Season to start around Thanksgiving???
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My daughter's volleyball team in the Tampa Florida area had a false positive on one of their players. They started contact tracing and determining who would need to isolate/quarantine, but since the girl who tested positive felt great and had no symptoms at all, they tested her two more times and found her negative both times. These statements in the article are ones I found telling:
"In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.
"Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk — akin to finding a hair in a room long after a person has left, Dr. Mina said."
The good news is, it appears they can adjust the threshold level on the tests, so they aren't using 37 or 40 amplification cycles as a litmus test for a positive. Hopefully this knowledge is applied and the tests will be better moving forward....If the saliva tests are using reasonable thresholds, this could be a huge factor in playing sports in the near future..
In addition to that news, there's this from the CDC...
COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics
Only 6% of all deaths have been caused by COVID-19 alone. The other 94% had an average of 2.6 conditions (heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc.) along with the virus. Read it again--an average of 2.6 conditions, not just 1. Add to that the age of most of those who died (elderly) and those in nursing homes (up to 40+%), it would appear that healthy young men without the above conditions should be a go to play football. The high schools are doing it. Nebraska and Ohio State, I'm sure, have better health protocols than the high schools.
Making sure that I keep this on-thread...why would they consider a late November start for B1G football and not mid-October, for example? Well, there's this little gem from Yahoo Sports about our beloved dictator, I mean, commissioner Kevin Warren.
Can the Big Ten swing a presidential election? Kevin Warren wants to find out
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It would be good if the schools/conferences could agree on some metrics to decide whether or not schools stay open for on-campus and play sports. I have heard different stats thrown around for individual schools, but if it varies between schools I think it will hard to complete any kind of sports season. For example, is there a certain acceptable threshold for amount of positive cases per 1000 enrollment that can be agreed on to allow the Big10 to proceed/continue with sports??
The Domers are playing and will allow 20% capacity in the stadium. They have Touchdown Jesus to watch over the stadium and protect them from the Covid though so don't go getting your hopes up.
Notre Dame Will Have Some Fans in Stands While Big Ten Schools in Indiana Sit Out Football Season
Notre Dame Will Have Some Fans in Stands While Big Ten Schools in Indiana Sit Out Football Season
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Yup, I've acknowledged that ad nauseum. Love how y'all thump and thump on the same thing. Course to be fair I might be guilty of the same thing but I try to do it in different threads at least.
I think it's an option they want to present to the leadership of the conference to get a vote on. No matter when they play some games, the networks will need to agree and so will stadium contracts if they go with dooms (they should). So when things are made public, it's because the networks agreed and the contracts for where games will be played are done too.
Thanks Alot buddy.....there goes your invitation to come hang with us in our box right out the freaking window bub.....lol only kidding I do get your point and agree.
DOC HOLIDAY
My opinion is like this....the conferences that are pushing ahead to play are going to be winding up their seasons in November....and the Big 10 will still not have played a game....how in the heck is that gonna work and further more just how freaking stupid is the Big 10-Pac 12 going to look....what we gonna have a Covid 19 trophy game instead of a Natty ? Wow.......just .......WOW !
DOC HOLIDAY.
DOC HOLIDAY.
Of course if I were in charge the Doc Holiday stadium box would remain open.
Your just sucking up to him because you don't want to make your Doctor mad.
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Especially right before his prostate exam.
Not intended as a political post, just information on current events.
A wild Tuesday in the Big Ten: Trump weighs in; 'Nothing to' October start date rumors | Football | journalstar.com
A wild Tuesday in the Big Ten: Trump weighs in; 'Nothing to' October start date rumors | Football | journalstar.com
So basically nothing has changed TODAY. That doesn't mean that things are not going on behind the scenes to move things forward but right now the Presidents would have to vote to move forward and have to have changed their minds.
I did ask the Magic 8 Ball if we play this year. Answer was "It is certain" however I also asked it if we where done with 90 degree weather and it said the same thing. Weather man disagrees so we will see who is right.
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I did ask the Magic 8 Ball if we play this year. Answer was "It is certain" however I also asked it if we where done with 90 degree weather and it said the same thing. Weather man disagrees so we will see who is right.
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