Will There Be a 2020 Football Season?

[TGHusker]

JR colleges moving to a spring schedule. 

https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/recruiting/as-iwcc-jucos-plan-for-spring-football-husker-fans-may-want-to-keep-tabs-on/article_5843f86b-e81b-5e4d-9914-6d70781a8d0c.amp.html

Junior colleges across the country are now faced with the reality that Division I college football hopes to avoid: No football this fall.

The NJCAA announced Monday that it will not play football this fall and instead will focus on preparing for a spring season. A similar type of move can’t be categorically counted out at the DI level, but most schools have talked about the idea of a spring season as nothing more than an absolute last resort.

For Iowa Western Community College head coach Scott Strohmeier, though, this is the new reality. And while he readily admits it’s not an ideal setup — what has been so far this year? — he actually thinks his program can make it work.

 

[Atbone95]

This is why it’s hard to take what you write seriously. You use a truth, that deaths declined (due to stay at home orders) and follow it up with a false statement. 
 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/10/coronavirus-live-updates-us/

Deaths starting rising a week ago. In some areas, like Texas where I live, we’re seeing new record infection rates and deaths daily. 

This isn’t an opinion, it’s fact. What is not a fact, unlike your claim, is that we’ll have football.
 

We might have high school football in some areas but I would be shocked if there is a CFB season. 

Lol okay. You won't be reasoned with. Agree to disagree and move on. 

That some states will play high school football is a fact.  We'll check back in on the 14th of August, yeah? 

 

[Crusader Husker]

I understand that the deaths may lag the increase in new cases by a few weeks.  I know we all would hate it if the death numbers go up.  Can we agree if the numbers flatten or continue to drop that is a good thing?  

 

[knapplc]

Note the key word here is "if" they're able to have a season. 

 

[suh_fan93]

The Big House with no people in it.  Crazy but even if Memorial Stadium had to do the same I'd take it.  

 

[RedDenver]

I understand that the deaths may lag the increase in new cases by a few weeks.  I know we all would hate it if the death numbers go up.  Can we agree if the numbers flatten or continue to drop that is a good thing?  

Are you really asking if people agree that fewer deaths is better than more deaths?

 

[Toe]

One problem we have when looking at COVID-19 is that too many people look at the national numbers.  How many total deaths, infections, hospitalizations, etc...those don’t mean much in places where things are relatively under control(flat, slightly rising, slightly falling).

Indeed. The death rate might be flat nationwide, but they're soaring in some states, like Florida, Texas, and Arizona.

even looking at this from a state level is misleading because density matters And most states have unique areas.  Look at it from a county perspective.  You take Texas like you cited and most infections are coming from a handful of counties.  

Even that's iffy. People in less densly-populated metros like DFW thought they'd be safe there (unlike those blue staters in New York and the like). But while that might make the fire spread a bit slower, it doesn't make things that much less flammable. So after their governors rushed to reopen, surprise surprise, they became the new epicenters of the pandemic.

And it ain't limited to big but low-density states like those. If the current hotspots can't get their s#!t together and get it under control, eventually we'll probably start to see greater spread in rural areas and less populous states like Nebraska...

 

[Crusader Husker]

Are you really asking if people agree that fewer deaths is better than more deaths?

Yes, I am amazed at some responses I get when I ask the question.  It is always yes, but.........

Seems like people just keep saying that the death rate is going to go up, so when I say is it OK if it doesn't, the response is that it will not drop.  Rarely do I just get a yes I hope it drops, without any commentary on that it won't.  I guess I find it amazing that people almost seem like they don't want this to go away?

 

[teachercd]

Good lord...fast forward to about the 3rd week of October...and no games have been played.

What we will even be posting about at that point???!!

 

[Toe]

Are you really asking if people agree that fewer deaths is better than more deaths?

Welcome to the dystopian world of 2020, where people actually have to ask such things because our leaders are telling us things like 'old people should be willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the economy!'

 

[Rochelobe]

Good lord...fast forward to about the 3rd week of October...and no games have been played.

What we will even be posting about at that point???!!

"Will there be a 2021 football season?"

 

[kansas45]

If there is no football season this fall (and it is looking more like it every day), will this whole thing be officially called an apocalypse? You know, real Biblical stuff like we read about and movies were made of like The Day After Tomorrow, Mad Max, or whatever your favorite is. 

Which leads me to this: which "end of the world" movie best fits with the cancelling of college football? 

 

[Rochelobe]

If there is no football season this fall (and it is looking more like it every day), will this whole thing be officially called an apocalypse? You know, real Biblical stuff like we read about and movies were made of like The Day After Tomorrow, Mad Max, or whatever your favorite is. 

Which leads me to this: which "end of the world" movie best fits with the cancelling of college football? 

On the Beach?

 

[Undone]

What we will even be posting about at that point???!!

Unfortunately, politics I suspect.

 

[Cdog923]

Are you really asking if people agree that fewer deaths is better than more deaths?

You laugh, but some people around here have a lot of trouble with that concept.