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This tough decisions to come when you get a player or two that test positive. Staff also.
Ok St player just tested positive

http://www.espn.com/college-football/st ... sa-protest

https://apple.news/ADOqS3HceR3KyDE6m6NFxZQ


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tpstulane wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2020 10:34 am This tough decisions to come when you get a player or two that test positive. Staff also.
Ok St player just tested positive

http://www.espn.com/college-football/st ... sa-protest

https://apple.news/ADOqS3HceR3KyDE6m6NFxZQ
This is the big test. Coaches are mostly older and more vulnerable (ours is 60.) How do you tell kids that they have to social distance in their dorms, classrooms and all over campus yet it's ok to huddle up and block and tackle on the gridiron? The NFL has a much better shot at a season, and I hope I'm wrong and we get a full season of college ball. But this is going to happen repeatedly throughout the next 6 months.
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No big difference between college and NFL players. The NFL players for the most part are still young. Worse than that they now have big money to spend. Everyone has their quarantine and contact tracing plans in place. We'll know soon if they work or not.
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winwave wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:30 pm No big difference between college and NFL players. The NFL players for the most part are still young. Worse than that they now have big money to spend. Everyone has their quarantine and contact tracing plans in place. We'll know soon if they work or not.
Here's a list of BIG differences:

The NFL players are EMPLOYEES. They can easily be told that they have to stay in this hotel room for 5 months, or lose their million dollar paychecks. The rosters are also significantly smaller, 53 active, 47 on game day as opposed to 85 scholarship players and unlimited rosters. NFL players don't attend college classes, and don't have to be in groups for anything other than football.

There's a HUGE difference between the NFL with 32 teams of players that are paid to do nothing but play football, and D1 football with 252 programs, (including FCS) at somewhere between 85 and 110 players set free with other 17-23 year old kids that they're mandated to interact with.. If you don't see the difference OPEN YOUR EYES!
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Open your eyes. Those young NFL players are doing stupid stuff all the time. They are young and monied and if you don't think they won't skip out when they want your kidding yourself. BTW, no where has it been said they are going to be ordered into hotels. They'll be in their homes and who knows who they let in.
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winwave wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:50 pm Open your eyes. Those young NFL players are doing stupid stuff all the time. They are young and monied and if you don't think they won't skip out when they want your kidding yourself. BTW, no where has it been said they are going to be ordered into hotels. They'll be in their homes and who knows who they let in.
85 to 120 college kids are a lot harder to control than 53 EMPLOYEES that are 21-35 years old. You might be the only person on the planet that doesn't get that. And I will spare the rest of the readers here an argument with you, as you're clearly in that river in Egypt.
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DfromCT wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2020 1:08 pm
winwave wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:50 pm Open your eyes. Those young NFL players are doing stupid stuff all the time. They are young and monied and if you don't think they won't skip out when they want your kidding yourself. BTW, no where has it been said they are going to be ordered into hotels. They'll be in their homes and who knows who they let in.
85 to 120 college kids are a lot harder to control than 53 EMPLOYEES that are 21-35 years old. You might be the only person on the planet that doesn't get that. And I will spare the rest of the readers here an argument with you, as you're clearly in that river in Egypt.
First off it's not 53. It starts at 90 in camp. Then when the season starts it's 63. Everyone gets that young men with big money are going to give in to temptations. Get real. It's risky at both levels. it's insane to say the NFL is fine but college is screwed. Both have their plans and only time will tell if it works out to be safe for the players to play the game they love and for the fans to get to watch the games they love. Hoping for the best.
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63 is wrong. As is 90 in camp (most have well over 100, sometimes as many as 120.) But 53 is the season roster, with 47 being the game day eligible list.
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So much for you not continuing to argue. 63 is not wrong as you have the practice squad players there all season. You have 53 eligible to be made active on game day. Then there are 10 more that aren't eligible unless one of the 53 is cut or put on IR and the team elevates them to the 53 man roster. The roster limit is 90 for camp.
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BAMA did testing today. 5 players tested positive. 🤦‍♂️
https://apple.news/A1lx-ZTUiS1CX-CEBAgFh2g
At least five Alabama football players reportedly tested positive for COVID-19.

Per BamaInsider.com, the positive tests came as players reported back to campus in Tuscaloosa this week.

Simone Eli of CBS 42 in Birmingham confirmed the Bama Insider report, adding the players showed no symptoms when they received their positive results on Thursday after being tested on Tuesday and practicing together on Wednesday.

A source told Eli the players "should" be in quarantine now and the practice was a gathering players chose to plan on their own, as team activities and voluntary workouts don't begin until next week.
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Didn't the SEC say players could return on June 8th? What's today's date? Didn't they also mandate that players would be tested and isolated until test results were back? How many protocols did Saban's staff break in two days? And if the virus runs through the team, will Saban shut down camp?
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For all the schools that start the 2020 football season, it may well become a “Season Of Attrition”. And those schools that choose to cut corners will be the first to either bow out or get pummeled on the field. It will be a one-of-a-kind season.
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I read where an Oklahoma State lineman tested positive after attending a protest.
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This virus is trending down with daily new cases despite increased testing and also with daily deaths. The hospital I work at is only down to one case. Far more people have gotten it than reported due to lack of testing early on and false negative rates and majority of people under 70 have done fine. Players will be fine. No reason not to have fall football.
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If people can mass protest in the street, then society can open up fully with special precautions for the elderly, assisted living, and nursing homes. People need to relax and look at the data. No reason why we can’t have fans now with social distancing and masks in place. The panic needs to go away. The virus peaked in mid April and has been trending down since despite the massive increase in testing.
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The upside of all this is, if Tulane home games are limited to 50% capacity, we can look forward to our first sell-out in years! Roll Wave!
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If we all claim that we are protesting, are we allowed to have full capacity in Yulman for Tulane or Dome for the Saints?
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anEngineer wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:37 pm If we all claim that we are protesting, are we allowed to have full capacity in Yulman for Tulane or Dome for the Saints?
Definitely protesting in tailgate village since tailgating probably won’t be allowed. 🤔😉
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anEngineer wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:37 pm If we all claim that we are protesting, are we allowed to have full capacity in Yulman for Tulane or Dome for the Saints?
What a mindless comparison. Why don’t you send an email out to your co-workers, family and friends expressing this sentiment instead of cowering behind an anonymous message board.
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mbawavefan12 wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:44 pm
anEngineer wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:37 pm If we all claim that we are protesting, are we allowed to have full capacity in Yulman for Tulane or Dome for the Saints?
What a mindless comparison. Why don’t you send an email out to your co-workers, family and friends expressing this sentiment instead of cowering behind an anonymous message board.
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And so it starts. Three footballers from Auburn, three from Oklahoma State, five from Alabama, and one or more from Marshall and Iowa St test positive for COVID.. What does this do to the season?

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GreenLantern wrote: Sun Jun 07, 2020 7:29 pm And so it starts. Three footballers from Auburn, three from Oklahoma State, five from Alabama, and one or more from Marshall and Iowa St test positive for COVID.. What does this do to the season?

Universities report coronavirus cases in athletics programs
Season will go forward. Any players testing positive in the future will just have to self quarantine for 2 weeks. Now with all the protesters I’d expect the numbers to explode soon but it’s mostly young people that can probably stay home and recover.
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tpstulane wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2020 5:31 am Season will go forward. Any players testing positive in the future will just have to self quarantine for 2 weeks. Now with all the protesters I’d expect the numbers to explode soon but it’s mostly young people that can probably stay home and recover.
Sincerely hope that you are right. The WSJ has a story this morning about Wayne County Mississippi. Over half the county residents that have been tested have tested positively. On Friday, a recorded high of 300 new cases was reported. The county has a population of 20,000 and is served by a single hospital that is over an hour away from Hattiesburg. The hospital is currently at capacity and has only 5 ventilators. The hospital's chief of staff is quoted as saying that he expects things to worsen dramatically over the next few days.

As much as we all want this to be over and as much as we wish for things to be normal and for football to happen, there's still a lot of illness out there. The headlines-driven media has moved on to more attention-grabbing news stories which lead us to believe (hope) that things are fine on the COVID front. They're not fine in south MS.
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GreenLantern wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2020 9:43 am
tpstulane wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2020 5:31 am Season will go forward. Any players testing positive in the future will just have to self quarantine for 2 weeks. Now with all the protesters I’d expect the numbers to explode soon but it’s mostly young people that can probably stay home and recover.
Sincerely hope that you are right. The WSJ has a story this morning about Wayne County Mississippi. Over half the county residents that have been tested have tested positively. On Friday, a recorded high of 300 new cases was reported. The county has a population of 20,000 and is served by a single hospital that is over an hour away from Hattiesburg. The hospital is currently at capacity and has only 5 ventilators. The hospital's chief of staff is quoted as saying that he expects things to worsen dramatically over the next few days.

As much as we all want this to be over and as much as we wish for things to be normal and for football to happen, there's still a lot of illness out there. The headlines-driven media has moved on to more attention-grabbing news stories which lead us to believe (hope) that things are fine on the COVID front. They're not fine in south MS.
Nor are they fine all over the world. Quite a few nations reported their biggest jumps in COVID19 over the weekend. Up here we're hearing predictions of a second wave that could be worst than the first when the temps drop in the fall. I want some normalcy. I want to watch football (and hockey and golf) with my kids. But I think this is far from over.

I know we want to stay away from politics, but the latest presidential polls are encouraging. Though my write-in candidate, Monty Brewster, doesn't seem to be moving the needle anywhere.
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