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I agree, the info would be useful. I just don't think those conferences will announce anything. They won't want people pointing out their players would have been safer on campus. My point was, unless the schools announce X number of athletes have tested positive, then journalists would have no way of being able to track this because of patient privacy laws. It's not like the Athens police blotter the Dawgnation writers check for a story.
Big Ten and Pac 12
SEC, ACC, and Big 12
Flash of disappointing news, UNC tried to open but quickly had to revert to online only. Per WSJ Schools are having to do this.
Mixed reports as my son headed back to his school. Kids wearing masks and all But off campus parties with no precautions.
Perhaps we can play football even with online Only classes?
Piggy backed here instead of starting a Wrong Direction Thread.
What? College kids going to parties? What do people think they do when they are home?
If we can just delay the inevitable a little bit longer until flu season.
Spineless. These new cases shouldn’t be a surprise. UNC also announced they expected most of their students to make alternate housing plans, so now that they have brought them all back together, they are now going to send them back home again. Just like they did when the thing started.
There are a lot of people that aren't going to like this but everybody and their brother should have expected a spike of cases in college towns. Kids are going to be kids and be the social creatures they are. In my opinion it would have made more sense to bring them all back to campus 3 weeks ago and got this out of the way before classes began.
If colleges are going to close becasue of cases they are not going to be able to have anything on campus..In Georgia by far the leading age group for positive cases are 18-29 year olds with as of yesterday 56,687 positive cases reported, however for that age group with that high number there have only been 39 deaths to date. I'm not sure what is acceptable risk ..while sending kids in this age group home will reduce their ability to get a good education and reduce liability for the schools..it will do nothing to slow the virus . Young people are going to be young people unless you lock them up and with the fatality rate of this virus I can't see anyone wanting to do that.
Right after all those students signed year-long apartment leases....
School leadership simply must have taken into account that cases will likely rise. In that age group serious illness is very rare, so it's an acceptable risk. To call kids back to school and then cancel it would be borderline criminal...thanks for your money, now go home and do all this online. That will not end well for the schools.
I'm worried it's going to happen in football too. They're going to test them like crazy, and find a bunch of asymptomatic positive cases and flip out.
Yep. "We know you don't feel sick...but trust us, you are positive. Therefore, to prevent you from killing people unintentionally, even though the mortality rate is absurdly low, we are going put you in quarantine for two weeks. And would you mind filling out this form telling us everyone you have been around for the last week so we can quarantine them as well just in case?"
Yep, this is going to be a total poop-show.
If they make it 4 weeks, most colleges will be fine (in my humble opinion). On most campuses as we speak, a large majority of kids are passing it around - and most will be asymptomatic. In that controlled population, we will see it run it's course with the same shaped curve we have seen everywhere else as far as cases. My prayer is that very few show symptoms and the thing will fizzle on a lot of campuses, or at least reach a level of immunity that makes it difficult to transfer.
Now, if they start testing kids at random, they are going to find A LOT of cases everywhere over the next two weeks. A LOT. Again, hopefully very few symptomatic students with few, if any, hospitalizations. I can imagine that there are not very many immune-compromised kids going back, so the populations being affected are not representative of the general population.
THE LAST THING THEY NEED TO DO is get thousands of kids back on campus, get them all infected, and then send them home in 2 weeks!!! That sounds like a bad sci-fi movie script.
My daughter moved in last Friday. I have talked to her a lot since then. I miss her and can't wait to see her again. But that reunion needs to be around the middle of September. She is a horse, and I pray she stays healthy and safe and either doesn't get it and it fizzles out on her campus, or she fights it off if she is exposed. Keeping that one at home was not an option.
More partying at a a Party School than at home. More relevant if on campus than spread across wherever they live. Closer to the sports program.
UNC said it's moving forward with fall sports. Without students on campus it seems it will only help the athletes.
Still a ridiculous move to react so quickly and go straight to online learning. These kids didn't enroll at UNC to get a degree from Phoenix.
Football teams have already dealt with multiple covid cases. Auburn has had 34 players tested positive the last few weeks and currently has 4 players in covid protocol (or whatever they call it)
Whether college football eventually plays or not....and I believe they will.....this is a very important experiment that could eventually lead to the way things are done in other industries. Finding ways to manage large groups of players/employees/students to help keep them safe. And avoid shutting down in the event of a small or moderate out break.
Colleges are heavily involved in research and experiments......hopefully they embrace this challenge to help develop ways to keep large groups of people safe during a pandemic.
The six conferences trying to play really need to play.......if not......it is very possible that a few thousand class of 21' graduates won't receive the athletic scholarship they desperately need to attend college. And that will have ramifications for years to come.
Yep, and testing is not 100% either.
OK. Very important to keep trying.....if they have to eventually cancel season.....so be it.....at least give it every opportunity to succeed.
We all know that issues may arise....
What is 100% Jay?
My son is playing HS football.......do you know how concerned I am about Covid........ZERO.....
NEGATIVE ZERO to be exact.
But I am certainly concerned about concussions.....torn ACL.......or the unthinkable neck injury.....
What concerns me the most...... my son working as hard as he has and not having the opportunity to do what he loves to do......and not having that HS football experience that I enjoyed so much.
I'm sorry Jay......not suggesting that covid isn't a big deal. But it is fairly insignificant to these young people....and suggesting differently is just blowing things way out of proportion.
Dallas public schools are considering not returning to campus until Jan 2021. That's almost 1 full year that Dallas inner city kids won't be in school........THAT'S A HUGE PROBLEM.
I think jay meant they would flip out over a false positive.
I don't think teams will flip over a positive test whether it's a real positive or false positive.
They expect them and are prepared for them.
Teams have already had numerous positives and most probably have a few players in quarantine right now.
SEC, Big 12 and ACC didn't move forward thinking they wouldn't have positive tests. They obviously know they'll have positive tests.
They moved forward believing they can work through it while also providing great medical care for those players that do test positive.
FALSE positive
Ok.. positives or false positives.....teams are prepared to deal with them.
Yes @Kasey the admin will have a problem. False positives mean players are quarantined that shouldn't be and false negatives mean the virus goes unchecked within the program. Either way, the admin will have to face the criticism of spreading the virus or they will have to deal with unfairly stopping participation. Either way, the public look and potential liability means strong motivation to pull the plug on the season. That is just stating reality.
@texdawg I'm sorry about what this virus and the response is doing to people you love. The hard part is without a community to support schools and their football program, they would not exist. I'm just saying that we are in this together no matter what side of the debate we may fall. I pray for the lives of so many people...that we could find a way to let the football season happen. And I pray for the lives of others who might be affected by the spread of a virus. They too have every reason to want to protect loved ones from it. The individual decisions of people living in a community do not happen in a vacuum.