A few more nuggets, from here and there:
- Your routine reminder that Phil Fulmer is full of shit.
- That being said, he’s right about this.
- “You would like to know who is not playing,” that AD said. “I don’t know if there is anything morally compelling to make us have to do that. Not playing people you know to be sick is the morally compelling part of it.”
- And The Valley Shook’s Poseur thinks we’re not playing college football this year.
- “It’s crazy that no one is seriously talking about playing in the spring right now,” said another Power Five head coach. “We would know so much more six, seven or eight months from now.”
- In a survey conducted last summer, about 19% of college trainers said that a coach opted to play an athlete who had been deemed “medically out of participation,” according to the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.
Get The Picture 
Maybe if Fulmer had said a full set of teeth he might have been right. As the summer drags on I’m really starting to feel it will be a one or two game season, if that. I hope I am wrong, I am usually a very upbeat optimistic guy but I have a bad feeling about this season.
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I think all ADs are generally full of shit, but I didn’t think Fulmer said anything particularly egregious in that article. You plan for a full season with full stadiums, which I assume would require the most resources from the University’s perspective, and adjust down from there. Seems reasonable to me.
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The longer this goes regardless of what the outcome is it looks like 2020 will be the first year since 1981 I haven’t attended a game in Sanford Stadium.
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The urnge round mound of coach in waiting also says “it’s easier to accept a bag-o-donut holes than it is to turn down a dozen hot-n-fresh glazed donuts with sprinkles”…read that on the dunkin daily report…..
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That phil tweet is B.S….there’s no donut opening in the mask, proof being the picture of phil has been down sized to 20% to make him appear smaller in stature…
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“In a survey conducted last summer, about 19% of college trainers ADMITTED that a coach opted to play an athlete who had been deemed “medically out of participation.”
The cynic in me begs for release.
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Tennessee couldn’t fill the stands before covid but they will this year? OK.
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UT still hasn’t figured out that “hope is not a strategy”. Let’s hope that continues.. 🙂
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The replies to Fulmer’s tweet about wearing masks are beyond depressing.
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Same for Poseur’s story on “And The Valley Shook”. People are actively rejecting knowledge for some fringe theories off of Facebook.
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Maybe that’s because masks are racist?
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“We’re not going to play [opponents] if they don’t tell us [about COVID-19 positives],” TCU coach Gary Patterson said. “We’re not putting anybody in jeopardy on our sideline or anybody else.” Let’s see who else agrees.
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I just don’t see the Universities opening stadiums to the fans. I hope I’m wrong. #ThrowAwaySeason
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The sad story is, if we as a nation had gotten our shit together from the start we’d be in good shape for the cfb season by now. Had we gotten serious about precautions (masks, etc.), and done testing and tracing on a massive scale, the situation would be far different – as we’re seeing in other nations.
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Yep.
But muh freedom!
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Hahhahhahaahah.
Now do Florida… or Arizona… or Texas… or…
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Why? New York is the science capital that has been all in on the lock down, which means nothing bad is happening there.
#Leadership
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But muh appeals to authority (but only the approved “consensus” authority).
Then when you don’t fall for it, I got muh appeals to snobbery. Don’t be one of the rubes! Trust the authorities and stop thinking for yourself. You’re not sophisticated enough to do so anyway.
#liesdamnliesandcoviddata
#garbageingarbageout
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Far out, man.
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It’s not about freedom. Horse —— Yes masks and social distancing would solve all of this. Right. It’s a joke.
There are two choices.
1-Shelter in place until there is a vaccine.
2-Live life and protect the at risk. And considering that the death numbers are primarily in a few demographics take further measures to reduce contact with those categories. Wearing a mask at Kroger is NOT going to solve the problem. Wear it that’s fine. Make yourself and other feel better. I wear it for that reason. But there is a reason the companies making masks (or someone’s shirt or bandana) put disclaimers on them, the science doesn’t bear out it will stop why it’s spreading. Tens of millions have or do have it. It must spread. It’s not going away but use f ing common sense.
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It’s not a binary choice as you suggest. If it were, they wouldn’t be shutting down the bars in Texas and Florida again.
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Yes I trust the clowns running these states as if they had a clue what works. So shutting down bars soles what? Stop the spread? Slow it? What do they do in a month? Or two or six? So instead tell people they can’t run a business or earn a living. Yeah that will work.
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Bluto, I posit that they’re shutting down the bars because PR demands it. I think they know that it won’t really stop the spread, nor that the spread can really be stopped.
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Since when do Abbott and DeSantis care about PR? They clearly haven’t before.
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Not to mention stockpiling ventilators!
#Science
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Everyone should read The Valley Shook article and digest it. I have made all these arguments here so that Dawgs get the point early, but no clue as to whether most will be disappointed anyway for drinking the poison kool aide in the cult celebration of pseudoscience.
Giving the scientific facts to you in doses didn’t seem to register., but all the info that I have given to you is provided in this article for easy digestion and comprehension. Read it and understand that there can’t be a cfb schedule that won’t fall apart before August. The mistakes made by politicizing this pandemic will bring the chickens home to roost this year, no matter the political administration of castor oil to make it go down and out of our cfb system.
Pleading to common sense to try to get ahead of this virus has succumbed to lack of leadership down to the county levels of obstinacy by the worshipful minority of cultist who have the political upper hand in our system of govrnment. Many of you should blame yourselves for inaction and inability to see the path to a cfbsystem that was present months ago and that diminishes weekly.
There will be the typical troll bs following this post that wants to divert your attention to the trolls who are determined that you not discuss this scientifically because science threatens them when you perceive the present knowlwdge of truth about this virus.
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Thank you for your service to the proles. It’s just sad that some of them don’t even understand how the virus responds to leftist politics.
#Science
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“Worshipful minority of cultist…”.
Ok. I’m not even sure who you’re getting after, but you have a lot of words to do it.
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Florida closed the bars again. I really wondered as it was wide open.
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