📡 Ralph Russo (AP) on how colleges will look at the athletic season(s).

[TerryP]

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Thread by @ralphDrussoAP: As somebody recently explained to me, college sports are likely to be the least aggressive when it comes to returning to competition. Why? B…

Thread by @ralphDrussoAP: As somebody recently explained to me, college sports are likely to be the least aggressive when it comes to returniition. Why? Because as big as the business of college sports is it's not as big as the business of college. Athle…

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As somebody recently explained to me, college sports are likely to be the least aggressive when it comes to returning to competition.
Why? Because as big as the business of college sports is it's not as big as the business of college.
Athletics funds athletics.





Athletics for the most part doesn't fund the university much. So why would a college president, leading an institution whose mission is to educate young people and secondarily to keep them safe, have any motivation to allow the athletic department to rush the football team back?

The other thing is in pro sports, the players and leagues are in a partnership. If MLB wants to play in a bio-dome in Arizona, the players have to sign off and might because the stakes ($$) are really high for them too.

But players aren't partners in college sports.

 

[Crtuneman]

Mike Gundy was right. He spoke the truth that no one wants to hear.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Interesting......
My fears ....that nothing returns to a LEVEL of normalcy til.....a vaccine....
I dont see howyou could put a team together.....without consideration of player safety....
Lord...I sure hope i am wrong or a vaccine is sooner rather than later...

 

[mando]

Momentum starting to gain that we have over rotated on this and some questioning if the current strategy. An article I read from a different epidemiologist with opposing views had a different strategy on how to deal with the virus. He believes we only should isolate those at high to moderate risk (about 20% of the population according to him) and let the rest go about life and yes they would get the virus and build up immunity. The guy referred to this as the heard building up immunity. Basically saying this is how it works naturally.

I will see if I can find the article. It is certainly a different strategy for how to attack this.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

@mando
Interesting.

 

[Crtuneman]

Momentum starting to gain that we have over rotated on this and some questioning if the current strategy. An article I read from a different epidemiologist with opposing views had a different strategy on how to deal with the virus. He believes we only should isolate those at high to moderate risk (about 20% of the population according to him) and let the rest go about life and yes they would get the virus and build up immunity. The guy referred to this as the heard building up immunity. Basically saying this is how it works naturally.

I will see if I can find the article. It is certainly a different strategy for how to attack this.

My brother and I have been saying this since the beginning. The economic fallout is going to be worse than the virus.

 

[planomateo]

Momentum starting to gain that we have over rotated on this and some questioning if the current strategy. An article I read from a different epidemiologist with opposing views had a different strategy on how to deal with the virus. He believes we only should isolate those at high to moderate risk (about 20% of the population according to him) and let the rest go about life and yes they would get the virus and build up immunity. The guy referred to this as the heard building up immunity. Basically saying this is how it works naturally.

I will see if I can find the article. It is certainly a different strategy for how to attack this.

This is where I'm currently at with this. The real problem is the R0 factor.

 

[BamaFan334]

Momentum starting to gain that we have over rotated on this and some questioning if the current strategy. An article I read from a different epidemiologist with opposing views had a different strategy on how to deal with the virus. He believes we only should isolate those at high to moderate risk (about 20% of the population according to him) and let the rest go about life and yes they would get the virus and build up immunity. The guy referred to this as the heard building up immunity. Basically saying this is how it works naturally.

I will see if I can find the article. It is certainly a different strategy for how to attack this.

I was of this thought from the get go myself. Life should not have been altered like this. The field is uneven with what each state has put into motion and it's bullcrap some states are trying harder than others and all it's doing is penalizing those trying to do it right. It's a joke at this point and I believe " let the strong survive" and let folks make their own decisions.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I was of this thought from the get go myself. Life should not have been altered like this. The field is uneven with what each state has put into motion and it's bullcrap some states are trying harder than others and all it's doing is penalizing those trying to do it right. It's a joke at this point and I believe " let the strong survive" and let folks make their own decisions.

I wonder.
How this could be
States should handle rather than feds.
They should be more responsive to their public.... their voters
Doesn't that make sense

 

[BamaFan334]

I wonder.
How this could be
States should handle rather than feds.
They should be more responsive to their public.... their voters
Doesn't that make sense

I agree, but locking everyone down for two weeks at the same time and we likely stop a lot of this. Now we're what, two months into this bullcrap and businesses all over the place are going under.

 

[mando]

You could see the political and peer pressure happening with each Governor. Once the dominoes started following you knew the pressure was going to be to high to not just fall in line. The positive trends that we are starting to see are likely because of the measures that have been put in place so this strategy has certainly helped.

To me the models projecting that the hospitals would be overrun and patients who could have been helped might get turned away understandably freaked people out. This hit about the time things were getting bad in Italy and then you started seeing major financial events getting completely cancelled. Fear based decisions are not usually the best decisions.

Now all of this is easy for me to say, myself nor my family have had the virus. I might be singing a much different tune if I had experienced the virus first hand like others have.

 

[TerryP]

To me the models projecting that the hospitals would be overrun and patients who could have been helped might get turned away understandably freaked people out.

How similar is that to a football game, here, when fans are talking about how the team is doing? How often have we seen "we're going to get killed" because of a few bad plays or the way a game is perceived and in the end it all works out?

I'm not making light of the gravity of what we could have faced, or could be facing, but you've hit on something I firmly believe to be true.

You could see the political and peer pressure happening with each Governor.

Fear based decisions are not usually the best decisions.

We're in the middle of a fear based health scare. I believe a lot of the reporting (across the board) has been to hit the fear button versus the "hold on, let's let it play out" button.

 

[mando]

We are about 10 years into what I think is a social experiment called social media/FB. I think the impact of that is being seen now. A lot of people have aligned with the political party ideologies left unchecked (they just unfriend people that have opposing positions) and it creates extreme positions and reactions to everything. You can't get someone to just sit down and have an opposing view without seemingly going into attack mode spouting the party lines. You need debate and diverse views to balance out policies.

 

[MunchyOs]

I heard something to the effect that Fauci and/or Birx had expressed deep concern over Birmingham (amongst other cities) becoming the next epicenter. That was about the time that out of the blue, Alabama suddenly had a stay at home order. So...the question is...was Birmingham REALLY on track to become the next epicenter? After all, the city went on lock down last month. Or...were they just tired of waiting for the state to fall in line?

 

[footballer]

I heard something to the effect that Fauci and/or Birx had expressed deep concern over Birmingham (amongst other cities) becoming the next epicenter. That was about the time that out of the blue, Alabama suddenly had a stay at home order. So...the question is...was Birmingham REALLY on track to become the next epicenter? After all, the city went on lock down last month. Or...were they just tired of waiting for the state to fall in line?

This id funny that this comes up, I have not heard them say that, but it does not surprise me. Here some people will say what I am about to say is a conspiracy theory, it very well may be.

Around 2 weeks or so ago, I made a trip over to the local WalMart for supplies. As I got out of my car in the parking lot at around 9:30 am, I noticed several chem trails over the Birmingham area with 2 planes flying that I could see. That store is less than 10 miles away from downtown. Am I crazy or just a conspiracy nut? I have been wondering how in hell does this virus spread so quickly. Hmmmmm.