University of Alabama COVID-19 outbreak not great news for college football season

Donate To GopherHole
Taji34

Taji34

Well-known member
Joined
Apr 22, 2015
Messages
3,911
Reaction score
2,782
Points
113
The SEC is one of the three Power Five conferences around the college football world still attempting to play a season this fall. In fact, the Alabama Crimson Tide are slated to take on the Missouri Tigers on Sept. 26.

All of this could now be in question following a major COVID-19 outbreak on the Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa.

“Just in the last few days as we’ve tested at Coleman Coliseum and the Student Health Center, we’ve seen the numbers jump up from 1 percent to 4 percent to 5 percent,” University of Alabama vice president for Student Life Myron Pope said in a meeting this week, via AL.com. “And in one particular case, I think it was Coleman Coliseum (Thursday), actually it might be the Student Health Center, we saw 29 percent of the students who tested were positive.”

In response to this, Alabama’s administration has announced a moratorium on in-person student events for 14 days. On-campus classes began for the semester just three days ago. Given how quick the virus has spun out of control, that 29% positive test rate is alarming.
Click to expand...

sportsnaut.com

University of Alabama COVID-19 outbreak not great news for college football season

An outbreak of COVID-19 on campus at the University of Alabama is not great news for the 2020 college football season.
sportsnaut.com sportsnaut.com
 

This is going to be entertaining, let's see how long they keep pushing....
 



Covid has been kinda bad news for a while.

Just some folks aren't convinced.
 




Block M said:
If it were merely lemmings running off a cliff I really would not care too much. Live and let live. However the moron pool increases the infection pool and it hurts all of us.
Click to expand...
Darwin.....
 

Oh the horror they all going to die. Not really odds are they'll be just fine. But if I were Nick Saban at his age I may stay away
 




Block M said:
If it were merely lemmings running off a cliff I really would not care too much. Live and let live. However the moron pool increases the infection pool and it hurts all of us.
Click to expand...

People. They’re the worst.
 


- Fans from the playing conferences will be following their team in the fall season hoping sucessful seasons.
- Many GHers will be following college football for the main purpose of hoping their seasons get shut down.
 



Cedar Rapids Gopher said:
Oh the horror they all going to die. Not really odds are they'll be just fine. But if I were Nick Saban at his age I may stay away
Click to expand...
Not to mention false positives being as much of a pandemic around the country as the virus. But hey, let's throw up our hands and head back to our bunkers and under our beds
 



I find it interesting there is one crowd saying if there are online classes how can you make “student athletes” play

and then at the same time there are student athletes families threatening litigation to play
 

Some guy said:
I find it interesting there is one crowd saying if there are online classes how can you make “student athletes” play

and then at the same time there are student athletes families threatening litigation to play
Click to expand...
Bolded: you talking about the Nebraska parents? They're threatening to sue, in order to have the records on the decision to cancel the fall season turned over, so it can be public. They're not "suing to play".
 

MplsGopher said:
Bolded: you talking about the Nebraska parents? They're threatening to sue, in order to have the records on the decision to cancel the fall season turned over, so it can be public. They're not "suing to play".
Click to expand...

Well they sent a letter ... I think they're going to have to rope some of their kids into signing on officially before they go anywhere. .. IF they even bother.
 


Ogee Oglethorpe said:
Not to mention false positives being as much of a pandemic around the country as the virus. But hey, let's throw up our hands and head back to our bunkers and under our beds
Click to expand...

"false positives being as much of a pandemic around the country as the virus". This statement fails the equivalency test. Who's hiding under their bed? Most of us working our asses off during the pandemic.
 

Would not be surprised if schools like Alabama, Notre Dame, and Georgia Tech are being threatened behind closed doors, not to switch to online only class this fall, as that could effect the feasibility of football and would result in a devastating humiliation and loss in the culture wars/war of ideas to the progressives/Big Ten & PAC.
 

MplsGopher said:
Would not be surprised if schools like Alabama, Notre Dame, and Georgia Tech are being threatened behind closed doors, not to switch to online only class this fall, as that could effect the feasibility of football and would result in a devastating humiliation and loss in the culture wars/war of ideas to the progressives/Big Ten & PAC.
Click to expand...

Some progressives revel in the "Haha I told you so" moments. Self affirmation of intellectual superiority? Whatever the reason, its counterproductive from a national unity perspective.

If football works out for the ACC; great. If not, why rub it in?
 

Block M said:
Some progressives revel in the "Haha I told you so" moments. Self affirmation of intellectual superiority? Whatever the reason, its counterproductive from a national unity perspective.

If football works out for the ACC; great. If not, why rub it in?
Click to expand...
Once again, the fallacy of negating or inverting what was actually said rears it’s ugly head.

What I’m saying is my interpretation of their viewpoint: that having to go to online-only class and postponing the season from fall to winter/spring would be viewed as a loss. And in this hyper-partisan, hyper-culture wars environment, they view it that no loss of any kind is acceptable, no matter the cost.

You then tried to invert that, and say I would be taking it as a win. False.

I personally, and I suspect many progressive minded folks as well as the Big Ten/PAC, would do no such thing.
 

golf said:
- Fans from the playing conferences will be following their team in the fall season hoping sucessful seasons.
- Many GHers will be following college football for the main purpose of hoping their seasons get shut down.
Click to expand...
To put it another way, fans from the playing conferences will be following their teams intently on Saturdays, and many GHers will be intently following those teams on the other days of the week (not Saturdays).
 

MplsGopher said:
Once again, the fallacy of negating or inverting what was actually said rears it’s ugly head.

What I’m saying is my interpretation of their viewpoint: that having to go to online-only class and postponing the season from fall to winter/spring would be viewed as a loss. And in this hyper-partisan, hyper-culture wars environment, they view it that no loss of any kind is acceptable, no matter the cost.

You then tried to invert that, and say I would be taking it as a win. False.

I personally, and I suspect many progressive minded folks as well as the Big Ten/PAC, would do no such thing.
Click to expand...

I'm not quite as cynical. I think UNC, UVA, BC, Syracuse etc. will cancel the season if significant Covid infections get into the locker room. They will not cancel short of that (i.. no impact of in-person instruction or even students on campus).
 

I doubt any of them have the balls to cancel on their own without the confernece agreeing to it. Clemson and Florida St I feel like the health of their students and faculty doesn’t mean much if it comes to cancelling football.
 

Block M said:
I'm not quite as cynical. I think UNC, UVA, BC, Syracuse etc. will cancel the season if significant Covid infections get into the locker room. They will not cancel short of that (i.. no impact of in-person instruction or even students on campus).
Click to expand...
What would you consider significant?
 

MplsGopher said:
I doubt any of them have the balls to cancel on their own without the confernece agreeing to it. Clemson and Florida St I feel like the health of their students and faculty doesn’t mean much if it comes to cancelling football.
Click to expand...

Will be interesting to watch. It would seem more likely than not that players will get infected during the season. Very curious as to how they handle tracing, quarantine, and post-recovery assessments of the heart.
 

QUOTE="PMWinSTP, post: 2033091, member: 9786"]
What would you consider significant?
[/QUOTE]

More than one case emerging from a day of testing.
 

You must log in or register to reply here.



Top Bottom