ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit would be ‘shocked’ if college football happens this fall

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GoldenRodents said:
Very few young people get hospitalized. There will be much fewer deaths among the old when enough covid ready ventilators and PPE's are available. Economic depression will produce far more death than what we are seeing with COVID19
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There has not been one case anywhere in the USA where a person who needs a ventilator has not gotten a ventilator. Old, young, pink or single. So says Dr Birx.
 

I look forward to the premier of Dr. Kirk ... live streamed from his basement of course.
 



We have a vaccine for influenza, yet it kills 50-80k a year in the US. The vaccine isn't going to magically save us. Based on how quickly things have changed in the past 3 weeks, it's foolish to predict what is going to happen in 4 months.
 





forever a gopher said:
We have a vaccine for influenza, yet it kills 50-80k a year in the US. The vaccine isn't going to magically save us. Based on how quickly things have changed in the past 3 weeks, it's foolish to predict what is going to happen in 4 months.
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HIV/AIDS at its peak (2005-2012) killed 36 million people world wide. Like the common flu, the difference is they did not cause the health system to collapse due to rapid lethality and infectiousness.

CoVID-19 is similar to the Spanish Flu in their rapidity.

They just want to flatten the curve out so that the health system can catch up.
 



GophersInIowa said:
I'm not getting in those piss infected hot tubs with you degenerates.
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WATCH OUT OF SHAPE OLD MEN DEBATE IF IT IS WORTH WALKING DOWN ALL THOSE STAIRS TODAY OR MAYBE I'LL JUST SIT HERE AND WATCH TRAFFIC?


Breezy out today.

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Was breezy yesterday too.

Yup.
 



At best, collage football may be able to have a 6-7 game half season starting in mid October.
 





Some guy said:
So 12.5% of ADs think there is some percentage chance it won’t be played?
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Nope I read that wrong.

So 1/4 of an undisclosed percentage of ADs think there is a 50% chance we might not play 100% of the season?


going to be a long 7 weeks here
 

GSUsTALON said:
At best, collage football may be able to have a 6-7 game half season starting in mid October.
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Depending on how well the virus is contained by October I can see the fall practice starting in the 2nd week of October and starting to play in late October. I hope the virus is contained 1st for peoples lives, the economy and then at lest a limited football season.
 

hungan1 said:
HIV/AIDS at its peak (2005-2012) killed 36 million people world wide. Like the common flu, the difference is they did not cause the health system to collapse due to rapid lethality and infectiousness.

CoVID-19 is similar to the Spanish Flu in their rapidity.

They just want to flatten the curve out so that the health system can catch up.
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TRUE!!!!!
 

hungan1 said:
HIV/AIDS at its peak (2005-2012) killed 36 million people world wide. Like the common flu, the difference is they did not cause the health system to collapse due to rapid lethality and infectiousness.

CoVID-19 is similar to the Spanish Flu in their rapidity.

They just want to flatten the curve out so that the health system can catch up.
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Which is why I think once the healthcare system is in position where they can handle another major outbreak things will open up again.

that might be mid may. That might be mid June. That might be October. Too soon to tell IMO
 

Some guy said:
Which is why I think once the healthcare system is in position where they can handle another major outbreak things will open up again.

that might be mid may. That might be mid June. That might be October. Too soon to tell IMO
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You're right Some Guy. It is to soon to tell. As I said the major need is to save peoples lives and get people back to work. Football is secondary to that, still wish we could mope up the on the virus and get at least a half season in.
 

Biggest restart problem won’t be about fans in stadiums. It will be schools rightfully worrying about jamming a collection of 100+ team members back into locker rooms, and workout and practice facilities; and placing those kids in constant, sweaty, extreme-exhalation conditions and proximity during scrimmages and games. One asymptotic, infected player could infect a whole team, or two. With TV (and TV revenue), we could play games in empty stadiums, no problem. It is player safety that will determine whether a season can be played. Until we have quick, reliable, readily-available testing (and perhaps immunity testing as well)—testing that can be done on a regular, rolling, basis—it will be tough to ask the players to practice in a group or play in games.
 

Some guy said:
Which is why I think once the healthcare system is in position where they can handle another major outbreak things will open up again.

that might be mid may. That might be mid June. That might be October. Too soon to tell IMO
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Yeah I think the general curve concept pretty much indicates that it isn't "Ok it's gone people time to go outside again!"

Rather the curve looks ok, things are more or less manageable ... "Time to go outside and take your chances folks and we'll see what happens" ... that's just the nature of disease. There's not a magic "ok now nobody is going to get it" moment outside of mass foolproof vaccinations (not a tool we have at this point).
 

Gophergrandpa said:
Biggest restart problem won’t be about fans in stadiums. It will be schools rightfully worrying about jamming a collection of 100+ team members back into locker rooms, and workout and practice facilities; and placing those kids in constant, sweaty, extreme-exhalation conditions and proximity during scrimmages and games. One asymptotic, infected player could infect a whole team, or two.
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That's why you test every player and every staff member, daily if need be.

The testing will be done in a matter of minutes.
 

MplsGopher said:
That's why you test every player and every staff member, daily if need be.

The testing will be done in a matter of minutes.
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I don't know that testing every day will work starting at fall practice. I don't think that any sports team will have that privilege starting in August for all NCAA sports and high school sports.
 

A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
Yeah I think the general curve concept pretty much indicates that it isn't "Ok it's gone people time to go outside again!"

Rather the curve looks ok, things are more or less manageable ... "Time to go outside and take your chances folks and we'll see what happens" ... that's just the nature of disease. There's not a magic "ok now nobody is going to get it" moment outside of mass foolproof vaccinations (not a tool we have at this point).
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Gophergrandpa said:
Biggest restart problem won’t be about fans in stadiums. It will be schools rightfully worrying about jamming a collection of 100+ team members back into locker rooms, and workout and practice facilities; and placing those kids in constant, sweaty, extreme-exhalation conditions and proximity during scrimmages and games. One asymptotic, infected player could infect a whole team, or two. With TV (and TV revenue), we could play games in empty stadiums, no problem. It is player safety that will determine whether a season can be played. Until we have quick, reliable, readily-available testing (and perhaps immunity testing as well)—testing that can be done on a regular, rolling, basis—it will be tough to ask the players to practice in a group or play in games.
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As I said above
I don't know that testing every day will work starting at fall practice. I don't think that any sports team will have that privilege starting in August for all NCAA sports and high school sports.
 

I will lose my schit if football is cancelled.

I'm resigned to the fact that the others are cancelled, basketball, hockey, etc.

Football is what I'm hanging my hat on.
 


forever a gopher said:
We have a vaccine for influenza, yet it kills 50-80k a year in the US. The vaccine isn't going to magically save us. Based on how quickly things have changed in the past 3 weeks, it's foolish to predict what is going to happen in 4 months.
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True about the Flue Vaccine, but not all people choose to get one. There are many types of influenza viruses. For the Flue Vaccine the CDC choose the top 3 or 4 most likely to hit the US from Asia.. 2 years ago a strain slipped through that was not vaccinated for. At this time the corona virus has not mutated so a vaccine directly made for a specific virus should work well.
 
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I really want this over but its not even close folks. Toronto just essentially shut down until JUNE 30TH! I also tend to think that playing without fans isnt really a thing. At the point if you tell 200 people (players coaches media officials) that its ok to pass it on whats the difference, i just really dont see no fans but play the games as a viable option. At that point if those 200 people can then everyone will be back to normal life. Im going to err on the side of no season and hope to be pleasantly surprised if we have one!
 

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