[teejers1]

In reality not a loss at all Bobbbbb. He would not have stayed for a fifth year and if they play a six game schedule in January it doesn’t really mean anything. Rouse will get the reps and that’s a good thing if there is a real season in the Fall.

Just got of the phone with a friend who has a freshman at Florida. She and eight of her floor roommates have Covid. Over 1,000 students sick. TCU can’t field enough players to play SMU and same for Temple so no Navy game.

It is beyond madness to have a college football season and to have young adults gather in droves. And now there is talk of a national “Toss your mask day.”

All of us old farts need to stop projecting our personal insecurities and health fears onto healthy 18-22 year-olds who will, in all likelihood, shake off Covid much like a dog shakes off water after being given a bath.  The reason why death rates are dropping is because more younger people are getting the virus.  "Toss you mask day" is, of course, ridiculous.  But so are the panic buttons hit whenever an outbreak or surge occurs on a college campus.  

Still waiting on all those media outlets that report on college outbreaks to follow up with how they are doing weeks later (and how the surge in cases did or did not impact local hospitals).  Such negative impacts may be happening, and if so, it would be real news and alarming.  (But there is some confidence that it's not happening because if it were, then you'd expect WaPo or NYT or some other established outlet to be all over that - I mean, think about the resources devoted to the Sturgis gathering).  A bunch of college kids testing positive - especially early upon arrival on campus - is barely newsworthy.

And again, ND's dashboard

https://here.nd.edu/our-approach/dashboard/

(And according to a colleague, no hospitalizations).

Haven's seen much national reporting on ND's progress, have we?

[teejers1]

In reality not a loss at all Bobbbbb. He would not have stayed for a fifth year and if they play a six game schedule in January it doesn’t really mean anything. Rouse will get the reps and that’s a good thing if there is a real season in the Fall.

Just got of the phone with a friend who has a freshman at Florida. She and eight of her floor roommates have Covid. Over 1,000 students sick. TCU can’t field enough players to play SMU and same for Temple so no Navy game.

It is beyond madness to have a college football season and to have young adults gather in droves. And now there is talk of a national “Toss your mask day.”

All of us old farts need to stop projecting our personal insecurities and health fears onto healthy 18-22 year-olds who will, in all likelihood, shake off Covid much like a dog shakes off water after being given a bath.  The reason why death rates are dropping is because more younger people are getting the virus.  "Toss you mask day" is, of course, ridiculous.  But so are the panic buttons hit whenever an outbreak or surge occurs on a college campus.  

Still waiting on all those media outlets that report on college outbreaks to follow up with how they are doing weeks later (and how the surge in cases did or did not impact local hospitals).  Such negative impacts may be happening, and if so, it would be real news and alarming.  (But there is some confidence that it's not happening because if it were, then you'd expect WaPo or NYT or some other established outlet to be all over that - I mean, think about the resources devoted to the Sturgis gathering).  A bunch of college kids testing positive - especially early upon arrival on campus - is barely newsworthy.

And again, ND's dashboard

https://here.nd.edu/our-approach/dashboard/

(And according to a colleague, no hospitalizations).

Haven's seen much national reporting on ND's progress, have we?