Howe: Craving Answers During Pandemic Creating Mixed Messages
- Thread starter RobHowe
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There are mostly unknowns, anyone who can speak with certainty is a fool.
Will parents encourage their children to go back to college with 60,000 or more students and faculty, many of which come from China, India, Italy, New York, etc. to room together in a building, attend lectures together, with the same ventilation systems, heat and AC systems recirculating the same virus infected air for others to inhale? How many?
Who will be the person (s) to pull the trigger and declare that yes, we are going forward, for example, with a football season, when there is a rather high risk that many of these young men and women, entertaining us and keeping the budget afloat, might die or be damaged for life. Would you be "that person" to pull the trigger for cash to keep the bloated salaries and benefits flowing?
Times are changing...a paradigm shift.
Will parents encourage their children to go back to college with 60,000 or more students and faculty, many of which come from China, India, Italy, New York, etc. to room together in a building, attend lectures together, with the same ventilation systems, heat and AC systems recirculating the same virus infected air for others to inhale? How many?
Who will be the person (s) to pull the trigger and declare that yes, we are going forward, for example, with a football season, when there is a rather high risk that many of these young men and women, entertaining us and keeping the budget afloat, might die or be damaged for life. Would you be "that person" to pull the trigger for cash to keep the bloated salaries and benefits flowing?
Times are changing...a paradigm shift.
Fryowa
Administrator
I know it isn't possible for you because your livelihood is based on sports, but I've personally taken the attitude of tuning out when it comes to reading the tea leaves. My personal guess is that there won't be sports, but that's just a shot in the dark; I have no idea what they'll do.
So my take on it is that I'll go through my summer with the "see what happens in September" angle.
I do think though that Emmert's comments probably hold the most weight.
One other aspect that we don't hear much about is government intervention. We've heard people like Newsome say no fans if it does happen, but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility to see government folks step in and say "no sports period" if things don't get better by then.
Fryowa
Administrator
Also, and if you don't want to share that's totally understandable, but how are you and your family doing with all of this going on? It has to be tough when your income depends on sports content taking place. My workplace falls under the super broad "essential" category, but I don't envy your position at all right now.
I hope you're dealing with the stress of it ok. I'd imagine you and guys like Dochterman, Emmert, Hlas, etc. bounce the topic around from time to time. Hopefully that's at least an avenue to vent about it. I know I'd need one.
Good article Rob. To keep it sport related, I think there are some analogies with the game of football, the virus and life in general ...
1) A football is not round ... it takes some crazy bounces.
2) Football is a complex game, it would be even more complex if we kept moving the goal posts.
3) A swirling wind plays havoc with the punting game.
4) There is a chance of injury on every single play.
1) A football is not round ... it takes some crazy bounces.
2) Football is a complex game, it would be even more complex if we kept moving the goal posts.
3) A swirling wind plays havoc with the punting game.
4) There is a chance of injury on every single play.
Fryowa
Administrator
5) Confucious say...Man who go to bed with itchy butt wake up with smelly fingers.
RobHowe
Administrator
I talk about it more on the pods, but we are doing well. Thanks for asking.
I'm in contact with other members of the media pretty regularly. Not having spring football, no baseball and having a recruiting dead period extended has changed what we can report on, but May and June are usually pretty quiet in this business.
If football season gets pushed back, that's when things would become a lot different.
okeefe4prez
Well-Known Member
Isn't that the asswipe who basically claimed that he worked for Tressel? How the hell do people like this get put into decision making positions?
Chickenlounge
Well-Known Member
Once you hit a certain level, you begin to fail upwards instead of downwards.
RobHowe
Administrator
SpiderRico
Well-Known Member
Universities are worse than politics when it comes to the Peter Principle.
SteveGarvey1
Well-Known Member
Society may have out-kicked its coverage on this issue.
We don't want to dance in the end zone if the numbers start to go down.
It might be time for a Hail Mary pass on this.
There's three more for you.
homes
Well-Known Member
Submitted for your consideration:
There's a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going around.
Minor point. Cal, USC, and UCLA are not part of the California State University system. Cal and UCLA are part of the University of California system and USC is private.
https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-syste...editorial-style-guide/Pages/campus-names.aspx
Regardless, it is big news for the Cal State system to make this announcement. It probably reflects the general sentiment in the state capital and may be an indicator of what's to come for the rest of the state's universities.
https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-syste...editorial-style-guide/Pages/campus-names.aspx
Regardless, it is big news for the Cal State system to make this announcement. It probably reflects the general sentiment in the state capital and may be an indicator of what's to come for the rest of the state's universities.
60,000 ???? That university of Phoenix?
Ah yes, the Full House school.
