drquigley
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Post by drquigley on May 12, 2020 9:33:46 GMT -5
Definitely need to listen to the Fauci testimony today. I'm afraid he is going to throw a wet blanket on all this talk of reopening Fall/Winter sports. No way we don't have second wave of Covid come November or December.
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Post by TC on May 12, 2020 10:26:31 GMT -5
Definitely need to listen to the Fauci testimony today. I'm afraid he is going to throw a wet blanket on all this talk of reopening Fall/Winter sports. No way we don't have second wave of Covid come November or December. We've got no vaccines and limited treatments, so unless you have testing, which the administration does not want .....
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Post by professorhoya on May 12, 2020 10:53:03 GMT -5
Definitely need to listen to the Fauci testimony today. I'm afraid he is going to throw a wet blanket on all this talk of reopening Fall/Winter sports. No way we don't have second wave of Covid come November or December. Fauchi loves the lime light and doesn't factor in the economic and social damage in his assessments.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2020 11:10:18 GMT -5
Definitely need to listen to the Fauci testimony today. I'm afraid he is going to throw a wet blanket on all this talk of reopening Fall/Winter sports. No way we don't have second wave of Covid come November or December. Fauchi loves the lime light and doesn't factor in the economic and social damage in his assessments. Not his job.
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Post by EasyEd on May 12, 2020 13:27:44 GMT -5
Fauchi loves the lime light and doesn't factor in the economic and social damage in his assessments. Not his job. Then don't let what he says drive the country's direction. He is a very important voice but not the only one.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2020 14:04:43 GMT -5
Then don't let what he says drive the country's direction. He is a very important voice but not the only one. Isn’t that what is actually happening right now? The politicians in charge can either take his advice or not. Sometimes they have, sometimes they have not. In your state of South Carolina are they following Fauci’s lead or that of your governor?
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Post by iheartdurenbros on May 12, 2020 15:04:44 GMT -5
Then don't let what he says drive the country's direction. He is a very important voice but not the only one. Isn’t that what is actually happening right now? The politicians in charge can either take his advice or not. Sometimes they have, sometimes they have not. In your state of South Carolina are they following Fauci’s lead or that of your governor? In addition, listen to Fauci's testimony. It is eminently reasonable to point out that a vaccine or effective treatment for coronavirus will not be ready for the beginning of the school year. He did not say that schools should close necessarily. It is pretty clear that if schools re-open, it will not be business as usual. It will absolutely require social distancing measures, PPE, and the availability of testing.
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Post by jester on May 12, 2020 15:40:59 GMT -5
Isn't there a big difference between having say students in a limited, social distance environment attend non virtual classes with some smaller subset of teachers, and sending students across state lines to play close contact sports? I personally think its very unreasonable to think anything non-essential should continue in that way, without a lot of daily and accurate testing. Fauci basically implies until vaccine arrives opening up will no doubt increase deaths, so if you think economy should open up despite guarantee of likelihood of causing more deaths I think that's just a harsh reality the economy will need to eat. No one agrees its ideal and will indeed take a big sacrifice. And likely much more govt coordination/leadership than what we have seen so far.
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Post by 4aks on May 12, 2020 15:55:03 GMT -5
Cal State system just announced campuses will remain closed for fall semester
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Post by mdtd on May 12, 2020 15:55:13 GMT -5
This doesn't seem good. Granted, the only D1 basketball schools directly effected are San Jose State, Cal Poly and San Diego State. Cal State is different from UC. But still, this is bad.
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Post by professorhoya on May 12, 2020 15:57:06 GMT -5
This doesn't seem good. Granted, the only D1 basketball schools directly effected are San Jose State, Cal Poly and San Diego State. Cal State is different from UC. But still, this is bad. What about Bakersfield
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Post by 4aks on May 12, 2020 16:03:24 GMT -5
UC will most likely do the same, and local health officials will mandate that private colleges follow ... LA County is indicating they will enforce social distancing for a long duration
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Post by mdtd on May 12, 2020 16:03:44 GMT -5
This doesn't seem good. Granted, the only D1 basketball schools directly effected are San Jose State, Cal Poly and San Diego State. Cal State is different from UC. But still, this is bad. What about Bakersfield Them too, my bad. I probably missed a couple others too, I just mentioned the few I thought of. Also I used the wrong effect/affect so man I really didn't have a great post. For example, Fullerton, Long Beach State and Northridge just popped into my head. So, not the best work from my brain. I'll just say the Big West conference will have trouble and I'll probably leave it at that.
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Post by professorhoya on May 12, 2020 16:05:33 GMT -5
UC will most likely do the same, and local health officials will mandate that private colleges follow ... LA County is indicating they will enforce social distancing for a long duration I think a lot of these universities are going to collapse if they do that. As a lot of students will probably take a gap year or hiatus is they are forced to pay tuition for an online experience.
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Post by SDHoya on May 12, 2020 16:13:08 GMT -5
Seeming unlikely we have college sports this year at all. Perhaps winter sports, if they are delayed to January?
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Post by professorhoya on May 12, 2020 16:51:07 GMT -5
Seeming unlikely we have college sports this year at all. Perhaps winter sports, if they are delayed to January? I think what they could do is an NBA Disney resort type model where they just have all 10 schools from a conference on one Isolated location. All you would need is 5 basketball courts or football fields and then stagger games or practices. The students athletes would take classes online like everyone else and then play sports. Revenue would still be generated via TV and you wouldn’t have the athletic departments collapse.
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Post by hoyaroc on May 12, 2020 16:59:06 GMT -5
This doesn't seem good. Granted, the only D1 basketball schools directly effected are San Jose State, Cal Poly and San Diego State. Cal State is different from UC. But still, this is bad. Long Beach State
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on May 12, 2020 18:04:11 GMT -5
As I said in another post yesterday, universities generally operate under the herd mentality (I am NOT saying this is necessarily bad, just saying it's how these things usually go). This is the first major announcement of a major system closing for the fall. I am sure it will not be the first. I think it's going to be mostly all or nothing - either most of the major universities will be open or closed.
The outlook for college football and basketball this coming season is bleak, I think. I think the odds of a shorter basketball season may be decent depending on if there is a fall outbreak or an earlier resurgence. If there's any sort of sizeable resurgence, we can forget about sports.
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 12, 2020 18:12:20 GMT -5
Seeming unlikely we have college sports this year at all. Perhaps winter sports, if they are delayed to January? This is California talking, not the SEC or the Big Ten. State supported commuter schools don't have the cost pressure that flagship schools (and private schools) have to deal with and if students transfer or don't show up, another group follows to Cal State-TBA in a few years. LSU earns approximately $55M in revenues a year from football, Alabama over $95M. The school earns a surplus of $20M from football on its own, not counting economic impact to local hotels, restaurants, etc. To date, 216 people have tested positive in Tuscaloosa County from COVID-19. Far too many, of course, but tell that to a couple million fans who can go to work and go to restaurants in Alabama, and want to go to watch football. Gov. Kay Ivey doesn't want to go into a reelection year with that hanging over her. Closer to home, there is a lot of pressure on private schools to open because losses are not recoverable. One example from Georgetown illustrates this point. Put aside the attrition risk when parents decide they simply won't pay $60K in tuition for Zoom classes, the University houses approximately 5,000 students on campus in any given year. Annual costs for dorms range from $5,037 to $6,946 a semester. (Repeat that: a semester). Board rates range from $1,651 to $3,493 a semester. Take an average of those numbers, that's close to $45 million of revenue for just one semester. How do you make that up? And what if a section of students opted to take a gap year and skip tuition altogether? Finally, this thought. Vaccines takes years to develop, and some illnesses never get vaccines at all. Are you prepared to close all colleges, all churches, all schools, all airports, theme parks, shopping malls, public transit systems, movie theaters, etc. not for months but for years on end, unless and until a vaccine is found safe and effective? Because if you do, you might as well close the programs and the universities themselves not far behind it.
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Post by kettlehill on May 12, 2020 18:15:22 GMT -5
It just doesn’t seem like we are going to have a BB season next year. Which is sad if only because I think Mac and these incoming frosh along with Q and JP would have given us some exciting times. This whole Covid thing just sucks in so so many ways.
Sorry about the downer, but unless there is a miraculous cure and/or a vaccine we ain’t going to have a season.
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