Coronavirus:

[chuck]

For some of the bigger schools with advanced medical facilities and the $$$$ to support testing/isolation/cleaning it is THEORETICALLY possible to play assuming EVERYONE involved keeps to the strict protocols. Even a single lapse of one person could lead to a super spreader event where both teams are knocked out for basically the season and who knows how much damage is inflicted on the infected people.

I really wonder how well literally playing in a bubble will affect everyone involved. No fans, no crowd, no noise? It will have a surrealistic atmosphere that will probably impact everyone involved on the field. Seeming more like a movie/video game than a sports contest.

Just red shirt everyone and let them work towards their degrees and if they can, practice. Not what anyone wants but we are way, way, way past that point.

[robert.]

Then what happens to high school players? College teams will not have space for them. Only a certain number of scholarships per team. Sport aside leadership should start to plot a course of action. We have no mid game or end game. So many what if’s

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Then what happens to high school players? College teams will not have space for them. Only a certain number of scholarships per team. Sport aside leadership should start to plot a course of action. We have no mid game or end game. So many what if’s

Everything goes into limbo until otherwise determined. Press "Pause". Yeah, that's no help and only complicates things further.

[chuck]

Only a certain number of scholarships per team.

Adjustments to the number of scholarships allowed could be made.

These are people lives we are potentially gambling with. This isn't the flu. This is nothing like the flu. If you want to compare this to a previous disease compare it to Polio. It was airborne spread and it was asymptomatic. A lot of people that contracted it showed mild or no symptoms. A lot of people also wound up paralyzed or in iron lungs.

The disease isn't going to go away because of "positive thinking". We are at 160,000+ dead and 5 million infected and that's just in 6 months. Adjustments need to be made in how we do everything or those numbers are going to get much worse before they get better.

If they can figure out a way to play college sports and not spread the disease, fine. Maybe they can all be suited up in hazmat gear/moon suits. Otherwise, don't play.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Maybe they can all be suited up in hazmat gear/moon suits. Otherwise, don't play.

Maybe they all play Madden NFL 21 on-line

[healey36]

Big 10 just suspended fall sports...that should kick the whole thing over the cliff.

[chuck]

Maybe they all play Madden NFL 21 on-line

I wonder if that is what it would feel like if they did try to play in a true bubble?

How many players can actually participate in real time in one of these real time first person games? I know they usually play in small groups of teams four or five to a team but I don't know how many teams can play against each other? If they can do teams of 11 against each other it might be possible. Coaches call in plays from the sidelines and teams huddle for actual play call. Not sure how much fun this would be for anyone.

As a side note I think real players in moon suits would be a riot to watch.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

As a side note I think real players in moon suits would be a riot to watch.

For about 5 min, and then it's a snooze.

[chuck]

For about 5 min, and then it's a snooze.

I don't know. I liked watching the Mets play their first two seasons at the Polo Grounds. They were so bad it was actually entertaining. I grew up in the New York Metropolitan area so they were on local TV (I think WOR/Channel 9 in the early days or possibly Channel 5/WNEW) much to the embarrassment of the region. Three out fielders standing around looking up at the sky as a fly ball was coming down and NO ONE moved to catch or all three did and simultaneously collided (the ball dropped in either case). Throwing the ball to the wrong base, repeatedly. Casey Stengel was the first coach and was entertaining in his own way on the field and in the post game interviews. As the team improved they became less and less interesting to me.

[robert.]

It would require to many rule changes for the NCAA. Their athletes are not allowed special housing. It must be on par with no athletic students. sad part is Rufus's statement " Hit the pause button " It really might be the best thing to do. Figure it all out in 18 months. No one appears to be thinking past Nov 3.
Rumor mill has it that. More then 30 percent of the teachers said. " They would take a year off. if forced to work this fall" I would have pushed every last one of them to do so.
There is a big push to get homeowners to escrow their taxes. Parents are protesting in front of the school today. No fires yet or stolen textbooks.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Parents are protesting in front of the school today.

They will the 1st one's in line complaining that the Gov't should have done more when their kids get it and bring it home to share it with them.

[robert.]

Many families simple do not have the ability to stay home. Let alone the budget. Many employers will not allow a person to stay home for 12 weeks. People knew this was coming. They just kept looking the other way. You know that Egyptian "River". Now reality has slapped them up side the head and they're butt hurt.

[HONDO74]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

You're so very correct!!!!
I never liked that custom. It was always possible to see a shower of spittle spraying out from the person blowing out those candles. Instead, in my family, we used to squeeze our birthday candles out with two fingers . After all, this latest scourge isn't the first time we've been aware of air and spittle-spread germs.

Remember the expression "Cooties" ? There was even a toy named Cooties. I had one, as a boy. If I recall correctly, they were plastic bug-like crawler things . We didn't actually ever play the game; rather, we attacked each other with them and would yell out, "Oopoooo he's got cooties!"

The Cooties didn't last long.
Maybe these won't either, until we destroy them, like I soon did my toys .
We hope .

[robert.]

Bobbing for apples, pass the egg. Im sure the list goes on. Games that will no longer be played