Howe: Hawkeyes About to Be Part of Science Experiment

[KCRC]

As I wrote in my column linked in the OP, which you guys all have read , Ken O'Keefe will be 67 in August. KF will be 65 in August. Fran just turned 61. Kirk Speraw will be 64 in August.

According to official state records to date, 87 percent of the deaths in Iowa are people 61 and older.

There are older people that will be involved in the experiment. It's not just the players.

Rob, it sounds like you are advocating that Brian take the reigns this year as a trial run???

 

[Hawknigh]

No one really goes to college to learn unless you're a grad/post grad student in a highly specialized or scientific field that needs lab time.

You go to college to get a piece of paper; how that happens doesn't really matter to most students. Let's be honest, most of us here with bachelors degrees learned what we need in our careers on the job.

Universities (even NW) make their money off the 4 year wonders like me who go into business, liberal arts, communications, etc. where they're just looking for that transcript that says they finished. NW doesn't pay it's bills with masters and PhD students, the cash cows are the undergrads who want to get their piece of paper so they can get off the farm and compete with 500 other schleps for a job in Chicago, KC, Denver, or wherever to pay their $180,000 loans. If you really asked most of them they don't give a shit how they get their ticket.

What Fry writes is painfully true. Schools are mostly selling undergraduate degrees to those qualified to be admitted.

 

[kicker22]

What Fry writes is painfully true. Schools are mostly selling undergraduate degrees to those qualified to be admitted.

Yeah I've always looked as college as a means of paying for 4+ years years of networking and making personnel connections that might get you somewhere later in life. The education always seemed secondary.

 

[hawkdrummer1]

We just had a big experiment up here in Mpls. If huge numbers of people aren't struck down and hospitalized with C-19 over the next few weeks, well...

 

[Robowe]

Not Iowa, but ... let's see what happens.

 

[RobHowe]

 

[RobHowe]

 

[NorthKCHawk]

If schools cannot get a couple hundred kids onto campus, how are they going to handle 20,000?

If schools are going to allow a handful of infections to shut things down, then what is the point of even trying?

You either need to recognize that COVID is going to make its way around campuses and teams, and certainly do your best to practice good hygiene, but in the end, you will move forward with sports and classes under the belief that healthy young kids who contract the virus are highly likely to be fine;

or you need to shut it all down now.

 

[Robowe]

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...miga-tests-positive-coronavirus-tulsa-protest

 

[SpiderRico]

If schools cannot get a couple hundred kids onto campus, how are they going to handle 20,000?

If schools are going to allow a handful of infections to shut things down, then what is the point of even trying?

You either need to recognize that COVID is going to make its way around campuses and teams, and certainly do your best to practice good hygiene, but in the end, you will move forward with sports and classes under the belief that healthy young kids who contract the virus are highly likely to be fine;

or you need to shut it all down now.

Exactly. Over 80% of the 600+ people at the Tyson plant that tested positive were asymptomatic. Pretty sure, unless a college kid has diabetes or some sort of compromised immune system, that they'll be fine.

We have to learn to live with it because it ain't going away.

 

[DDThompson]

Missouri Health Department states no new cases of Wuhan virus from Lake of the Ozarks Memorial Day pool parties.

 

[RobHowe]

 

[SpiderRico]

Of course they didn't exhibit symptoms because it's now a known fact (supported by CDC data) that over 80% of people that have COVID-19 are asymptomatic.

Again, we're going to have to live with the virus. Ensure older/high risk individuals social distance and, if they are so inclined, wear a mask. For the rest of society, it's time to get on with our lives and practice better hygiene.

 

[RobHowe]

The Iowa football team doctor was on local radio here yesterday. He said he's concerned about KF, KOK, Niemann and others in the program in their 60s.

 

[SpiderRico]

The Iowa football team doctor was on local radio here yesterday. He said he's concerned about KF, KOK, Niemann and others in the program in their 60s.

Can anyone other than the S&C staff even have any contact with them until later in the summer?

 

[Robowe]

 

[Robowe]

 

[Northside Hawk]

We just had a big experiment up here in Mpls. If huge numbers of people aren't struck down and hospitalized with C-19 over the next few weeks, well...

And of course it wasn't just Minneapolis. It was everywhere and anywhere.

Iowa's recovery rate, by the way, has surpassed 60 percent.

 

[haydensly]

So this should be business as usual for Purdue, right?

 

[NorthKCHawk]

So this should be business as usual for Purdue, right?

Excellent quip.