College football 2019

[guncrasher]

There is always a deadly virus out there. More than one in fact..... always.

ex-wives or gfs don't count.


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[Shuffler]

ex-wives or gfs don't count.


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[DmonSlyr]

ex-wives or gfs don't count.


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[guncrasher]

showed this to my wife, told her i should have been a comedian, she said, well i always laugh when we are in bed.


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[Eagler]

Yes, Shuf, anybody, football player or not, can have a defunct satellite land on them or fall into the sewer and die .... on top of there being a pandemic featuring a deadly virus. Counting the various ways we can all die beats taking measures to reduce infections. 

And if they had  covid they are counted as covid deaths

Too much gray area btwn the numbers of deaths from or with covid to take any number reported as truth

Let the kids play ball while keeping them away from the elderly when off the field

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[guncrasher]

no there's no gray area, you wanna make it a gray area. for example my wife, she's got bad lungs, but she's doing better than last year, if she gets covid most likely she will die. so it will count as a covid death, because without covid she will live a few years longer. no guarantees but she isn't dying right now.

you wanna make that a gray area when it isn't.

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[Shuffler]

no there's no gray area, you wanna make it a gray area. for example my wife, she's got bad lungs, but she's doing better than last year, if she gets covid most likely she will die. so it will count as a covid death, because without covid she will live a few years longer. no guarantees but she isn't dying right now.

you wanna make that a gray area when it isn't.

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Same with flu or anything else..... except with flu, they probably would say what the.person actually died from.

[Brooke]

Big 10's schedule is out.

Michigan has a fairly tough one, starting with an away vs. Minnesota.

Also, to fit in the games, no weeks off.

I'm greatly looking forward to it.

[ACE]

Big 10's schedule is out.

Michigan has a fairly tough one, starting with an away vs. Minnesota.

Also, to fit in the games, no weeks off.

I'm greatly looking forward to it.

You gotta feel bad for Nebraska.

Ohio state seems to get away with another easy route this year.

[Brooke]

I wonder if Nebraska's schedule is retribution for them rocking the boat.

Ohio State has the easiest schedule.  That also might not be total accident, since Ohio State is Big 10's top playoff contender.

Until difficulty of schedule factors significantly into playoff ranking (instead of it being mainly just record), we'll see advantages for weaker schedules.

I think rankings should be an elo system or like SP+, which take into account difficulty of opponent.

[Eagler]

As paranoid as everyone still seems to be about the china flu you would expect the schedules to be modified as these kids come down with the sniffles, the lightest of cases and teams are then locked down...

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[Brooke]

In the Big 10, assuming team+staff is about 140 people, about 10 or more being positive would cancel the week.

It is possible that a Big 10 team here or there gets knocked out for a week, but my guess is that there won't be a lot of that because of the precautions.

If a player tests positive, he is out of games for 21 days (about 1/3 of the Big 10 season) and will be monitored for heart inflammation.

(More specifics.  In the Big 10, there will be daily antigen testing.  Positives on antigen test need to be confirmed by PCR test.  If more than 5% of tests come back positive and more than 7.5% of team+staff is positive, the team must cancel that week's game.)

[perdue3]

china flu

They got it to stick. Dang psychology.

[guncrasher]

They got it to stick. Dang psychology.

i remember the American flu. that was nasty.

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[DmonSlyr]

Spanish flu. Lyme disease... Im sure there are a few more related to where they came. No one ever cared then.

 Maybe they shouldn't be Frankensteining viruses in a lab that could severely hurt people, then negligently allowing it to escape. IMO, the virus and its name is all on them. Infact they should incinerate that lab, and fine/sanction China severely for this.

In all fairness. Maybe calling it the UN virus wouldn't be so wrong either.