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There was a religious group around here that rented a flatbed trailer and ministered to people parked in their cars at a shopping center parking lot.

The school could probably put up some large video boards in the main parking lot, or something along those lines, to give fans a stadium feel.

People have been tailgating for a while with generators to power TVs and satellite dishes.  It would work.

 
I enjoy everything about game day but if it comes to watching it in the parking lot, I'll just sit my butt at home and watch it from there.  Something has to give at some point.  GO COCKS!!!!!!

 
At this point I don't see how packing together 80,000 fans into a stadium is a great idea.I hope I am wrong - but I am sceptical that even games without fans are feasible. 100+ athletes, coaches & staff on the field at one time, breathing all over each other.  All it will take is one sporting event that leads to a mass outbreak of players / coaches and everything sportwise will shut down again. Again I hope I am wrong.

I think best bet for sports to resume are sports where you don't have a lot of direct contact with other players - Tennis, Golf, Nascar come to mind. 

I am jonesin for sports like everyone else on here. A few weeks ago I actually watched the NFL draft, which I rarely do, since it was the only thing sports related on in months...

 
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Spur's Addiction said:
At this point I don't see how packing together 80,000 fans into a stadium is a great idea.I hope I am wrong - but I am sceptical that even games without fans are feasible. 100+ athletes, coaches & staff on the field at one time, breathing all over each other.  All it will take is one sporting event that leads to a mass outbreak of players / coaches and everything sportwise will shut down again. Again I hope I am wrong.

I think best bet for sports to resume are sports where you don't have a lot of direct contact with other players - Tennis, Golf, Nascar come to mind. 

I am jonesin for sports like everyone else on here. A few weeks ago I actually watched the NFL draft, which I rarely do, since it was the only thing sports related on in months...
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College and pro athletes will be monitored so much and likely tested before every game, I don’t worry about them spreading it during games.  Either way, at some point life has to resume.  

 
I think the NCAA will have to make a decision on what happens after a player or coach on a team tests positive for the virus in the regular season.

Do they close down a team for a while or just isolate the affected players and coaches from the teams and keep moving?

 
I think the reality is is that there won't be much fan support, if any, at large sporting events until everyone has access to a vaccine.

 
Sitting here on 6/2 I don’t see how football will be played in 3 months. 

 
It's not just sitting in the stands that concerns me.  It's the congestion of concessions, concourses, restrooms and so on.  Also, the masses that tailgate, mostly all packed in to areas with no room to really distance.  Staff to support security, parking, traffic, tickets, porta john areas.  It's a logistical nightmare to try and stay germ free in.  I wonder just how many people are in and around the stadium during a packed sell out game.  It has to be in excess of 90-100k.

 
kingofnerf said:
I think the NCAA will have to make a decision on what happens after a player or coach on a team tests positive for the virus in the regular season.

Do they close down a team for a while or just isolate the affected players and coaches from the teams and keep moving?
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screw the NCAA...we know what they care about and it sure as hell isn't the athletes...these rules should be set by health departments of the communities and be outside the purview of the schools...if they can't abide by the same rules as everyone else in the community they should not play.  The only people who have anything to lose in these scenarios are the players who are not paid

I just can't see it working out as much as people want it to 

 
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screw the NCAA...we know what they care about and it sure as hell isn't the athletes...these rules should be set by health departments of the communities and be outside the purview of the schools...if they can't abide by the same rules as everyone else in the community they should not play.  The only people who have anything to lose in these scenarios are the players who are not paid

I just can't see it working out as much as people want it to 
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Agreed - you have professional sports leagues having discussions about holding all invents in one place where players and staff can all be quaratnied for the 'season'.  Like Orlando or Vegas. That is not possible with college ahtletics. 

 
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There are so many people right now who will not comply with guidelines. 

All it takes is for a fresh outbreak tied to a sporting event like happened in Italy, to mess this up. 

What happens if this is linked to some football game somewhere and there are fans that get really sick? 

 
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There are so many people right now who will not comply with guidelines. 

All it takes is for a fresh outbreak tied to a sporting event like happened in Italy, to mess this up. 

What happens if this is linked to some football game somewhere and there are fans that get really sick? 
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I agree...IMO it takes an insurmountable amount of faith for it to happen and I just don't see a viable solution...I also don't trust coaches and AD's to put the good fo the nation ahead of the good of their W-L records

 
driving into work this morning our local sports talk was talking about Alabama football....they had a practice of 50 players and 5 have tested positive for COVID...they were tested on Tuesday and had a workout all together on Wednesday(unsure but it sounded like a non-coached practice) and Thursday results were released...this kind of stuff will kill college football and shows why testing is not the answer and solves little to nothing....all 50 players are going to have to be quarantined

 
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driving into work this morning our local sports talk was talking about Alabama football....they had a practice of 50 players and 5 have tested positive for COVID...they were tested on Tuesday and had a workout all together on Wednesday(unsure but it sounded like a non-coached practice) and Thursday results were released...this kind of stuff will kill college football and shows why testing is not the answer and solves little to nothing....all 50 players are going to have to be quarantined
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Good grief...

Yeah I see no way to have any kind of team sports until a vaccine is avialable. unfortunately.

 
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Good grief...

Yeah I see no way to have any kind of team sports until a vaccine is avialable. unfortunately.
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take this with a grain of salt b/c I don't see it on ESPN but then again they certainly have a vested interest in college sports returning...it is on CBS sports but it pisses me off that ESPN is mum on this subject...these athletes are going to get screwed 

 
Over all the doomsday predictions.  We can’t live in fear forever.  We need to have schools open in the fall and sports being played.  Kids are being more damaged mentally and emotionally with the quarantine then the virus would do to them at this point. 

 
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Over all the doomsday predictions.  We can’t live in fear forever.  We need to have schools open in the fall and sports being played.  Kids are being more damaged mentally and emotionally with the quarantine then the virus would do to them at this point. 
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So you're ok with football players playing together right now, just like the practice at Alabama where the 5 players tested positive for covid?  

I know it sucks right now but I believe we need patience more than ever right now so there won't be a doomsday.

People can get the much needed daily exercise outside in the sun, independently, to keep healthy mentally and physically.  

 
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So you're ok with football players playing together right now, just like the practice at Alabama where the 5 players tested positive for covid?  

I know it sucks right now but I believe we need patience more than ever right now so there won't be a doomsday.

People can get the much needed daily exercise outside in the sun, independently, to keep healthy mentally and physically.  
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Those 5 players, I believe, are asymptomatic which means they can’t spread Covid, hence why they didn’t realize they had it until the test.  I’d bet there’s way more asymptomatic people out there than we all realize.  
 

As to your point, yes I would much rather have kids out practicing together than continued lockdown.  There are more kids being domestically abused and emotional abused contemplating suicide then are being seriously harmed by Covid.  Flatten the curve was never supposed to be until there’s no Covid.  

 
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