Looks like the governors of California and Oregon are changing their orders;
https://twitter.com/pac12/status/1306368008877559808?s=21
(Edited @ 9:45pm to add link to OP---rob f)
September 16th, 2020 at 8:46 PM ^
Look what a little threat of sedition charges can do!
September 17th, 2020 at 1:25 AM ^
You're wrong man! It was the threat of Ohio AG Dave Yost, and his team of rabid Capital Law grads looking to defend the honor of Ohio by suing some shit!
September 16th, 2020 at 8:49 PM ^
Someone should ask Governor Patrick Bateman this simple question --- "so what changed?"
The answer to that question is obvious: the politics of the situation.
The degree to which politics is influencing policy --- I know that's always the case. But it's become especially so of late, and it's disgusting.
September 16th, 2020 at 8:51 PM ^
Yes, and lately, sports-hating liberal warriors wanting to shame this honest thinking like Agee have disappeared. Do you miss them?
September 16th, 2020 at 8:54 PM ^
is a liberal warrior like the ultimate warrior without a tan?
September 16th, 2020 at 8:56 PM ^
? perhaps they have the tan - but not the physique?!
September 16th, 2020 at 9:26 PM ^
Who is Agee? I'm not sure who you're talking about, other than perhaps James Agee and he was dead even before I was born.
September 16th, 2020 at 9:33 PM ^
A sad, angry poster who shamed any football fan for calling out the phoniness of the failings of B1G leadership. He played the sanctimonious ‘you are murderous’ mentality towards any fan advocating for football.
He is the kind of guy who makes a passive/aggressive judgmental comment about you going out to eat with your spouse, and then goes to a large family wedding the next day.
September 16th, 2020 at 9:52 PM ^
Gotcha, thanks. Honestly, I don't recall him at all.
September 16th, 2020 at 9:54 PM ^
Pretty forgettable one-dimensional guy, but loved trying to dunk on me and others with a mob when we presented a dissenting opinion based on an honest perspective.
September 16th, 2020 at 9:22 PM ^
The actual "obvious" answer is that testing has changed. Testing with turnaround in hours and not days makes a lot of things possible in a pandemic.
But you can see this all as some political conspiracy, if that's what floats your boat.
September 16th, 2020 at 9:28 PM ^
We have a few minutes to get even after weeks of mindless political banter - and you want to make this about facts? (Hope you have a sense of humor!) In all seriousness, I respect the hustle and your perspective - but let’s not pretend like politics don’t play a major role in all of this, too.
September 16th, 2020 at 9:46 PM ^
If you believe Gov. Newsom decided this within hours of the B1G announcement, and within hours of Larry Scott publicly saying "well, it's out of my hands, given the Executive orders in California & Oregon" and effectively calling out Newsom, fair enough.
September 16th, 2020 at 10:26 PM ^
https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1795135071
Testing has not changed. Both leagues have always had plenty of testing options. One option of many cited above.
September 16th, 2020 at 11:52 PM ^
What politics? CA, OR, and WA are all safely LW with AZ not far behind and UT starting to trend. Or maybe you meant the politics of TV rights $$$ ?
September 17th, 2020 at 12:11 AM ^
The percentage of Golden State residents who approve of Governor Newsom's handling of the CoronaVirus situation has fallen under 50%. See the link at the bottom.
Now, those ratings have fallen for most Governors. But I do think it's notable that while Governors as a whole saw these ratings fall from 64% to 48%, Newsom's rating fell from 70% to 47%. Newsom is under-performing in this regard.
Ditto for Oregon's Kate Brown. Her rating has fallen from 61% to 39%.
Both those states are inherently more left than right, so I think it's notable these 2 are under 50% despite the demographics of their states.
https://kateto.net/covid19/COVID19%20CONSORTIUM%20REPORT%2012%20APPROVA…
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I've never viewed California as a "lost cause" for Conservatives. California is a state that has elected a Republican Governor multiple times in this century alone. It's where Reagan and Nixon came from. There are plenty of redder spots in the state (San Diego, OC, Placer County, Central Valley, potentially even Ventura up to SLO).
Trump isn't going to win California in 2020, but it certainly can shift considerably more to the right. And I think Governor Newsom knows this. I think, honestly, he's a bit worried of what happens in the California state Legislature elections in 7 weeks. I wouldn't be surprised to see him appoint himself to California's US Senate seat if Biden wins: Newsom can then leave the California budget problem and a somewhat more red state Senate and House in Sacramento to someone else. Also saves himself a possible electoral embarrassment in 2022.
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Net, net: I 100% think this is politics from Governors Newsom and Brown.
September 16th, 2020 at 9:11 PM ^
The Pac10 lives up to being the Hack10 and, once again, finishing last!
September 16th, 2020 at 9:28 PM ^
The semi-colon at the end of the title was the piece de resistance
amazing work OP
you are an mgoblog legend
September 16th, 2020 at 9:30 PM ^
Well said.
Now: To his defense - the website does not have the capacity to allow editing by posters.
September 16th, 2020 at 9:49 PM ^
Loss of money is causing the political sway of covid to start to crumble. This is a new revelation for me and I admit to getting got.
September 16th, 2020 at 9:51 PM ^
Kudos for coming around to the sad reality! Several learned B1G presidents (11, that is) came around yesterday, too.
September 16th, 2020 at 10:02 PM ^
I hear there are some real good deals on real estate in downtown Portland these days...beautiful vistas, pleasant aromas!
September 16th, 2020 at 11:50 PM ^
Nope, real estate in Portland is still insanely expensive because lots of people want to live here!
We’ll get through the fires, and the protests have been a complete non-issue for 99% of people living in the city. Just ask Western, Chunkums, etc.
Soon it’s back to beautiful mountains, beaches, and old growth forests. Beervana, wine country, and a killer restaurant scene. Love it out here in PDX!
September 17th, 2020 at 12:19 AM ^
I second that... I hate skiing every weekend and it sucks that my house value has only doubled in 7 years... and we don't have too many trolls out here that make fun of other people's tragedy
September 17th, 2020 at 12:57 AM ^
Something to add WD? Western is absolutely right.
Thousands of people are now homeless and dozens of lives have been lost in these fires. For some reason, people have decided it’s fun to joke about. I don’t get it at all.
Natural disasters are hilarious right?! That hurricane going on right now is a real knee slapper. smh
September 17th, 2020 at 7:31 AM ^
WD, you're OK but your ignorance is showing here. Been out there lately? Ever? Know anyone out there?
Protests: Fire bad, yes. Graffiti, too. It would be nice to see meaningful action taken against those people.
99.9% of Portland at the moment (well, unless the fires get really close ... also, ignoring the current air quality): Fine.
September 16th, 2020 at 10:30 PM ^
Hey, so long as everyone is a willing participant in this experiment I guess it's ok:
“We’re kind of undergoing a natural experiment to see what happens” was the ominous assessment of Cyrus Shahpar, director of the epidemic prevention team at Resolve to Save Lives, an organization that works with countries around the world in dealing with the outbreak of diseases.
“You’re going to get a lot of college athletes with COVID-19 infections,” Shahpar said, “and we don’t know the long-term impact of that.”
September 17th, 2020 at 8:30 AM ^
A huge number of people - athletes or not - are going to get Covid at some point.
September 17th, 2020 at 9:21 PM ^
A huge number of people have already gotten covid, recovered and were never counted since it happened before anyone even knew covid was coming.
September 17th, 2020 at 1:13 AM ^
PAC-12 after dark, COME ON DOWN!!!
Only thing better would be making my annual pilgrimage to Memorial stadium to see Cal snatch incompetence from the jaws of mediocrity.
September 17th, 2020 at 3:48 AM ^
It's almost like the governors discovered that cancelling football was an unpopular thing.
September 17th, 2020 at 10:45 AM ^
Boy, it's a good thing that it wasn't political.