Pa fall sports expected to start on time.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Why are most schools planning to open in less than two months? Surely, they know what's going to happen when you put thousands of drunk (and high), hormone-raging 18-21 year-olds back on these campuses. Will there be social distancing enforcers at the Alpha Beta house or in college bars (no chance)? How clean will the campus dining spots -- largely run by 19-year-old students -- be kept? Better yet, what if they do go online only? How many students drop out and say they'll be back when things are normal (and then never come back, or go somewhere else)? Opening is a gamble but they can't afford not to roll the dice. Parts of the country will play football. Some won't.

What's it going to cost West Chester if they cancel the football season there and 60 players enter the transfer portal within 24 hours? I can guarantee that will happen. That's a whole lot of enrollment coin for a team of alleged walk-ons -- not to mention it would set the program back years.

Many schools are going to play the PR game and say all the right things. Reality is they can't control students when they aren't in their buildings. College life is going back to college life the moment these kids come back to town. Who knows. Maybe nothing drastic happens. Athletes would be given the opportunity to be kept safe -- if they follow protocols and make smart decisions off the field. And, ... that's a real big freakin' IF. Boys will be boys.

Taking the field is a real big decision. It's not an easy one. We keep mentioning student-athletes on here. Regular students may be at more risk than athletes. Then again, we're all at risk. Is a football player at any more risk than the cashier at Wal-Mart? Probably not.

ESPN ran a great piece a couple days ago and it centered around former Michigan QB Devon Gardner. He said football is the means to college for so many of these players. And, playing today is a risk most would easily take. He said he'd have never got in to Michigan if he wasn't a football player -- or, even if he could get in, could have never afforded it.

The only certainty is you can't stop time. Each hour that passes gets closer to August. I guess we'll know soon enough. We may even see some athletes who say they aren't going to take the chance and walk away from it. They'd just be replaced.

[WarriorVoice]

Sounds like that comment is all about the student athlete safety too. Give me a break. Your nothing but a political hack and phony.

Keepin' it real for over 55 years...You scored points for using a 4-syllable word in a sentence though...I'll be the first to admit I'm no fan of the man in the WH, but none of these posts about Covid-19 have been political. We need more testing to know who has the virus and who doesn't, we need more resources because hospitals ARE facing shortages all over the country. We need a virus before we can have ANY hope of herd immunity. None of that is politics, it's public health 101...If you want to look at it from an economic standpoint, what business can afford to have customers dying by the thousands every day?! From a political standpoint, since the virus seems to be more dangerous to older people, can POTUS afford to have older voters dying off? Now here's your challenge for today: try to read this post without moving your lips as you read it...GO!!!

The same guy who votes by mail, but says no on else should? I think it's the same guy...

Sounds like that comment is all about the student athlete safety too. Give me a break. Your nothing but a political hack and phony.

[WarriorVoice]

The same guy who votes by mail, but says no on else should? I think it's the same guy...

[WarriorVoice]

It's not being terrified of dying, it's trying to keep student-athletes safe. Always has been, always will be. From a community standpoint, it's about making sure that hospital beds aren't full of Covid patients, leaving none available for anyone else. These things are REAL. There's been a FIELD HOSPITAL inside ESU's fieldhouse since April!. I realize that MOST affected are older folks, but no one should be put at MORE risk, when it can be avoided easily. Name call all you like. That says more about you than anyone else.

[Wcball00]

Man, you just can't help showing everybody how much Class you have!

[Clydes 'N Rams]

Texting from under the bed. What a moron

Man, you just can't help showing everybody how much Class you have!

[WarriorVoice]

Herd immunity at work in the Northeastern U.S. which of course was the hardest hit region in the first wave? Maybe, maybe not.

Immunity is the biggest factor right now. Look at what happened to that kick azz martian invasion in the film "War of the Worlds." They romped for a few days and then were all killed off by our planet's germs and bacteria. It is all about immunity! But of course our science can't even confirm that for us.

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We've spent 3 months in quarantine. That's why our numbers are leveling off here in PA. I found out today my cousin and her husband have the virus. She's a nurse, but as of now, doesn't require hospitalization...

Get back to the Rock to finish your degree.

Texting from under the bed. What a moron

[Wcball00]

Quit the fear mongering. 99.96 percent of Americans are still alive. No football players testing positive needed to be hospitalized. Average age of people dying is 75. Young people not effected. The country is in big trouble from stupid thinking.

Get back to the Rock to finish your degree.

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

17 states are reporting higher hospitalizations, and 11 states set new records for daily cases. It MAY have subsided in the Northeast, but the rest of the country is in BIG trouble...

Herd immunity at work in the Northeastern U.S. which of course was the hardest hit region in the first wave? Maybe, maybe not.

Immunity is the biggest factor right now. Look at what happened to that kick azz martian invasion in the film "War of the Worlds." They romped for a few days and then were all killed off by our planet's germs and bacteria. It is all about immunity! But of course our science can't even confirm that for us.

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[iupgroundhog]

How about this? COVID-19 is going to continue to spread and probably at an increasing rate. It turns out we can't open up society and avoid a large increase in cases. This will be the pattern throughout the summer months. Then when schools open in the fall the spread will actually take on new life. It will be out of hand and we will have to consider reverting to a total shutdown. Then we get hit by the "second wave." Then the flu season sets in and worsens things all around. Then everybody is waiting for the public release of promising vaccines and the virus mutates, rendering the newly developed vaccines ineffective against the new strain. Millions of Americans die. That's fear-mongering. Unfortunately, it all could happen.

In the words of George Carlin, "Have a nice day."

[iupgroundhog]

The country is in big trouble from stupid thinking.

The country is in big trouble because it hasn't handled it well and continues to mishandle it.

A lot of that mishandling is directly related to the kind of thinking that you put forth.

"I told them to slow down the testing." Geez.

[iupgroundhog]

I'm not as concerned about the football players as I am the coaches, employees, and family members who are more susceptible to death from the virus. It takes one player to infect his unit who then all possibly infect others. An odd thing I've noticed from being on college campuses the last 20 years is that cleaning staff are the oldest employees.

The metric is not about individuals, it's about community. It's always been that way with this due to the level of transmissability.