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RE: FBS Looks At Options to Combat Attendance Woes (Lowest Attendance Since 1996)
Quote:And then you have the Fred Hoiberg syndrome. Idiots who are ill who nevertheless think whatever job they are doing is more important than containing pathogens. Thankfully he had a simple influenza A, but others with that mentality will have COVID-19. It only takes a few idiots to make it show up in another town or city.

And this is why you see the steps being taking to try to contain the virus. You can't trust people to do the right thing when they are sick.
03-12-2020 04:19 AM
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RE: FBS Looks At Options to Combat Attendance Woes (Lowest Attendance Since 1996)
(03-12-2020 02:54 AM)Stugray2 Wrote:  And then you have the Fred Hoiberg syndrome. Idiots who are ill who nevertheless think whatever job they are doing is more important than containing pathogens. Thankfully he had a simple influenza A, but others with that mentality will have COVID-19. It only takes a few idiots to make it show up in another town or city.

As a whole, I think we're collectively being too hard on Hoiberg. According to him(and I believe him), he was not sick before the game. It hit him just as the game was starting, and ramped up dramatically during the first half. This matches the abruptness of influenza A. You can feel fine one minute, and be sick as a dog inside an hour. And it often affects your judgement when it happens that fast.

Should he have pulled himself in the first half, or halftime at the latest? Sure. But it feels like we're all assuming that he was sick for hours or days before the game and just ignored it.

However your overall point is true that there will always be idiots that break quarantine and pass it along to others. Honestly, I was a little guilty of that tonight. I'm coming down with something and went out for supplies to get me through it. I know it's not COVID-19 because I know I was exposed to someone with bacterial bronchitis who picked it up before COVID hit. And I went to the store after midnight hoping to avoid people. Unfortunately, it seemed like everyone had the same idea because the place was as busy as a typical afternoon. Best laid plans, I guess.
03-12-2020 04:35 AM
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RE: FBS Looks At Options to Combat Attendance Woes (Lowest Attendance Since 1996)
(03-12-2020 02:54 AM)Stugray2 Wrote:  
(03-12-2020 12:18 AM)esayem Wrote:  
(03-11-2020 07:16 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  I think attendance may be zero for 2020

This virus is not going away soon, and attempts to suppress it will last at least the year probably two or three.

Ever hear of vaccination?

The most optimistic estimate is 12-18 months, but even the expert who says that, agrees it's ambitious and history tells us several years to a decade is more likely.

I am amazed by the ignorance of people on this matter. Maybe not, the President has publicly made it sound like a vaccine is just around the corner. Certainly some people will believe him.

It is a pneumonia more than a flu. We have no idea how long it persists, nor if immunity persists - this may act like hepatitis or herpes, be with you for life (the young may find it comes back a 2nd time later in life with more lethal consequences). The best we can do is flatten the curve to slow it's spread and allow us to contain and then stamp out spot outbreaks. But right now we have no cure and are only now trying to experiment with treatment.

It is optimistic to hope we have it contained by the end of summer. It is not contained now, it is still spreading rapidly. The number of cases is certainly 10x higher than reported, as testing kits are rationed, and people who had a mild case or were asymptomatic have not been tested at all. We are so far behind the curve in containment that it could be months.

Put another way, in California we speak of wild fires being a certain percentage contained, were 10% means only one small area, 90% means it's not likely to spread into threatening areas. This virus is somewhere less than 10% contained. We have multiple cases of it popping up unexpected with no known source. For each one you find, there are probably a dozen more. We are a at least a few months away from even having adequate numbers of test kits, so unprepared we are (NY State is contracting to get it's own after many CDC kits proved defective.)

And then you have the Fred Hoiberg syndrome. Idiots who are ill who nevertheless think whatever job they are doing is more important than containing pathogens. Thankfully he had a simple influenza A, but others with that mentality will have COVID-19. It only takes a few idiots to make it show up in another town or city.

Mass transit and large public gatherings are excellent places for one person to spread it to many. A lot of GOP officials learned that at CPAC, and are now under quarantine. To think Sports events like Football games will go on before this thing is 90% contained is ludicrous.

Look around, the NBA shutdown, the NCAA is about to cancel all Spring sports, campuses are closed and more will follow. Baseball may not even have a season. Schools are cancelling spring Football. If campuses are not ready to open in the fall, why would they have any Sports?

Right now the Administration is hoping that the summer breaks this, and that it's not like the Spanish Flu (an H1N1) which peaked in the hottest months. They are also hoping it does not mutate, as happened with that virus, setting back containment and striking again those thought recovered. But it's a hope, and nothing more. Maybe they luck out, maybe they don't. It'll be clear by July which way this is going.


Right, but you said three years. I don’t think so, but I guess we’ll find out.

As for the rest of your stuff, you can call people ignorant and idiots all you want, but the more you do that, the more people dismiss you as an idiot yourself.
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RE: FBS Looks At Options to Combat Attendance Woes (Lowest Attendance Since 1996)
(03-12-2020 01:00 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  
(03-11-2020 04:36 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  
(03-11-2020 03:57 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  
(03-11-2020 03:00 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  
(03-11-2020 02:53 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Adding schools who do not fit your culture was not a smart move with the P5 conferences. Colorado's culture is not the west coast culture. Boise State is a west coast culture. Yeah, fans would like to see their teams like say PAC 12, schools like Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, etc, but not every year. It hurts the fanbase because there are no true rivalries. Boise State on the other hand, could bring out the rivalries with the PAC 12. The fans at Boise State is familiar with the fans of PAC 12 schools because they either are friends or high school rivals.

Pure comedic gold!

Washburn was a former MVC member. They would be rejoining the ranks and they are in a heavy populated area of Kansas. Fort Hays State is one of the other Kansas school that have more than 10,000 students.

The WAC wants Metro State badly, but Colorado Mesa put out a hint in a news article when the WAC was courting Metro State about exploring the idea and all that. WAC could gain the two large public Colorado schools from D2 would be a coup against RMAC. If I were the WAC or Summit? I would look at schools who are willing to move up, and not wait too late. WAC and Summit should not be too picky on who they invite. Both of them almost went out of business.

Just stop. No one cares if a school was in a conference 80 years ago.

You aren't teh WAC or the Summit.


I posted this in the wrong thread.

What I meant is that fans would rather have closer rivals than going to Boulder, Norman or Austin.

What a load of Bull. We might have bought this lame excuse if you had actually pasted the post in the "right" thread. It is still complete idiocy no matter what thread you put it in.
03-12-2020 10:32 AM
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