Edit: BIG TEN REVOTE AS EARLY AS THIS FRIDAY!
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Hmm thats a real tough catagory. So many worthy fan basses to choose from. Iowa, Rutgers, Michigan
Not to get ahead of things, but if 9 teams do play and the rest sit the season out, how does the conference share the revenue this year? Everybody get their fair share or just the teams that play? Should be interesting.
JMO but you are reading way more into those posts than what is actually there.
This is correct. Remember, back in April testing was not as easily available as it is now. The only people getting tested back in April were those people reporting symptoms. People were actually being asked to NOT go get tested.... to ONLY go get tested IF you had symptoms. The assumptions that there were not a-symptomatic people back in April is not feasible. Of course there were a-symptomatic people in April, but they were not being tested. Now, EVERYONE can go get tested just to get tested. You do not need a reason, and you do not have to report symptoms. You simply pull into a testing center. So yes. If the testing were being done back in April as it is being done now, then this would not appear to be a surge.
April doesn’t matter now because those aren’t active cases any longer. In the past several weeks, Iowa has more infection that NJ over the same period. Yes, NJ has been hit harder than Iowa in total, but Iowa is currently in a worse spot that NJ.
Iowa looks the worst today in terms of cases per 100,000 of all the B1G states.
Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
www.nytimes.com
Here are the positivity rates for Big Ten states as of yesterday:
NJ 1%
MI 2%
OH 3%
Il 4%
PA 5%
MD 5%
IN 9%
WI 9%
MN 9%
NE 10%
IA 19%
The students in Iowa City don't represent the state. Iowa people are good people.
I could see a split amount.
Ie if you play you get x - if you don't you get y - with the difference being the travel/hotel (for home game), and operating expenses for hosting game in stadium
Keep in mind - our revenue is increased by MD being in conference - even without them playing - so it will be hard to keep the full revenue from them
It would appear as though they have figured out who to test. Coincidentally, they have one of the lowest mortality rates.
My opinion of Iowa fans stems from both football and wrestling. Sure, there are terrible fans from all schools and but I don't think any school has a combination of football+wrestling as bad as Iowa.
Poltergeist-19 is nothing to mess with .
This is currently, not overall. It is the current hot spot. The state, like the southern states, is tone deaf.
There already is billions in aid available via the CARES act to pay for COVID-related expenses. The $ has been distributed to states and the states are having a hard time spending it all.
Not so sure about your metaphor - if someone in his close proximity is cooking bacon, will the wind even matter???
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Unofficial poll - which is the bigger blunder? How the B1G has handled fall sports this year, or how the PSU BOT handled Sandusky?
Unofficial poll - which is the bigger blunder? How the B1G has handled fall sports this year, or how the PSU BOT handled Sandusky?
It's being reported in the CDT (it's behind a paywall) that Dr Sebastinelli says "that cadriac MRI scans revealed that roughly 30-35 percent of Big Ten athletes who tested positive for C19 appeared to have myocarditis"
The use of roughly and appeared make this comment somewhat unusual, to me at least.
The use of roughly and appeared make this comment somewhat unusual, to me at least.
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This is a good bit higher than the results the OSU doctor discovered (and was reported in the NYT):
Daniels, the director of sports cardiology at Ohio State, had also been busy, working to publish a three-month study whose preliminary findings were presented to Pac-12 and Big Ten leaders before they shut down football earlier this month. Daniels said that cardiac M.R.I.s, an expensive and sparingly used tool, revealed an alarmingly high rate of myocarditis — heart inflammation that can lead to cardiac arrest with exertion — among college athletes who had recovered from the coronavirus.
The survey found myocarditis in close to 15 percent of athletes who had the virus, almost all of whom experienced mild or no symptoms, Daniels added, perhaps shedding more light on the uncertainties about the short- and long-term effects the virus may have on athletes.
Opinion | Covid-19 Is Creating a Wave of Heart Disease (Published 2020)
Emerging data show that some of the coronavirus’s most potent damage is inflicted on the heart.
The survey found myocarditis in close to 15 percent of athletes who had the virus, almost all of whom experienced mild or no symptoms, Daniels added, perhaps shedding more light on the uncertainties about the short- and long-term effects the virus may have on athletes.
Opinion | Covid-19 Is Creating a Wave of Heart Disease (Published 2020)
Emerging data show that some of the coronavirus’s most potent damage is inflicted on the heart.www.nytimes.com
very good and alarming article about Dr. Warraich, cardiologist
thanks.
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It seems the B1G is not only concerned about the potential issues surrounding COVID for the season, but the long term effects as well (and potential lawsuits?). Says to me the B1G doesn't think they can adequately protect their players from getting the virus - SEC, ACC, and BigXII either a) are more confident in their ability to protect players, and/or b) aren't as concerned about long term harm (to their institutions) if players contract it or suffer the effects of it down the road.
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If true, I wonder why the B1G doesn't appear to have the same level of concern about the hundreds of thousands of "ordinary" students that they have brought back to their universities? Or, do they have some top secret medical information that myocarditis is only a potential long term issue for athletes? Hmmmm....
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Anyone have a link of the interview? Dodd and Thamel have been enemy #1 and #1A when it comes to shutting this thing down 100%.
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It's a good point - what's the difference in liability between a scholarship athlete and a student? Is there a difference? If an engineering student contracts COVID and has myocarditis, how much does it impact his future earnings? Say the same thing for someone like Micah Parsons - big difference? No difference? Lots of unanswerables but B1G has played things extremely safe so far. Will be interesting to see if they change course because of the promise of more access to testing kits.
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Remember the list of demands the B1G players asked for before they would play? Can you say fear of class action?
Well yea it should be a concern for all but I get why there is more concern for an athlete.
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