Bear Down Wildcats

azcat49 wrote:I thought it was delayed until spring?

Alieberman wrote:

PHXCATS wrote:The SEC is playing football in the fall unless shit gets really really crazy. I would bet any amount of money on that.

Any D1 team that does not play will be fucked over financially forever. Football will be played in fall. The amount of people in the stands is the question. If you care about any sports besides football you are praying for fans in the stands in fall.

Anyone speaking in absolutes on this topic is a fucking idiot.

Bump.

Some stupid schools are planning on playing anyway like Nebraska.

Someone's mad. As a parent of current college student, I am extremely glad he is home with us and doing distance learning.

Spring football isn't going to happen. At this point I'm just hoping baseball/softball happen and any thkng more is just gravy.

Merkin wrote:Someone's mad. As a parent of current college student, I am extremely glad he is home with us and doing distance learning.

He's mad because his sons had an opportunity to play one season together. Colin is done as an Arizona football player and Brendan likely is too. Sucks for the family to never see that dream come true.

ChooChooCat wrote:

Merkin wrote:Someone's mad. As a parent of current college student, I am extremely glad he is home with us and doing distance learning.

He's mad because his sons had an opportunity to play one season together. Colin is done as an Arizona football player and Brendan likely is too. Sucks for the family to never see that dream come true.

But surprisingly better than dying from a virus somehow.

ASUHATER! wrote:

ChooChooCat wrote:

Merkin wrote:Someone's mad. As a parent of current college student, I am extremely glad he is home with us and doing distance learning.

He's mad because his sons had an opportunity to play one season together. Colin is done as an Arizona football player and Brendan likely is too. Sucks for the family to never see that dream come true.

But surprisingly better than dying from a virus somehow.

Except if you were remotely intellectually honest you'd know the odds of that happening were slim to none, but you're not, so meh.

ChooChooCat wrote:
Except if you were remotely intellectually honest you'd know the odds of that happening were slim to none, but you're not, so meh.

And if you were intellectually honest, you’d know the odds of catching it are far higher than the odds of dying from it. And the possible effects of catching it on an athlete are far more serious than the understandable but emotionally short-sighted desire for brothers to play one season of football together.

Re: spring ball—not sure how you can do that and then ask them to play another season 3-4 months later in the fall of 2021.

Anyone who still values sports over the overall health and safety of their community and makes continuous excuses for sports right now is a garbage person

Merkin wrote:

PHXCATS wrote: Take away a year of football TV revenue and tv salsa and thers will be very few ncaa sports going forward

That's a bad thing?

rifle
rowing
skiing
fencing
bowling
lacrosse
water polo
field hockey
cross country

How long before ESPNU throws in the towels and starts broadcasting marathons of Coach?

scumdevils86 wrote:Anyone who still values sports over the overall health and safety of their community and makes continuous excuses for sports right now is a garbage person

So true. Makes it easy to spot the simpletons.

So the Big 12, SEC and ACC will play this fall? Have to wonder if many of our athletes that want to play might transfer

azcat49 wrote:So the Big 12, SEC and ACC will play this fall? Have to wonder if many of our athletes that want to play might transfer

The SEC and ACC haven't stated yet but after the Big 12's decision I'd imagine they'll try.

Are those conferences going to require their players and parents to sign waivers? I would not. Should be like the military. If you get sick while in the service, the military is responsible for your health for life.


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azcat49 wrote:So the Big 12, SEC and ACC will play this fall? Have to wonder if many of our athletes that want to play might transfer

Wonder how many players would be good enough to play for those programs?

Yeah because athletes can only get the virus by playing

I hope the conferences that are playing have contingency plans for when by week three 1/2 their rosters are sick or quarantined.

PHXCATS wrote:Yeah because athletes can only get the virus by playing

When are you going to get it through that skull of yours that BIG GROUPS are super spreaders of this disease? This is fact. This is the reason why gatherings of more than 10 people aren't allowed to happen right now. This is why restaurants can only open in a limited capacity.

Do you not understand this?

Yes some student athletes from the Pac 12 and Big 10 will contract COVID 19

But if these other conferences do play I can tell you 2 things that will happen:

#1... These athletes will get COVID at a much higher rate. (As well as their communitees)
#2 Their Fall season will eventually get shut down.

PHXCATS wrote:Yeah because athletes can only get the virus by playing

The UA football team is around 100 athletes including walk ons and redshirts, and probably around 20 in the coaching staff and assistants. They sit together in the meeting rooms, they are in locker rooms together, they eat together.

In what world could that be done using CDC guidelines?

Merkin wrote:

PHXCATS wrote:Yeah because athletes can only get the virus by playing

The UA football team is around 100 athletes including walk ons and redshirts, and probably around 20 in the coaching staff and assistants. They sit together in the meeting rooms, they are in locker rooms together, they eat together.

In what world could that be done using CDC guidelines?

So you are saying no one will get Covid then?

How did players get it during the summer?

And teams can still work out and practice 20 hours a week

Question: Who here is planning to get a COVID vaccine as soon as one becomes available?

Next question: Do you see the NCAA/conferences/schools mandating that athletes get a COVID vaccine and recommended boosters prior to returning to play? That's going to open a huge can of worms. If the answer is no, then there will always be a chance of spread, just like today.

College athletes will be low on the priority list for a Covid vaccine. Tit is extremely unlikely there will be one for college aged athletes by January 1

mofo wrote:Question: Who here is planning to get a COVID vaccine as soon as one becomes available?

Next question: Do you see the NCAA/conferences/schools mandating that athletes get a COVID vaccine and recommended boosters prior to returning to play? That's going to open a huge can of worms. If the answer is no, then there will always be a chance of spread, just like today.

There will be a chance of spread, vaccine or not. The current vaccines under clinical trial may not even reach the 50% effectiveness mark.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/07/fauci-say ... effective/" target="_blank

dmjcat wrote:

mofo wrote:Question: Who here is planning to get a COVID vaccine as soon as one becomes available?

Next question: Do you see the NCAA/conferences/schools mandating that athletes get a COVID vaccine and recommended boosters prior to returning to play? That's going to open a huge can of worms. If the answer is no, then there will always be a chance of spread, just like today.

There will be a chance of spread, vaccine or not. The current vaccines under clinical trial may not even reach the 50% mark.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/07/fauci-say ... effective/" target="_blank

That's pretty typical, the 2020 flu vaccine was only 45% effective.

I won’t get one it out before the election.

I have my concerns about an vaccine manufactured by a US based co.

My money is on the Oxford/AstraZeneca group. There science is legit and their manufacturing to scale sound.

That’s the one I’d get when it’s released (if all goes well jan-mar 2021)

ChooChooCat wrote:Spring football isn't going to happen. At this point I'm just hoping baseball/softball happen and any thkng more is just gravy.

It wouldn't work very well for the athletes if it does. A lot of athletes schedule their harder classes for semesters they're not playing in, so at this point their harder classes are set up during the would-be football season in spring. Also, they'd likely be wrapping up football season shortly before summer practices to start...

mofo wrote:

ChooChooCat wrote:Spring football isn't going to happen. At this point I'm just hoping baseball/softball happen and any thkng more is just gravy.

It wouldn't work very well for the athletes if it does. A lot of athletes schedule their harder classes for semesters they're not playing in, so at this point their harder classes are set up during the would-be football season in spring. Also, they'd likely be wrapping up football season shortly before summer practices to start...

Plus anyone who got hurt would be missing time for parts of two seasons.

Spring football is most likely not happening. Less than 1% chance

mofo wrote:

ChooChooCat wrote:Spring football isn't going to happen. At this point I'm just hoping baseball/softball happen and any thkng more is just gravy.

It wouldn't work very well for the athletes if it does. A lot of athletes schedule their harder classes for semesters they're not playing in, so at this point their harder classes are set up during the would-be football season in spring. Also, they'd likely be wrapping up football season shortly before summer practices to start...

Good point. Athletes generally get priority registration when their sport is in season.

Only thing I am hoping for is basketball. Only 14 scholarship players. Baseball and softball have 25 or more on a roster, although many just have partial scholarships if any at all.

Hopefully they go all they can for those sports that might be impacted two seasons in a row. Not much you can do I guess but hopefully they get to play

My god man get a hold of yourself...

Merkin wrote:

mofo wrote:

ChooChooCat wrote:Spring football isn't going to happen. At this point I'm just hoping baseball/softball happen and any thkng more is just gravy.

It wouldn't work very well for the athletes if it does. A lot of athletes schedule their harder classes for semesters they're not playing in, so at this point their harder classes are set up during the would-be football season in spring. Also, they'd likely be wrapping up football season shortly before summer practices to start...

Good point. Athletes generally get priority registration when their sport is in season.

Only thing I am hoping for is basketball. Only 14 scholarship players. Baseball and softball have 25 or more on a roster, although many just have partial scholarships if any at all.

Every thing I hear suggests basketball is 100% happening. The NCAA'a survival literally depends on it. If you have bball then you have to have baseball/softball.

So, if the risk of infection by COVID-19 is deemed sufficient to cancel a college football season...

... how long until the risk of CTE is deemed sufficient to cancel college football entirely??

pc in NM wrote:So, if the risk of infection by COVID-19 is deemed sufficient to cancel a college football season...

... how long until the risk of CTE is deemed sufficient to cancel college football entirely??

COVID will usher in a sooner CTE apocalypse.

84Cat wrote:

Too bad the PAC 12 isn’t all in on economics.

SEC fans, like Ohio State fans, have football as a way of life, a big part of their life, not just a hobby like PAC fans do.

So you all love Larry Scott again I take it? Lol

KingG wrote:So you all love Larry Scott again I take it? Lol

No?

KingG wrote:So you all love Larry Scott again I take it? Lol

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“Without football, we’re estimating a $60 to $65 million impact in revenue loss,” Heeke said Friday on a Zoom press conference. “The financial implications are pretty significant.”

Heeke said Arizona’s projected 2020-21 athletic budget is about $94 million. The most recent U.S. Department of Education numbers, from the 2018-19 academic year, showed football produced $43.3 million in revenue with a large chunk of that coming from media rights, while it had $23.3 million in expenses.

It seems inevitable there will be some programs that will get cut. Going to be a rough couple of years. For those who want Sumlin fired, it's not going to happen.

We'll see what happens.

Merkin wrote:

So players are safer on campus?

ChooChooCat wrote:So players are safer on campus?

Even safer in isolation cells.

ChooChooCat wrote:So players are safer on campus?

Have classes started at Oklahoma?

ChooChooCat wrote:So players are safer on campus?

They're safest at home quarantined not participating in football activities or in classrooms...just like every other American.