Posted on 08/09/2020 6:05:59 PM PDT by Libloather
With the college football season in serious jeopardy due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Big Ten could be closer to pulling the plug.
According to a report from ESPN, the “vast majority” of Big Ten presidents are in favor of postponing the season while hoping to play in the spring. Yahoo! Sports’ Pete Thamel reported Big Ten presidents and chancellors are scheduled to meet Sunday night.
A Big Ten spokesman confirmed to MLive on Saturday that conference presidents and chancellors were meeting that day but there was no vote planned on playing football this fall. The conference on Saturday morning announced practice restrictions, preventing teams from wearing pads until further notice.
“We understand there are many questions regarding how this impacts schedules, as well as the feasibility of proceeding forward with the season at all,” the Big Ten said in a statement on Saturday. “As we have consistently stated, we will continue to evaluate daily, while relying on our medical experts, to make the best decisions possible for the health, safety and wellness of our student-athletes.”
ESPN reported commissioners from Power Five conferences had an emergency meeting on Sunday as Big Ten presidents wanted to get a feel if the other conferences would also cancel fall sports.
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I fvcking hate the left for what they created but maybe we need the purge.
New rule: Athletic scholarships cannot be offered until the applicant has been accepted to the university on the basis of grades and board scores. With a blind application.
“The woke players go straight back to mom’s basement.”
yep ...
2009 Swine Flu Deaths in the US - 3,433
2003 SARS deaths in the US - 0
1968-1969 Hing Kong Flu Deaths in the US - ~100,000
1957-1958 Asian Flu deaths in the US - ~116,000
COVID-19 Deaths in the US - 165,083
That’s the number as of August 8. We’re still racking them up at a 1,000 a day average, so the final number will be (much) higher. And that’s with significantly better health care than we had in the 50s and 60s.
Make your own judgement, but I believe the numbers show that this outbreak is significantly more dangerous than the previous ones you cited.
The nfl will eat up all the spots on saturday. Watch the college football try to reclaim them the following year. Ho ho.
it serves the woke players and it serves these pompous football players who want to unionize and call the shots....
What was the population of USA in 1968-69? 1957-58?
its of little risk but some will get the covid and recover but you can bet your bippy that mommy and daddy will SUE because their mediocre son had SUCH a great chance of going pro and making millions......and if you buy that.....
why don’t these sport teams self isolate, give themselves the virus, recover and then go play their games...they don’t need an audience...
I won’t miss it.
so numbers can not be trusted....
anecdotally, in my neck of the woods, life is going on...no one seems very concerned at all...
population was HALF....
Do they "Red Shirt" all the players so they can come back next season?
Round up both Asian flu deaths from the 50s and 60s to 250k deaths each. If COVID-19 deaths exceed 250k, then we’ll know this one was deadlier.
In 2020, our population is about twice what it was in 1957. So the death rate from Asian flu that year would be the equivalent of around 230,000 deaths today.
1960 around 180 million
1970 about 204-205 million
2020 we are around 330 million.
So we are about 1.6 times as large as 1970 and had about the same rate of deaths, but this is still early and this thing has been going through this summer like crap through a goose (to quote the old Patton movie). Arizona is a hot spot and they have had temps north of 110 for like the last month. TX/FL and other southern states have had large increases during the summer months.
Have you ever seen a flu do this in the Summer? I am 54 and I sure as heck have not.
We have immunity to the flu, COVID-19 is a novel virus. Once everyone gets COVID-19, herd immunity will kick in.
Spanish flu killed more people than did WWI. Yet although it was delayed, we still had a college football season.
Forget about the scholarships…. how are they going to deal with not being able to kneel?
1957-1958 Asian Flu deaths in the US - ~116,000
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Yes, I remember it VERY well....
Knew there was ‘something’ going on but in Aug 1957 the ship I was on and the rest of the Squadron departed San Diego and went straight into the ‘Jaws of Death’ visiting Japan, China, Philippines, Korea, Formosa etc
I don’t seem to recall ANY masks - at least among us, definitely NO PANIC, no jails emptied, no hunkering down, schools remained open and life went on.
Of course we weren’t blessed with all these medical geniuses we have today and maybe the reason we didn’t panic over this flu was because in our short lives (I was 17) had already lived through TB and Polio (I had both parents as RN’s (working in a sanitarium) so was probably subjected to all the ‘germs’ etc
I personally have NEVER taken a flu shot (well am sure the Navy had some concoction for us) and never had a ‘serious’ case of flu, still going about my business, don’t wear a mask etc etc etc
DON’T PANIC and FOLLOW THE MONEY.....
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