Coyle on if they'll be a football season: "We simply don’t have the answers yet. We don’t know what it’s going to look like.”

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per Greder:

A FOOTBALL SEASON?
Coyle said it’s premature to speculate on whether fall sports, primarily football, will be able to start up as scheduled.

“We’ve got to be prepared for those scenarios and we have to work closely with University of Minnesota President (Joan) Gabel … and others on campus to look at the different models on what it looks like if we play football, don’t play football,” Coyle said. “… But we simply don’t have the answers yet. We don’t know what it’s going to look like.”

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Makes sense. Hard to know what to do if you don't have the answers yet. These folks are put in a tough position.
 

I just booked my flights to the home opener so I gotta say.. I’m optimistic
 
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GoldenRodents said:
Weak and vulnerable stay home, young and strong put on masks and go live life to the full.

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I agree, If we cannot get a vaccine soon its going to come to a point where we have to go back to living are normal lives. We cannot live like this in quaratine for a year. I would say the death rate is even lower then the statistics show because so many people get it n do not get tested.
 



BigGopher69 said:
I agree, If we cannot get a vaccine soon its going to come to a point where we have to go back to living are normal lives. We cannot live like this in quaratine for a year. I would say the death rate is even lower then the statistics show because so many people get it n do not get tested.
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We must get back to work in May...excepting the aged, diabetics, immuno-compromised
 

Someone today on Fox radio said the sport of college football is so important to college athletics that they NEED to have a season for all sports to continue, even if they play next spring.

That would be interesting having a spring season in 2021.
 

We'll have football and other Fall and Winter sports, how they handle the fans is the big thing up in the air.

I don't think they'll do fan-less games, but I also don't think they'll do games with a normal audience. I could potentially see them enforce social distancing in the stands (however this would be very hard to do logistically with season tickets and what not).

I live in Seattle right now. We've just started to see the effects of our Stay at Home order, and the big tech companies doing WFH for all workers (which I heard is about 1/3rd of the workforce in Seattle? Don't quote me on that) about 2 weeks prior to that. The curve is flattened, and we are seeing the beginning of a slowing of the number of new cases. I think in the next few week the Stay at Home will be lifted, but we'll still be recommended to practice social distancing and whatnot to help keep the spread low.
 



Yes we are in a war, expect casualties, do everything possible to preserve life, which includes getting the economy going. Fight to win.
 

Social distanced football crowds?

Only sell 1/9th-1/12th of the seats. Can only sit in row numbers divisible by 3. Must have 3 seats between you and the next person.
 

per the Washington Post:

In China, as coronavirus cases started to drop and everyday life appeared to stabilize, the Chinese Basketball Association targeted an April 15 return. Government restrictions pushed the date back to early May. This week, as cases started to rise again, the league announced an indefinite pause.

Nippon Professional Baseball, Japan’s top league, could serve as a cautionary tale for Major League Baseball. With the number of new cases on the way down, NPB officials began preparing for a delayed start to the 2020 season, pushing its scheduled Opening Day from March 20 to April 24. Teams began playing exhibition games in empty stadiums.

However, on March 26, three Hanshin Tigers, including star pitcher Shintaro Fujinami, tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the Associated Press. The team responded by canceling its scheduled exhibition games, ordering players and staff to self-quarantine for 14 days and disinfecting its home stadium.
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NPB still planned to open the regular season April 24, but as Japan’s coronavirus outbreak worsened, that became untenable. On Friday, league officials announced an indefinite extension to its delayed start.

U.S. experts said opening stadiums in this country would be among the last stages of lifting pandemic-related restrictions. The first step would be letting people go back to work, with social distancing still in place. Travel restrictions would thaw. Only after those changes could authorities consider allowing stadiums to open.


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per the Wall Street Journal:

Amy Huchthausen, commissioner of America East Conference, said that she’s already noted small shifts in her own life that foreshadow larger ones in society. She notices the nearest person on the sidewalk when she’s outside now. That sense of heightened attention figures to be common in crowded stadiums.

“I think we’re naive to think that’s not going to persist in a long-term way even when we’re past the virus and past the pandemic,” she said. “I have a hard time believing that once an order is lifted, people are just going to flock to go back to a 50,000-seat or 100,000-seat stadium like they did before.”

That would render plans for near-term comebacks as useless as a face mask made of tissue paper. The basketball and soccer leagues in China, where the virus appeared to be dissipating under strict controls, hoped to return to action this month in empty venues. They quickly abandoned those hopes. South Korea canceled the rest of its basketball season. Japan has postponed baseball’s opening day—twice.

Players and coaches are reluctant to rush back anyway. Not only do they balk at the prospect of playing in empty stadiums, but they also understand that the globetrotting nature of their jobs is a recipe for constant exposure.

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LakerFan said:
Timberwolves have been doing this for years.
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