Chris Fowler on CFB Season Start

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gunner said:
Yep, it was before Twitter, and he said it after many Vol fans blamed him and ESPN for promoting Charles Woodson for the HT over Manning when everyone knew that Manning was easily the most deserving player for the award.
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Why would anyone blame Fowler for Manning not winning the Heisman? Fowler voted for manning and publicly stated so at the time.
 
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The Original Fade said:
Agree. This is absurd -the 2nd wave of COVID-19 will be in full swing by then and we will be in the middle of quarantine #2. The best opportunity is a shortened Sept-Nov timeframe. Wrap it up before COVID resurfaces again, which it definitely will.
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Quarantine 1-2-3-4 etc. what difference will it make until there is a curing shot, pills, who knows what? How many months or years will that cure take to have a near 0 infection rate. (no cure has ever achieved this goal, although polio as come nearest I think) At some point "life must go on". I don't know when the "powers that be" are going to say enough, but they will! The time will come when we will start to treat this illness as we do most others. Take our chances.... Give this mess a few more weeks and lets get back to normal or as close as we will ever be able to.
 
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vol9799 said:
No question, it's been political probably from the start, but the "not slowing down" part just isn't correct. Today's numbers will finish in the mid 20's continuing the slightly downward trend.


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20 days ago if everyone in the world wasn't locked in an air-tight compartment, the world would never recover. 10 days ago, between 100k-240k would die in the US everyone was sure. Today, there is doubt as to whether COVID related deaths will reach 50k despite medical facilities, in some cases, being encouraged or even incentivized to attribute questionable deaths to this bug. World-wide, out of 120k attributed deaths, less than 1k previously healthy individuals under the age of 60 have died from COVID. During this same period "other" causes have killed far more people.

Recoveries are not reported timely because confirming them requires resources that need to be spent helping those who are ill. That's fine. But when you take that and the observed virus duration into account; within 2 weeks considerably more people will recover each day than contract the virus. These trends suggest end of May numbers (still 2 months b4 fall practice) will be so improved that the only arrow remaining the quiver of the sensationalist and alarmist media hacks will be "Waiting for Round 2" garbage that has already begun.

Just as there is no evidence that the summer season weakens the virus, there is no evidence that winter bolsters it. Unless trends fundamentally change, the only reason to cancel football season is irrational fear. The risk to players is exponentially lower than sustaining injury that will become limiting or debilitating later in life.

If folks want to live like an Eastern Bloc, Soviet, Cuban or ChiCom society and be accordingly miserable then please find folks who are like-minded and go take over Greenland (my apologies if there any native or adopted Greenlandic on board). As for the rest of us, if the current trends continue, there should be football this fall.
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Hear! Hear! As I say in most post I have been making on this topic,,,,,"LIFE MUST GO ON"
 
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therealitytheory said:
Having tests for only 1% of the population is a problem. Packing 100k people into a stadium during a pandemic...sans a vaccine.....nah.
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You make this statement like packing in 100K is mandatory. IT isn't, but I bet you there will be 100k willing to "pack in" on their own. Life must go on...
 
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ksgovols said:
In a 3 sport school year, football, basketball, baseball, it's always made sense for it to be baseball, basketball, football. Full blown college football in the spring would work fine.
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Not so fast...the NFL has it's draft in the spring and there's no way the NFL is not having a draft next year. And I doubt very strongly that they'd (NFL) would push their draft to sometime in June or July. They want to get those players signed and into camps as soon as possible.
 
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savannahfan said:
Quarantine 1-2-3-4 etc. what difference will it make until there is a curing shot, pills, who knows what? How many months or years will that cure take to have a near 0 infection rate. (no cure has ever achieved this goal, although polio as come nearest I think) At some point "life must go on". I don't know when the "powers that be" are going to say enough, but they will! The time will come when we will start to treat this illness as we do most others. Take our chances.... Give this mess a few more weeks and lets get back to normal or as close as we will ever be able to.
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Life will progressively get back to normal. Businesses will open back up. People will head back to the office.

But that doesn't mean that hosting huge public events where thousands of people stand shoulder-to-shoulder will be a good idea for at least several more months. As the world reopens, huge events like sports and concerts will be some of the last things that restart.
 
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"Informed Speculation". He doesn't have a clue and neither does anyone else about the upcoming season, except for medical and infectious disease experts. If we are talking about putting off the season until February, 2021, then there will be no football in 2020.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Why would anyone blame Fowler for Manning not winning the Heisman? Fowler voted for manning and publicly stated so at the time.
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Fowler likes to bloviate and he used his platform on ESPN’s Gameday as the host to endlessly promote Woodson for the HT.

Manning wins the HT going away without Fowler and ESPN.

Many Tennessee fans will never forget or forgive him or ESPN for it and he knows it.
 
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savannahfan said:
You make this statement like packing in 100K is mandatory. IT isn't, but I bet you there will be 100k willing to "pack in" on their own. Life must go on...
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By all means, pack 'em in. I will not be joining them until a vaccine is approved. I can count almost 26,000 people whose lives haven't "gone on" because of this mess and I'm not taking a chance on joining them.
 
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Delmar said:
By all means, pack 'em in. I will not be joining them until a vaccine is approved. I can count almost 26,000 people whose lives haven't "gone on" because of this mess and I'm not taking a chance on joining them.
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Then should probably stay out of a vehicle as well...
 
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Delmar said:
By all means, pack 'em in. I will not be joining them until a vaccine is approved. I can count almost 26,000 people whose lives haven't "gone on" because of this mess and I'm not taking a chance on joining them.
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Yes I agree with you on your own reaction. BUT --- To each his own.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
Yeah it would work fine but what are they going to do finish the season in June and then turn around and start the new season 12 weeks later? Doesnt seem likely
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Permanently change the start date for the college football season. Begin the season in February every year
 
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tpsdave said:
Not so fast...the NFL has it's draft in the spring and there's no way the NFL is not having a draft next year. And I doubt very strongly that they'd (NFL) would push their draft to sometime in June or July. They want to get those players signed and into camps as soon as possible.
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NFL will be on the same delayed calendar if this were to happen. They aren't going to cancel the college football season and the NFL continue on business as usual imo. Baseball draft happens during the CWS and those players are assigned almost immediately. For a one off thing, I'm sure they would make it happen however they could.
 
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jdhallvols said:
I wasn't aware there was a Fiscal Year established for Football.

please tell me more :p
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This is a google, but every college athletic department that doesn't have a budget and fiscal year for operating has probably already gone under. And without football, the revenue stream is cut to nothing, so FY2020 would be dead in the water. Like it or not, college football is a business and if you don't think they operate within the parameters of a fiscal year, you've got your head in the sand.

The SEC announces its revenue figures for latest fiscal year
 
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ksgovols said:
This is a google, but every college athletic department that doesn't have a budget and fiscal year for operating has probably already gone under. And without football, the revenue stream is cut to nothing, so FY2020 would be dead in the water. Like it or not, college football is a business and if you don't think they operate within the parameters of a fiscal year, you've got your head in the sand.

The SEC announces its revenue figures for latest fiscal year
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i dig it. nice retort 2 days later - i hope you didn't lose any sleep over this ;)
 
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The Original Fade said:
Agree. This is absurd -the 2nd wave of COVID-19 will be in full swing by then and we will be in the middle of quarantine #2. The best opportunity is a shortened Sept-Nov timeframe. Wrap it up before COVID resurfaces again, which it definitely will.
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This is what I was thinking. Start the season as soon as possible. Even move the games up a few weeks or a month. If Chroneys show back up, then move the season back as needed. If you get to October, and you still can't do it, then cancel until we can all get vaccinated.
 
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Dudleys87 said:
There won’t be a season this year no matter what they do. It doesent seem to be slowing down and some have made it political.

When it comes to football Tennessee just had bad timing. That OL could have been special to watch
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I think there's too much money tied up in it for it not to happen on some scale. There is no way we can say yes or no at this point. It is slowing down in Italy and Spain and Iran, so not sure why it won't start to slow down here at some point.
 
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drvenner said:
I think there's too much money tied up in it for it not to happen on some scale. There is no way we can say yes or no at this point. It is slowing down in Italy and Spain and Iran, so not sure why it won't start to slow down here at some point.
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It's starting to slow here too. Of course, a few states are the exception...but it's starting.
 
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Pacer92 said:
If they end up pushing back this coming season to Feb. of 2021...and, assuming we play the Fall of 2021 season as planned...that’s a lot of wear and tear in a calendar year.
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But what a glorious year 2021 will be!
 
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