quick search for myocarditis studies of COVID positive LSU players, and was shocked to discover no such report is available... Shocked I tell you...
September 24th, 2020 at 4:03 PM ^
More shocked than when you found out there was gambling at Rick's?
September 23rd, 2020 at 5:56 PM ^
I am seeing red.
September 23rd, 2020 at 7:41 PM ^
Good news! That's not a COVID symptom.
September 23rd, 2020 at 6:16 PM ^
It seems like everything about this season will have asterisk attached to it. Teams will play different numbers of games with varying numbers of players sidelined due to Covid. It will be fun to watch the team play but in many ways it is an exhibition season. Assuming there is a playoff and an eventual champion it will always be viewed as the Covid season. I also don’t think we will see a lot of coaching turnover in the off season. Most will view the results, good or bad, as more about luck and managing a difficult situation vs. a reflection of the programs on the field performance.
September 23rd, 2020 at 6:28 PM ^
Yeah, I kinda think the whole season should just be viewed as a bunch of spring games. Individual statistical accomplishments should absolutely be counted in the record books, but I'm not sure that team results and the season as a whole should really count.
September 24th, 2020 at 9:06 AM ^
What does last season really "count" for anyway? No college football season really "counts" as anything except making money for the NCAA member schools and as entertainment.
September 23rd, 2020 at 6:25 PM ^
I think it would be good for everyone to inject politics into this discussion....
/s