Decoy73

OK, I'll be more specific. If it had come down to the wire between NU and a couple other schools this fall or later this summer and he picked let's say Florida or OSU, I would have been a little more bummed by this. But he chose Minnesota, seemingly out of the blue. This just tells me something's off with this. Now as far as my uneducated assessment: Is he a good player? Yes. Does he need to get bigger physically? YES, he's way to slight for D1 football. Would I like to see him in Lincoln? Yes, but not if he doesn't want to be there. It's been my impression that he's more enamored with Fl schools and that's OK. He needs to do what's best for him. But to commit to a traditionally mid-level Big Ten school based on just a virtual visit tells me that he is either not at all interested in NU, Florida isn't showing interest or NU has cooled on him. I have no idea which, but even as fast as he is, it's not going to change the trajectory of NU football one bit if he comes or not. I get the whole "lock down your borders" narrative, but didn't we do pretty well with that last cycle? We only want the one's who want to play at NU. Maybe Avante will end up at NU eventually, but my feelings won't change. He needs to get bigger and maintain his speed. Hopefully that can happen for him wherever he ends up.

I didn't say he wasn't good. These type of assumptions are annoying as hell.

Gee that's funny I don't recall saying he's not good.

Here we go how?

Having watched every Westside home football game the past two seasons, I’m not upset about this Minnesota commitment at all and I recommend that you not be either.

I usually respect what Dr Fauci says, but really? Sequester the College Football student athletes just for the sake of our entertainment? I can see it for the pro’s, but not college students. Just not right.

Pretty bad, but not really surprising. Takeaways: never trust China never trust Ultra-rich business owners or their companies

I think our social distancing efforts are working so well, reaching 60% herd immunity by fall seems optimistic. Time will tell though. I agree with you on the importance of antibody testing. I just can’t imagine it being available on a large enough scale to allow for football. As you mentioned, we still can’t test at the level we want.

Good post and exactly why we aren’t near ready to “open up “. I think Gov Ricketts realizes this and will do the best for our state, despite what the orange crybaby in the White House says.

Drugs are just treatment which may make an infection less severe. Even their widespread availability won’t be an acceptable reason to loosen distancing to the extent required of football games. Plus they don’t work for everyone and adverse effects can be problematic. It’s kind of like why the availability of Tamiflu is not a reason to skip the seasonal influenza vaccine. I’m pretty confident saying that vaccination or widespread herd immunity is the only way. And both are very unlikely anytime soon.

Fans in attendance are out of the question, IMO. So to have a season with just players, coaches and staff they would need to be either sequestered from the outside world(ain’t happening) or essentially daily testing (considering where we are now this seems not feasible) and this would have to be regulated in such a way to assure compliance at every institution—a logistical nightmare. Plus think of the legal ramifications if a player(s) were to get sick and have a bad outcome. It sucks, but I just can’t fathom how they can make a 12 game season work. Maybe they’ll get creative and do a few pay-per-view scrimmages or something. For those of you that predicted the 12 game season would happen, I’m very curious to know how you think it could be done.

By “cure”, I’m assuming you mean treatment as a cure for a viral infection is extraordinarily unlikely. Treatment as a general rule, if it will even exist in this case , doesn’t work for everyone and can cause other adverse effects in some. It’s important to realize that the discovery of a vaccine is just the first of many necessary steps. It still has to be proven safe and effective. That takes time even if streamlined. And after all that it has to be manufactured in large quantities, marketed, distributed, administered. We can’t even get enough testing and likely won’t anytime soon. I’m sorry, but barring some unprecedented breakthroughs, I wouldn’t be to optimistic about winter sports. Like I said, though, the “all hands on deck “ approach the world is taking could do some amazing things and surprise us. I’m just trying to keep it real.

Yes I’m glad coach Cook is saying this although it’s unlikely at this point that the 2020 football season can be saved. Just my opinion and I hate to be a Debby Downer, but unless something happens like the virus mutates into a less virulent form (possible)or we somehow discover an effective treatment that can be widely available in a short amount of time (unlikely) I just can’t imagine team sports until a vaccine is found to be safe, effective and produced in large enough quantities to, again be widely available. Which could mean that a year from now, we’re wondering if the 2021 FB season will happen. Something that could also help the situation would be for “herd” immunity or “acquired” immunity from exposure to the virus ends up being long lasting. I fear a vaccine could be at least a year or two away still. Who knows though, with all hands on deck, maybe it’s possible to speed up these somewhat pessimistic timelines. Widespread testing wouldn’t hurt either.

We don't understand to works of God. Period. Who was the last one to at least somewhat understand God? Jesus? Muhammed? Joseph Smith? I dunno. I chose to go with Jesus. You may choose differently and that's Okay. It's how I choose to find comfort with my faith during times like this because nowhere does it say in the New Testament (or the Old Testament for that all I know) that God will always prevent these things from happening to us. It's why comments like "if their was a God, this would never have happened" don't hold water to me.

Complete nonsense. Obama and Biden not only acknowledged the swine flu, but they actually did something about it instead of dismissing and downplaying it repeatedly like Trump has with COVID. And know that he finally is forced to acknowledge it, he picks fights with Governors, berates reporters and yes as you mentioned, blames Obama. Trump is worthless, Joe. I think deep down you know that, but for some reason will never admit it.

Peace to you as well. I had to take a moment, have a beer and then return to this downward spiraling discussion. It seems I was getting a bit defensive. Something I try to avoid. And I apologize if I wasn't clear with my original comments related to the supplies be sent to China. But do you ever run across a topic that kind of "hits close to home" or at least is somewhat relevant to your career? That's what happened here with me. My profession of 20+ years is hospital based and I drew some parallels here. Maybe I shouldn't have, but nonetheless here we are. Pretty much every week I am involved at least in some way with the prospect of loaning or borrowing "supplies" related to my profession to other hospitals in the area. It''s just what you do and its a good system of sharing for the good of patients everywhere. However in the case of shortages or very high use, my hospital and others generally will not loan out any "supplies" because our number one priority is our patients. Of course there are always exceptions in extreme circumstances, but generally reserve our supplies for our patient in times such as this. In this scenario the American people are "our patients" and China is the "other hospital." We would love to help them, but not at the peril of our own people. Now it is likely that the administration didn't foresee our shortages of supplies a month later and that was a huge mistake on their part. Isn't that what the CDC is supposed to do? Run simulations of what will happen in case an outbreak or endemic turns into a pandemic and then assure we are adequately prepared. It was foolish for them to not think this wouldn't spread like wildfire from a country as populated and connected to the world like China is. So my whole beef with all this is that they didn't make sure we were going to be adequately supplied before sending out 17 tons of masks and gowns, etc. It was coming here--just a matter of when. Any epidemiologist or infectious disease expert worth their salt at the CDC surely would know that. What was the root of this failure then? The CDC dropping the ball? Were they even involved (with Trump you never know)? Was Trump out golfing and still in his denial mode that this was going to all go away? So yes helping other countries is almost always a good thing, but we need to take care of our own first.

I said what I meant to say and I really don’t know how it Is that difficult to understand. How you interpret that is on you I guess.

I hate to prolong this futile discussion, but... Did someone say this?

My original post on this is below. When did I say it wasn’t good to help other countries? I’m all for helping other countries, but take care of your own first. This confirms the denial this administration had over a potential pandemic. Cluelessness at its finest.

Exactly. And that’s my whole point from my original post on this. We failed on the preparation part and that was likely do the administration’s ignorance.

So you’re saying it’s ok to send them supplies when we don’t have enough of said supplies should it reach us?

The issue is sending it while lacking the foresight to make sure you are prepared yourself, which clearly we were not. That’s my point. And this is China. Not some much less traveled Middle East (MERS) or African (Ebola) country. To think that it wasn’t going spread fast with all the commerce going through China is pure idiocy.

I agree. About a month ago I posted concerns on another thread about COVID threatening the sellout streak and FB season. I got a face palm and essentially a dismissal in response. Makes you want to go back and say I TOLD YOU SO.

I’m all for helping other countries, but take care of your own first. This confirms the denial this administration had over a potential pandemic. Cluelessness at its finest.

Just some kind of "leadership" we have here.... https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/03/13/coronavirus-questions-answered-town-hall-mh-orig.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus/ ..."the governor of Washington", "the woman in Michigan"... How any self-respecting woman could, in their right mind, vote for this man just blows my mind. I can honestly say I am embarrassed to be a citizen of the country that elected this piece of garbage as POTUS.