Will There Be a 2020 Football Season?

Chances of a 2020 season?

  • Full 12 Game Schedule

    Votes: 20 36.4%

  • Shortened Season

    Votes: 13 23.6%

  • No Games Played

    Votes: 22 40.0%
  • Total voters
    55
  • Poll closed .
Decoy73 said:
Did Frost just save the B1G FB season?
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I doubt it. I think everyone still knows that there will be no football, nobody will be playing anyone this year. This sort of talk from Frost and others get the juices flowing, but I think it's a lot of posturing just to show everyone that they are serious about competing and don't want to hide from anyone. These words are for journalists, recruits, and fans. The presidents, lawyers, and doctors aren't going to be swayed no matter how much #letthemplay is trending.

 
Good point. Frost said yesterday they were working with UNMC. They should share with us what UNMC is telling them. If, with the guidance of UNMC, Nebraska thinks they can play a football season, tell us why. Tell other institutions why, and let's get this show on the road.

 
knapplc said:
Sure. But it shouldn't take a bloodthirsty tyrant to get Americans to unkeister their heads and do some stuff that isn't even all that tough.
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it shouldn't, but there are a lot of people who are.  Just like in the 40's there were plenty of people (the wealthy) who didn't ration or deal with some of the stuff the working class dealt with.  I was just in the historical district in Charleston, SC and you wouldn't think there was a pandemic at all.  All the women were out in the heels and sundresses and the dudes were wearing their favorite pastel colored polo shirts and khaki shorts.  I have a feeling they might have been related to those wealthy people in the 40's.  I'm willing to bet the people in that same area who can't afford to miss work or who don't have a trust fund are doing what they need to do to stay healthy.

 
Decoy73 said:
Did Frost just save the B1G FB season?  We’re perhaps going to find out tonight.  When he speaks, people tend to listen and for good reason.   There was no winning or pleading. Just facts as well firm and passionate opinions.  Made a compelling case IMO.  The scientist in me still worries about the risk, but every other part of me wants football.   I sure hope I was wrong about my season prediction.  
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He did get us the pretty trophy in 97 so all things are possible through Frost

 
Rochelobe said:
So the metric system makes for different science?  Interesting. 

Sweden also has a much higher death rate per million than its nearest neighbors.

Sweden: 571

Norway: 47

Finland: 60

Denmark: 107

The strategy of the country you held up as an act of brilliance on dealing with the pandemic managed to lower things, just like its nearest neighbors did. 

Except they did it at 5 times the death rate.  I guess you can claim success in that they seem to have moved past it, if you consider the higher death rate no big deal.

Denmark is having what looks like a spike right now in positive cases - which could be due to the fact it is connected to a much more populated part of Europe (with Germany and France nearby), while the other three are more isolated.  Even so, Denmark had a death rate 5x less than Sweden.  They haven't seen an uptick in deaths yet, but that may be 2 or 3 weeks out.

And you are welcome for your education.

I do agree with you that we could not stay locked down forever.  I feel the critical time was in the first 6 weeks.  A much stronger lockdown with a much higher testing plan during the critical March/April time frame and mandatory masks as we moved out into reopening would have helped us.  Some places had stay at home, others did not.  In those cases stay at home != lockdown.  We had nothing close to the types of lockdowns in Europe.  Some of that is due to American thought process (backed in some respects by the Constitution).  However, tighter restrictions were put in place at times during the 1918-1920 pandemic within the US.  Politically it would have been harder to do today, but had we had effective leadership at the Federal level, these restrictions could have been put in place more effectively by the Governors. However, we instead dealt with deflection, minimization of the extent of the problem, and straight out refutation of the science supporting what needed to be done.
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https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/rapid-response-was-crucial-containing-1918-flu-pandemic
 

what was done by the federal government in 1918-1919 that we didn’t do this time? 

from the article posted by the NIH.  
 

“If St. Louis had waited another week or two, they might have fared the same as Philadelphia, says the lead author on the first study, Richard Hatchett, M.D., an associate director for emergency preparedness at NIAID. Despite the fact that these cities had dramatically different outcomes early on, all the cities in the survey ultimately experienced significant epidemics because, in the absence of an effective vaccine, the virus continued to spread or recurred as cities relaxed their restrictions.”

cities that had things under control, relaxed restrictions, and spread then continued.  Unless you want to be locked down until an effective vaccine is commercially available, this is what happens with a highly contagious virus.  

 
Decoy73 said:
Did Frost just save the B1G FB season?  We’re perhaps going to find out tonight.  When he speaks, people tend to listen and for good reason.   There was no winning or pleading. Just facts as well firm and passionate opinions.  Made a compelling case IMO.  The scientist in me still worries about the risk, but every other part of me wants football.   I sure hope I was wrong about my season prediction.  
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I thought he handled himself extremely well during the presser.  

 
I seem to recall another relatively recently banned member who couldn't be troubled to use capitalization or punctuation or refrain from contributing anything other than bad opinions and personal attacks. Good times.

 
I guess it's time for the (weekly?) reminder that political commentary is not allowed in this thread or sub forum. I'm looking at a few of you in particular.

If you want to discuss the political elements of COVID or lob politically charged opinions at one another, there's a thread for that.

 
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knapplc said:
Good point. Frost said yesterday they were working with UNMC. They should share with us what UNMC is telling them. If, with the guidance of UNMC, Nebraska thinks they can play a football season, tell us why. Tell other institutions why, and let's get this show on the road.
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100% agree with this.  Not sure why the secrecy.  I think the Potential myocarditis issue is what’s changed many of the univ presidents thinking.  It would be great to see if UNMC has research on this to share that makes them comfortable with athletes still playing. 

 
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