Paul Hogan
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How are they deciding who gets tickets and how many?
The same way thay always have.
How are they deciding who gets tickets and how many?
I will say travel is less of a problem with college football and most college sports/the NFL than it is with MLB, since there aren't really "road trips." Not as hard to keep teams under lock and key when they fly in, practice, go to hotel/to bed, go to game, fly out. Way less time to be bored on the road
Except you have 150 people on the road together in airplanes and busses.
Except you have 150 people on the road together in airplanes and busses.
I'm starting to wonder if I'll miss college football at all. I never thought I would say that.
In a completely shocking announcment (/s), FSU will allow tailgating. https://www.tampabay.com/sports/sem...low-tailgating-at-football-games-this-season/
Florida gonna Florida.
Most, if not all, of those on the trips will have been together on campus, tested etc. Depending on the school, they may even be in an on campus bubble, away from other students. NCAA may need to relax rules on "athletes only" dorms to allow this.
"Outsiders" could be limited to those providing the transportation - pilots, flight attendants, bus drivers et al.
This feels like a a pretty major deal. Starting QB at an FBS school (albeit not P5) has to sit out due to heart condition caused by COVID. How many days until someone dies at a practice? Just shut it all down.
But thatguy2016 has made very clear that it's just another standard risk of playing football
This feels like a a pretty major deal. Starting QB at an FBS school (albeit not P5) has to sit out due to heart condition caused by COVID. How many days until someone dies at a practice? Just shut it all down.
What are you talking about pilchard? No ones singling out football specifically. Pretty much every sport is going to have an elevated risk of transmission because that’s what sports are - folks breathing heavily in close contact with each other. That’s why...shocker...most spring sports had been either shut down or played in a bubble.
College football is not going to be played in a bubble. Players will mingle with other non players and coaches who will then mingle with others. Tons of new connection points and potential to link one infected person with many many other people. Hence the social distancing and I feel like I’m explaining March 2020 all over again.
Since March, sports have restarted as at some point life goes on.
The lesson from every sport that has restarted (and that includes that start of football practice this Summer) is that we get better at preventing the spread of infection over time as we learn what protocols to step up specific to each sport. The reason why college sports have shutdown is not because the sports themselves present an elevated risk, but because many/most college campuses have shutdown (because putting thousands of college age kids together in the same location creates an obvious risk; not the sport itself), and it's a bad look to play sports when the campuses are otherwise shutdown. I understand the philosophical argument that its questionable/contrary to the purpose of higher education to close down campuses for everything, but football (or soccer or any other sport). The bottom line is that three conferences have decided that it's worth sacrificing the myth that student-athlete and students are one and the same to play football and generate the revenue that football brings (among other benefits).
From the players perspective, if the schools take reasonable precautions, the players are willing to take the personal/social steps to ensure the their own and their teammate's safety to get back to playing a sport that they love (and hang with their teammates, which is a big part of this), they want to play; those that have been denied the option to play are the ones that feel deprived.
It appears, and we will find out in the coming weeks, that at least 39 colleges think that they can play football (and other Fall Sports) without unreasonably elevating the risk of transmitting the virus. Based upon the reported infection rates from football practices and the experiences of other sports that have re-started, it seems like playing a football season is a reasonable possibility at this point. No one knows what is going to happen, maybe it will work and maybe it won't, but those that act like they know either way are talking out of their arse.
That's a lot of outsiders.
Most, if not all, of those on the trips will have been together on campus, tested etc. Depending on the school, they may even be in an on campus bubble, away from other students. NCAA may need to relax rules on "athletes only" dorms to allow this.
"Outsiders" could be limited to those providing the transportation - pilots, flight attendants, bus drivers et al.