I know this is just early signees, but it’s odd having so few “skill position” players. When have we ever recruited no QBs or WRs? Not that we lack at those positions.
Just three or maybe four offensive players total today

Is it possible that any of this years class enrolls and plays this spring? JC transfers seem likely but even high school students often have enough credits to graduate prior to final semester.

My dad was in high school when the war started, played a season of JC basketball in 42, got drafted in 43, learned to drive a tank destroyer in North Africa in 43 then spent six months in combat or hospital in France before spending two months as a POW in Germany. He left the Army as a sergeant shortly before his 21st birthday and played another season of basketball at the JC.

What’s the eligibility rule for situations like this? A conference can’t have some team’s players using up a season of eligibility while others bank everyone for next year; it’s not a level playing field. All one way or the other. If a team chooses not to play the five year clock should still apply.

Page one of this thread had them both saying they committed on Twitter, which prompted Dr Mike’s reference to a beer and a dog

Thanks

Contrary to popular belief there are aspects of life that are not within our power to change. People get sick and die. My brother died in Denmark of cancer during the start of this epidemic, I think they would have maybe been willing to try a little more to save him except for the Covid appearance. My wife died here in the states, and her care was also disrupted by the Covid shutdown.

There are many reasons people die and many ways those causes of death might be impacted.
A recent study indicated that if everyone drank two cups of coffee a day, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved each year. Yet somehow there is no mass hysteria mandating coffee consumption.

We now know COVID isn’t going to kill 99.4% of the people who get it, it’s time to stop treating it as the apocalypse.

You can’t trust the number of cases comparing countries because they have different levels of testing.
Deaths Per million is useful but in comparison to where the country is on the infection curve. If you’ve had a lot of cases and the deaths are high that’s better than if you’ve had few cases and the deaths are high.
High Deaths and low cases may reflect how callous the society is to the elderly..
All the flare ups seem to die off on their own, lockdown or not. The population where there’s been a flare up is less vulnerable to future flare ups.
There is some percentage of infection or vaccination of the population that when it is reached will preclude spread of the virus. No one knows what that percentage is, because there is some preexisting immunity in the population. The combination of preexisting immunity plus the resistance people gain from exposure seems to bring the virus under control. That’s why it dies down in one area like Sweden or Italy and can still flare up later in a place like California.
The virus is too infectious for a society to hide from for an extended period; there is no way to do so and still function to provide the other needs of people.
If you are a vulnerable individual you should isolate until there is a vaccine. Society can’t afford to isolate people in general who face negligible risk.

The point is that California will catch up to Sweden over time. Unless we have a cure or a vaccine the virus will eventually infect roughly the same proportion of the population, no mater if you lockdown or not This is not a new observation, that’s how they described the “flattening the curve” When you flatten the curve you don’t lessen the area underneath the curve because it stretches out a longer time.
Score for August 20th: California 135 deaths Sweden 1. Sweden is dominating at the start of the second half.

PS - Sweden’s death rate is higher than it could be because they don’t usually send elderly to ICU. Scandinavians are practical about spending on young folks in preference to old,

Winter is coming
Sweden made the right choice

Countries that exposed more of the population in spring will have fewer deaths in coming months, You can see this already:
Sweden 8/20 1 death. California 8/20 135 deaths
Sweden has a quarter of California’s population

Lockdowns aren’t saving lives , just changing temporal distribution of deaths.

Understand that the virus is going to make it through populations eventually, the numbers above just indicate where the progression has been to this point. The virus now is killing Swedes at a single digit rate per day, and they haven’t killed their economy. They’re still going to school and playing sports.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of football players test positive after the Fall. They are not going to be isolated. I suspect they will go to parties. They will likely eat in communal settings or have the exposure to shopping etc, some may not be on campus but who knows how safe their living conditions will be. A lot of the students will catch it whether they play football or not. The argument that “ if it just saves one life” assumes that playing is riskier than the players self directed alternative.
Is it?

if teams don’t play in the spring, the same nightmare applies. I expect many teams won’t play in the spring either for health or other reasons including ticket revenue. So we’ll have some conferences who burn player elegibility and others who don’t, except perhaps the five years to play four may still apply.

Teams who wish to do so should play the games on their schedule that also wish to play.
Without full stadiums, little risk above what people face in other activities.
Whether the season is cancelled or not, some students/coaches/fans are going to catch COVID.
NCAA could say the limited season doesn’t cost a year of eligibility.
Issue shouldn’t require near unanimity of opinion between various colleges and politicians.

The new helmets look like Cal’s in the Davis game. If we have gold pants and navy blue Jerseys we’d have that look.
Movie, thanks for posting the link, we really looked good in the first quarter. Crawford was outstanding, with five catches and a pass completion.

Perhaps with the career Gilliam has had they figured he graduated.

It would be entertaining to watch intrasquad 7 man football with all the QBs and receivers on the team.

Plus he stays up on the latest news in medicine, including shining light in the lungs.
https://aytubio.com/healight/

I hope institutions don’t make a decision for a few months. Just withhold judgement until some clarity is possible. It is foolish to lock into a position at this point.
If schools go to all online, why do we need so many? We would only need five or ten. A rush to all online seems likely to be suicide for most schools.

We can’t know the death rate if we don’t know how many have had the disease, and we don’t yet. A USC survey indicates perhaps 4% of Los Angeles county has had it, which implies its about as lethal as the flu, but perhaps more contagious,
It’s fallacious to just divide deaths by positive tests unless you have tested everyone who had the disease.

We’ll know how to estimate how many have had the disease pretty soon once someone does a large random antibody test,