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Don't Get Too Attached To The Idea Of Michigan-Iowa Comment Count

Brian December 15th, 2020 at 1:43 PM

UPDATE: canceled. 

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I'd place the odds this game actually happens at less than 1%:

Baumgardner clarified that was a number from Sunday, which gives Michigan a little more time to clear players.

Contract tracing is responsible for a large number of the absences, surely, but folks are also talking about more positive tests. All of Michigan's COVID positives should fall in the 21-day window where they're ineligible to play. Meanwhile Michigan has barely practiced for three weeks and may not have a healthy quarterback. If this game actually happens it is more likely to be a football-flavored farce than an actual competition.

Also, Kirk Ferentz is spicy this year. He took three FU timeouts against Minnesota and carpet-bombed Scott Frost after Frost complained that people were clapping. Ferentz riding Jim Harbaugh like he is a pony would be a fitting capper on the season but maaaan no one wants to see that. I don't need to see Ferentz giving the opposite sideline the Degeneration X crotch chop for 3 hours Saturday night. 

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kurpit

December 15th, 2020 at 1:49 PM ^

The way I see it is that Michigan had a night game at Kinnick and a game at The Shoe in back-to-back weeks and came away undefeated. I've never been so proud of this program.

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TrueBlue2003

December 15th, 2020 at 2:54 PM ^

What's wrong with it though?  The players want to play, the coaches want to coach, and fans want to watch (except us).  They're the same as bowl games.  "Meaningless" but still college football.  For people that like college football, they're something.

I do find it funny that the IU-Purdue game which in part blew up the 2 v 2, 3 v 3, etc plan isn't even being played anyway.  Now that we've canceled, I wonder if they'll try to reschedule some things to get that IU-Iowa game (assuming that game is canceled from the Purdue side).

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Mongo

December 15th, 2020 at 2:24 PM ^

Wonder how many players have now opted-out for the rest of the season ?  Would make sense for the Covid-OK but draft eligible players to opt-out at this point. 

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ERdocLSA2004

December 15th, 2020 at 2:47 PM ^

Yeah, 3rd straight week without a game.  Either they are doing a horrible job controlling the virus, guys simply don’t want to play, or a mix of both.  Are we the only school in the country who is still doing this 21-day contact trace quarantine garbage?  It’s been reduced to 14-days per the CDC for awhile now.  There’s also more data suggesting 10 days is adequate if the source was asymptomatic and if being testing routinely.  Not sure what the hell we are still doing with the 21 days.

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TrueBlue2003

December 15th, 2020 at 2:59 PM ^

I think one leads directly to the other: guys don't want to play so they haven't done enough to control the virus (assuming reports Brian mentioned here that they were gathering in large numbers against guidelines were true).

I think the 21 day rule is a conference thing and it's not contact tracing, it's for positives.  The extra week is for heart monitoring and conditioning, I believe.

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ex dx dy

December 15th, 2020 at 3:03 PM ^

I think you're confusing a few different periods here:

  • If you're exposed to someone who is COVID-positive, the CDC recommends quarantining for 10 days. If no symptoms show up, you can stop quarantining. This was previously 14 days.
  • If you test positive for COVID, you can stop quarantining 10 days after symptoms first show up. This was previously until you get a negative test.
  • The B1G's 21-day hold-out period was to monitor for myocarditis in COVID-positive athletes post-infection. Newer data suggests the early myocarditis concerns were possibly overblown, but I'm guessing the B1G doesn't want to change their protocols until they have conclusive evidence there because of the media circus that would result.

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ERdocLSA2004

December 15th, 2020 at 3:15 PM ^

I don’t believe the CDC ever changed their official recommendation of 14 days. As of 12/3 they said that 10 days is “acceptable” but I don’t think they ever officially changed the 14 day recommendation.  Seeing as we are 21 days from the first reported cases and still can’t field a team (again, presuming due to covid) I would still attest that it is not well contained.    

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lhglrkwg

December 15th, 2020 at 2:36 PM ^

I don't want to make light of guys having covid because it can be serious, but I can't help but be annoyed that this happened and now OSU, Iowa, and probably our bowl game are cancelled because that was probably heading to 0-3, a 2-7 finish, and indisputably one of the worst teams Michigan has fielded in 50+ years. Now Jim and his staff are out of the spotlight and this may have saved a bunch of them from getting canned.

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Catchafire

December 15th, 2020 at 2:54 PM ^

Glad it was cancelled and the farce of a season.  Big Ten leadership has been absolutely disappointing this year and can't follow or stick to their own damn rules.

Texas is to the Big12 as OSU is to the BIG10... They own their conferences.

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Mpfnfu Ford

December 15th, 2020 at 3:21 PM ^

It's genuinely absurd that the Big 10 thought they could undo their decision to cancel the season by trying to jam in so many games in the teeth of the worst part of the pandemic since this all started. 

Nobody really enjoys this, and it's all going to end with either Alabama, Notre Dame, Clemson or Ohio State claiming a title that everyone is going to put a giant asterisk on for the next 100 years the same way everyone rolls their eyes at Army's national titles during WW2 when them and Navy were practically the only teams with a full able bodied roster.

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