MeanGreenTeeth

Well he does come from that great Vic Trilli coaching tree.

Speaking of societal norms...1975 was a hairy, gross time.

Ha. Yeah, I know what you meant, I just like an excuse to mention digging up Knute Rockne.

Does it matter? I don't think if they dug up Knute Rockne and had him coach they could turn that program around.

With 33k undergrads I bet we could find some talent.

Wow

Those filters make some of these guys look like they're in their 50s.

I'm not worried about her being able to hang getting hit. She seems plenty tough. The thing that bothers me is that there is no way on earth that she is one of the best placekicker candidates they have available and we all know it. A fairly athletic 14 year old male is going to have a much bigger leg than her. I can conceive of her being one of their best choices for PAT and short field goals, but that'd be about it.

Interesting. I always thought Ray was supposed to be sexy as hell, and you used RV when you wanted to order a Domino's pizza for somebody.

That seems like a step down. Was he going to get fired?

Yeah, but it's all pretty much the same though.. sin, guilt, piety, proselyting, Armageddon... I laugh when I see my super duper socially conservative and liberal friends argue on social media. They're exactly the same type of people.. two sides of the same coin. It's so obvious to me, but they never see it. Sure. There are a lot of single issue folks. You could say the same thing about environmental activists on the left. In a way, I have a lot of respect for single issue voters, at least they know what's important to them. I don't think it gets that deep for most folks to be honest. I'm mean, that's how they justify their positions after the fact, of course, but I don't think that's how most arrived at them. I remember when George W was president and the Patriotic Act had become a matter of debate. At that point it was primarily the left that was suddenly worried about government overreach on personal liberties. I can't remember how many times I heard the Ben Franklin "safety/liberty" quote from folks who hated W. That magically has turned completely around where most on that side would rather see the government lock down more things in the name of safety. I'm not saying that this sort of thing is unique to liberals, but it is interesting that people's opinion on things generally shift based on what is politically advantageous to their side. For me it isn't really about lives or economics fundamentally. I think adults should be treated as such and be able to make whatever wise or stupid decisions they'd like. I hate being lectured and talked down to by zealots. Everyone has there own level of risk tolerance based on their situation. Let them make their own choice. No one need a lecture from some undergrad at the NT Daily.

No. It's not a hoax, but the quasi-religious fervor and zealotry on the left which results in articles like this condemning people who even want to go to a 90% empty movie theater is no doubt partially driven by hatred for the President who favors a more open approach. Surely you can't deny that plays at least some part.

So... I know we're not a big national draw and we're playing Houston Baptist, but there are only like 5 or 6 games being played on Saturday. Is ESPN 3 really the best that could be done? We couldn't even get ESPN2 or ESPNU or FSN or FS1 or something? Would these channels really rather play a rerun of some women's cornhole tournament from 1992 than show our game?

I work with a bunch of PhD/academic types. If they're typical, then it's not looking good. Most of them are deathly afraid to even step out of their front door right now. You should hear the disgust in their voices when they find out I went *gasp* to a restaurant.

I'm sure we'll follow whatever the Big 12 and SEC are doing.

That's cool. We'll just let Iowa and Nebraska join C-USA for the fall. 🙂

It seems pretty hard to argue that the game is cancelled due to an Act of God when you're continuing to play games against other teams.

Yeah. That's what I was wondering. I'm assuming the state can't/won't sue itself.

Well, you see, this is where parents get to use their judgement to make a decision about what's best for their kids and their family. A healthy 29 year old single woman working two jobs may make a different choice about sending her 7 year old kid to campus than a diabetic mother of a 15 year old.

Well..no one in their right mind is going to go out and declare 2 years of closings now of course.. but given the standards you laid out that might not be unreasonable in the bigger population areas as it ebbs and flows. There are a large proportion of schools in the country that have already canceled in-school for the fall. I don't think it unlikely that many of those will continue to cancel in the spring. In regards to educating differently in a time of need.. of course.. and the teachers and administrators will likely do the best they can, but distance education simply isn't going to be as good over the long-term, especially for younger kids and those kids who don't have much in the way of parental support (which sadly is far too many). So yeah, the suburban kids who have parents who can afford to either spend time with their kids on their lessons or hire a tutor will be more or less fine. The poor kids who have parents who don't speak English or come from a home of a single working parent are going to have a tougher go of it.

1. You're making random arguments against positions neither I nor the OP have taken, and 2. Let's see the state our children's education will be in if they don't physically go to school for two years. This isn't a simple black and white issue.

That's tragic, no doubt, but I don't think that refutes the OPs assertion. That's 5 out of 31k and given that only a fraction of children who have it are probably tested, the risk is quite miniscule (CDC itself shows that 3x the number of kids 14 and under have died from flu vs COVID).

Yeah, if you're under 70, the death rate is pretty much the same as flu as I understand it (less deadly for children I think), but of course it is more transmissible so you're still going to have more people die in total. I've known two people in their 40s who've gotten it and they both pretty much just felt lethargic for a few weeks and lost their sense of smell for a while.

I don't disagree with any of that. I agree it's a heavy handed position for the government to take for the time being. I'm truly not advocating a position as I don't know the full public policy reasons for student visas. It just seems odd to me that we'd let people stay long term on student visas if they never go to campus. If the primary purpose is to let the students get a good education, then it seems pointless as they could attend class from their bedroom in their home country just as well as some apartment in Denton. If the point is to get international money flowing to our universities and local communities, then I guess it makes sense to try to keep them here. So is the thinking that this is a swipe at China (as I'm assuming a large bulk of international students are Chinese)?

The truth is all of our options are garbage. The good news is that serious complications from COVID to children are vanishingly rare and probably much less so than flu. I also heard on the news yesterday that children aren't very good at transmitting it either (though who knows how accurate that is). Of course, there is a chance the teachers could get sick or the kids would bring it home to their family (which I understand to be the bigger concern than the kids themselves). The thing is that online school is a really really poor substitute, for younger kids especially. It also means that the kids hurt the most by not having physical school are those kids who are already underserved and/or don't have a supportive family structure. IMHO, the best of the terrible options would be to have kids attend school unless they or someone in their household is in a high-risk group. Those who couldn't attend could stay online. I'm not sure what would happen to teachers who are high risk though. I guess they might have to take a leave of absence in some cases. That's terrible to say..but things are terrible.