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    Why there will be football.

    You guys can come up with all kinds of reasons for or against but it all boils down to this. If we don't have football this fall, many people will learn to live without it going forward, including myself. As much counter culture as is getting involved currently, there is a large portion of the national football fan base that will find something else to do with their time and money. That means everyone lo$e$ including much of our media. If we don't have football this fall, many of the media members will be looking for jobs. How does Kirk H. Or Lee Corso make money if no football.
    We are gonna Have football and it's time everybody let go of the reasons why not to have it and let people make their own decisions and move on. Fans can enter stadiums at their own risks.
    I went to every home game during the Croom Era and there is no way Covid can be worse on your bodily health than watching that crap.

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    If you want football this season, better be hoping and praying basketball and baseball can start and keep it going. If they fold before they start or soon after, forget it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
    If you want football this season, better be hoping and praying basketball and baseball can start and keep it going. If they fold before they start or soon after, forget it.
    Yeah I really believe if baseball and basketball make it through the "season" we'll have football if they don't I think it's over for everything until spring.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Commercecomet24 View Post
    Yeah I really believe if baseball and basketball make it through the "season" we'll have football if they don't I think it's over for everything until spring.
    I sure hope you are right!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Extendedcab View Post
    I sure hope you are right!!
    Me too, brother, me too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
    If you want football this season, better be hoping and praying basketball and baseball can start and keep it going. If they fold before they start or soon after, forget it.
    Neither of these have near the horsepower at this point to make a good case either way. Too late and too disorganized. Football is not going to follow the lead of those two. Sorry but it ain't happening that way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cowbell View Post
    Neither of these have near the horsepower at this point to make a good case either way. Too late and too disorganized. Football is not going to follow the lead of those two. Sorry but it ain't happening that way.
    I do agree though that if baseball and basketball play and complete the season it will make it much more likely that football will be played. Doesn't mean that football won't be played.

    That said- I have a friend that works for the New Orleans Pelicans and is very close to the inner workings of that organization. She pretty much told me a week ago that they are playing come hell or high water. Take that for whatever it's worth. And baseball wouldn't be planning a game in Iowa if they didn't fully intend to play or have camps.

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    Ha. If that's the case, I'll take a fall off of football if Corso will retire already.

    I think they will pretend to play college to justify scholarships and stipends for the players.

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    I spoke to someone that works in UPig athletics group last night and asked if he'd heard any rumblings of football being played. He is not a coach and works with different sport but is still around all the key players regularly.
    He said the only thing he's heard is that the SEC intends to play and that they weren't really giving any options for a team to sit out.

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    IMO, the only way college football will not be played this Fall in some form or fashion is if the NFL doesn't play. Everything else is just noise.

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    The issue with "let's see how the NBA and MLB re-starts go" is that they don't actually start playing games until the end of this month, which is around the time decisions about college football will have to be made. So I'm not sure you'll be able to tell after a week or so of games how well that's going to work, at least not enough to be able to make definitive decisions about football. Another part of it is that pro sports and college sports are very different animals. It's one thing to tell professionals that they have to come to work if they want to get paid, but when you're dealing with amateurs who may or may not even be able to go to class at their respective schools, it's a bit different.

    That being said, I do think they try to play, at this point I'm expecting a delayed start in late September or early October, but I agree that they don't really have a choice but to give it a shot.
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    Can anyone come up with a total value for college football? Not just to the colleges but to the economy as a whole?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cowbell View Post
    Can anyone come up with a total value for college football? Not just to the colleges but to the economy as a whole?
    Best I could find was several billion and I don't believe that included the local college communities/economies that see booms from it.

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    Doring on SEC Radio this morning said the P5 teams are going to play. There's way too much money on the line. The fear porn has to stop and we need to get on with our lives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TrapGame View Post
    Doring on SEC Radio this morning said the P5 teams are going to play. There's way too much money on the line. The fear porn has to stop and we need to get on with our lives.
    And it needs to stop being so one sided. Yes there is risk for infection. But at the same time it's not fair to people that want to live their lives and aren't afraid. It's also not fair to players that want to play either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TrapGame View Post
    Doring on SEC Radio this morning said the P5 teams are going to play. There's way too much money on the line. The fear porn has to stop and we need to get on with our lives.
    This is true of athletic depts. but it's also true of the local economy. I mean if they play and there's no fans allowed that doesn't really help the local economies at all. You're not going to have people stay the weekend in Starkville, Oxford, etc. just to go to a bar and watch the game on TVs. They can do that at home and it's a lot cheaper and I fear that not having fans would have a lingering effect for decades on the economies of college towns as people either A) realize that it's A LOT cheaper and they enjoy it about as much just sitting at home or B) they realize that they'd rather do other things with their weekends in the fall.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Falcon View Post
    The issue with "let's see how the NBA and MLB re-starts go" is that they don't actually start playing games until the end of this month, which is around the time decisions about college football will have to be made. So I'm not sure you'll be able to tell after a week or so of games how well that's going to work, at least not enough to be able to make definitive decisions about football. Another part of it is that pro sports and college sports are very different animals. It's one thing to tell professionals that they have to come to work if they want to get paid, but when you're dealing with amateurs who may or may not even be able to go to class at their respective schools, it's a bit different.

    That being said, I do think they try to play, at this point I'm expecting a delayed start in late September or early October, but I agree that they don't really have a choice but to give it a shot.
    I get the logistics, but delaying the start seems like a terrible idea. If we keep our normal schedule, the SEC can be almost done before the flu season even really gets kicked off. IF the current spread is really being driven by people being indoor in air conditioning (which seems like a reasonable guess based on where the current hotspots are), then the SEC could potentially enjoy some relief from Wuhan during the shoulder months, and we should take advantage of most of our football season occurring then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
    And it needs to stop being so one sided. Yes there is risk for infection. But at the same time it's not fair to people that want to live their lives and aren't afraid. It's also not fair to players that want to play either.
    The problem is that all those people end up in ERs and put a financially strain on the healthcare system that we all have to pay for. That's not fair. They also cause us to have to delay elective procedures to other people, which isn't fair to those people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawg2003 View Post
    The problem is that all those people end up in ERs and put a financially strain on the healthcare system that we all have to pay for. That's not fair. They also cause us to have to delay elective procedures to other people, which isn't fair to those people.
    No...they don’t actually. About 10% end up in the hospital and only about 5% end up staying more than a couple days. Additionally, many of those in the 5% are actually already in the hospital for other issues they just test positive for covid while there...but they don’t put that disclaimer in the stats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawgology View Post
    No...they don’t actually. About 10% end up in the hospital and only about 5% end up staying more than a couple days. Additionally, many of those in the 5% are actually already in the hospital for other issues they just test positive for covid while there...but they don’t put that disclaimer in the stats.
    Well, that would ruin the fear porn.

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