2021 Spring Practice Notes
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admo
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I completely disagree.
It's not strange at all for our conference leadership to lay down unity rules for spring football attendance. Let's hope by fall everything will be in place for semi (or normal) attendance. That's when the real deal occurs. The spring game is a novelty, injury free participation with lots of post game media sessions. The scrimmage means nothing within the big picture.
I am I
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meh, since May of 2020 after 5 weeks + of total lockdown and not letting my kids do squat and totally buying into the 15 days to slow the spread starting March 15 or so...I said F it.. I gotta work and travel, gotta provide and at least try.
But since May 22, 2020...
I’ve been to Miami/Islamorada 5 times, New York 4 times, Nashville 6 times, Dallas twice, Iowa once, Ft Collins a dozen times, Charlotte once, Chicago once , Seattle twice, and LA once along with Orlando and Las Vegas once each.
like 33 flights/segments to 11 different cities across less than a year. Spent over 68 days in several cities in less than a year. Which would’ve normally been 90-110 days in those cities. And I didn’t do Jack s#!t for like 40 days. I’m self employed and woulda lost my whole job and family income if I didn’t try.
Very secluded in some parts and very partied and open in others. Always cautious, always obeyed the “rules” wherever I was at.
I’ve been tested 6 times and always negative.
this has been bulls#!t since the beginning. Let the parts that want to be open and actually live, do it. The rest can go f#&% themselves.
let localities decide. We need to be open and easy to pack Memorial full tilt.
(I know personally over 35 people that had Covid, 2 died {both were 70+ and had bad, real bad health} but everyone else younger than 70 were just fine).
meh, since May of 2020 after 5 weeks + of total lockdown and not letting my kids do squat and totally buying into the 15 days to slow the spread starting March 15 or so...I said F it.. I gotta work and travel, gotta provide and at least try.
But since May 22, 2020...
I’ve been to Miami/Islamorada 5 times, New York 4 times, Nashville 6 times, Dallas twice, Iowa once, Ft Collins a dozen times, Charlotte once, Chicago once , Seattle twice, and LA once along with Orlando and Las Vegas once each.
like 33 flights/segments to 11 different cities across less than a year. Spent over 68 days in several cities in less than a year. Which would’ve normally been 90-110 days in those cities. And I didn’t do Jack s#!t for like 40 days. I’m self employed and woulda lost my whole job and family income if I didn’t try.
Very secluded in some parts and very partied and open in others. Always cautious, always obeyed the “rules” wherever I was at.
I’ve been tested 6 times and always negative.
this has been bulls#!t since the beginning. Let the parts that want to be open and actually live, do it. The rest can go f#&% themselves.
let localities decide. We need to be open and easy to pack Memorial full tilt.
(I know personally over 35 people that had Covid, 2 died {both were 70+ and had bad, real bad health} but everyone else younger than 70 were just fine).
Decoy73
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Wistrom Disciple
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Why let the conference dictate what you do within your own school/city for a scrimmage? The practice does not affect other teams within the conference and actually is a source of revenue with the TV network. So long as the school follows local/state health guidelines, why have a conference office 500+ miles away decide what that school does?
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Decked
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I think the university can easily work with local health departments to ensure that a 85,000-90,000 capacity stadium could hold 15,000-20,000 safely. I don’t like blanket orders coming down from the conference so inept they canceled the season & after getting a swift kick in the a$$ hobbled back in. Some teams may decide after consulting with local health departments to not even have fans. Both having fans or deciding to push until fall are fine..should they choose so.
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Hilltop
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I think it's ridiculous for the conference to dictate spring game attendance. In the mean time all the SEC and Big 12 schools will be making money by allowing the locally recommended restrictions. Our society has been told what to do for long enough and I'm frankly fed up. If people have concerns, they can stay home. Those that aren't concerned should be allowed to go.
BigRedBuster
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lo country
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We have an incredibly young team on paper. I'd like that to be broken down by projected starters. I'm too lazy to look it up, but the D seems pretty solid with Jr/Sr guys and the O seems really young. A lot of Fresh/Soph guys......A slow build takes a while. With these numbers easier to see why some say a rebuild take 5 years.
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BigRedBuster
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It shouldn't be used as an excuse as much as the last year or two. But, it's a fact that these players haven't had the normal time in practice to develop.