Warning: Political Takes 2020 College Football: the “season” has officially started

Should Sec go after other conferences teams that are disgusted?

  • Yes

    Votes: 29 46.0%
  • No

    Votes: 26 41.3%
  • Maybe if it's Ohio St, Michigan or Usc

    Votes: 8 12.7%

  • Total voters
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ChiefGator

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for sure. Patients dying all over the place is a panic.

dying out of how many citizens? Folks die in traffic accidents, this might actually reduce them for a time so net deaths could be considered negative.

Some are already saying China deaths will save many due to less pollution.

The bottom line is we really don't know but even thousands of deaths, while bad for individuals and their families are not too significant in the whole. Just saying!!!
 

BMF

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This would be ridiculous:


COLLEGE FOOTBALL LOOKING AT ALTERNATIVES FOR 2020



SBJ Unpacks: Coronavirus -- Summer Semester For College Football?

  • Amid a growing concern that the college football season could be pushed back, or even canceled, an alternative could come into play -- moving the season up to July, August and September, writes SBJ’s Michael Smith. Every other scenario has the season starting later in the fall, at a time when the coronavirus could be returning for another round of infections as the cool weather returns and a vaccine most likely unavailable until 2021. But staging an abbreviated college football season in the summer presents an opportunity to play games when the warm weather could help prevent the spread of the virus.

  • Such a drastic move would depend on a number of factors, according to sources Smith talked to this week:
    • Would campuses be open and able to properly staff games?
    • Would media partners be receptive to such a radical idea? Given the pent-up demand for live events by then, perhaps so?
    • Would fans turn out for football in the summer, especially with temperatures in the 90s? Would they even be permitted inside the stadium?
    • Could athletic departments recoup some of the revenue they’ve lost by staging a summer season?
    • How would a season work? It would almost have to be conference games only. Teams could start with a June mini-camp, July training camp and eight or nine games in August and September with no postseason.
  • These are questions that take time to answer, but alternative scenarios like summer football will be discussed by commissioners and athletic directors who will be desperate to play this season. There’s no guarantee that a fall season would succeed, and it might be more likely to fail if the virus returns. A summer season could be the only way to play college football in 2020.
 

Gatorraid81

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Definitely be some hot games. Maybe most games in the south could be played at night.
 

CU-UF

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There is no way they are going to push the season earlier. They need at least a month+ to prepare players for some type of safe playing shape, plus they would have to assume that its going to be "safe" to have a large number of people congregate in close quarters. I think it is increasingly possible that at a minimum the season is going to be affected in some manner and possibly canceled.
 

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Can't see it being played earlier in the summer as well. Just too much going to get this over with then to bring all the athletes and resources in. Ya lock everyone down to hopefully June 1 and then say.."ok college football starts July 1". If it was the only way to save the season, we'd all go for it but damn.

I'm at ground zero here. Being in healthcare we're run crazy and it's a problem and a serious one. Have not had a lot of off time since late February. Now with the job and being called up for active duty and deployment, this thing is going to take a while before it's over. Don't count on anything before June 1. Stay safe all my GC friends.
 

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I think it is going to be June before we know if football can be played this fall. I think there is no chance of moving it to a summer schedule. I can imagine a less than full season if covid19 comes back with cold weather.
 

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Yup. They can wear shorts and t shirts and play flag ball.
This would actually he a way we could compete better.

Maybe Dwagchoker knew flag football was coming. This does explain our recruiting.
 

LeeForThree

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This would be ridiculous:


COLLEGE FOOTBALL LOOKING AT ALTERNATIVES FOR 2020



SBJ Unpacks: Coronavirus -- Summer Semester For College Football?

  • Amid a growing concern that the college football season could be pushed back, or even canceled, an alternative could come into play -- moving the season up to July, August and September, writes SBJ’s Michael Smith. Every other scenario has the season starting later in the fall, at a time when the coronavirus could be returning for another round of infections as the cool weather returns and a vaccine most likely unavailable until 2021. But staging an abbreviated college football season in the summer presents an opportunity to play games when the warm weather could help prevent the spread of the virus.

  • Such a drastic move would depend on a number of factors, according to sources Smith talked to this week:
    • Would campuses be open and able to properly staff games?
    • Would media partners be receptive to such a radical idea? Given the pent-up demand for live events by then, perhaps so?
    • Would fans turn out for football in the summer, especially with temperatures in the 90s? Would they even be permitted inside the stadium?
    • Could athletic departments recoup some of the revenue they’ve lost by staging a summer season?
    • How would a season work? It would almost have to be conference games only. Teams could start with a June mini-camp, July training camp and eight or nine games in August and September with no postseason.
  • These are questions that take time to answer, but alternative scenarios like summer football will be discussed by commissioners and athletic directors who will be desperate to play this season. There’s no guarantee that a fall season would succeed, and it might be more likely to fail if the virus returns. A summer season could be the only way to play college football in 2020.
Highly unlikely to ever happen this way. More likely they move it to next spring vs moving it up
 

Black Dahlia

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Maybe the cancellation of the NCAA Basketball Tournament and NBA season just as this was ramping up was justified. Maybe. But college football? No way; that's asinine. It's a bit far in the future, and if you look at China's numbers (with a grain of salt,of course) for infection rate then it seems like the outbreak will probably run its course before then.

I understand coronavirus is real and it kills people, and it has definitely been declared a pandemic, but the media, government, and average citizen's responses thus far have been like shooting a fly on the wall with a grenade launcher. Numbers don't lie - just look at them, and realize they reflect statistics reliant upon positive tests for COVID-19 infection; but it's not like everyone was tested in the past four months, just those with symptoms in healthcare facilities and select groups in various municipalities. The pandemic has the potential to be quite serious (but not nearly as serious as the 1918 influenza pandemic), but the numbers have the outbreak lagging far behind even the 2009 swine flu pandemic, especially in infection rate.

Nonetheless, extreme and perhaps draconian measures seem to be being taken:

- The U.S. Department of Justice plans to suspend the Writ of Habeus Corpus, something expressly forbidden by the Constitution.
- Rhode Island is conducting warrant-less searches of homes to find and isolate individuals infected with coronavirus.
- Every state I've heard of has in some form ordered non-essential businesses to close and individuals to stay home for non-essential activities. The economic repercussions will be felt for years if not decades, and when all is said and done TRILLIONS of dollars will be lost to the world's economy. All for a pandemic that will most likely only kill far less than 0.1% of the world's population. Sure, human life is precious, but is it worth knocking out somewhere around 10% of the personal wealth in the world to deal with this outbreak?
- Perhaps worst of all, authority figures are taking liberties with our rights now that they have been given the opportunity. On Friday, my apartment manager and a maintenance worker, along with two social workers, entered my home uninvited, while I slept, to check for a water leak that didn't exist and do a coronavirus welfare check. The exchange went amicably enough, but one of the social workers saw fit to call the police and inform them I was in possession of a (lawfully-owned) firearm. An hour or two later, I got a knock on my door, and it was six of Riviera Beach's finest ordering me out of my apartment. I was made to remain outside and not allowed to go back into my home for any reason, including using the restroom or getting a cigarette, for close to three hours. The gun was perfectly legal (Mossgerg 590M Shockwave), and I have never been convicted of any crime, nor Baker Acted or otherwise been shown to be a danger to myself or others. The uniformed officers did their thing and finally gave me a clean bill of health after running the serial number of the yet-to-be fired gun, but informed me that a detective had to come by and do a risk assessment. After half an or so she arrived, and questioned me for literally two or three minutes before telling me I could go back about my business, returning my firearm. I went back inside and reloaded the gun (look at a crime map of Riviera Beach if you think I'm somehow unjustified; I live in the middle of the dark red splotch, and have heard gunshots from within my apartment complex on more than one occasion), then ten minutes later the detective returned to tell me the state attorney's office told them to do a further risk assessment, once again violating my civil rights and confiscating my firearm. I am livid to the point of an anxiety attack, somewhat shamed to be a citizen of Florida and the U.S., and maybe worst of all feel violated.
 

Swamp Donkey

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No one should know you have a gun, until you need them to know.

How the hell did the maintenance people know?

I feel like we're missing part of the story here.
 
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Black Dahlia

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No one should know you have a gun, until you need them to know.

How the hell did the maintenance people know?

I feel like we're missing part of the story here.

I have two couches because I sleep on one out of necessity. The gun was on the second couch for easy access from my sleeping position.
 

Black Dahlia

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@Black Dahlia you should have shot one of the maintenance people in the ass and just told the police they weren't practicing proper social distancing.

The police informed me that a judge would almost certainly let me off had I shot the four people who initially came into my apartment, being that they were trespassing, and that they had no power to do anything if I had not answered the police's knock on my door. Lesson learned.
 

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Only the NCAA knows how long it can remain in limbo before it has to pull the plug. There’s an awful lot of money and preparation that goes into a season that I’m sure universities are not going to want to undertake absent the confidence that it won’t be in vain.
 

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