All Things COVID-19 College Football Impact

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MplsGopher said:
Again -- no matter how fast you waive your hands, the following is true: every person in this country who has died from covid19 this year, likely would still be alive today if there had been no pandemic.
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According to you, a board certified Mayo Clinic cardiologist is not qualified to give his opinion on the sequelae of COVID-19 due to the fact that his speciality is in genetic pathology.

Also according to you, every COVID-19 patient that died would (likely) be alive today
if there wasn’t a pandemic.

Fascinating.
 

Ogee Oglethorpe said:
Right. Because the school with the longest consecutive home sell out streak in NCAA history and a massive fan base all over the country don't bring the B1G any major revenue. Another brilliant take.
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Thanks; I'm honored. Get back to the tube though...Ingraham is still on.
 

Ogee Oglethorpe said:
Right. Because the school with the longest consecutive home sell out streak in NCAA history and a massive fan base all over the country don't bring the B1G any major revenue. Another brilliant take.
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Again profound ignorance how the BTN $$ are earned. This has been written multiple times but some are too dense or unwilling to accept it.
The $$ come in from people who subscribe to the BTN on their TV package.
For most there is not an option not to subscribe.
The $$ have NOTHING to do with the size of the fan base, how many people actually watch the BTN but only on how many people get the channel.
That is why the BIG expanded to to the population dense east coast and could drop the very sparse population of NE and not notice the loss.
The consecutive sell outs is false in that the empty seats not bought by fans are sold at a deep discount to donors to keep their only claim to recent fame alive.
 

Ogee Oglethorpe said:
Iowa, Nebraska and Ohio State were the 3 schools that voted against shit-canning the football season for 2020.

The Athletic - Lawsuit Documents Against B1G
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So that and the affidavit by the NW president shred the conspiracy spreaders false claims that a vote was never taken and no one knows how each school voted.
The NE players suit will not get in front of a judge until late fall and I have read in NE blogs the lawyer for the players is a known crack pot.
 

It seems it would be a great time for Warren to enter in the discussion and offer some insight to actually what took place. But that would require him to come out from under his desk and into the fray. Not something he wants nor equipped to do.
 


This gives more details. I agree that saying exactly how the meeting went would/might have squelched the conspiracy stories.
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Big Ten brief shows 11-3 vote to postpone season

Big Ten presidents and chancellors voted 11-3 to postpone the fall football season, the league confirmed Monday in a brief and two affidavits filed in response to a lawsuit from eight Nebraska players.
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Pete smith said:
It seems it would be a great time for Warren to enter in the discussion and offer some insight to actually what took place. But that would require him to come out from under his desk and into the fray. Not something he wants nor equipped to do.
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I hope Warren and the presidents ignore you, here.

You're not entitled to a single proprietary detail of their decision making process. Nor are the parents or players, to be frank.
 

Ogee Oglethorpe said:
Right. Because the school with the longest consecutive home sell out streak in NCAA history and a massive fan base all over the country don't bring the B1G any major revenue. Another brilliant take.
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Massive fan base all over the country!!! BAHAHAHAHA!!

Please. No one outside the cow dung smelling state of Nebraska, gives a cow pie about the mediocre at best Huskers football team.
 

Plato said:
This gives more details. I agree that saying exactly how the meeting went would/might have squelched the conspiracy stories.
www.espn.com

Big Ten brief shows 11-3 vote to postpone season

Big Ten presidents and chancellors voted 11-3 to postpone the fall football season, the league confirmed Monday in a brief and two affidavits filed in response to a lawsuit from eight Nebraska players.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
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Rittenberg is an excellent reporter. It's too bad he works for an awful network.
 



Plato said:
So that and the affidavit by the NW president shred the conspiracy spreaders false claims that a vote was never taken and no one knows how each school voted.
The NE players suit will not get in front of a judge until late fall and I have read in NE blogs the lawyer for the players is a known crack pot.
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He was smart enough to take their money, though.
 

Hotdish said:
According to you, a board certified Mayo Clinic cardiologist is not qualified to give his opinion on the sequelae of COVID-19 due to the fact that his speciality is in genetic pathology.

Also according to you, every COVID-19 patient that died would (likely) be alive today
if there wasn’t a pandemic.

Fascinating.
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Board certified is just related to being a medical doctor (cardiologist) in good standing and then willing to undergo the 3rd party testing that then grants the optional designation of being "board certified". It's really nothing more than a cottage industry.

And being board certified has nothing to do with Mayo or the fact that he practices cardiology there. He's there because of research. That's the primary reason for Mayo's existence.

So that's not relevant or even sensical combination of titles, to the issue at hand.

The issue at hand is: neither he nor any other doctor or scientist, can dismiss myocarditis from covid, at this time. It would be absurd and unprofessional of him to do so. Granted, that isn't exactly what he did. Rather he was claiming they shouldn't postpone because of the one study that was popularly thrown around in the Twitter-sphere.

But that wasn't the case, as has now come out in the court filings. He didn't know that, obviously. Who knows, maybe he was jealous that he wasn't invited to be an expert/consultant to the Big Ten?


Would it be exactly 0%, in 5 months? Probably not. Maybe 1-2% would've died, the sickest succumbing to their other ailments, along with some random deaths (accidents, etc.)

But certainly far less than 100% that were killed because there was a pandemic. Don't ya think?
 

Pete smith said:
It seems it would be a great time for Warren to enter in the discussion and offer some insight to actually what took place. But that would require him to come out from under his desk and into the fray. Not something he wants nor equipped to do.
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It's not that hard to see what happened. The B1G overplayed their hand and thought they could strong-arm the other conferences into joining them. In late July and early August, it's almost certain that all of those "unnamed" or "anonymous" sources that were being quoted that there would be no college football season were B1G reps trying to plant those seeds as far and wide as possible. And they were shocked when not everyone jumped on board, scrambled for damage control. Poor planning (if there was any planning at all) and poor leadership, across the board.
 

^^^ agreed, it is not that hard to see what you want to see -- when you decide that you're going to see whatever it is that you want to see. Neat
 





A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
Did Fox and Friends get his attention or something?

If he cared maybe he could have cared about other things earlier.

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He doesn't strike me as a diehard college football fan, but I am sure that he recognizes the oppotunity to improve his standing among the electorate by championing the return of college football, especially in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
 
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2nd Degree Gopher said:
He doesn't strike me as a diehard college football fan, but I am sure that he recognizes the oppotunity to improve his standing among the electorate by champoining the return of college football, especially in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
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Oh I don't doubt it. Much like the Susan B. Anthony thing.
 




Trump understands that playing football is a big step in normalization for our country. He also understands that it helps the economy if we can get football started again. It's going to take awhile to start letting fans back in the stadiums and everything that takes place around a football Saturday. Have to start with baby steps and Trump gets that.
 

2nd Degree Gopher said:
He doesn't strike me as a diehard college football fan, but I am sure that he recognizes the oppotunity to improve his standing among the electorate by championing the return of college football, especially in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
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You think? The usual folks will come up with their own analysis or plans of action or denials but the figures of the U.S. having 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's Covid deaths are pretty hard to gloss over. I'm of the opinion if we weren't run by this buffoon, we'd be looking forward to seeing the Gophers playing football this September.
 

Mulligan said:
You think? The usual folks will come up with their own analysis or plans of action or denials but the figures of the U.S. having 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's Covid deaths are pretty hard to gloss over. I'm of the opinion if we weren't run by this buffoon, we'd be looking forward to seeing the Gophers playing football this September.
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Doesn't sound like you are in the audience he's targeting.
 

HoustonTXGopher said:
Trump understands that playing football is a big step in normalization for our country. He also understands that it helps the economy if we can get football started again. It's going to take awhile to start letting fans back in the stadiums and everything that takes place around a football Saturday. Have to start with baby steps and Trump gets that.
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Trump is random, unadulterated chaos. Some people dig that.
 

HoustonTXGopher said:
Trump understands that playing football is a big step in normalization for our country. He also understands that it helps the economy if we can get football started again. It's going to take awhile to start letting fans back in the stadiums and everything that takes place around a football Saturday. Have to start with baby steps and Trump gets that.
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Trump gets almost nothing and makes up all the rest. If you doubt it just google people who used to work for him, including about a dozen or more four star generals and high ranking national security officials. A large number of them say he is a pathological liar; a danger to democracy in America; and he is badly mishandling the global pandemic. Many people ignore the evidence. We all know who they are and the kind of America they want.
 
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Mulligan said:
You think? The usual folks will come up with their own analysis or plans of action or denials but the figures of the U.S. having 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's Covid deaths are pretty hard to gloss over.
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We are most definitely a nation of obese and unhealthy people, arguably the most unhealthy people on the planet. I'm surprised we don't have more of the deaths, statistically, especially since we're counting them differently than any other nation
 


GopherVotary said:
Damn, I was hoping this issue wouldn’t get politicized.
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We're digging up Susan B. Anthony these days....

That stupid tire drama had folks posting pics of them slashing their own tires (how dumb is that?).

I'm currently eating some crackers... for all I know that's next...
 

Who writes his Tweets?
Ogee Oglethorpe said:
We are most definitely a nation of obese and unhealthy people, arguably the most unhealthy people on the planet. I'm surprised we don't have more of the deaths, statistically, especially since we're counting them differently than any other nation
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Our high numbers of deaths are due to inaction from the start and a large percentage of people who think their constitutional rights are being violated by taking precautions like wearing masks, washing their hands......many other countries have citizens who act as a country instead of everyone for themselves.
 

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