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- 07/27/2020 at 2:55 PM #126908
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  Charlie
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  @charlie
  
  I get that there are questions about the 2020 season, but could they throw us a bone and release the media guide and hold the conference media day? I assume the guide is done and could the media day be done with social distancing? We could use the squirt of good news.
  
  As for the season, I am happy to try. Maybe without fans. Incrementally, is there that much added risk to the simi college football bubble? There would be a lot of testing and watching over folks and I assume high risk staff would take a year off. If there was no football there exist risks in what ever they do instead. Do we know that the incremental risk between trying and doing nothing is significant? I say that because I believe there will be quite a level of care to keep folks healthy.
- 07/27/2020 at 7:49 PM #126923
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  EagleMountainUte
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  @battlegroundute
  
  Not good news for the MLB https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/07/27/marlins-coronavirus-positive-test-players-coaches-game-canceled
  
  99% survival rate though is scaring the league into shutting down. Not watching MLB but it isn’t good news for the rest of sports.
  - 07/27/2020 at 10:40 PM #126933
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    UtMtBiker
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    @utmtbiker
    
    How is this good news for other sports? As usual, your logic and poorly formed and/or incomplete sentences are hard to follow.
    
    Are you implying that you wouldn’t have any problem reaching your hand into a bag of 99 white marbles and one red marble knowing that if you pulled out the red marble you’d meet certain death? What about a bag of 1000? What’s the number where it isn’t pure stupidity to take that unessisary risk?
    
    What if you had to make that draw 182 times over 6 months? How would well would you sleep knowing you were taking that risk over and over and over again? Would you do it just because some dude in nowhere town utah wants to watch sports?
    - 07/28/2020 at 12:26 AM #126936
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      Central Coast Ute
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      @flip2848
      
      You do realize that he said it’s NOT good for other sports correct? And it’s always said that. Since he posted. Meaning it was never edited. Now quit with the attacks because you look really, really bad, especially with this one. You’re making fun of his sentence structure when nothing was wrong with it but you’re clearly the one that’s having a hard time reading.
      - 07/28/2020 at 2:48 AM #126938
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        EagleMountainUte
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        @battlegroundute
        
        You are responding to someone I have blocked I am assuming?
        Yeah MLB outbreak is NOT good for sports.
        I believe it is the best business practice to shut down.
        
        07/28/2020 at 8:08 AM #126940
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        Central Coast Ute
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        @flip2848
        
        Yeah, UteMtbiker. Here’s what I was responding to:
        
        “How is this good news for other sports? As usual, your logic and poorly formed and/or incomplete sentences are hard to follow”.
        
        I’m betting he won’t even apologize. Hope I’m wrong.
        
        07/28/2020 at 8:19 AM #126944
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        EagleMountainUte
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        @battlegroundute
        
        Well they is blocked so I don’t care.
    - 07/28/2020 at 11:58 AM #126946
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      Rick
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      Your questions are completely one sided in that there is no reward on the other side of the risk. Your death rate is a bit high but we will use your numbers. If you had the chance to get your college degree with all expenses paid and a possibility of becoming an NFL football player, would you reach your hand in that bag? I bet 100 out of 100 college age athletes would reach into that bag. But your analogy is even more lame because the probability of death for a college aged athlete is well below your 1 in 100 scenario.
      
      Just a pretty lame analogy to “prove” EagleMountainUte wrong when he didn’t even say it was “…good news for othe sports.”
    - 07/28/2020 at 12:59 PM #126949
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      Stone
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      Dude… @UtMtBiker … might want to go back and check your reading comprehension.
      
      Also, no one is forcing an athlete to do anything. They agree to do something based on the incentives. If the incentives are not sufficient, they are free to decline. They are not forced to do anything just because “some dude in nowhere utah wants to watch sports.” You are losing your marbles.
      - 07/28/2020 at 4:02 PM #126953
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        EagleMountainUte
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        @battlegroundute
        
        If the shutdown has proved anything it is that we don’t need sports or Hollywood. This is where I am going to get thumbs downed but I think colleges should get out of it. It is time for it to be completely transitioned to a business. Don’t keep up the facade of student athletes. Yeah it is most likely gonna cause more harm than good in a lot of ways. You can maximize the product and let the ones who can’t qualify into any program in the nation. Players can sustain themselves by licensing.(LOL). It will become the minor league for all major sports.
        
        I am probably one of those people in “nowhere Utah” NOT complaining about NOT being able to watch sports. It really has become an “opiate of the masses” that distracts us from real issues. Like violent radical Marxist-fascists who didn’t get taught history. Communism is on the move again and this time we can’t stop.
        
        07/28/2020 at 4:25 PM #126954
        
        Stone
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        @stone
        
        A reasonable idea.
        
        What if the sports programs became formally independent of each university, but then entered into an agreement where the players could attend the university for free (if the player wants), and in exchange, the team would promote the school?
        
        I realize this is essentially what is already happening, but it might be helpful if it became more explicit and the boundaries became more formal. The teams could then operate independent from the school, the players would have the freedom to play sports and get a free education or focus solely on sports (no school). Players could even get sponsorships on the free market the same as any other pro athlete without trying to figure out the NCAA rules. This would eliminate the need for disinterested players from pretending they care about school, allow players to make money on their likeness, get schools out of the pro sports business, and also keep some semblance of college sports. I imagine there would be a lot of negatives, too, but a clean separation might be healthy.
        
        07/28/2020 at 6:19 PM #126955
        
        EagleMountainUte
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        @battlegroundute
        
        I think the largest negative is what do you do with the “non” P5. Also some P5 like Stanford, many in the Big 10 would not be on board with this idea.
        
        It is complicated problem that I am oversimplifying for sure but I say the opportunity is presenting itself to rip the bandaid off. Let it enter the free market and enjoy the consequences.
        
        It could satisfy the demands they want. They could then act like semi professionals spouting off and despising the system which they get fat off of.
        
        07/28/2020 at 10:24 PM #126962
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        UteThunder
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        @utethunder
        
        One HUGE flaw (among many) with this plan: There are thousands of kids whose only reason for trying in school is so that they can be eligible for sports. Those kids then use sports to move on to college and get an education they otherwise never would have even considered pursuing. Take sports from universities and most of these kids will be lucky to even graduate high school, let alone go to college.
- 07/29/2020 at 5:55 PM #126981
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  Charlie
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  @charlie
  
  What if schools that wanted to continue athletics are just free to do so. Additionally, what if people were free to develop another sports league if they cared to do so. Then people could freely chose which one they care to support and watch. Oddly, that seems to be how we got to here. If you want to improve on something that is already successful, do so incrementally because it saves time and avoids big mistakes.
  
  That said, let the media guide out, hold media day, safely plan and get ready for football and pull the plug only if necessary. Is it a bad idea to try?
  - 07/29/2020 at 9:13 PM #126985
    
    EagleMountainUte
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    @battlegroundute
    
    Yes because if an elderly coach gets it and dies it won’t be a good plan. Statistically the coaches are the most at risk. Especially if they have conditions that affect their ability to fight off the virus.