Posted on 03/02/2021 4:03:26 AM PST by blam
The University of Alabama is planning on playing its football season in the fall with a full 100,000 capacity stadium, the school’s Athletic Director announced Monday.
Greg Byrne made the declaration on his personal Twitter account.
“With this announcement, we've received a number of questions regarding capacity at Bryant-Denny for @AlabamaFTBL in 2021,” Byrne wrote. “We are moving forward with plans to have a full stadium in the fall and will monitor medical guidelines as we have all along. #RollTide.”
Alabama’s 92-year-old Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa – which has been expanded nine times (Coach Saban donated $1 million) including most recently last year – is reportedly the eighth-largest stadium in the United States and 10th-largest in the world.
The Crimson tied reduced capacity to 20%, or about 20,000, last season due to the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. The seven-day moving average of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Alabama has plummeted from a peak of 4,281 on Jan. 10 to nearly 900 on Sunday, worldometers.info reported.
Similarly, the seven-day average of COVID-19-related deaths has fallen from a high of 154 on Jan. 29 to 48 on Sunday.
Byrne’s revelation came hours after the University of Alabama announced it would return to “traditional in-person instruction,” in the autumn semester.
“The University of Alabama, along with other campuses in the University of Alabama System, plans to return to traditional in-person instruction without restrictions on classroom capacity for Fall 2021, as announced today by the UA System,” the school announced on its official Twitter account.
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“full 100,000 capacity stadium,”
According to Dr. Faux-he, after the first game, only a few people would be well enough to attend the next game. By the third game, half the student body would be dead. By the end of the season, most of the residents of the state of Alabama would be pushing up daisies.
No one knows what COVID restrictions will be in place (in Alabama or anywhere else) in a month.
Asserting a plan for September is ridiculous.
The little weasel recently said something to the effect of that he hopes by next Christmas we could maybe see some sense of normalcy, maybe, but you have to ask him first. All these public health “experts” have been wrong and almost every aspect of this since day one
Choose a 2021 experiment to end the covid nightmare:
1) Vaccine with its 3 or 4 boosters
2) A season of (non-NFL) sports in a full outdoor stadium
I choose #2.
Once it’s shown to cause no disease spread, the disease regime is over.
I agree but it's the principle of the thing. The lockdowns are ridiculous. I hope the rest of the SEC follows suit. I hope they will be able to do it but I am not holding my breath
Glad somebody's leading the way.
If the colleges don’t start opening the liberal pipeline of indoctrination will close soon they will have to retire their leftist staff.
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Most of the stadiums in the SEC have 100,000 capacity so Bama is not unique in that.
And the rest of the SEC will join in. People not from SEC country simply do not understand how intense it is here.
It’s a blood sport.
They’re not gonna take anymore losses in football revenue.
GEAUX TIGERS !!
Fazi has done more damage to America and Americans than has his beloved covid ... and he is clearly proud of his dreadful accomplishment.
Here’s a breakdown of 2013 capacity, 2014 capacity and future capacity:
Team Stadium 2013 2014 Future
Alabama Bryant-Denny Stadium 101,821 101,821 NA
LSU Tiger Stadium 92,400 100,000 NA
Georgia Sanford Stadium 92,746 92,746 NA
Florida Ben Hill Griffin Stadium 88,548 88,548 NA
Auburn Jordan-Hare Stadium 87,451 87,451 NA
S. Carolina Williams-Brice Stadium 80,250 80,250 NA
Missouri Memorial Stadium 71,009 77,000 NA
Arkansas Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium 72,000 72,000 80,000
Miss State Davis Wade Stadium 55,082 61,337 NA
Kentucky Commonwealth Stadium 67,692 61,000 NA
Ole Miss Vaught-Hemingway Stadium 60,580 60,580 70,000
Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Stadium 40,350 40,350 NA
So numbers from 2014...k
I was part of the 400,000+ (probably twice that number) in DC on Jan 6. No social distancing, no masks, none of that! Still healthy as an ox. I'm sure everybody else there that day is also doing well, otherwise, the MSM would have been all over it. Trust me.
ROLL TIDE!!
IMO, it was the best team ever.
Definitely the best offense in College Football History. Hands down; Case closed.
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