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Meanwhile, In Georgia

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...antine-georgia-school-district-where-n1236364

Now of course that means that a few thousand other students were exposed. Teachers. Cafeteria workers, administration, brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, bus drivers, and of course anyone else who came into contact with any of those 800+, all exposed. Maybe not all grandparents to be fair.

Way to Florida your reopen Georgia! I see some lawsuits on the horizon.

Financial impact to Oregon...

So what is the financial impact to the University, assuming the season/all fall and winter sports are cancelled? Football and basketball ticket revenue and donations, plus their cut of league TV money are probably the big revenue sources.

This money will be either much less or gone for a year.

So, the question is, can the Athletic Department weather the storm and keep everybody employed?

I know the Pac-12 was saying something about a loan program for schools. They also have some big donors that could choose to keep things afloat.

Overall I suspect Oregon is in as good of a position financially as anybody in the Pac-12 to get through this.

Revising my platform (CFB Uber Alles Party)

Some of you may recall my prior announcement about running for president on the CFBUA party ticket. In light of where our country finds itself, having failed to take any of my prescribed steps since my announcement, and against the backdrop of the recently announced cancellations of 2 of the 5 P5 conference's fall sports, I choose to look for a bright spot. Here's my thought:

Step 1: All remaining P5 conferences see the light and the benefit to proceeding as set forth herein, and cancel fall sports.

Step 2: We get serious on a national scale about shutting down the virus. Get to a point where we have only a few thousand cases per day across the nation.

Step 3: Revamp schedules of all P5 teams, with 6 conference and 2 nonconference games (must be against another P5) for a total of 8 regular season games.

Step 4: At conclusion of the abbreviated season, top 12 ranked teams (12 due to more limited bodies of work, thereby increasing uncertainty, so gotta open it up a bit) go into a playoff, with teams 1-4 having an open week while teams 5-12 play each other to get 4 survivors, who then face teams 1-4 in the following week, and so on, until the championship in playoff week 4.

No bowl games, just the 12-team, 11 game, 4 week playoff.

Do this with a early January kickoff, and we're done by the end of March. It would be different, but everything about this year is different. There's no normal this year, but this would be a damn good alternative, IMO.

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Wednesday War Room

Today I mentioned something about a coming change. What does this change look like? I cannot know for sure, and not being an attorney, I cannot be sure exactly how that change can mesh with Title IX, but here are some thoughts not included.

- I think that men's basketball and FBS football will break from the NCAA and create their own associations

- I think in the end the agreement will be that the university's will still fund scholarship, training table and everything that they do now.

- What will be different? I think all television and bowl revenue will go into a single pot and will be shared with schools and players and distributed evenly. I think (and this is where a Title IX legal specialist would have to step in because I am not confident that this can happen) that the separate College Football Association would be a private entity and would thereby be able to disburse a share of the money to players without it violating Title IX.

- I believe that the association would likely provide the health insurance for all players (thereby reducing some of the cost associated with university's covering scholarships)

- There would absolutely be some form of a players union in this structure.

Is this going to happen in the next year? Probably not. But I think that change is going to come and it is going to come quicker than it otherwise would have. I have heard that a large enough number of players are considering opting out for 2020; enough that it would essentially force the remaining conferences to shut down entirely for the season -- there will be a concerted effort to create a form of players association in the coming months.

Anyway, here is today's article: Wednesday War Room: 8/12/2020

Is it possible to save the season?

Let's leave out whether this is or is not a disease which requires extreme measures for the moment because that is a rather pointless and circular debate which tends to lead nowhere. Based on the player requirements to compete in 2020, Covid is a very legitimate issue.

With that assumption, let's look at all that must be done:

- Practice and play in 'bubbles' In other words, all players practicing must have no outside contact. No in-person classes, no weekends and mom's, no flights home, no parties with friends.

- That means every player at every school must be in that bubble. Walk-ons, redshirts, etc.

- All coaches and support staff would also have to be in that bubble.

-Travel would have to be in that bubble, i.e., no commercial flights.

- Every player, at every school would have to be tested weekly.

-Every coach at every school would have to be tested weekly.

-All support staff personnel would have to be tested weekly.

-If any of the players, coaches or support staff leave the bubble, they have to quarantine for 14 days before rejoining.

- If a player tests positive, then the team has to quarantine separately for 14 days (which also means no practice, no games during that time).

- This would have to be agreed upon by every school in the conference.

-The costs would have to be equally distributed among all schools

These are just the things off the top of my head. Can a system like the NBA's work? Sure, if conferences or the NCAA are willing to shell out tens of millions of dollars to make this all happen.

Ashton’s Eatins and English’s Garden

I saw a photo of a couple of the food carts in the new Hayward Field stadium. Great names!

Speaking of which, what if we don’t have basketball or football and the return to Oregon sports coincides with the opening of the new track stadium? I would imagine that the excitement to just see a live Oregon sporting event will make the opening even more of a big ticket event. There is a buzz building.

#Wewanttoplay #weareunited

Love these player movements this fear mongering has created. Fighting back against all the media that want sports canceled and all the people scared to move on with life while the virus is around. Backing them into a corner, they've had no choice but to come together with open minds and open hearts, to fight the fear mongers. Wild, wild time in college football but I'm afraid theres too many powers against them. Proud of this generation.
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