2020 College Football Season/Playoff Thread

[billmac91]

Testing once the disease is already widespread isn’t all that helpful. You test when the rate is low and that helps you isolate a few cases.

Plus this saliva test isn’t cheap or fast enough for the entire populations at a big college.

Why is it not cheap enough? It costs $4 to create test, and expectation for the general public is it'd be in the $20 range after mark-up. The NBA and Yale have both committed to not making a profit off this test, but rather want it mass produced and rolled out ASAP.

And testing is important widespread or not....nobody wants Covid positive football players in a huddle. Giving a daily test eliminates chance teams will become mass spreaders.

 

[col63onel]

Why is it not cheap enough? It costs $4 to create test, and expectation for the general public is it'd be in the $20 range after mark-up. The NBA and Yale have both committed to not making a profit off this test, but rather want it mass produced and rolled out ASAP.

And testing is important widespread or not....nobody wants Covid positive football players in a huddle. Giving a daily test eliminates chance teams will become mass spreaders.

UNC has almost 20k students. If you test every student just once a week, which is probably not enough, thats starting to push 500k a month. On top of that, I can't imagine they can get them all churned out in time. And it probably needs to be 2-3 times a week. Can a school handle over a million dollars a month just for testing?

 

[billmac91]

UNC has almost 20k students. If you test every student just once a week, which is probably not enough, thats starting to push 500k a month. On top of that, I can't imagine they can get them all churned out in time. And it probably needs to be 2-3 times a week. Can a school handle over a million dollars a month just for testing?

I think the idea is use the football teams as tests for the greater public, like the NBA was a baseline test. The NBA proved a saliva test works with 90% accuracy at a much cheaper price and a faster turn around time.

If it works for the football teams, implement it on the student body, and allow them to start coming back in higher quantities. It's why I say college football can serve multiple purposes. It allows the kids to play, and likely leads to a new system of testing that can be rolled out to students. For the general student body, I don't anticipate the schools having to pick up that cost dollar for dollar. Between insurance and government financial relief, I'd imagine a majority of that cost is actually not paid for by the school.

The expense for a football program to test twice daily (AM/PM), 150 people is approximately $500-$600k over 4 months. Which is a no-brainer for a P5 school, once you factor in the TV revenue money they're leaving on the table if they don't play.

 

[col63onel]

If it works for the football teams, implement it on the student body, and allow them to start coming back in higher quantities.

So do you believe that football will happen if students aren't allowed on campus? If so, it's easy to play football, I just don't see that ever becoming a reality.

It allows the kids to play, and likely leads to a new system of testing that can be rolled out to students. For the general student body, I don't anticipate the schools having to pick up that cost dollar for dollar. Between insurance and government financial relief, I'd imagine a majority of that cost is actually not paid for by the school.

That's very presumptuous, given how slow we've been to get people tested.

The expense for a football program to test twice daily (AM/PM), 150 people is approximately $500-$600k over 4 months. Which is a no-brainer for a P5 school, once you factor in the TV revenue money they're leaving on the table if they don't play.

Agree that some football programs have the resources to do that. But that still doesn't mean they can do that for the entire student population, plus faculty and staff. Even if I bought that the government/insurance would pay for it, not sure that they have the lab capacity.

 

[col63onel]

Notre Dame going remote learning for 2 weeks after a spike in cases. If cases don't go down, they'll send everyone home.

 

[inliner311]

Notre Dame going remote learning for 2 weeks after a spike in cases. If cases don't go down, they'll send everyone home.

Michigan State also just rolled back their move in plan and is going virtual. Told students that were going to be in dorms that they will gets refund and off-campus students to stay in their home communities.

 

[Chris]

basically a covid thread. I hate that 2020 has done this to us.

 

[MGMT]

2 week’s sounds a bit arbitrary albeit I understand it’s the transmission limit; but two weeks — given what we’ve witnessed — seems like it’ll accomplish next-to-nothing and if you return to campus after a measly 14 days it’ll just continue again because precautions aren’t used consistently enough by everyone. I’m literally already seeing store employees not wearing masks when there’s a fucking sign on the window displaying “face masks recovered.”

 

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[Ohio]

This guy is a fucking assclown

Never thought I'd miss Delaney so much

 

[Ohio]

 

[Ohio]

Big Ten is hiding something...

 

[col63onel]

A writer in Milwaukee is saying the coaches are trying to put together a season starting at Thanksgiving. An 8 week season, with presumably a bye or 2.

Would put the end of the regular season around mid-January. I would bet the CFP could push the playoff games back a few weeks, and we could have a 'full' playoff. Also, it's only 2-3 weeks later than a normal season would end, so I donm't think it jeopardizes the 2021 CFB season or the 2021 draft entrees.

 

[inliner311]

A writer in Milwaukee is saying the coaches are trying to put together a season starting at Thanksgiving. An 8 week season, with presumably a bye or 2.

Would put the end of the regular season around mid-January. I would bet the CFP could push the playoff games back a few weeks, and we could have a 'full' playoff. Also, it's only 2-3 weeks later than a normal season would end, so I donm't think it jeopardizes the 2021 CFB season or the 2021 draft entrees.

If you look back I proposed this in one of these threads. It makes the most sense. It really would push them to push the playoffs by a couple weeks. It would also insure that guys like Fields would stay.

Students will be gone from campus and the whole season doesn't need to be in domes.

 

[Kbiz]

A writer in Milwaukee is saying the coaches are trying to put together a season starting at Thanksgiving. An 8 week season, with presumably a bye or 2.

Would put the end of the regular season around mid-January. I would bet the CFP could push the playoff games back a few weeks, and we could have a 'full' playoff. Also, it's only 2-3 weeks later than a normal season would end, so I donm't think it jeopardizes the 2021 CFB season or the 2021 draft entrees.

I don't like this ride anymore.