Big News: MAC cancels football in fall

[mjpwooo]

Testing is actually way down. I support cancelling the entire college fall sports. The players, coaches and support staff and their fanilies health are more important.

What is your baseline to start football back up? What is the case count and death rate for you to feel comfortable resuming football and sports?

 

[Andrewff]

Once you mix the science with the moral argument, the odds that we will ever have a season continue to go down.

This virus is pretty easy transmitted and hard to contain. I listened to the northern Illinois ad on the radio and he is worried that one player contracts the virus, is admitted to the hospital and perhaps doesn’t survive. If that’s the standard, the future for sports is bleak.

 

[GA.NOLE]

The SEC will not necessarily follow anyone.

This is from a friends Nephew enrolled at a sec school. He helps out at the football facilities. He says normally they would be cleaning and prepping equipment for practice but this coach has shut it down. Says he has been told supposedly an announcement will come this week.

 

[mjpwooo]

Once you mix the science with the moral argument, the odds that we will ever have a season continue to go down.

This virus is pretty easy transmitted and hard to contain. I listened to the northern Illinois ad on the radio and he is worried that one player contracts the virus, is admitted to the hospital and perhaps doesn’t survive. If that’s the standard, the future for sports is bleak.

Then, like you allude to, we'll never have sports again, due to the coronavirus 19 strain. Ever.

 

[Andrewff]

Feels like it

 

[mjpwooo]

Feels like it

It sure does. Brutal.

 

[IndianaNOLE69]

What is your baseline to start football back up? What is the case count and death rate for you to feel comfortable resuming football and sports?

When we have a safe reliable vaccine.

 

[mjpwooo]

When we have a safe reliable vaccine.

Even with a vaccine, people are going to die. It won't be safe still. People die from flu, with the vaccine.

And you want to wait (possibly) 2-3 years? What if the trials conducted now don't work?

 

[FSUman561]

Even with a vaccine, people are going to die. It won't be safe still. People die from flu, with the vaccine.

And you want to wait (possibly) 2-3 years? What if the trials conducted now don't work?

It went from flatten the curve to wait for a mythical vaccine very quickly. How does anybody know a vaccine is going to work? How long do we wait for the vaccine? Years? Until then what? Sit in the house?

 

[mjpwooo]

It went from flatten the curve to wait for a mythical vaccine very quickly. How does anybody know a vaccine is going to work? How long do we wait for the vaccine? Years? Until then what? Sit in the house?

Brutal isn't it?

There are some folks here on warchant who sincerely do think it is best to wait. I respect that, and disagree with them.

The goal posts just seem to change every week....

 

[FSUman561]

Brutal isn't it?

There are some folks here on warchant who sincerely do think it is best to wait. I respect that, and disagree with them.

The goal posts just seem to change every week....

The other thing that drives me up a wall is “follow the science”. The science says that people of the players age have higher chances to die from many other diseases. Now which science are we following again?

Another point, God forbid players get it around the country, wouldn’t it be best to get them the best medical care through the university to treat the illness? When they go home, are players just not going to get the virus? When they get it at home, what kind of care are they going to receive?

 

[mjpwooo]

Football gets canceled, so many will get in trouble away from the structure it provides.