New news from MSU--entire program must quarantine after another coach and player test postive
Normally I'm all for another round of shots at Sparty, but you see things like this and you just can't help but feel like it's going to happen to us and everybody else too.
If it's happening to school in a state that's on the better end of containing covid, in a university that largely recruits regionally, there's not much reason to believe this won't happen to a lot of schools
Brhino, I was going to make a Mouth Breathers crack, but your classy sentiment stopped me.
Right move.
Why does CFB keep maintaining this obvious charade? End it already. You’re not fooling anyone.
It kills me to say it, but is it really a CFB season if numerous teams have to drop in and out like this?
Maybe it’s just becomes a free for all, matching up any two teams who can suit up in a given week. Throw the schedules, conferences, rivalries out and just smash two teams together at random if they can get 11 guys on a side? Would certainly be the wildest college football season ever. That said yeah they probably won’t play a full season if at all and I am sad.
Nobody has to drop out. Teams don’t drop out when a player gets the flu. Isolate the player and the rest of the team plays on.
we have to get enough people infected to reach herd immunity and it is best to accomplish that with young healthy people who are low risk for death or serious illness. For most of the population, this is a rather mild disease.
Agreed, but the sentiment out there is expect the worst and maybe hope for the best.
Because that’s the appropriate way to treat a dangerous worldwide pandemic that is currently killing 1000 Americans a day.
Literally no Major health experts or organizations believe or advocate your exceedingly dumb and reckless theory because spread among young people speeds the spread among everyone. They don’t live in a bubble. Do you not read? Can you not accept science?
Enough with the herd immunity fantasy. It’s not going to happen without a vaccine. Think of it this way... the population of Michigan is about 10,000,000. The low end estimate for what is required for herd immunity is 40% (most estimates are much higher, but for this example let’s go with the best case scenario. Given those parameters, Michigan would have to have nearly 11,000 new Covid cases every day for a year to get to 40% “herd immunity”. That would be a complete catastrophe in every sense of the word, and that’s the best case scenario for your strategy.
Yeah. They’re really dragging their feet over something that is inevitable. They look beyond ridiculous at this point.
Yeah I don't really get it. It has been obvious for some time that football isn't going to be possible, not responsibly at least. But, they'll probably drag it out into mid August before finally pulling the plug, if I had to guess.
TIMMMAAY,
Let me help you get it: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
The end.
It is all about the money. That is where it starts and ends.
I'd love to see college sports this fall but I simply don't believe that unless we say screw it and throw caution to the wind, we aren't playing fall sports this year.
There will be a season because the schools can't afford not to have one.
It might not happen right on schedule - maybe not until spring 2021 - but there will be a "2020" season.
yep, been posting this several times for several weeks. This just ain't happening this fall. Everyone can stop analyzing our schedule, starting lineups, etc.
I commend them for handling this seriously. You get any whiff of community spread, you shut it down.
Unless you are Clemson or Alabama. Then you immediately start two-a-days..
Then take everybody out for pizza and beers.
Then a waffle cone at Cold Stone for desert.
College football is set up to reward the bad actors. We are going see very clearly which universities considers their student athletes to be expendable resources just there for public entertainment.
Didn't like 20+ people on some SEC Teams test positive? Not trying to make it sound like "just 2" from MSU got it, but if this is how schools are going to handle it, I don't see how a season will be possible. Look at the MLB and their positive testing. The only way to have a season is to assume some people will get it, which doesn't seem all that smart. Have a good weekend Y'All -- stay safe.
Clemson, like half the team tested positive.
And now they say everyone is fine.
Very convenient timing.
This is what is going to happen. The SEC will play all their games in full stadiums. Most of these states college football is all there is and they are open states with little to no restrictions.
Clemson on the other hand is ACC and I really don't see most of teams on their schedule having a season. Perhaps Clemson will pickup some more games vs SEC.
The best thing that could happen to Clemson has happened when the school announced on-line only classes for the fall. When schools reopen, all hell is going to break loose, pandemically speaking and social distancing will fly out the window, assuming it was there in the first place.
Are they lying about being healthy?
i guess it’s possible they have secret mass graves they’re not telling anyone about. It’s 2020 after all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Red-Locked!!!
Pop goes the season. OAC in Ohio just suspended Fall sports until January. Just one more domino.
This is the first instance in a very very long time they’ve handled a situation appropriately.
In seemingly unrelated news, Pizza delivery unemployment levels in East Lansing suddenly spike to 95%.
But we still have the 5%'ers....
Well, it seems like Michigan won't have to face Justin Fields, Shaun Wade, Wyatt Davis, Baron Browning, and potentially Josh Myers, Chris Olave and Jeremy Ruckert ever again? yay?
Didn't think about it that way, but you're right. It's a consolation prize like the home edition of wheel of fortune- Especially Fields because he gone.
Not including Fields and Ruckert, I'm pretty sure there are 5 stars waiting to replace all of those guys.
Ill take the "Devil I don't Know" for $500 Alex.
I think they're up to 6 stars at this point.
We miss out on a lot, too. We don't get to see Nico potentially have a Braylon 2004 type year.
Flipside; we don't get to see Nico's final season as the clear #1 target.
Too be fair, even there is a season, we all know how things will play out with our #1 WR. The coaches won't target him until we are down 14 points in the 4th quarter.
Weird seeing sparty concerned about spreading a disease.
:::clap:::
This one isn't treated with penicillin.
Sparty's lab got the covid and steroids tests mixed up.
Would have been way more than a couple positives.
This is stupid just shut it down and sponsor a varsity egaming team to play NCAA 14 this season
You know, since college football isn’t happening I would love to see each university have a tournament of their students.
How many can play on the same team at the same time on ncaa14? Can you have 4 to a team?
Winners of the university tournament would play out the 2020 schedule against the champions From the other schools.
I would watch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
