#WeWantToPlay

#101
#101
Dumbledorange said:
If I'm COVID neg and I'm never/rarely seen the playing field and my choices are to play with the high potentiality of getting infected or continue on my education, graduate and get on with life, I have zero problems making that choice.
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But @Dumbledorange , first off, what are the odds that you even get infected? Secondly, what are the odds that you die from it? People place their lives in their hands getting behind the wheel of a car.
 
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Dumbledorange said:
If I'm COVID neg and I'm never/rarely seen the playing field and my choices are to play with the high potentiality of getting infected or continue on my education, graduate and get on with life, I have zero problems making that choice.
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Read the letters after the #.

We want to play.

That translates into that they want to play.

Part of your screen name makes sense.
 
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#105
Dumbledorange said:
If I'm COVID neg and I'm never/rarely seen the playing field and my choices are to play with the high potentiality of getting infected or continue on my education, graduate and get on with life, I have zero problems making that choice.
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Unless you never leave the house you have a potentiality if getting infected. Chicken Little
 
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USAFgolferVol said:
I love them both, plus the NFL is the best of the best. Most of the professionals give "their all". That's why you see lots of 4th qtr comebacks or a team like the Patriots rallying from a deficit of 28-3 to win the Super Bowl
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Great point! I like both for different reasons. College players play for the love of the game but so do pro players. No one sticks to anything they don’t love for as many years as it took to get there. College is great because you get to witness their development on a national level (Like Joe Burrow). Pro is great because it’s more of a chess match of coaches/management because the talent is fairly level across the board.
 
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Tennessee's Trey Smith, who had lung issues, wants to play college football season


KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee offensive lineman Trey Smith, who fought back from blood clots in his lungs to earn first-team All-SEC honors a year ago, said the voices of those players wanting to play should be strongly taken into account before any decision is made to cancel the 2020 college football season.

"It would tick me off to my core if we're snubbed and that opportunity gets taken away from me to go out there and prove myself," Smith told ESPN. "I'm not knocking any president or chancellor, who absolutely do fabulous jobs, but it would be awesome as players if we could be informed and heard from and quit finding out things about the season possibly being canceled on Twitter and in the media."

Vols' Smith, who had lung issues, wants to play
 
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Dumbledorange said:
If I'm COVID neg and I'm never/rarely seen the playing field and my choices are to play with the high potentiality of getting infected or continue on my education, graduate and get on with life, I have zero problems making that choice.
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Who do you think will have access to more testing and better healthcare, P5 football players or the average college student?
 
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#112
Alright guys try to keep this in perspective and focus on where the player’s mindset is, as opposed to the particular player. This is where a lot of guys are because they want to play and have dreams of achieving their goals. Joe Burrow is the perfect example from last year that we can’t predict the future, but guys can make changes that will forever change their life. So I don’t fault JG for looking at things the way he does. Also, I’m not comparing him to Burrow so please don’t mistake what I’m saying.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Alright guys try to keep this in perspective and focus on where the player’s mindset is, as opposed to the particular player. This is where a lot of guys are because they want to play and have dreams of achieving their goals. Joe Burrow is the perfect example from last year that we can’t predict the future, but guys can make changes that will forever change their life. So I don’t fault JG for looking at things the way he does. Also, I’m not comparing him to Burrow so please don’t mistake what I’m saying.
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Burrow is dead on. There are a lot of futures at stake right now. Imagine Trey Smith having to sit and then be evaluated as a guy with blood clots trying to get drafted in the age of Covid.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
A person can catch it if they never leave their room.
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There seems to be good evidence that the "stay home" orders in NYC caused more people to get it and... die.. Many live in apartments with shared HVAC air return or simply insufficient air exchange to keep virus infested particles from building in the air. It is pretty amazing how much air actually moves through what we think of as solid walls and floors. If you have a house on a crawl space, most of the air that enters your house comes up through the floor. I have allergies that can be aggravated by airborne mold from our crawl space.

One of the most frustrating things about the reactions of our supposed "health care leaders and experts" is they have not built the response focused on viral load. If you do not get a significant viral load... you do not catch the virus. (That's why masks in Walmart are so silly. You aren't going to get infected or likely come in CDC's definition of "close contact" while shopping in a large, open store like that.)

FREE people of good will armed with two things could do a better job of managing this virus than all of the top down solutions in the world- we need a public that understands which demographics are most at risk and the concept of viral load.

Viral load is a function of "input" from infected people, space, time, and air exchange. That's why the idea of no fans at outdoor sporting events is stupid when the alternative... is people going to sports bars that recycle the same air for hours... or even days.

The demographics are available in really good detail... and are being perverted and twisted by the media to stoke fear and panic rather than calm and reason. This is a virus that preys on people in poor health whether due to medical conditions or age. There are VERY few deaths or severe cases among the healthy when compared to other health issues and illnesses.
 
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1vol8 said:
Great point! I like both for different reasons. College players play for the love of the game but so do pro players. No one sticks to anything they don’t love for as many years as it took to get there. College is great because you get to witness their development on a national level (Like Joe Burrow). Pro is great because it’s more of a chess match of coaches/management because the talent is fairly level across the board.
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I've seen some of our most talented teams quit in the middle of the second half when getting beat.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:


“Ultimately Create A College Football’s Players Association.”

The cat is out of the bag now. At least we can’t hide behind the “COVID too dangerous” stuff now. This entire debacle is clearly over the collective bargaining the players are trying to do. I’m not sure which side of the fence I lie on really, but either way this will turn ugly, and more than likely ensure that there is no season this year because these kids are fooling themselves if they think they have the power to change the minds of some of the most corrupt executives in any industry in this country.
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Curious to know who is really pulling the strings.
 
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#119
So many are giving reasons not to play. I have a question. Do you thing there would be less or more of players come down with covid-19 if they do not have football? Based on nothing, I feel more would get it if they did not play. They would more then likely be around their older kinfolk also. I feel without the overseeing and guidelines of the coaches and doctor, being age 18 -22, more would come down with it. I would bet the percentage of all other collage age kids would be higher then the football team. Like I said this is based on nothing.
 
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USAFgolferVol said:
I've seen some of our most talented teams quit in the middle of the second half when getting beat.
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Seems to me they quit less than a quarter way through the season in 2018 and never tried at all (outside of Auburn). College teams quit just like any other when getting beat. Doesn’t mean they love the game any less. It just means they don’t like losing for repetitive reasons that they can’t do anything about.
 
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Chuckvolfan said:
So many are giving reasons not to play. I have a question. Do you thing there would be less or more of players come down with covid-19 if they do not have football? Based on nothing, I feel more would get it if they did not play. They would more then likely be around their older kinfolk also. I feel without the overseeing and guidelines of the coaches and doctor, being age 18 -22, more would come down with it. I would bet the percentage of all other collage age kids would be higher then the football team. Like I said this is based on nothing.
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Great point and one that’s being brought up quite often by the players joining the #wewanttopplay movement.
 
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Cartervol said:
Very few , but with the loudest voices, kind of like what you're seeing around the country with these riots. They're driving the train and a lot of people are standing by and letting them..
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The “media” decide who has the “loudest voices”.

The media is the problem.
 
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1vol8 said:
Seems to me they quit less than a quarter way through the season in 2018 and never tried at all (outside of Auburn). College teams quit just like any other when getting beat. Doesn’t mean they love the game any less. It just means they don’t like losing for repetitive reasons that they can’t do anything about.
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My point was that it's a ridiculously ignorant assumption that college players care more than professional players
 
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