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The ACC will delay the start of competition for all fall sports until at least Sept. 1
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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 757095" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>I understand the need some on this thread have to bash the B1G. But, not unlike bashing the dawgs we sometimes attribute far more mendacity than actual facts support. The justification may be that it “fits a pattern.” The only fly in the ointment of that reasoning is that in spite of “patterns” each individual case of questionable behavior is still a unique event. We hate the dawgs, we hate the B1G, but not every attribution of evil intent on their part is valid.</p><p></p><p>Covid 19 is itself a unique event. If you had told me back when the president was predicting 15 cases that we would have closer to 250,000 cases by the end of the year I would have had lots of questions. Likewise if you had told me that during the first spike in the disease that the entire NBA could be kept virus free I would not have believed it.</p><p></p><p>What we now know is that having a plan and following strict protocols can actually work while resuming a certain level of activity. I suspect that what the B1G learned from watching other football programs is that it is possible to keep close ties on the team and keep everyone safe. Other schools and conferences ran the experiment first, some quite successfully and some with disastrous results. Lots of data points were collected from which the B1G was able to learn. Schools like Alabama, who already kept players under lock and key long before covid, seem to be set up to have good outcomes both on the field and off the field. Other schools maybe not so much.</p><p></p><p>The only question I have about the B1G decision is how will this play out with winter, more indoor exposure to groups of people and a second wave that looks quite threatening? One day we will see clearly what worked and what didn’t. Meanwhile the B1G decision seems no more suspect than the SEC and ACC decision to plow ahead during the first wave when we had less data to make a decision. It certainly seemed risky at the time. Did they guess right? Was it the money? We can speculate for ever but again we will not know till this season is over who had the best outcomes either on a team level or a conference level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 757095, member: 1640"] I understand the need some on this thread have to bash the B1G. But, not unlike bashing the dawgs we sometimes attribute far more mendacity than actual facts support. The justification may be that it “fits a pattern.” The only fly in the ointment of that reasoning is that in spite of “patterns” each individual case of questionable behavior is still a unique event. We hate the dawgs, we hate the B1G, but not every attribution of evil intent on their part is valid. Covid 19 is itself a unique event. If you had told me back when the president was predicting 15 cases that we would have closer to 250,000 cases by the end of the year I would have had lots of questions. Likewise if you had told me that during the first spike in the disease that the entire NBA could be kept virus free I would not have believed it. What we now know is that having a plan and following strict protocols can actually work while resuming a certain level of activity. I suspect that what the B1G learned from watching other football programs is that it is possible to keep close ties on the team and keep everyone safe. Other schools and conferences ran the experiment first, some quite successfully and some with disastrous results. Lots of data points were collected from which the B1G was able to learn. Schools like Alabama, who already kept players under lock and key long before covid, seem to be set up to have good outcomes both on the field and off the field. Other schools maybe not so much. The only question I have about the B1G decision is how will this play out with winter, more indoor exposure to groups of people and a second wave that looks quite threatening? One day we will see clearly what worked and what didn’t. Meanwhile the B1G decision seems no more suspect than the SEC and ACC decision to plow ahead during the first wave when we had less data to make a decision. It certainly seemed risky at the time. Did they guess right? Was it the money? We can speculate for ever but again we will not know till this season is over who had the best outcomes either on a team level or a conference level. [/QUOTE]
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