September 23rd, 2020 at 6:37 PM ^
They should postpone the OSU game
Idk if you can transmit syphilis during a football game but I'd rather our players were kept safe
September 23rd, 2020 at 7:01 PM ^
Notre Dame campus parties are rampant. Super spread likely to the rest of college football ?
ACC should shutdown ND until those students in South Bend can learn to stop swapping spit !
September 23rd, 2020 at 8:12 PM ^
You know, I thought about how much the party scene might contribute at Notre Dame, but it is difficult to get over the whole "but it is South Bend, Indiana" part of any such consideration. That said, clearly Notre Dame needs to refine its approach to COVID-19, from what I gather.
The ACC should have made them lay in their own bed when schedules were being destroyed and rebuilt over the late summer, just to teach them the lesson they've been unwilling to learn, but no....
September 23rd, 2020 at 8:42 PM ^
The ACC should have made them lay in their own bed when schedules were being destroyed and rebuilt over the late summer, just to teach them the lesson they've been unwilling to learn, but no....
Nah. The ACC knew what they were doing.
ND is part of the ACC for other sports; if I am not mistaken the rest of the ACC are able to share (equally?) in the revenue from ND's TV contract with NBC this year; the media exposure and audience for ND games is pretty substantial. Whether there is any ticket revenue for anyone this year remains to be seen, but that's a consideration, too. They're still a big draw. Maybe not the B1G, but I reckon other Power-5 would have also welcomed them for this year. Out of self-interest.
And it's kinda like letting that person you've been seeing move in "temporarily" because they're between jobs at the moment and you both would like to save some money on rent: who know's, it might work out.
September 23rd, 2020 at 9:03 PM ^
Would be great - Notre Dame coeds take down the entire ACC season as those Catholic girls “just gotta have fun” !
October 21st, 2020 at 9:38 PM ^
At the CYO?
Or maybe...on the bus?
September 23rd, 2020 at 9:48 PM ^
I don't understand the "South Bend doesn't party" mentality. Yes, South Bend outside of Notre Dame sucks. Yes, Notre Dame sucks. Yes, Notre Dame is a Catholic university and is presumably stricter than most public universities. However, they don't have unreasonable expectations about student behavour (like you'd see at BYU or Liberty). One of my cousins and her husband went there for undergrad*, and they had a pretty normal undergraduate experience.
There are also 12,000 students there. There are gonna be parties.
*A lot of my mother's side of the family went to either Notre Dame or Michigan, and sometimes both.
September 24th, 2020 at 8:38 AM ^
I thought you could party at Liberty whenever and however you wanted?
Oh, wait. That was just Falwell and his cronies that run the place...
September 24th, 2020 at 10:27 AM ^
While I don't disagree with your jab, there's a lot of potentially fraught baggage here that, on this board, probably shouldn't be unzipped.
September 23rd, 2020 at 11:03 PM ^
Notre Dame's Covid data is available here
They appear to be doing good not great - looks like they're only doing hundreds of tests per day. (For comparison, Illinois, now considered one of the best, is doing over 10,000 tests almost every day) Notre Dame cases are low but obviously high enough to postpone this weekend's game. I don't know if there is enough evidence to support any assertion that it's in anyway attributable to campus parties at ND.
September 23rd, 2020 at 9:11 PM ^
Just keep that SEC slate clean. Please.
September 23rd, 2020 at 9:38 PM ^
Screw the SEC.
September 23rd, 2020 at 11:02 PM ^
MSU/East Lansing area is about to be a raging hot spot for covid.
Huge spike in positive tests, most attributed to MSU students and most live off campus.
September 24th, 2020 at 4:29 AM ^
MSU/East Lansing area is about to be a raging hot spot for covid.
It already is. There is a lag of about a week, so the apparent decline over the past few days is misleading.
September 24th, 2020 at 12:13 AM ^
I'm shocked that an easily-contractable disease didn't run and hide after a bunch of people complained loudly that they wanted football.
September 24th, 2020 at 7:05 AM ^
I believe Arkansas State and FAU have already had at least one game postponed or canceled already so those schools again being in that situation is not terribly surprising
September 24th, 2020 at 7:13 AM ^
Its going to be an interesting/anxious football season. If teams don't cross the threshold, players will sit out weeks of play. Add to that the probability of a great number of injuries do to what coach Gattis said yesterday, the lack of spring ball and the callous for shock it gives the body probably impacted the NFL over the past two weeks. The NFL had no preseason and its showing up in injuries.
Teams who talk big need to understand that no one is sure of the future. 2020 should have taught us all this.
September 24th, 2020 at 7:24 AM ^
This season is going to resemble 1918—there will be no across-the-board consistency in how many games are played by individual programs, and this season will always be regarded as a one-off, regardless of who the eventual playoff champion is.
September 24th, 2020 at 8:03 AM ^
"To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States".
Hmmm, sounds familiar, doesn't it? I mean, who'd want to create a panic by telling citizens the truth?
September 24th, 2020 at 8:36 AM ^
"The Great Influenza" by John M. Barry details the extent to which officials at all levels of government—even including some public health officials with significant responsibilities—tried to minimize, hide, or ignore the dangers of the 1918 flu.
Considering how virulent and catastrophically quick death could be from that particular virus, the negligence was really pretty shocking.
September 24th, 2020 at 10:09 AM ^
There was an article in yesterday's Tennessean about the 1918 Vanderbilt team, whose coach died of influenza and whose QB was KIA. Unfortunately, it's "subscriber-only" content, so does no good to link here. Rats!
September 24th, 2020 at 10:12 AM ^
Thank you for posting this. I've been thinking about these similarities. 1918 had WWI as well as Spanish Flu. It is also the year of one of Michigan's 11 claimed National Championships. Check out the disparity in games played in the Big Ten standings:
September 24th, 2020 at 11:11 AM ^
2.5 games ahead of osu... NICE
September 24th, 2020 at 10:09 AM ^
I have an anti-mask pro-Notre Dame coworker and his reaction yesterday after telling me the ND game was postponed and then angrily saying "you guys will have some cancelled too" was an amazing moment of schadenfreude for me.
September 24th, 2020 at 10:42 AM ^
Still holding out hope the season gets shutdown for good before the annual loss to OSU.
September 24th, 2020 at 10:56 AM ^
I don't understand why they just postpone when 1 team can't field a team? How is that fair to the other team? If teamA can't field a team it should be up to teamB to make the decision if the game is postponed or teamA just has to forfeit?
So now teamB can't afford to have another game postponed. Basically you are punishing teamB for no reason.
And if ND played a game with COVID+ players something needs to be done.
What would stop say Clemson if say Trevor Lawrence and a couple of their other stars being out say the week of the Miami game, and Clemson just saying hey we have too many players out so the game needs to be rescheduled? Since the sec and acc are not exactly what one would call "transparent" about their testing.
September 24th, 2020 at 1:11 PM ^
If the Pac 10 was playing CU would have a problem.
https://www.dailycamera.com/2020/09/24/boulder-county-issues-order-halt…
The city banned all gatherings of any size for 18 to 22 year olds. This includes the football team. Also, they specifically identified all the greek houses and ordered all residents to stay at home with very few exceptions.
September 24th, 2020 at 3:21 PM ^
If USF thinks they got sick from playing ND, that is really bad.
I was hopeful since the games are outdoors and the players are only in each others faces for a few seconds at a time that most of the spread would be within locker rooms and not from playing.
If they think there is spread from playing this entire season is in jeopardy for everyone.