Moos Should Allow Fans
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It's up to county health director. I heard on the radio the other day that she raised outdoor gathering to 30000. Guessing she had a little inside info
Lancaster public health has set 30000 as a limit for outdoor gatherings with social distancing. Wonder if fans testing will be a requirement as per BIG requirements??
It will be interesting to see how they handle tailgating. Is each tailgate considered a separate outdoor gathering? I would go to a game with 30,000 of you screaming maniacs.
good lord this conference is so lame. same goes for Auerbach, she's trash.
why is it up to the conference? Shouldnt it be up to each school and their local health organizations?
Makes too much sense. I guess the local bars will make a killing though which is great
My guess...some teams had to bend the knee in order to get the vote passed.
Who stands to gain by this approach? The people that sell advertising time. If anybody thinks that the broadcasters didn't have a say in how this season will be done, they are kidding themselves.
broadcasts suffer from having no fans.
Quit speaking logic!!! That's not how this board works!
80,000 people that would have been there will now be sitting in front of a TV.
not only is this statement obviously false, it's not even close to how TV ratings are calculated.
broadcasts suffer from lack of fans. it's a worse product.
They should have allowed fans. Not sure the rationale. Politics? Campus pressure? Having said that, the NFL broadcasts without fans have been decent.
I would hope that they allow bands into the stadium.
I would hope that they allow bands into the stadium.
give every student on campus an instrument. hell, can they have a fan band? I play some mean air drums.
My question is are these universities worried about a law suit or they looking for another way to control people?
the people living and working in Lincoln, IC, Madtown, EL, Bloomington, etc are the ones's to gain....at least the ones that don't own bars or sell tshirts. IMO it's the responsible approach.
I for one am glad they are playing, really glad for a myriad of reasons. We'll get to see them.
Sorry to the 30k that would have been allowed in for in-person viewing, but not sorry for what was certain to be left behind in campus towns.
I think their concern after player issues were addressed is - they live, work, and worship in these communities. Despite our interest evidenced by wasting time on FB message boards, FB is still a tiny part of the overall equation for communities they live in.
For all of the rightful critique of the conference's transparency, there was an interesting and very positive item in the roll out of a restart. These powerhouse universities that UNL was fortunate to join, will have the largest controlled study on pandemic mgt, value of rapid and frequent testing, cardiac research. We think the UN Med Ctnr is great - but it now is in a new club of juggernauts...and elevates it to a different level through association,
I hope we don't get the annoying fake crowd noise or the fake booing. Watching briefly the Saints/Bucs game on Sunday and it was so weird. The Saints had a penalty go against them and then you hear fake booing.
If it is a Husker game they can pump in some "Hey, sit down, we don't stand in this section"
If a cardboard cutout orders a slice of Val's pizza, is that considered cannibalism?
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They think they know better of what's best for people than the people themselves. Same belief that drives the governors who have been dictatorial in the lock downs. They think they are so much "smarter" than the rest of us pathetic deplorables. Big Mama and Big Papa know best.
I would agree with this and add something else. Most of the stadium gate workers are retired people. Yes I know they are going/were going to paperless tickets. Would have to spend$ on temperature sensing equipment. IF they are going to have super stringent rules for athletes, how do they not do the same for fans? How do you social distance while waiting for the gates to open?
I wasn't happy about no fans when I heard it but I can understand why the schools that wanted to play FB this fall probably had to take a knee on this one.
Here's something else. Help me out if I'm wrong. My recollection is that the suites and sky boxes are leased on an annual basis for use at any time.... not just games at home. IF so, then it would be my opinion that they should be able to use them and attend games if they want
FIFY
The idiots on this board are amazing. "Why TF won't these tyrant bastards let football games turn into weekly superspreader events that statistically are likely to kill tens-if-not-hundreds of thousands of people if you factor in a whole conference of stadiums?"
Boy TOUGH choice. Do you get a ton of people killed or let them still watch the game from the comfort of their couch?
Why even have speed limits or make people drive on the same side of the road when you think about it, you know? If a semi driver wants to drive west in the eastbound lane and kill a family of 6 that should be his right as an American! If you don't like it, don't drive!
God damn some of you are so aggressively stupid there's nothing to do but just exponentially grow the ignore list so there can be a ghost of a chance to talk actual football in a month.
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last week there was close to a full slate of college football games. plenty were played with fans in attendance.
I don't think it's unreasonable for local authorities to do their job and deem whether or not it's safe for their specific communities to host fans versus the conference forcing the decision on them from afar.
