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Ohio High Schools Can Play Football. Ohio State Can’t

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"High schools can play football in Ohio. Two NFL teams are gearing up to play. Even the University of Cincinnati can play. But Ohio State, the team around which the state revolves, cannot play fall football.

The governor’s reasoning came too late for Ohio State, whose conference pulled the plug on its fall season Aug. 11, then firmed up that “no football” stance by indicating that teams wouldn’t be welcome to stay in the Big Ten if they planned on trying to play outside of it.

DeWine was joined at the news conference announcing the high school decision by none other than a sports medicine physician from Ohio State, James Borchers, who also happens to be the football team’s head physician (and a former player for the Buckeyes).

Dr. Borchers declined to comment on the Big Ten decision or his school or state specifically. But he did say that generally, there could be factors influencing high schools’ decision to play—such as low infection rates in a rural area, and fewer requirements on their participation, such as extensive testing—even as colleges didn’t."

[I feel sorry for the Ohio St players. Probably the best team they've had in years, and they can't even play.]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ohio-high-schools-can-play-football-ohio-state-cant-11598798844?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1
 
Ohio State players are keeping busy with other activities.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/30/ohio-state-football-haskell-garrett-shot-face/
 
kemajic said:
Ohio State players are keeping busy with other activities.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/30/ohio-state-football-haskell-garrett-shot-face/
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Hmmm. That's pretty odd to say. :?
 
kemajic said:
Ohio State players are keeping busy with other activities.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/30/ohio-state-football-haskell-garrett-shot-face/
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Wouldn't have happened if Ohio St. had been preparing for its first game, as it should have been.
 
Swing states in the B1G:
• Iowa
• Minnesota
• Michigan
• Wisconsin
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Wisconsin

Swing states in the PAC-12:
• Colorado
 
Yukon said:
Swing states in the B1G:
• Iowa
• Minnesota
• Michigan
• Wisconsin
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Wisconsin

Swing states in the PAC-12:
• Colorado
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Arizona has become a swing state.
 
kemajic said:
Yukon said:
Swing states in the B1G:
• Iowa
• Minnesota
• Michigan
• Wisconsin
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Wisconsin

Swing states in the PAC-12:
• Colorado
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Arizona has become a swing state.
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Georgia, Texas and Florida
worried ?
 
kemajic said:
Ohio State players are keeping busy with other activities.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/30/ohio-state-football-haskell-garrett-shot-face/
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just like cheyney was...
 
Let the boys play. The Big 10, Pac 12 and others panicked several weeks ago. See the facts.

"We hate to be the bearer of good news, but here goes: The so-called second virus wave is receding and has been far less deadly than the first in the spring thanks to better therapies and government preparation.

But the U.S. seven-day rolling average of new cases has fallen by about 40% from its peak on July 25. Hospitalizations and deaths in hot spots peaked at about the same time in apparent contradiction to epidemiological models that have predicted two- to three-week lags between cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

Hospitalizations are down by 62% in Texas, 60% in Florida, 48% in Utah, 45% in California, and 44% in Louisiana from their peaks, which all occurred between July 21 and 24. Arizona’s hospitalizations began increasing in late May, a week or two earlier than in most states, and have fallen 78% since topping out July 12.

Arizona has made so much progress that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo removed it from his quarantine list last week. Notably, hospitalizations have been falling at about the same rate in Texas, Florida and Arizona as in the Northeast this spring.

Arizona, Florida and New York City have all recorded about the same number of cases per capita. New York City’s per capita death rate is about 5.6 times higher than Florida’s and four times higher than Arizona’s.

States also are doing a better job protecting their elderly and vulnerable populations, so there have been relatively fewer deaths in nursing homes. Florida with 21.5 million people has reported 4,759 nursing-home deaths, and California with 39.5 million has recorded 4,078 compared to New Jersey’s 6,752 (8.9 million) and Massachusetts's 5,903 (6.9 million)."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-virus-progress-report-11599001150?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
 
kemajic said:
A lot of whining about decisions already made.
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You give up too easily. I often don't take no for an answer. Looks like Ohio St. and its president is the same. This is current info.

"Ohio State president “very hopeful” Buckeyes will play football this fall"

"The Big Ten has postponed its fall football season, but the president of the university that houses the best team in the Big Ten isn’t giving up hope that they’ll play.

Ohio State President Kristina Johnson said on Tuesday that she voted against the conference’s decision to postpone the season, and she still believes it’s feasible to play fall football.

“We want to make sure our athletes get a shot because they’ve worked really hard and they deserve a shot to play,” Johnson told NBC4 in Columbus.

Johnson added that she means “late fall,” not that the Buckeyes could be on the field this month. But her comments, on the heels of President Trump yesterday encouraging the Big Ten to play, suggest that the Big Ten football season isn’t necessarily postponed for quite as long as it previously appeared. Big Ten football teams may be on the field in 2020."

https://sports.yahoo.com/ohio-state-president-very-hopeful-130419637.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANVWoMzmzxcpJrF_sDJziIBk9a6bebTABi9c2uoAnF3dyGIMH7b_NsBwZxXgR87r6rikidVqvl7hvOxitmph0ELHQ_OYjovmwoE5S5Me0z0wrLSBpQu26qyLv52QbjLBVl8OphDzmEsuRNYBlgue-apf8EyDd4u5KKZDD9B1pDKl
 
PlayerRep said:
kemajic said:
A lot of whining about decisions already made.
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You give up too easily. I often don't take no for an answer. Looks like Ohio St. and its president is the same. This is current info.

"Ohio State president “very hopeful” Buckeyes will play football this fall"

"The Big Ten has postponed its fall football season, but the president of the university that houses the best team in the Big Ten isn’t giving up hope that they’ll play.

Ohio State President Kristina Johnson said on Tuesday that she voted against the conference’s decision to postpone the season, and she still believes it’s feasible to play fall football.

“We want to make sure our athletes get a shot because they’ve worked really hard and they deserve a shot to play,” Johnson told NBC4 in Columbus.

Johnson added that she means “late fall,” not that the Buckeyes could be on the field this month. But her comments, on the heels of President Trump yesterday encouraging the Big Ten to play, suggest that the Big Ten football season isn’t necessarily postponed for quite as long as it previously appeared. Big Ten football teams may be on the field in 2020."

https://sports.yahoo.com/ohio-state-president-very-hopeful-130419637.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANVWoMzmzxcpJrF_sDJziIBk9a6bebTABi9c2uoAnF3dyGIMH7b_NsBwZxXgR87r6rikidVqvl7hvOxitmph0ELHQ_OYjovmwoE5S5Me0z0wrLSBpQu26qyLv52QbjLBVl8OphDzmEsuRNYBlgue-apf8EyDd4u5KKZDD9B1pDKl
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Yep. They made a lousy decision way too early and didn't consider the kids. Like every decision being made. Love to see these players, coaches and schools fight to play. I think they will play this fall as well. As they should.

Thank god some people are willing to fight for what they believe is right instead of giving up. Great to see.
 
[Where's the evidence that playing football this fall, will have any impact on the covid? See below.]

"The Failed Experiment of Covid Lockdowns

New data suggest that social distancing and reopening haven’t determined the spread."

"Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public health—first, in March and April, the lockdown of the economy to arrest the spread of the virus, and second, since mid-April, the reopening of the economy. The results are in. Counterintuitive though it may be, statistical analysis shows that locking down the economy didn’t contain the disease’s spread and reopening it didn’t unleash a second wave of infections.

Considering that lockdowns are economically costly and create well-documented long-term public-health consequences beyond Covid, imposing them appears to have been a large policy error. At the beginning, when little was known, officials acted in ways they thought prudent. But now evidence proves that lockdowns were an expensive treatment with serious side effects and no benefit to society.

Measuring from the start of the year to each state’s point of maximum lockdown—which range from April 5 to April 18—it turns out that lockdowns correlated with a greater spread of the virus. States with longer, stricter lockdowns also had larger Covid outbreaks. The five places with the harshest lockdowns—the District of Columbia, New York, Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts—had the heaviest caseloads.

But there’s no escaping the evidence that, at minimum, heavy lockdowns were no more effective than light ones, and that opening up a lot was no more harmful than opening up a little. So where’s the science that would justify the heavy lockdowns many public-health officials are still demanding?"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-failed-experiment-of-covid-lockdowns-11599000890?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
 
"Ravens coach wades in: "Free the Big Ten"

"John Harbaugh obviously has some inside information, and a vested interest. And the Ravens coach was willing to put himself out there, to advocate for his brother. Via Jamison Hensley of ESPN.com, Harbaugh encouraged the Big Ten (where his brother Jim coaches the University of Michigan) to return to playing football in the fall."

[Buckeye and Wolverine lives matter.]

Read in NBC Sports: https://apple.news/AdK3ldg3oSjSZd44kHbmGDg
 
"Iowa State will play football opener in empty stadium, reversing plan to allow 25,000 fans"

"Athletic Director Jamie Pollard said in a statement that the reversal was handed down by Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen after she received “feedback from the community.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/09/01/iowa-state-plans-allow-25000-fans-into-football-opener-even-though-iowa-is-covid-hotbed/?hpid=hp_hp-banner-low_iowastate-258pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
 
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