• The KillerFrogs

Bad Omen: B12 just cancelled our virtual media day

Brog

Full Member
It was sarcasm. Big, dripping, sarcasm. The fear and panic porn that inundates us on a daily basis can only be dealt with through ridicule.


Apologies to all! Guess I was just overcome by stories from the Weatherford Courthouse to Robert E Lee statues to Dr Sean Atkinson to AddRan college's despicable name.......etc.......that I couldn't tell sarcasm from reality. Again, apologies to Paul!
 

TCUdirtbag

Active Member
Since everybody in the p5 has gone to conference only, except the ACC (with a plus 1). lets go plus 1 and play and ACC team.

Posted this in the other thread, but the ACC’s +1 was to preserve SEC-ACC in-state rivalries. By conference rule, the ACC’s +1 must be vs. an in-state school. The ACC and Big 12 share no states. The SEC blew up those games. The +1 will go away - likely next week.
 

Froglaw

Full Member
The fear mongering over this virus is out of control and has been for quite some time. How about the people afraid of the virus can choose to lock themselves down and the rest of us can go on about living our lives.

If one student gets Covid from a B12 Game and dies from it, was it worth it?

I hate the idea of cancelling the season, but we all could grumble, watch golf, and live with it.
 

Tumbleweed

Active Member
SEC gave the Big 12 a heads up, which led to the cancelation.

Big 12 has to decide how to deal with the other 4 P5 leagues playing 10-game conference-only schedules.

Too many Covid questions unanswered to put the commissioner, coaches, and players in front of media all day on Monday. It would turn into a Covid-Q&A and not a football one.


My goodness someone with good old common sense. We will play but only in conference. That decision buys some time for possible meds to be available. Gosh all the hand wringing is a bit too much! WFAA is the worst, every three minutes something about Covid. People I know would rather get on with life come hell or heaven. You walk out of a grocery store and people are yanking those masks off before they get out the door. Live in Prosper and very few people have or contacted C19. Why is that?? Many of its residents travel the world on a daily basis and we have many retirees living here. And professional sports players abound.
 
Last edited:

BrewingFrog

Was I supposed to type something here?
If one student gets Covid from a B12 Game and dies from it, was it worth it?

I hate the idea of cancelling the season, but we all could grumble, watch golf, and live with it.
Go on and project this out ad absurdum: Won't somebody die in a car accident on the way to the game? Won't somebody get food poisoning at the many tailgates before the game and die? Won't the heat be bad enough to cause sunstroke/heatstroke and cause death? (Because we'll have a 2:30pm kickoff fer sure)? Some kid might fall out of a tree while playing in the lots. Some drunk might trip over a beer keg hose and crack his skull. On and on... Cancel the season and those people might be saved!

We can wrap ourselves in bubble wrap and exist miserably in a germ-free bubble, safe from all possible risk. Or, we can live our lives and accept the risks that go with living.

The people at the least risk of dying are the younger folks: The players themselves. The curves towards bad infections go up as older people are exposed. At the upper end of the 50's, I would not have any trouble at all attending a game, without a stupid and useless face diaper or the quack-mandated goggles. (Although I would likely have a purely medicinal beer to stave off infection. Perhaps two...) In your 70s and have emphysema (or other breathing/immune system issue)? Probably ought to watch from home.

This is crap, and it's gone on long enough. The vast majority of people dying from this are old and sick already. They aren't playing the game (although Rape U. is looking to schedule them). There is not equality of risk involved in this disease. There is also no way of fingering a precise point of infection or any sort of evidence chain. It's an airborne virus.Trying to hold TCU, or any other institution responsible for infection is insane, as they cannot control each and every interaction that people have. They can take precautions, but the effort is ultimately futile.

Play ball!
 

CardFrog

Active Member
Go on and project this out ad absurdum: Won't somebody die in a car accident on the way to the game? Won't somebody get food poisoning at the many tailgates before the game and die? Won't the heat be bad enough to cause sunstroke/heatstroke and cause death? (Because we'll have a 2:30pm kickoff fer sure)? Some kid might fall out of a tree while playing in the lots. Some drunk might trip over a beer keg hose and crack his skull. On and on... Cancel the season and those people might be saved!

We can wrap ourselves in bubble wrap and exist miserably in a germ-free bubble, safe from all possible risk. Or, we can live our lives and accept the risks that go with living.

The people at the least risk of dying are the younger folks: The players themselves. The curves towards bad infections go up as older people are exposed. At the upper end of the 50's, I would not have any trouble at all attending a game, without a stupid and useless face diaper or the quack-mandated goggles. (Although I would likely have a purely medicinal beer to stave off infection. Perhaps two...) In your 70s and have emphysema (or other breathing/immune system issue)? Probably ought to watch from home.

This is crap, and it's gone on long enough. The vast majority of people dying from this are old and sick already. They aren't playing the game (although Rape U. is looking to schedule them). There is not equality of risk involved in this disease. There is also no way of fingering a precise point of infection or any sort of evidence chain. It's an airborne virus.Trying to hold TCU, or any other institution responsible for infection is insane, as they cannot control each and every interaction that people have. They can take precautions, but the effort is ultimately futile.

Play ball!
Completely agree, we are just starting to see employees sue their employer for compensation/damages for contracting covid and blaming it on their work place. While this will literally be impossible to prove, that's not the point, the point is you have to hire an attorney to prove that they could have contracted it elsewhere. So for the 1 student who dies from it, are you certain he/she got it because of attending a football game? I don't want anyone to die but lets not be ridiculous here.
 

LVH

Active Member
If one student gets Covid from a B12 Game and dies from it, was it worth it?

I hate the idea of cancelling the season, but we all could grumble, watch golf, and live with it.

11000 died from Flu in Texas in 2018(2x the COVID deaths), how many of those deaths do you think contracted it at a Big 12 basketball game or other NCAA basketball game in the state of Texas?
 

Eight

Member
1984 was a long time ago, man...

true, but that one season was an oasis for quite some time and kd's efforts stood out.

can recall great games against kstate, north texas, and texas, but don't recall much about his efforts against rice

biggest offensive highlight i can recall against rice was the 99 yard td pass
 

david c mills

New Member
11000 died from Flu in Texas in 2018(2x the COVID deaths), how many of those deaths do you think contracted it at a Big 12 basketball game or other NCAA basketball game in the state of Texas?
11,000 in Texas and over 80,000 nation wide died of the flu in 2018. Back in 1958 116,000 died in the U.S. of the Asian Flu...equivalent to a per capita death rate in 2020 of over 230,000. We shut down nothing.
 

BrewingFrog

Was I supposed to type something here?
true, but that one season was an oasis for quite some time and kd's efforts stood out.

can recall great games against kstate, north texas, and texas, but don't recall much about his efforts against rice

biggest offensive highlight i can recall against rice was the 99 yard td pass
Wasn't that Ankrom to Maness?
 

david c mills

New Member
11,000 in Texas and over 80,000 nation wide died of the flu in 2018. Back in 1958 116,000 died in the U.S. of the Asian Flu...equivalent to a per capita death rate in 2020 of over 230,000. We shut down nothing.
I might add that the kids in the neighborhood, including me, were much more concerned (and excited) with the danger posed by the escape of Pete the Python from the Fort Worth Zoo.
 
Top