MI Expat NY

September 1st, 2020 at 4:23 PM ^

Didn't his source literally say yesterday that a 2020 start was a long shot?  I'll wait until legitimate reporters start saying it before I get my hopes up.

In all honesty, the only way I think it really happens if students are sent home and they forget about that whole "no students, no sports" thing.

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HarryBigCojones

September 1st, 2020 at 4:32 PM ^

Frankly,... I wouldn't let Warren run my grand-kids lemonade stand !!

For the love of God lets get this done and play before I see the first salt truck !!

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bronxblue

September 1st, 2020 at 4:34 PM ^

Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of reporters saying this isn't true, plus the Nebraska AD said there's nothing to it.  I like Dan Patrick but even his statement has the "if safety measures and procedures are in place" hedge that basically means the second part is speculation.  

This feels like a lot of people are trying to get a couple pf hours of talk radio out of the president tweeting some nonsense.  I'd be surprised if anything came out of this.

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moetown91

September 1st, 2020 at 4:37 PM ^

How reliable is Dan Patrick's source?  Didn't we hear just yesterday that rumors about a Thanksgiving start were slim to none....with an early January start being the conferences preferred date?  Seems all over the board, and if true "clown show" is putting it nicely.

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BoCanHam15

September 1st, 2020 at 4:37 PM ^

The title of all sports related threads the rest of the year should be titled,”or.”  Within this one thread people have managed stern opinions backed by the obvious COVID-19 induced, I’m not sure, we don’t know ish, maybe this, and maybe that.  Warren sucks and that’s a fact.  This year has been full of absolutes.

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KSmooth

September 1st, 2020 at 4:55 PM ^

Let's face it -- the decision to delay the start of the football season may ultimately prove to have been the right one, but the league pulled the trigger way too fast on this.

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mooseman

September 1st, 2020 at 9:02 PM ^

Or they already knew the SEC was going to play come hell or high water and felt it was the right thing to do.

I asked a neighbor of mine who is in the AD of an ACC school what their plan was and she said, "Well, we all know the SEC is going to play and that'll give us cover to go ahead and play."

So I guess it works both ways.

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uminks

September 1st, 2020 at 5:05 PM ^

I think if new COVID cases continue to trend down and the other conferences are playing without suspending their season, then the October 10th start date may happen. If the virus re-surges or teams have outbreaks where the other conference have to shutdown, then the 2020 season will not happen.

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Panther72

September 1st, 2020 at 5:10 PM ^

I would refer you all to yesterday.  This is not even a serious  thread worthy of wasting points of view.  With the  highly charged political year, the presidents call to anyone only pushes them the other way. 99% of of University Administration don't fly his flag. Good for the pres for trying tho. Article merely waists space.   

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njvictor

September 1st, 2020 at 6:25 PM ^

Unless a bunch of B1G presidents start coming out and saying they've changed their opinion then I'll only believe it when I hear official word. 6 B1G presidents need to change their vote for there to be football. All this speculation and scheduling is pointless unless the vote has a huge swing

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Qmatic

September 1st, 2020 at 10:04 PM ^

My district is in person 5 days a week. We have enough masks for each student to go through 2 a day to last until Christmas break. That isn’t even factoring in kids wearing their own. 

We have enough sanitizer and disinfectant to last until the same time. While 1000 of our nearly 5000 students opted for full virtual, we still are amply stocked for the students we have. In addition, teachers do not have to use their days if they test positive or if they have to quarantine due to exposure at school. Also, we are a Title I district, so it’s not like we got all this from donation from families.

It’s possible, just a lot of districts didn’t want to go through all the struggle.

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ndscott50

September 1st, 2020 at 11:26 PM ^

It’s more complicated than that and varies based on each state. I had about a 30 minute phone conversation with our district superintendent today. I’m in a relatively large 35,000 student district, so I was surprised he took the time.

Overall we are doing well from a case standpoint and he is comfortable with opening based on the data. In fact the state health department says the data indicates schools should be open. The challenge is the same state health department guidance on responding to cases. If there is even a suspected case they have to quarantine  anyone who had contact with that person regardless of the nature of that contact for 14 days. 
 

in practice this has led some other districts In the state to have 2,000 students/teachers on pquarantine based on something like 15 cases of which only 5 have been confirmed. He feels this is ridiculous and I tend to agree with him. The county health department also agrees with the school district and is lobbying the state health department to change the guidance. The governors office is resisting this change. It all stinks of CYA by Polis and the state health department. They get to say they said schools can open but then have guidelines so restrictive it makes it impossible to stay open. If the schools ignores those guidelines, which some have, they can then blame the schools if this goes badly.
 

It sounds like as long as our numbers stay low as they are now at the local level they are going to try opening at the end of September. The superintendent’s comment to me was that at some point he is going to have to give it a try if our overall case numbers stay low but without a change in guidance he fears 1/4 of the district will be remote at any given point due to a handful of cases.

Another question I have would be what’s the point of mask and social distancing if we are still going to close and quarantine everyone who had any contact with the case even though they wore mask and maintained social distance. 
 

Sorry for the long post on this issue. I remain very fired up about it.

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LSAClassOf2000

September 1st, 2020 at 7:24 PM ^

The presidents of the conference members have the final say, and just as an example, Northwestern and MSU have already committed to online classes for the semester, I believe. It seems like you'd be stuck with the same potential for revealing the worst kept secret ever - the sham of amateurism - but by having the students in some cases now off-campus while the athletes are on it, the bubble now being a largely vacated campus in those cases. 

Kevin Warren and the Big Ten can say what they want, but it isn't ultimately their call, or so I believe.

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Blueinsconsin

September 1st, 2020 at 9:18 PM ^

I was told less than 24 hours ago, by Dan Patrick in this very messageboard, that the November season wasn't happen, a January season was maybe, and Spring was still likely. What is this Fox News and/or CNN?!

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uminks

September 1st, 2020 at 10:36 PM ^

All the good threads get locked. May be this was part of Trump's art of the deal with the B1G commissioner! LOL, may be he was promised a sleep over at the white house.  

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uminks

September 1st, 2020 at 10:36 PM ^

All the good threads get locked. May be this was part of Trump's art of the deal with the B1G commissioner! LOL, may be he was promised a sleep over at the white house.  

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NJWolverine

September 1st, 2020 at 11:03 PM ^

I dunno, the fact that there's radio silence from the PAC12 leads me to believe that the talks are very preliminary.  The worst possible outcome is to reverse course and then have to shut down again due to covid spikes.  Also, I don't see how Northwestern and MSU can field teams when they didn't even try to bring students on campus. 

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