In all reality, I don't see why they can't play in the spring and basketball can't start in mid January. As we are seeing now the virus is still present in terms of numbers of sick, but the death rate is dropping tremendously. It's too soon to know if things are going to stay this way or not, but for now it's encouraging. Getting through late fall and into winter will tell the tale in my mind. If things continue to progress downward, I see no reason why spring football can't be played, and conference basketball can be modified to allow games to be played. Just going to have to wait and see.
100% safety is unattainable. At some point, to play anything, you have assume risk factors and play. In football, you play even though you know that you are one hit away from paralysis or even in some cases, death, and one game away from getting hit in the head so much, you'll have lasting effects with memory or all kinds of other ailments. While the body would get beat up, kids would play year round if they could.
I'm sorry Crossfire, but spring football isn't going to happen. I would have to disagree that things are encouraging with the virus. The death rate has been greatly reduced for a long time now, & it's had zero impact(positively)on public & professional perception of the pandemic, & tbh, a 2%(approximately)death rate--while far better than 5+%--is still way too high for such a contagious virus. & between now & spring, I think it's highly, highly unlikely the situation will improve to the point which will allow the B1G presidents to feel comfortable in terms of liability, which is the reason for the season being canceled, make no mistake about that. Also too though, if we were to play in the spring, what about the following season? Football is too physically demanding a sport to play 2 seasons in 1 calendar year, actually it would be much less than a year. More like 9 months. At least that's my take on the subject, but I tell you, as I said, it's not going to matter anyway, because we will not play this spring. The Commish threw that out there as a bone to the teams & fans & I suspect they have no intentions of even considering playing in the spring. I would advise everyone to not get their hopes up, honestly. It will just result in more disappointment, unless we get a miracle.
I've read the "football is more dangerous than Covid" argument probably 50 times on this board over the last five months, and I scratch my head every time. Here's the deal. CTE isn't contagious. Orthopedic injuries aren't contagious. It's impossible for guys playing football to maintain any kind of physical distance. In fact, quite the contrary, they're literally inches from each other's faces, breathing hard, coughing, talking, etc. The virus will spread rapidly from player to player and team to team. And these kids don't live in - - and they won't play in - - a bubble. They're going to transmit the disease to a coach, or a student with diabetes who lives across the hall, or someone who has overcome childhood cancer but is still immunocompromised. Playing football right now, in the midst of an uncontrolled pandemic, is a really bad idea.
Who do you plan to kill if you fall asleep so you can drive?
CDC Director Redfield: This Fall "could be the worst we've ever had."
You don't even know if there is a 'heart issue'. You have 1 tweet from a concerned mom that MAYBE there's an issue.
"1 tweet from a concerned mom?" Lol. How about JAMA Cardiology, friend?! You need to read more.
How do you calculate the death rate?
Those aren't all new. Many of them are backlogged. Sometimes months back.
Right, my bad. It's actually 3.14(pie)% at this very moment. Officially.
Everything is backlogged to a certain extent. Mondays & Tuesdays are the "biggest" days becasue the weekeneds are the "smallest", because so many health pro's are off weekends, cases & deaths from Sat/Sun are reported 1st if the week. So, everyone just accepts that this is the way it is. Also too though, when's the last time you saw a list of positive antibody test results? They don't exist, which means they are reported as "new cases" when they are discovered. So,the new cases reported each day aren't necessarily representing the actual new cases from the previous day, sometimes far from it. Over time trends even out though. Death totals have inevitably climbed, they lag 1-2 weeks, so before long they'll begin to decrease a bit as cases have begun to decrease in the hardest hit areas. Most frustratingly. we're going through our worst right now because--inexplicably--when it was clear, 2 months ago, that the warmest areas of the US were spiking(it wasn't hard to see where), we didn't issue a quarantine order for anyone entering Indiana from hot spots, which should have a no brainer, but I digress...
No doubt there's an under count of total cases. I admitted as much. But we're making guesses about how much of an under count.
BTW(OT), until...now, the lockdown, I had no idea what BayernFan eluded to, but I watched them(Bayern Munich)when I was home constantly & starved for sports, & they are a BADASS soccer team. Ehem, I mean Futbol team. I've never been a soccer fan, but you know top notch athletes & professional sporting action when you see it. Lewandowski, Muller, those dudes are unstoppable. I must find a way to watch their match vs FC Barcelona. What a matchup. I recently got rid of my sports package(due to being laid off...)& no longer get the channel which is showing this tourney. Maybe I'll reup now.
They aren't intelligent enough to realize the media they subscribe to has an agenda & isn't telling them the truth, which goes for ALL American media covering this pandemic. That & they really don't care much about the truth when it's inconvenient, as you say, to get right down to it. They're selfish.
