I am officially announcing that I am entering the race for President of the United States. I will run on the CFBUA (College Football Über Alles) ticket, and my platform will be single issue focused: saving the 2020 CFB season. Admittedly, if elected, I won't take office until it's too late to do anything about the 2020 CFB season, but I'm not really in it to win it. Rather, I'm in it to shift the center of the debate more toward my ultimate goal: saving the 2020 CFB season.
My message is tiered, with the first part being getting everyone to accept that the 2020 CFB season simply is NOT going to happen as scheduled. Period. And we shouldn't try to cobble together some semblance of a season with wacky schedules that will be rife with forfeitures and situations where multiple important players or coaches are absent for 2-3 week stretches. Just accept that. Now.
Part two is to agree that the 2020 CFB season happen, in full, with schedules as they are in every respect EXCEPT dates. Instead, the 2020 CFB season will kick off on the first Saturday of December, and played mostly in 2021.
Which brings me to tier 3: to get to tier 2, we start today, 6 months before my inauguration, with serious, uniform, nationwide mitigation and suppression measures. We do the hard work of shutting down like most of us did in March and April (only to later throw away almost all our gains except in the then hardest hit regions of the country). We test the bejeezus out of the population . . . EVERYWHERE, and we identify, isolate, and trace. We're only as good as the worst state, so again, we do this everywhere.
In a month, cases are trending down, and positive test percentages are under 8%. In two months, cases are down even further, and positivity is below 5%. By late September or early October, we're looking at fewer than 5,000 new cases per day nationwide, test positivity around 2%, and are now fully ready to re-open safely. Not fully, but enough for most things to take place. CFB players report for camp in early November, as new daily cases have fallen further, and almost none of them contract COVID over the course of the season. No staff fall ill with it. No overweight, hypertensive, diabetic, or older coaches die from it. The season progresses through March, with bowl games and the CFP occurring in the first week of April. A national champion is crowned by mid-April, and there's no need for an asterisk next to the winner's entry.
This CAN be done. This shoulda already been done, but we ****ed up. It's not too late.
Oh, and this works for society as a whole too, but I'm only in it for the football.
Thank you for your support.
My message is tiered, with the first part being getting everyone to accept that the 2020 CFB season simply is NOT going to happen as scheduled. Period. And we shouldn't try to cobble together some semblance of a season with wacky schedules that will be rife with forfeitures and situations where multiple important players or coaches are absent for 2-3 week stretches. Just accept that. Now.
Part two is to agree that the 2020 CFB season happen, in full, with schedules as they are in every respect EXCEPT dates. Instead, the 2020 CFB season will kick off on the first Saturday of December, and played mostly in 2021.
Which brings me to tier 3: to get to tier 2, we start today, 6 months before my inauguration, with serious, uniform, nationwide mitigation and suppression measures. We do the hard work of shutting down like most of us did in March and April (only to later throw away almost all our gains except in the then hardest hit regions of the country). We test the bejeezus out of the population . . . EVERYWHERE, and we identify, isolate, and trace. We're only as good as the worst state, so again, we do this everywhere.
In a month, cases are trending down, and positive test percentages are under 8%. In two months, cases are down even further, and positivity is below 5%. By late September or early October, we're looking at fewer than 5,000 new cases per day nationwide, test positivity around 2%, and are now fully ready to re-open safely. Not fully, but enough for most things to take place. CFB players report for camp in early November, as new daily cases have fallen further, and almost none of them contract COVID over the course of the season. No staff fall ill with it. No overweight, hypertensive, diabetic, or older coaches die from it. The season progresses through March, with bowl games and the CFP occurring in the first week of April. A national champion is crowned by mid-April, and there's no need for an asterisk next to the winner's entry.
This CAN be done. This shoulda already been done, but we ****ed up. It's not too late.
Oh, and this works for society as a whole too, but I'm only in it for the football.
Thank you for your support.
