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What happend if/when Tennessee is playing in a big game vs say TAMU or AUburn and is playing lights out. JG, a couple of LB's or 2-3 OL go out due to COVID protocal; and cant play that week or the next? I was thinking of Tennessee's "luck" or lack thereof and how this season might be 5-5 or 4-6 and we play really well but we keep losing players to COVID for a game or two and lose those games.

It could happen the other way playing Alabama and they lose like Waddle a QB and 2-3 of their OL before our game. Not going to happen under Saban, BUT you never know. If we have to cancel games ot forfeit games is this year going to have an astriek beside it??

I mean we might get 10 games of no COVID and very few injuries and all goes as planned with 25% filled Neyland and be 7-3 or 8-2. But with COVID you never know what you are going to get and NO ONE will have home field advantage. That will really hurt us against Kentucky and TAMU becuase those are big swing games the crowd can really really help......
 
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Volteacher said:
What happend if/when Tennessee is playing in a big game vs say TAMU or AUburn and is playing lights out. JG, a couple of LB's or 2-3 OL go out due to COVID protocal; and cant play that week or the next? I was thinking of Tennessee's "luck" or lack thereof and how this season might be 5-5 or 4-6 and we play really well but we keep losing players to COVID for a game or two and lose those games.

It could happen the other way playing Alabama and they lose like Waddle a QB and 2-3 of their OL before our game. Not going to happen under Saban, BUT you never know. If we have to cancel games ot forfeit games is this year going to have an astriek beside it??

I mean we might get 10 games of no COVID and very few injuries and all goes as planned with 25% filled Neyland and be 7-3 or 8-2. But with COVID you never know what you are going to get and NO ONE will have home field advantage. That will really hurt us against Kentucky and TAMU becuase those are big swing games the crowd can really really help......
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They would go through protocol BEFORE the game
 
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If we play really well this season, we will not go 5-5 or 4-6. That is not the definition of playing really well. And covid-19 is not going to have a major impact on that.

CJP said something interesting in Monday's press conference. Talking about Friday's cancelled practice, he said that "we had more than the normal zero or one positive test, so we decided to take a day off and figure it out." Or words to that effect, that isn't a verbatim quote.

The interesting part was the "normal zero or one".

The lads have been getting together since June (voluntarily, not all but some of them), and the team started meeting formally in July. We know 8 of them came back positive after the week they had off around the 4th of July. If an average of "zero or one" (say 0.5) positives occurred every other week, that's about 7 or 8 more. Then you add whatever the number was that caused this past Friday to be a day off, say 3 as a guess, and we're up to 18-20 lads who have already potentially had the disease and gotten immunity. 18-20 out of ~80 who see significant playing time means we're potentially already as high as 25% immunity.

And who knows, maybe we're actually closer to 50% and a lot of the lads simply never got any symptoms at all and never had a test come out positive.

Point is, I doubt we'll lose a lot of players to sickness or quarantine in any given week. I think it will keep going about the way it's going right now. One or two positive each week. No big shakes. And each time we get another lad immunity, the chance just gets better and better that there will be no significant disruption the following week.

Everything is gonna be fine. Go Vols!
 
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Volteacher said:
What happend if/when Tennessee is playing in a big game vs say TAMU or AUburn and is playing lights out. JG, a couple of LB's or 2-3 OL go out due to COVID protocal; and cant play that week or the next? I was thinking of Tennessee's "luck" or lack thereof and how this season might be 5-5 or 4-6 and we play really well but we keep losing players to COVID for a game or two and lose those games.

It could happen the other way playing Alabama and they lose like Waddle a QB and 2-3 of their OL before our game. Not going to happen under Saban, BUT you never know. If we have to cancel games ot forfeit games is this year going to have an astriek beside it??

I mean we might get 10 games of no COVID and very few injuries and all goes as planned with 25% filled Neyland and be 7-3 or 8-2. But with COVID you never know what you are going to get and NO ONE will have home field advantage. That will really hurt us against Kentucky and TAMU becuase those are big swing games the crowd can really really help......
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Those teams will face the same issues.
 
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Volteacher said:
What happend if/when Tennessee is playing in a big game vs say TAMU or AUburn and is playing lights out. JG, a couple of LB's or 2-3 OL go out due to COVID protocal; and cant play that week or the next? I was thinking of Tennessee's "luck" or lack thereof and how this season might be 5-5 or 4-6 and we play really well but we keep losing players to COVID for a game or two and lose those games.

It could happen the other way playing Alabama and they lose like Waddle a QB and 2-3 of their OL before our game. Not going to happen under Saban, BUT you never know. If we have to cancel games ot forfeit games is this year going to have an astriek beside it??

I mean we might get 10 games of no COVID and very few injuries and all goes as planned with 25% filled Neyland and be 7-3 or 8-2. But with COVID you never know what you are going to get and NO ONE will have home field advantage. That will really hurt us against Kentucky and TAMU becuase those are big swing games the crowd can really really help......
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You play with what you got. Goes for every team.
 
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It is looking more and more like a good idea that we moved the start date back to September 26th.

Everything is trending in the right way with this Covid stuff. Look at where we were when we announced we would be starting on Sep 26th. We announced that on July 30th and the case total for that day was 68,000+. Today it was 33,000. In one month the case totals have been cut in half. The positivity rate in new tests is way down. Students are on campus and the wave of new cases is starting to subside. Closer and closer to a herd immunity. We have already had a good number of players get it. People in general are becoming less scared of it. By the 26th I see no reason why we wont continue to improve.
 
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PlanetVolunteer said:
It is looking more and more like a good idea that we moved the start date back to September 26th.

Everything is trending in the right way with this Covid stuff. Look at where we were when we announced we would be starting on Sep 26th. We announced that on July 30th and the case total for that day was 68,000+. Today it was 33,000. In one month the case totals have been cut in half. The positivity rate in new tests is way down. Students are on campus and the wave of new cases is starting to subside. Closer and closer to a herd immunity. We have already had a good number of players get it. People in general are becoming less scared of it. By the 26th I see no reason why we wont continue to improve.
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I work for an insurance company. I deal directly with covid claims. We've gotten the lowest # of covid claims this week since this silliness started.

How many deaths has the football team had from covid?
 
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GAVol said:
Absolutely . . . people need to stop worrying about what is "legitimate" and just go play. Whatever circumstance is in front of you is what is legitimate.
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Yeah but if UGA, UF, or Bama wins it all I'm calling BS...
 
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Cmacsmokey said:
. There won’t be a legitimate champion this year if we get that far
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C'mon man. Where have all of your "doom and gloom" and "I know better" posts gone?

"If we get that far" seems to indicate that you think football may not only happen but a complete season could happen. What happened to the last 5-6 months of dire predictions?
 
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happy-go_vol said:
I work for an insurance company. I deal directly with covid claims. We've gotten the lowest # of covid claims this week since this silliness started.

How many deaths has the football team had from covid?
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One-third of Big Ten athletes with virus have myocarditis
Penn State's director of athletic medicine relayed the data stating that a significant number of COVID-positive athletes now have the inflammation, which can be fatal.
'We really just don't know what to do' »
 
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Cmacsmokey said:
. There won’t be a legitimate champion this year if we get that far
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Cmac, if we get that far, you'll have been wrong about everything else concerning this season. Why would you suddenly be right about this?

Just asking :)
 
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I think the real question is who gets to cancel or postpone games. The schedule has a week built-in at the end for the makeup of postponed games. Also, if bye week is the same as other team a game could be made up then. Will the SEC allow a team to request postponement or do you play with what you got. Will they treat Alabama different than Tennessee?
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Cmac, if we get that far, you'll have been wrong about everything else concerning this season. Why would you suddenly be right about this?

Just asking :)
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. It’s a legitimate concern I mean several SEC coaches have said if they had to play a game this Saturday they couldn’t because of all the covid positive tests on their teams
 
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Volteacher said:
What happend if/when Tennessee is playing in a big game vs say TAMU or AUburn and is playing lights out. JG, a couple of LB's or 2-3 OL go out due to COVID protocal; and cant play that week or the next? I was thinking of Tennessee's "luck" or lack thereof and how this season might be 5-5 or 4-6 and we play really well but we keep losing players to COVID for a game or two and lose those games.

It could happen the other way playing Alabama and they lose like Waddle a QB and 2-3 of their OL before our game. Not going to happen under Saban, BUT you never know. If we have to cancel games ot forfeit games is this year going to have an astriek beside it??

I mean we might get 10 games of no COVID and very few injuries and all goes as planned with 25% filled Neyland and be 7-3 or 8-2. But with COVID you never know what you are going to get and NO ONE will have home field advantage. That will really hurt us against Kentucky and TAMU becuase those are big swing games the crowd can really really help......
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Not sure JG not playing is much of a factor bro. Anyone can hand a ball off for 4 quarters
 
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I feel like a championship in 2020 is even more legit. If you can rise above 2020, you can rise above anything.
 
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GAVol said:
Absolutely . . . people need to stop worrying about what is "legitimate" and just go play. Whatever circumstance is in front of you is what is legitimate.
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i was watching Hard Knocks last night and the Chargers coach said something like "the team holding the trophy at the end of the season is the team that manages Covid the best" same goes for CFB.
 
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