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Poll: Will College Sports Be Cancelled for the 2020-21 School Year?

Will College Sports Be Canceled for the 2020-21 school year?

  • College sports will not be canceled & will resume as normal in the fall

    Votes: 60 31.6%
  • All College sports will be canceled for the entire school year

    Votes: 29 15.3%
  • Fall Sports will be canceled, Winter & Spring Sports will be played as normal

    Votes: 28 14.7%
  • Fall & Winter Sports will be canceled, but Spring Sports will be played as Normal

    Votes: 33 17.4%
  • All Sports will be played for tv but no fans will be allowed to attend

    Votes: 32 16.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 8 4.2%

  • Total voters
    190
Rafi, the calculation is dead on and you are confusing the 15% number with the death rate. Here are the facts:

1. NC population is 10.4 million
2. NC population aged 65 and over is 1.7 million
3. Therefore, NC population under 65 is 8.7 mil
4. Number of Covid deaths in NC is now 969
5. Percentage of Covid deaths for folks 65 and older is 75% - straight from NC health department.
6. Number of North Carolinians under 65 who have died is about 242 (25% of 969). Your 15% figure is low as it is actually 25%.
7. Death rate of those under 65 is 242 divided by 8.7 million .0000278, or 2.78 per 100,000.

So carry on with the hysteria and failure to analyze and understand the real data.

Deacdixieboy, you might want to turn off the alarmists at MSNBC and CNN and start thinking for yourself.

So assuming 3% infected is the right % is it safe to then use the above #s to say that death rate for <65 is closer to 1%? So 242 divided 261,000 (8.7mm x 3%) knowing it could be somewhat lower if many infected that have yet to be tested? Guessing most dying are ones with prior health issues, but still that seems really high for younger pop. considering flu results in .1-.2% of total pop. including elderly.
 
Dr. Bill Morice of the Mayo Clinic was on the Big 12 Today show on ESPNU radio (I think). He stated he thinks football can be played in the fall with fans - 50% of stadium capacity max, provided everyone is required to wear a mask and no concessions are offered. He thinks we will know more about COVID spread in two months than we do now. Interesting take.

https://www.mayo.edu/research/faculty/morice-william-g-ii-m-d-ph-d/bio-20434957
 
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No concessions makes sense. Handling a stadium capacity cap will be a mess especially because any number of fans still encourages tailgating.
 
Can't wait for Wake to up gameday parking to $50 to recoup the lost concessions
 
Here are the most likely fan scenarios.

1. Only family of coaches and players are allowed.
2. Only students are allowed.
3. Capped number of tickets leading to very expensive tickets and basically only top donors and big spenders allowed.
Combinations of the three.
 
Will make for an amazing secondary market if the seats are randomly generated for season ticket holders by game (I know it wont be random). Something like Alabama/LSU when they are both good in a season usually would sell for like 500. What would that be with only like 10,000 tickets. $5,000
 
Will make for an amazing secondary market if the seats are randomly generated for season ticket holders by game (I know it wont be random). Something like Alabama/LSU when they are both good in a season usually would sell for like 500. What would that be with only like 10,000 tickets. $5,000

I was thinking the same thing. If colleges go to limited seating (or any other sport/league), the cost to be one of the few to attend Oklahoma/Texas or Michigan/tOSU are going to be ridiculous. There will be plenty of people ready to take advantage.
 
What happens if a team has 20-25 kids in quaranteen 8 days before a game ? Sounds like a forfeit situation, no ?

Why? There are 85 scholarship players.
 
Once practice begins, Clawson is quarantining from his wife, a breast cancer survivor, for the duration of the season.
 
What happens if a team has 20-25 kids in quaranteen 8 days before a game ? Sounds like a forfeit situation, no ?

Not necessarily a forfeit. But could lead to strange results, if one or two position groups have zero healthy players. Say the 3rd string QB gets infected and infects the rest of the QBs and the RBs on the scout team with him also get infected and infect the whole RB corps. That could really shift an outcome.
 
Not necessarily a forfeit. But could lead to strange results, if one or two position groups have zero healthy players. Say the 3rd string QB gets infected and infects the rest of the QBs and the RBs on the scout team with him also get infected and infect the whole RB corps. That could really shift an outcome.

Which is why the news of football players getting it now (as long as they recover to full health) is not bad new as far as their availability on the field (and academics, as they'll be healthy for class). Much bigger impact if they catch it in season/school year.
 
There are reports of people needing two months or more after first positive test to get a negative test.

I am awaiting reports of conditioning issues for the NBA players who were among the early positives. How well have they recovered?
 
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