Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

It's impressive depending on the set up. More schools tend to scatter their major targets throughout the camp period rather than have them all show up at once.

But I remember a few years back...maybe 2012 when Jimbo Fisher was at Florida State and they were looking for a top back either for the 2013 or 2014 class and they had Sony Michel, Alvin Kamara and Dalvin Cook all at the same camp slot basically competing for that slot. It was a big deal to see Sony because it was his first workout since he tore his ACL during his junior season in high school. But it was a crazy talented group of running back, those were the big three and there were about 8-9 that where there and ended up playing Power 5 football somewhere.

 

I'm not seeing the pandemic I was expecting back in mid March.

For seniors, or people living or working in super cramped spaces, this has been a disaster.

For John Q Middle America, I am just not seeing a tsunami of sickness or death. Maybe it is because we *have* been social distancing.

I was expecting a lot worse.

 

Proof that the measures, such as they have been, are working.

 

Bingo.

It's a self un-fulfilling prophecy.

Just don't tell Clay Travis.

 

As I sit here contemplating canceling DirecTV, I can’t help but wonder if the staggering unemployment numbers will be one of the nails in bigtime sports’ coffin. If unemployment accelerates cord cutting, TV nets can’t pay the obscene TV rights fees that support so much of the sports world.

 

If people are still reluctant to attend games in person, even when things return to semi-normal, won't that make TV rights even more valuable?

 

If colleges play football even to reduced crowds, there will be a surge in infections. That's like creating little dense cities every Saturday.

 

Depends on how many people can pay to watch.

 

That's careless cause and effect. You can't prove something that didn't happen "would have happened" if not for X.

Any more than I can say "I did not get hit by a drunk driver today. My staying home today prevented me from getting hit by a drunk driver."

Because that infers that I WOULD have been hit had I not stayed home (and discounted all the careful measures I take when I drive). In reality, it only reduced those odds from 0.00001% to 0.00000%.

 

Hmmmm ...

Oregon governor Kate Brown advises against large gatherings through Sept., impacts game vs. Ohio State

 

She is giving herself a lot of wiggle room. I suspect those rules will evolve if our numbers here continue to be low.

 

Very true. I am assuming employment numbers return to at least 90% of what they were in March. But we both know what assuming does.