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That’s the quote. I don’t agree with it. It’s a dumb, absolutist statement that just serves to inflame people.

I'm presuming that the NCAA will give a one-year elevation to scholarship limits - everyone's eligibility is frozen and teams can still take the incoming allotment of 25 players. Otherwise there are going to be some very harsh decisions being made for each program - sacrificing veteran players...

Unfortunately, historically war has been a driver in diverting attention away from one's domestic problems. You could see China drumming up nationalistic fervor with action against Taiwan or even Japan, the latter being less likely.

At this point, there’s not much to be gained aside from research information. We’re not going to war with them and we are not going to harshly sanction them.

It’s interesting...but when you factor in that subways were not closed or sanitized until May, perhaps by default New York became like Sweden. Anyway, just speculation.

The thing I wonder is if New York achieved a form of herd immunity this spring after the mass infections. That perhaps the virus was more widespread - especially when you account for the fact that subways were not closed until May. So even with mass gatherings (in the form of political marches)...

Shalala certainly was and is liberal, but I’m not so certain she jumps the gun to shut down the program. She could have easily done so in 2006 and 2011 when the national media was calling for it, and she would have been applauded nationwide for having done so. In 2006 she refuted calls to kick...

But what is that point if the cases are continuing? It comes back to health vs profit, which is why CFB may shut down. Let’s say the situation is no better in the summer of 2021, or only marginally better, and you know that a second cancelled season is enough to kill CFB for good, do you put...

Too much business to be had in the future with China for some. For others, the narrative of a Chinese origin are not advantageous politically.

Yesterday Fauci said that he did not believe that the vaccine would be extraordinary effective. Let’s say that it is 40% - 50% effective - is that enough for businesses to reopen, let alone CFB and other sports to resume. That said, the very survival of major league sports would be at stake...

Right. You’d have to literally preprovision 7B people with 30 days of food. Any medical problems would be ignored for 30 days. And you would have to enforce the global quarantine - by drone - with the strictest penalties.

Only action to stop the spread was to have everyone self isolate for 30 days - planetwide. And keep to those terms without exception. That would have stopped it. And that’s virtually impossible to accomplish given human nature.

It’s more of a public relations domino effect is what I suspect. CFB which is huge in its own right cancels - then media attention switches over to the NFL? “Mr Goodell, what confidence do you have that the NFL can guarantee the safety of its players when college football already says that it...

That was my first reaction, but it means that those who want football don’t care about the virus, and are likely the ones going maskless or going to spring break parties or huge parties in the Hamptons...and thus are responsible for the initial spread.

If college cancels - with the financial ramifications that are carried with it that likely lead to 25% of CFB abandoning their programs - I think the pressure then falls to MLB, NFL, and NHL to cancel their fall seasons as well. I think the NBA is the only sport that remains active, finishing...

Since it appears that we’re probably 72 hours from it all coming apart, I’ll jump the gun and ask about the following year. What are the metrics for returning? No cases? A vaccine? A vaccine with X percentage of effectiveness? What do you all think? And how many colleges will resume football...