OT- How concerned should we be about CoronaVirus impact?

[ArmyVet]

Some momentum building that football season - both college and NFL - could be postponed or canceled. This damn virus is kicking our ass.

[Django]

Some momentum building that football season - both college and NFL - could be postponed or canceled. This damn virus is kicking our ass.

Big East is basketball only. You need to got to your football school board. And if you're UCONN football fan, cancelling the season is prolly the best thing that ever happened to them, and will result in the first time they don't go further into debt with their football team.

[ArmyVet]

Some momentum building that football season - both college and NFL - could be postponed or canceled. This damn virus is kicking our ass.

Big East is basketball only. You need to got to your football school board. And if you're UCONN football fan, cancelling the season is prolly the best thing that ever happened to them, and will result in the first time they don't go further into debt with their football team.

I was here about 5 years before you and I am a college hoops fan who has loved the Big East most of my life. I have no team allegiance as I have noted here many times. I started this thread to discuss the impact of Covid-19. Don't read it if you don't want to.

[Django]

Some momentum building that football season - both college and NFL - could be postponed or canceled. This damn virus is kicking our ass.

Big East is basketball only. You need to got to your football school board. And if you're UCONN football fan, cancelling the season is prolly the best thing that ever happened to them, and will result in the first time they don't go further into debt with their football team.

I was here about 5 years before you and I am a college hoops fan who has loved the Big East most of my life. I have no team allegiance as I have noted here many times. I started this thread to discuss the impact of Covid-19. Don't read it if you don't want to.

I apologize, just trying to keep the subject on college basketball. Obviously this C19 is affecting Big East Basketball. Lots of stuff to discuss regarding the draft and how this crap is going to affect players like Bey and Alexander. I'm also a college football fan and have my team but I'd rather keep that separate from rooting on my Bluejays. If people want to talk football on here I can't stop them but it seems like a separate topic. But who the hell knows the future of anything right now. Personally I'm healthy but 100% wiped out financially.

[billyjack]

Some momentum building that football season - both college and NFL - could be postponed or canceled. This damn virus is kicking our ass.

Big East is basketball only. You need to got to your football school board. And if you're UCONN football fan, cancelling the season is prolly the best thing that ever happened to them, and will result in the first time they don't go further into debt with their football team.

Armyvet's comments on college football are relevant cuz it gives us a sense of whether college hoops will start up in November... trendlines-wise, football is the hurdle in front of hoops... an all-clear for football bodes well for basketball. A football no-go is the opposite.

Having said that, i think April is going to be a tough month. Just got to continue social distancing and not get complacent, and hopefully in 2 to 3 weeks numbers will flatten and improve. Stay safe everyone.

[GumbyDamnit!]

Some momentum building that football season - both college and NFL - could be postponed or canceled. This damn virus is kicking our ass.

Big East is basketball only. You need to got to your football school board. And if you're UCONN football fan, cancelling the season is prolly the best thing that ever happened to them, and will result in the first time they don't go further into debt with their football team.

Armyvet's comments on college football are relevant cuz it gives us a sense of whether college hoops will start up in November... trendlines-wise, football is the hurdle in front of hoops... an all-clear for football bodes well for basketball. A football no-go is the opposite.

Having said that, i think April is going to be a tough month. Just got to continue social distancing and not get complacent, and hopefully in 2 to 3 weeks numbers will flatten and improve. Stay safe everyone.

Yeah, ArmyVet has been a long-time quality poster...and if he is true to his name, he's earned the right to talk about anything he wants to IMO.

What I see? Next to no chance we see stadiums full of people in 2020 at all. Maybe college FB televises closed games, but I don't think we see stadiums for any event until there is a vaccine and it's been widely distributed.

College hoops will follow what happens with college FB. Either games in front of no crowds, or no games. If tests are readily available by then perhaps every player will have to be tested a couple days before a game, basically quarantined until game time and repeated weekly. Anyone not tested is not allowed to be a part of it--refs, trainers, players, coaches. But even that is probably a pipe dream. Our best case is a limited conference season starting late and a modified tournament. An entire cancelled season wouldn't surprise me.

The problem is that places in the middle of the country are where NYC was a month ago. They'll think social isolation is overkill and it will spread slowly and 2 weeks will become 10. This spread isn't going to end unless the entire country--with the lone exception of healthcare workers--just stays at home. Nothing, and I mean nothing, open for 3 weeks. People indoors, staying to themselves (not having Covid neighborhood parties), for 3 weeks. Full stop. Until that happens, we'll be half-assing it as a country and this will continue well into the Fall.

[Omaha1]

So if a single college football or NFL player tests positive, I assume neither can proceed. That’s a sport with too much “in your face” contact to continue playing if there’s still a virus out there.

[butlerguy03]

I would gladly eat crow, but...

I work in healthcare management. You wouldn’t believe the things I hear. Collegiate and high school sports won’t happen until Spring 2022. Time to find another hobby. We’re in for a bumpy 18 months. Unemployment may hit 45% if the banks can’t lend money, like they are saying now. If that happens, pro sports will contract to much fewer teams.

I wish things could go back to “normal,” but that was 2019. It’ll never be 2019 again.

[GoldenWarrior11]

I would gladly eat crow, but...

I work in healthcare management. You wouldn’t believe the things I hear. Collegiate and high school sports won’t happen until Spring 2022. Time to find another hobby. We’re in for a bumpy 18 months. Unemployment may hit 45% if the banks can’t lend money, like they are saying now. If that happens, pro sports will contract to much fewer teams.

I wish things could go back to “normal,” but that was 2019. It’ll never be 2019 again.

Bet? I predict we see college sports before "Spring '22" as you declare. If you're wrong, you get to use a Marquette logo for your profile. If I'm wrong, I'll use a Butler pic. Deal???

[Savannah Jay]

I would gladly eat crow, but...

I work in healthcare management. You wouldn’t believe the things I hear. Collegiate and high school sports won’t happen until Spring 2022. Time to find another hobby. We’re in for a bumpy 18 months. Unemployment may hit 45% if the banks can’t lend money, like they are saying now. If that happens, pro sports will contract to much fewer teams.

I wish things could go back to “normal,” but that was 2019. It’ll never be 2019 again.

Bet? I predict we see college sports before "Spring '22" as you declare. If you're wrong, you get to use a Marquette logo for your profile. If I'm wrong, I'll use a Butler pic. Deal???

Hate to throw "calendar math" into this deal, but 18 months from now is not the spring of 2022...that would be 24 months from now. 18 months from now is October 2021.

I am putting my faith in the docs and scientists that are working on both remedies and vaccines...though i do agree that sports in 2020 may not happen and, if they do, they will look a lot different than usual. Football, in particular, is in trouble IMO because colleges have missed spring football and many of the kids don't have a place to work out like they would to prepare for the season. And while the pros may all have workout gyms at home, football is the ultimate team sport and without coordinated off-season workouts and such it's a huge injury risk and diminished product risk.