Adam Schefter on what he's hearing about whether there will be a 2020 CFB season

[lukeneyland]

Add six to eight weeks to the normal start of season.

So do you move every game back or move the early games to the end so you only have to reschedule 6 games?

In one scenario, we would start the season against bama and finish with Charlotte, OK, Furman, Florida, Mizzou and SCAR.

Hell I'll take that. Maybe Alabama would somehow come out rusty with all of their new offensive personell

 

[99gator]

I just looked up and pulled some numbers and it gives me another perspective.

I pulled this from the NY Times.

8,907 people have died from COVID-19 in New York County and Nassau County in the State of New York. 25,922 deaths have occurred in the entire United States. If you do the math, that would be 34.3% of all deaths in the United States are coming from two counties. Two.

9.75 million people live in New York County and Nassau County. 320 million people live in the rest of the United States.

If you look at the total numbers for the country, it's easy to panic. If you break the numbers down by locality, they are extremely low.

I am currently living in Texas, but I looked at what I know. I looked at numbers in Florida. 38 deaths combined in Duval, Clay, St. John's, Nassau, Volusia, Bradford, Alachua, Putnam, Flagler and Baker counties. For those not aware, that's Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach, Jacksonville, Orange Park, Daytona Beach, Gainesville, St. Augustine. In short, it's all of NE Florida.

In Tennessee, there are 44 combined deaths in Davidson and Shelby counties combined (Memphis and Nashville). That's a low number. There are 79 deaths total in the remaining 93 counties in the state. That's beyond low.

Alaska has a stay at home order and 7 people in the whole state have died. Montana has a stay at home order and 7 people have died there as well. Now, if you're living in Montana and Alaska, aren't you already practicing social distancing?

I know this isn't popular, but when this is over and we calculate the devastation inflicted upon the masses of people out there who are going to be economically screwed from this, we will conclude this was a massive, massive overreaction.

 

[MAUSERWERKE]

I would love to see it, but I am very dubious about any kind of major sports events occurring until a vaccine or effective therapy is found. Maybe baseball, as the players are already very spread out. But contact sports like football? No way. Everyone saying there will be a college season doesn't seem to be taking into account the attitude of the players and their families.

Plus, if a season does somehow go forward, and enough players elect to suit up, what happens when a player tests positive? His entire team quarantined for 14 days? How about the team the affected team played within the prior 14 days? Them too?

How could you ever make this work? I am very bummed by this, but I don't see a 2020 college football season, barring some very rapid medical developments.

 

[MikeVol44]

I just looked up and pulled some numbers and it gives me another perspective.

I pulled this from the NY Times.

8,907 people have died from COVID-19 in New York County and Nassau County in the State of New York. 25,922 deaths have occurred in the entire United States. If you do the math, that would be 34.3% of all deaths in the United States are coming from two counties. Two.

9.75 million people live in New York County and Nassau County. 320 million people live in the rest of the United States.

If you look at the total numbers for the country, it's easy to panic. If you break the numbers down by locality, they are extremely low.

I am currently living in Texas, but I looked at what I know. I looked at numbers in Florida. 38 deaths combined in Duval, Clay, St. John's, Nassau, Volusia, Bradford, Alachua, Putnam, Flagler and Baker counties. For those not aware, that's Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach, Jacksonville, Orange Park, Daytona Beach, Gainesville, St. Augustine. In short, it's all of NE Florida.

In Tennessee, there are 44 combined deaths in Davidson and Shelby counties combined (Memphis and Nashville). That's a low number. There are 79 deaths total in the remaining 93 counties in the state. That's beyond low.

Alaska has a stay at home order and 7 people in the whole state have died. Montana has a stay at home order and 7 people have died there as well. Now, if you're living in Montana and Alaska, aren't you already practicing social distancing?

I know this isn't popular, but when this is over and we calculate the devastation inflicted upon the masses of people out there who are going to be economically screwed from this, we will conclude this was a massive, massive overreaction.

You're (&^**& right it has been......Excellent post!!

Thanks to the Gates'-lovin' Farci and Birx.....pushing their extreme vaccine agenda...
And now the CDC is basically "rationing" testing in order to force the agenda.
It's beginning to smell like they INTENTIONALLY do NOT want us to know the actual infection and mortality rate out there. (See Stanford MD's internet article posted yesterday!)

I've posted before, and I'll post again....I've worked with those Public Health officials.
It's in their playbook---always give the worst case scenario in order to instill maximum fear in the masses to ensure mob subservience and obedience.



ON another note....here's something for you fact-checkers out there....Tennessee has more ICU beds than New York!!!

 

[dobre_shunka]

I would love to see it, but I am very dubious about any kind of major sports events occurring until a vaccine or effective therapy is found. Maybe baseball, as the players are already very spread out. But contact sports like football? No way. Everyone saying there will be a college season doesn't seem to be taking into account the attitude of the players and their families.

Plus, if a season does somehow go forward, and enough players elect to suit up, what happens when a player tests positive? His entire team quarantined for 14 days? How about the team the affected team played within the prior 14 days? Them too?

How could you ever make this work? I am very bummed by this, but I don't see a 2020 college football season, barring some very rapid medical developments.

It was announced today that the Tour de France will be delayed until August but will occur. Similarly the multi-week grand tour races in Spain and Italy and the cycling world championship in Switzerland will also take place in the fall after the tour. The United States Cycling championship races will occur the weekend of Aug 22-23 in a town in East Tennessee called Knoxville.

If Europe is able to resume normal life especially Italy, why shouldn't the US?

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

 

[Skullbone]

Bring on the football. I can't wait to watch. I will shelter in place every Saturday for sure

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

I would love to see it, but I am very dubious about any kind of major sports events occurring until a vaccine or effective therapy is found. Maybe baseball, as the players are already very spread out. But contact sports like football? No way. Everyone saying there will be a college season doesn't seem to be taking into account the attitude of the players and their families.

Plus, if a season does somehow go forward, and enough players elect to suit up, what happens when a player tests positive? His entire team quarantined for 14 days? How about the team the affected team played within the prior 14 days? Them too?

How could you ever make this work? I am very bummed by this, but I don't see a 2020 college football season, barring some very rapid medical developments.

There won’t be a college football season and might never be a vaccine for this

 

[JohnWardForever]

First of all, I am pretty sure that none of the players will die from this. Almost everyone under the age of 30 who contracts this is completely fine. The coaches will be fine too. Would be a small risk only to them. Second, as I said in another post that livelihoods mean just as much as lives. Ever look up to see who makes up the majority of fatalities? People over 70, People with Complications from heart disease, lung disease. and diabetes. The usual suspects. Now tell me why we should still keep a 22 trillion dollar economy shut down, particularly when we now have successful treatments for this? If the government wants to mandate stay at home orders it should be for those vulnerable, not for everyone else. They are dissembling some mass field hospitals as we speak. We can't hide in the corner and be whiny little pu$$ies over a weak azz virus all our lives. This happens. Time to get your antibodies to this and move on with life.

"Successful treatments". That's the key phrase. The Fear of this thing was it "Can't be Cured". Well in actual real time studies, the Hydroxy/Zpack/Zinc combo is effective 96% of the time; when given BEFORE the Patient's lungs are damaged and on a Ventilator. Treat this crap IMMEDIATELY with this therapy and Open The Country UP. The "side effects" narrative is Political Bullchit. Enough already.

 

[JohnWardForever]

We ran out of the water when Jaws ate Mrs. Kitner's boy on the raft. Shark attacks go down when we're all standing on land. Duh. But Bruce is still swimming around out there.

Who's gonna make the Mayor happy and get back in first?

This ain't over, folks. See: Spanish flu 1918-19. The first wave hit in March then cleared up. Then the virus mutated and came back with a vengeance in the Fall... killing people within 24 hours of symptoms. It then came back for a third wave in the Spring again.

Roughly 50 million people dead.

Maybe we'll have a vaccine in 6-9 months. Until then, life sucks... including no football. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Maybe this virus wasn't Engineered to Mutate? Maybe that Chinese Scientist in Wuhan cut us some slack? "Accidentally released from Wuhan Lab" NO ACCIDENT. SO we don't really know about a mutation.

 

[MAUSERWERKE]

It was announced today that the Tour de France will be delayed until August but will occur. Similarly the multi-week grand tour races in Spain and Italy and the cycling world championship in Switzerland will also take place in the fall after the tour. The United States Cycling championship races will occur the weekend of Aug 22-23 in a town in East Tennessee called Knoxville.

If Europe is able to resume normal life especially Italy, why shouldn't the US?

Well, I did say "major sporting events." (I realize the Tour de France is a big thing there, but still.) The differences between bicycling and football, both from a participant and spectator perspective, are obvious and enormous.

Also, a lot of events are being "postponed" for now, but will very likely end up being cancelled. No one wants to make the decision to cancel events and sports seasons until they absolutely have to. I am reading reports that several major universities are making contingency plans to have no classes this fall. I don't mean everything shifts online. I mean "closed down." I don't see how college athletics goes forward until there are some medical breakthroughs.

As I said, I would badly love to see sports return.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Maybe this virus wasn't Engineered to Mutate? Maybe that Chinese Scientist in Wuhan cut us some slack? "Accidentally released from Wuhan Lab" NO ACCIDENT. SO we don't really know about a mutation.

Considering this was genetically engineered to mutate from animal to man. Maybe it is made to mutate quicker than other naturally occurring viruses and therefore in a few months causes more problems then it can now

 

[JohnWardForever]

Considering this was genetically engineered to mutate from animal to man. Maybe it is made to mutate quicker than other naturally occurring viruses and therefore in a few months causes more problems then it can now

That is the Big Question. AND, it is slowly coming to light that COV19 definitely was engineered in the Bio Lab in Wuhan, and likely released to quell the uprising in Hong Kong; And the coverup was deliberately done to cause US Harm; (allowing Travel from Wuhan to the US & everywhere else) with China saying it was not contagious; when they knew full well what it was! The TRUTH will eventually be revealed; despite all the attempts to cover it up. CHINA has just committed the Largest Mass Murder we've ever witnessed.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

That is the Big Question. AND, it is slowly coming to light that COV19 definitely was engineered in the Bio Lab in Wuhan. The TRUTH will eventually be revealed; despite all the attempts to cover it up.

And I think this is what led to the measures that are being taken. Imo long before a lot of this information has started coming to light I believe our government knew info like that and did not release. But since it is generically engineered nobody knows how it will react. My biggest fear is some of the discussions that I've seen in this thread. Being in a rush to reopen the country. Yes it sucks I'm one of the many unemployed because of this virus. But until we have a vaccine or a 95% measure of testing that will identify the virus day 1 of contracting it we are not safe. All it takes is 1 and we are back in this same situation.

 

[JohnWardForever]

And I think this is what led to the measures that are being taken. Imo long before a lot of this information has started coming to light I believe our government knew info like that and did not release. But since it is generically engineered nobody knows how it will react. My biggest fear is some of the discussions that I've seen in this thread. Being in a rush to reopen the country. Yes it sucks I'm one of the many unemployed because of this virus. But until we have a vaccine or a 95% measure of testing that will identify the virus day 1 of contracting it we are not safe. All it takes is 1 and we are back in this same situation.

Testing is the answer, and keeping visitors out. IF your Premise about mutation is correct; a Vaccine will be useless too. I am not interested in any vaccine that Bill Gates is involved with. ISRAEL? Yes. Gates has a poor record of involvement in places like INDIA ; where they recently kicked him out for basically Malpractice.

 

[Gandalf]

Testing is the answer, and keeping visitors out. IF your Premise about mutation is correct; a Vaccine will be useless too. I am not interested in any vaccine that Bill Gates is involved with. ISRAEL? Yes. Gates has a poor record of involvement in places like INDIA ; where they recently kicked him out for basically Malpractice.

Why do I need a vaccine if I can simply get tested and take something 95% effective as soon as I get it?

 

[Volsfaninva917]

PGA Tour to resume season in June, first 4 events to be held without fans

 

[Tin Man]

My favorite President.

Not Randy Boyd?

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Why do I need a vaccine if I can simply get tested and take something 95% effective as soon as I get it?

Because you're treating the symptoms of the virus and not the virus itself. So just like the flu we would have Covid 19 season every year, and then eventually it would mutate like any other virus and then what happens when this virus has mutated. It can kill thousands in its weakest form what do we do when it has become resistant to the 3 drug cocktail that will cure they symptoms of it. Until there is a way to keep the virus from sticking human cells and infecting them there is a chance it can mutate and become much stronger than it already is

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Not Randy Boyd?

I respect that the Randman is from South Knoxville and probably lived off of Chapman Hwy at some point in his life .

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

My life is to short to risk it at a football game. Do what you wish with yours.

Watch it on TV? Lol

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

Eh...not really .

I'm sure some people shared your opinion when the Black Plague hit. "Life must resume "

They still don't have a vaccine...and almost 1/2 million cases here with 20,000 dead in about a 6 week span...

No...people need to keep theirselves inside and costs need be postponed on as many necessities as possible.

Disagree. What no one is taking into account is how many people who have already had COVID without even knowing. Once RNA testing starts happening everyone will realize how much of the population has already had this thing and that all these other cases leading to deaths were just bad luck.

You can literally take every single precaution aside from just staying inside and never coming outside, and you will still have a chance to get this virus. The population just needs to be exposed to it to develop immunity. Plain and simple.

 

[MAUSERWERKE]

Perhaps this graph has some bearing. From statisa.com.

 

[84Volfan]

Perhaps this graph has some bearing. From statisa.com.

So really 56% of having sports to 40% of not....

 

[MAUSERWERKE]

So really 56% of having sports to 40% of not....

Yes. Or looked at differently, well over 60% would not attend such an event.