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Fall Football is officially off the table

Streak I pray it doesn’t happen but I think this title could easily read football is cancelled for 2020-21.
UCONN just tossed in the towel. Others will soon follow.
 
larry legend33 said:
Streak I pray it doesn’t happen but I think this title could easily read football is cancelled for 2020-21.
UCONN just tossed in the towel. Others will soon follow.
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It isn’t a far fetched idea. Though I think UCONN’s decision was as much financial as safety related.
 
I think track teams will do well this year with lots of records falling. As you get into the blocks and your coach tells you”run like there is a deadly virus chasing you”
 
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Streak One said:
It isn’t a far fetched idea. Though I think UCONN’s decision was as much financial as safety related.
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I think many schools will really start to feel the pinch on the financial side. We haven’t hit the iceberg yet. Even In the best of times most of the mid tier programs bleed.
 
I'm worried that the section is not talking about procedures and preparing for next yr. It's one thing to delay or lose this yr, no excuse to not be prepared for the following season.
 
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mistark said:
I'm worried that the section is not talking about procedures and preparing for next yr. It's one thing to delay or lose this yr, no excuse to not be prepared for the following season.
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This is a really good take. Athletics and schools need to have their If/then scenarios lined up when things don't go according to plan.
 
Streak One said:
It isn’t a far fetched idea. Though I think UCONN’s decision was as much financial as safety related.
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I agree UCONN doesn't make it's money off football like that. I would even say their womens basketball might basketball might bring in more doe that them.
Schools like Texas, Ohio St, and Alabama can't afford to not have football.
 
The first test will come from the students being back in the classroom this fall. How well they do along with parents and grandparents will gives Us the answer. That in conjunction with a successful vaccine. I think we are going to get there. These vaccines are looking good and a few of them show great promise. Now they are in third and final trial. If this last trial is good then we should have it in late December or early January,

Kids may get this Covid virus but have little chance of infecting those in the household. They are also the least group likely to get it

I wish the kids, teenagers and teachers have a smooth transition in their move back into the classroom
 
CoachRaph07 said:
I agree UCONN doesn't make it's money off football like that. I would even say their womens basketball might basketball might bring in more doe that them.
Schools like Texas, Ohio St, and Alabama can't afford to not have football.
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Agreed. Those teams/budgets resemble pro sports. They will find a way. But once you start pulling the big boys out very few athletic programs will be able handle this blow.
 
mistark said:
I'm worried that the section is not talking about procedures and preparing for next yr. It's one thing to delay or lose this yr, no excuse to not be prepared for the following season.
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That's because the burden is on each school district subject to county approval based on State restrictions for each county. Procedures are great but you need to put them in to practice to understand where the strength and weakness of each school district set of procedures stands. The sections will have trouble making it through this without some sort of financial injection or bankruptcy protection.
 
WCAL75 said:
The first test will come from the students being back in the classroom this fall. How well they do along with parents and grandparents will gives Us the answer. That in conjunction with a successful vaccine. I think we are going to get there. These vaccines are looking good and a few of them show great promise. Now they are in third and final trial. If this last trial is good then we should have it in late December or early January,

Kids may get this Covid virus but have little chance of infecting those in the household. They are also the least group likely to get it

I wish the kids, teenagers and teachers have a smooth transition in their move back into the classroom
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it does sound like a vaccine could be promising by late this year early next year. But how long Is that going to take to get everyone vaccinated? I mean it has been a shi!t show with the testing in this state (number of tests available, time for test results etc).

Who gets the vaccine first? Kids since they’re the future and need to get back school? Parents so they can get back to work and try and save their livelihoods? Teachers? The elderly since they’re the most vulnerable. A vaccine in January will not automatically mean by spring this is over. It will take a long long time to implement a vaccine (hopefully it works long term) and to realistically start to mitigate this. I think spring sports this year is still a stretch.
 
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mistark said:
I'm worried that the section is not talking about procedures and preparing for next yr. It's one thing to delay or lose this yr, no excuse to not be prepared for the following season.
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The problem this year is not any sections or CIF or districts not being prepared. It's the cluster-f of mismanagement of public health in this country... This virus is out of control right now, and THAT makes it unsafe to have school, have sports. Look at MLB.

One by one, the myths of this virus are not standing the test of time. Eventually, hopefully, people will take this serious. Kids are now dying. Numbers continue to grow. Deaths continue to grow.

The hope would be by next summer, this thing is under control, even without a vaccine. Because everyone will wear masks, and take all of the precautions. And Testing is plentiful with a 24 hr turnaround. And contact tracing is happening. And people isolate when asked to.

Then any plan any school district or section has will be effective. Any plans today don't matter. It's like a fire drill when the house is already burning out of control.
 
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Travel Football is still a go. They play 3-4 games a weekend. They use private field. I don’t know how the owner of one of these organizations sleeps at night. 4 games in 48 hours can’t be healthy.
 
Scoop and Score said:
Travel Football is still a go. They play 3-4 games a weekend. They use private field. I don’t know how the owner of one of these organizations sleeps at night. 4 games in 48 hours can’t be healthy.
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Type any sport in to Twitter search and you will see a camp that just ended. Sports are being played and parents are supporting it. BestCoastShowcase had a camp in Reno. Sold out, expanded it to two days. 90% kids from NorCal High Schools. Highlights all over Twitter. Travel Baseball going strong. Basketball? A little more covert but Yep. COVID is the problem and its here to stay. And cumulative cases and deaths will grow just like any cause of death.Protocols and following them are important for real life applications. Positive test rates in CA have dropped since its peak of 8.3% in July to 5.5% as of Aug 4. Since there is no vaccine yet that means more people are following protocols such as mask wearing more seriously. A vaccine will be nice when it arrives but it won't eliminate COVID. It will be a nasty disease that we will have to combat the rest of our lives.And a majority of us will probably incorporate mask wearing in to our travel protocol for good.
 
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bella123 said:
it does sound like a vaccine could be promising by late this year early next year. But how long Is that going to take to get everyone vaccinated? I mean it has been a shi!t show with the testing in this state (number of tests available, time for test results etc).



Who gets the vaccine first? Kids since they’re the future and need to get back school? Parents so they can get back to work and try and save their livelihoods? Teachers? The elderly since they’re the most vulnerable. A vaccine in January will not automatically mean by spring this is over. It will take a long long time to implement a vaccine (hopefully it works long term) and to realistically start to mitigate this. I think spring sports this year is still a stretch.
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All good points. According to Dr Birx even if they have a robust vaccine where our antibodies prove successful in being effective against Covid-19. That if In time our antibodies do decrease and COVID-19 does come back again that our antibodies have a type of muscle/virus memory and will recognise it and our antibodies will be back on the job.

The government said they are already ramping up to get 100 million doses produced based on the performance of third trial immediately and then the rest soon after

Who gets the vaccine first. That’s a tough one. Since children are the least likely to get the virus and pass it on, I would go with the elderly that are in close quarters from nursing care homes.

That’s about how much I learned watching the news over the last week.
 
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Covid-19 MDs/RNs/staff will be first in line. Ck that, El Presidente or Smokin’ Joe.

Especially as PPE supply chains are still stretched. KN95s/N95s are a requirement for my biz. 3M is pumping them out like Liberty ships in 1941, but it’s still strained. Big Corps selling them at $5 when pre covid was <$1. The NYC debacle will be lessons learned.

Who would argue that?
 
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Interesting take from Cal-Hi Sports that would have included Monte Vista vs Granite Bay tonight: "Confirmation that some football games in the state that normally would be among tonight's season openers would have been cancelled due to smoke/poor air. The pandemic eventually will subside; global warming will only get worse."
 
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[/QUOTE]
"Every disaster movie starts with a scientist being ignored. -Neil deGrasse Tyson [/QUOTE]

... and a computer model that is 100% accurate.
 
"Every disaster movie starts with a scientist being ignored. -Neil deGrasse Tyson [/QUOTE]

... and a computer model that is 100% accurate.[/QUOTE]
Weren’t they following science in Jurassic Park?
 
Gosh we need some football back. Add global warming to the discussion list during these last five months.

I think everyone who wanted to got their opinons in on this one
 
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