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Unless it isn’t. Based on current sked, what is your predicted record / division finish position & post-season destination?++

* - could change depending on ‘rona

++ - assumes we play into December
 
6-4. Losses to ECU, App, WKU, La Tech.
Second in the East.

Not sure about a bowl. Will they even have them?
 
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I agree @ 6-4. But I think we go down to Greenville and snag our 1st ever W in Dowdy-Ficklen!! Then we inexplicably lose to Charlotte in the Joan....4-3 in the division. Bahamas, where no one goes anyway, vs a Sun Belt foe. It’s our turn!
 
With the lack of conferences playing, I doubt there will be bowls. Of course I don't believe that anyone will be playing after September
 
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Or if you play a whole season and no one is there did it really happen?

Guess all that talk about a game with Army was nothing more than a "tease" on Hamrick's part? Games with Boise and Pitt traded for ones with EKU and Appy not really a good deal for Herd fans, but as many say, the season won't happen anyway.
 
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Im less optimistic... I will say 5-5... losses to ECU, App, La. Tech, FIU, WKU

Third in the division... Some third-rate bowl game that's thrown together to try to legitimize this nonsense of having a season without 40 percent of the teams playing.
 
Hey Meister,

Seriously, why are you secretly hoping the Football season is cancelled? You have made statements in several posts that it won't be successfully complete. Do you think if football season is not played, do you think it will affect basketball? If the college season is called off, should basketball season continue, in your opinion? and Why?

I know why your sidekick Herdorbust is secretly hoping the season is a no go. Do you feel like him? He thinks that is football isn't played for a year all the funds will be diverted to the basketball team and Danny will have the resources to make MU the next NC, Duke, and Kansas. Are you buying into this jibberish?
 
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johns1124 said:
Hey Meister,

Seriously, why are you secretly hoping the Football season is cancelled? You have made statements in several posts that it won't be successfully complete. Do you think if football season is not played, do you think it will affect basketball? If the college season is called off, should basketball season continue, in your opinion? and Why?

I know why your sidekick Herdorbust is secretly hoping the season is a no go. Do you feel like him? He thinks that is football isn't played for a year all the funds will be diverted to the basketball team and Danny will have the resources to make MU the next NC, Duke, and Kansas. Are you buying into this jibberish?
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Sorry you read me wrong. I want football and all Marshall sports. I simply don't see 100 football players on a college ca plus not getting sick. Even if Marshall is under control, will EKU, Charlotte etc be.
As for basketball, at best I don't see us playing a game before conference play. I hope 8m wrong on all fronts
 
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I'm with you I would like to see both sports go unabated. What are you hearing on Basketball? Are they going Conference only? If they do when will they start in late December or early January?
 
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Football is anybody's guess how that will play out, but I have a feeling basketball is going to depend a lot on how far the vaccines advance between now and November. I would be surprised if they played before the first of the year, but if you could reasonably immunize players and staff by the end of January, you might play a short conference season starting then, with the conference and NCAA tournaments happening as planned in March. That's where the money is made anyway. (BTW: all of this is a very hopeful reading of the tea leaves - universal distribution of a vaccine might not come until mid-2021 or later)
 
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I'm with you I would like to see both sports go unabated. What are you hearing on Basketball? Are they going Conference only? If they do when will they start in late December or early January?
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When I spoke to Danny today they are still planning for a full season.
The. conference season is scheduled to begin on December 31st in Charlotte
 
Listening and reading what Calipari and Coach K are thinking are realistic options sound like a Jan or Feb start at best with some of the big name teams getting together for some made for tv events with low if any fans attending....such as the a Champions Classic and CBS Vegas events to name a....then having conferences do a couple bubble type round robin events where a couple different locations are used by conferences to go isolate and play 3-4 conference games each week for a few weeks....hopefully enough to set up a conference tournament by the scheduled date and then have a NCAA tournament.

NCAA supposedly will be making basketball announcement by mid September on their plan. Dan Gavitt has said they will Do whatever possible to have a tournament this year....preferably the full field, but have left open option of doing a 16 team tournament if that’s only option.

Will be interesting what they decide next month.
 
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cincyherdfan said:
Listening and reading what Calipari and Coach K are thinking are realistic options sound like a Jan or Feb start at best with some of the big name teams getting together for some made for tv events with low if any fans attending....such as the a Champions Classic and CBS Vegas events to name a....then having conferences do a couple bubble type round robin events where a couple different locations are used by conferences to go isolate and play 3-4 conference games each week for a few weeks....hopefully enough to set up a conference tournament by the scheduled date and then have a NCAA tournament.

NCAA supposedly will be making basketball announcement by mid September on their plan. Dan Gavitt has said they will Do whatever possible to have a tournament this year....preferably the full field, but have left open option of doing a 16 team tournament if that’s only option.

Will be interesting what they decide next month.
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I cant imagine small conferences like CUSA having the funds to participate in any bubble scenario. Of course if you cut out all the regular season travel it might even out.
 
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I know someone who works for Astra Zeneca. He says they may have government approval and start vaccinating first responders by November if the government will continue to fast track it.
They are going on final trials soon.
 
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It will be interesting to see what the effect of fans in the stands (even at 20% cap) is on the ‘rona discussion. For instance: There won’t be any way to follow this group! You won’t know how many (if any) become infected. No way to contact trace even 1 fan. So, imo football (college&pro) could be the beginning of ‘Merica pulling its head out of the sand & saying, collectively: wtf? Let’s get back to living life.
 
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In result of the cancellation with Charlotte, UNC announced it is trying to add a game to its schedule on Sept. 26. The Tar Heels' next scheduled game would be Oct. 3 at Boston College.
Why wouldn’t we grab a chance to play UNC next weekend?
 
W-S HerdFan said:
In result of the cancellation with Charlotte, UNC announced it is trying to add a game to its schedule on Sept. 26. The Tar Heels' next scheduled game would be Oct. 3 at Boston College.
Why wouldn’t we grab a chance to play UNC next weekend?
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Because trying to schedule a game a week out is impossible (TV crews have to know a minimum of two weeks out)... UNC knows that, they are just trying to appease their fan base with the "we are working to find a game" BS.

Also, the same reason UTEP won't come here on Oct. 3... Why would we take a road game, we are very likely to lose, on that short of notice? - No one will.
 
LSU says most of its players have already had the virus. That would have been the most effective way to get sports back--just let the players get it early and be ready for the season. Sweden has practiced this approach and it seems to be working for their society. Trying to protect young, healthy people from the virus has proved to be very challenging. And the damage done by the virus to young people appears to be minimal, no worse than the flu. The vaccine should eliminate the fear and concern about playing sports in America. It is due very soon, according to all reports. Meanwhile, let's just enjoy what is available.
 
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ekal said:
LSU says most of its players have already had the virus. That would have been the most effective way to get sports back--just let the players get it early and be ready for the season. Sweden has practiced this approach and it seems to be working for their society. Trying to protect young, healthy people from the virus has proved to be very challenging. And the damage done by the virus to young people appears to be minimal, no worse than the flu. The vaccine should eliminate the fear and concern about playing sports in America. It is due very soon, according to all reports. Meanwhile, let's just enjoy what is available.
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And how does a program feel when one of their athletes - who they knowingly let get the virus - happens to be the exception? And not only the inevitable death of someone in the program, but the unknown long-term effects of the virus are of concern, as well. Listen, I agree that it appears that young, healthy people seem to be handling Covid better than us old, sickly guys. And if most of the team gets the virus organically, then so be it. But I can't imagine a program "just letting the players get it early" to be ready for the season.
 
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RhinoD said:
None of this is correct... We had been in contact with VT for most of the season about "potentially" playing a game. The deal was finalized on Nov. 17 for a Dec. 1 game... Like I said, two weeks out.

https://richmond.com/sports/college...cle_7f58b76b-1d16-5a12-99cf-0379c43cb639.html
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If you are going to supply a link at least give one you can read... If you read here...https://virginiatech.sportswar.com/article/2018/11/19/virginia-tech-play-marshall-december-1/ ... Actually, one you can read... The game was not signed, until the Hokies played (and Won) against Virginia on Nov 23rd... If they lost that there would have been no reason to play MU... Is this comprehensible? {Dot}{Dot}{Dot} So, again there was no reason to make plans on Playing the Hokies until, post-Nov 23. Which plans were made...
 
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If you are going to supply a link at least give one you can read... If you read here...https://virginiatech.sportswar.com/article/2018/11/19/virginia-tech-play-marshall-december-1/ ... Actually, one you can read... The game was not signed, until the Hokies played (and Won) against Virginia on Nov 23rd... If they lost that there would have been no reason to play MU... Is this comprehensible? {Dot}{Dot}{Dot} So, again there was no reason to make plans on Playing the Hokies until, post-Nov 23. Which plans were made...
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The link I posted works fine... Based on the fact that you don't know how to post a link, Im assuming its operator error on your end.

Again, as for the circumstances of the game, you are incorrect... The game was in the works most of the year as a possibility. The deal was done on Nov. 17 contingent to VT beating Virginia the following weekend. The deal was reported in the Nov. 18. 2018 Richmond paper, which is the link I posted.
 
TwolfHerdfan said:
I seriously doubt any vaccine will be available to the masses until late Q1 of 2021, if that. jmho.
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The CDC director said as much last week in front of Congress... If a vaccine is approved in November (which they are hoping for) the rollout could get to essential workers (healthcare workers, law enforcement, the military, etc) in December... On that timeline the estimated rollout to the general public would be sometime between February 2021 (best case scenario) and May 2021.

If they can stay on that timeline, its pretty impressive... To develop and begin distribution of a vaccine for a disease doctors had never seen before in less than a year is remarkable. (Assuming the vaccine actually works, and doesn't give you any worse problems as a side effect).
 
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TwolfHerdfan said:
I seriously doubt any vaccine will be available to the masses until late Q1 of 2021, if that. jmho.
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It's not an opinion, its a logistical reality. You have to manufacture and distribute 330,000,000 doses of it, across the geography of the entire United States. They could approve a vaccine today and it would still be months before we could distribute it.
 
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RhinoD said:
If they can stay on that timeline, its pretty impressive... To develop and begin distribution of a vaccine for a disease doctors had never seen before in less than a year is remarkable.
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That's what's so bonkers about this to me - if you understand anything about how things actually work, you realize that this might be the greatest collective medical achievement in the history of mankind.

Every time I hear people complain about how they're "so over all this," I swear I can hear the whirring sound of everyone who died before 1980 spinning in their graves.
 
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You guys do realize that the President has stated that the U.S. Army is going to be heavily involved in distribution & inoculation of citizens, right? I think they know a thing or three about logistics....non-political comment!!
 
RhinoD said:
The CDC director said as much last week in front of Congress... If a vaccine is approved in November (which they are hoping for) the rollout could get to essential workers (healthcare workers, law enforcement, the military, etc) in December... On that timeline the estimated rollout to the general public would be sometime between February 2021 (best case scenario) and May 2021.

If they can stay on that timeline, its pretty impressive... To develop and begin distribution of a vaccine for a disease doctors had never seen before in less than a year is remarkable. (Assuming the vaccine actually works, and doesn't give you any worse problems as a side effect).
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Your last line is the barrier of everything else you just said.
Even if a vaccine were developed, doesn't mean the public is going to rush to get it. People are going to be weary of something so new being injected into them. Vaccines take years to really know if they help people or not...this is going to be a real big hypothesis more than anything concrete.
 
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I don't think the Herd is allowed to go to Chapel Hill and play against North Carolina. I believe the ACC's guidelines forbids OOC games against a non in-state program.

Marshall is likely to end up with a 6 or 7 game regular season. It's still better than no season at all.
 
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MichiganHerd said:
I don't think the Herd is allowed to go to Chapel Hill and play against North Carolina. I believe the ACC's guidelines forbids OOC games against a non in-state program.

Marshall is likely to end up with a 6 or 7 game regular season. It's still better than no season at all.
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Mich - dummy me didn't even remember that. Thanks
 
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