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The biggest problem is how to treat positive tests. Say it's Wednesday before OSU Michigan and a couple OSU players test positive. Cancel the game?

just hold out the 2 players

just hold out the 2 players

umm 

Right, but then you have to immediately re-test everyone - every player, coach, support staff, etc.  And I'd wait 3 weeks, with multiple clean tests before introducing them back with the team.


So we'd potentially have teams playing without random groupings of players.  If your team loses its QB and stud DT in a weak section of the schedule, cool.  Or if you lose a backup center and your 5th CB, so what?  But say you have a position group that has an outbreak - your whole starting D-line and 2 backups are out....wtf?  Or they're out 2 weeks earlier, but are held out of a huge game, waiting on another test to come back clean.  

Or of the thousands of FBS players, 3 die.  Is football worth it then?  We're back to the economy vs lives conundrum.

I have to think that the players will be tested daily. There is no other way to do it.

This really comes down to a sport versus some risk.  Some people who don't care for the sport will claim ANY risk is too much.  Others will claim the risk is slight and only 0.000000094% of people get the disease (or some such imaginary Russia bot figure).  

As noted above, "we" don't have any idea how just going to class and living in dorms is going to work out.  Are colleges inherently going to develop hot spots?

I imagine as soon as reports of an outbreak happen, students will desert en masse.

Yeah, "we" always make compromises between economy and lives, the speed limit being one of them.  "We" could ban for example non-nutritive food items (which would eliminate about a third of any Kroger).  My KO stock would suffer.

Sweden, often held up as being a paragon of economic virtue, has decided to rely on its people to distance and manage this virus without a shut down.  They seem to be managing as well as or better than France, Italy, the UK, Belgium in terms of deaths per million pop, but not as well as Finland/Norway/Denmark.

Football itself is dangerous obviously, and yet we all savor it, somewhat like the old Romans did.

Sweden, often held up as being a paragon of economic virtue, has decided to rely on its people to distance and manage this virus without a shut down.  They seem to be managing as well as or better than France, Italy, the UK, Belgium in terms of deaths per million pop, but as well as Finland/Norway/Denmark.

What?

Sweden:  pop ~10 million
~33,000 cases
~ 4,000 deaths
.
Norway:  pop ~ 5 million
~ 8,000 cases
= 235 deaths


You can chop Sweden's numbers in half and it's still nearly 10x the deaths of Norway.  Please don't spew bullshit.