Yeah they are hiding something they didn’t move him to ICU for nothing
DAMN!! How will HISTORY look back on Trump, Fox News & all his supporters during Coronavirus & AFTER he leaves office? UPDATE: Trump WON
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The pharmacy chain says the new sites will use Abbott Laboratories' rapid testing technology and will be open to members of the public who are showing symptoms of COVID-19.
The Fed is modifying Wells Fargo's asset cap so it can help lend to small business
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Oh my God I hate people like these guys.....they want to be Republicans but they are afraid to be
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"Unemployment continues to skyrocket as 6.6 million Americans file for claims last week" https://twitter.com/i/events/1248256447755857920
Yeah I seen that this morning I said this in another post.......people spend your money wisely because this summer may be very rough around the edges
I need some sociologists psychiatry psychology experts explain to me
Write a thesis or article or documentary
After EVERYTHING we have seen...
Wtf are people thinking still supporting this guy?
Ok they hated Hillary hated obama could claim its not rascist or sexist bit only based on the completely FALSE belief he had some economic acumen.
But just how their mentality is fully functional...
And they can SHAMELESSLY DEFEND him STILL?!?!
Its just mind numbing
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Trump’s Call to Sports Commissioners Shows Everything Wrong With Our Pandemic Response
In a microcosm of his deadly mishandling of the coronavirus, Trump called for the sports world to open its doors “sooner rather than later.”
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Trump’s Call to Sports Commissioners Shows Everything Wrong With Our Pandemic Response
In a microcosm of his deadly mishandling of the coronavirus, Trump called for the sports world to open its doors “sooner rather than later.”
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President Donald Trump honors the New England Patriots after the team's Super Bowl win in 2017. (Andrew Harnik / AP Photo)
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It’s been said time and again: The virus makes the timeline, not we humans. We will return to being a functioning society when the threat of the novel coronavirus has passed. No amount of wishful thinking is going to change that, but when leaders spread false hope, they create expectations that can’t be met and increase our collective ignorance.
That hasn’t stopped Donald Trump. The president and a select group of the most powerful commissioners in sports got together on a conference call on Sunday, on which Trump declared that the sports world would relaunch “sooner rather than later.” ESPN NFL reporter and access merchant Adam Schefter was out at the head of the line, breathlessly tweeting, “In conference call with major league sports commissioners on Saturday, President Donald Trump said he believes the NFL season should start on time in September.”
All the sports websites soon quoted Trump extensively from his press briefing/campaign rally later in the day, saying, “I want fans back in the arenas I think it’s…whenever we’re ready. As soon as we can, obviously. And the fans want to be back, too. They want to see basketball and baseball and football and hockey. They want to see their sports. They want to go out onto the golf courses and breathe nice, clean, beautiful fresh air.”
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Trump, as ESPN pointed out, also tweeted at Little League baseball players, telling them that their season would start “soon.”
This scenario accurately modeled how sports journalism often works: You get access to information in return for not writing too critically about your subject matter. Most of the time, it’s largely harmless, just the way the “toy department” of the media world goes about its business. In the context of a coronavirus pandemic, the attitude of Trump’s phone call to commissioners—which grossly excluded National Women’s Soccer League commish Lisa Baird—is negligent, if not deadly.
First and foremost, it sets the expectation that the virus will somehow be finished on the schedule yearned for by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Trump’s fall reelection schedule. This is not based on science, only on the profit-driven will of the multibillion-dollar athletic-industrial complex to keep the trains running on time.
Secondly, it blithely ignores the question of player and fan safety. The leagues cannot come back before the health of everyone can be safely secured. Former Green Bay Packers executive Andrew Brandt said that a veteran NFL player called him up and asked this salient question: “If they tell us we’re playing again, even without fans, do we have to play? What if our personal doctor advises against it?” It speaks volumes that on Trump’s call of the commissioners, none of the sports unions were represented. If player safety is going to be ignored, the last people one would want on the call would be the people charged with defending those players and their right to play their sport without being sacrificed to this pandemic.
I communicated with both the National Football League Players Association and the National Basketball Players Association about the question of player safety and the rush to return. The NFLPA made clear that it is monitoring this situation very closely, with the safety of players being of the utmost concern.
Michele Roberts of the NBPA e-mailed me, “Our players are super eager to get back on the court. They love basketball, love playing basketball and love bringing the competition to our fans. These preceding weeks have been tough. That said, as members of the community, our players, too, appreciate that the most important goal for our country is to assure the health and safety of its citizens. Yes, they are anxious to resume play. However, only under circumstances that are safe for them, team staff and the communities in which any games would be scheduled. We are optimistic, but patient. Safety first.”
In so many respects, Trump’s cavalier attitude about resuming pro sports reflects his approach to the entire virus. He’s pushing a great deal of false hope, not backed by science, and designed more to win a news cycle with thoughts of a Sugarcandy Mountain of sports constructed on the backs of our disposable athletic heroes. It also reflected through our sports media the ways in which the mainstream media, with some notable exceptions, have failed to hold this president to account.
If there is one sport that’s still on TV, it’s Trump’s Lucy pulling the football away from the media’s Charlie Brown, who marvels over Trump’s change of tone only to see him mock a senator in coronavirus quarantine or reminisce over his days of “dating” models, all while thousands die.
The sports media could play a critical role right now holding Trump and the sports commissioners to account, making sure they don’t put out outlandish predictions about the resumption of play or offer players as a sacrifice to our entertainment appetites. They failed that test yesterday.
We can be better than the White House press corps, call out the lies, and make sure that sports will return when our society returns. The virus sets the timeline. If that’s not our lodestar, then we are lost.
You don't really need all that. It's the same thing that it's been since 1619. It's racism, white supremacy, tribalism. Whatever you want to call it. Us versus them. Tribe above all else.
People think of racism in terms of how it effects the oppressed. It effects the oppressor also. Obviously not as harshly but their psyche is badly scarred. They live in a constant state of fear. They've given themselves PTSD. They've lost their compassion and empathy for each other because of this disease. This disease has been with us since 1619 and King Philips' War. The lack of critical thinking skills is a symptom of this disease. Don't believe your lying eyes and ears, the tribe will tell us the truth. It's Orwellian. Expressing stupid nonsensical views that support the tribe are a sign of loyalty.
In the last couple of years, I've had the opportunity to read a lot of history and one thing I've noticed is the founding fathers frequently referred to our democracy as an experiment. That's exactly what it is. That experiment is currently struggling. Every time it's floundered because of internal strife, it's been racism. This country was not set up for a multi-cultural society. I'm not sure if it's even possible.
One thing I do know if the problem is their fault and not ours.
UFC to fight on; Dana White says sports world is “panicking”
The UFC is determined to fight on amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Besides that, fuck all of y’all Trump supporters. Non voters, Tariq followers and fake woke dudes too. You fags ain’t in no better space for your bullshit. Y’all crawling around this bitch like roaches , worrying about the next meal. I’m blue and eating all kinds of steak, all day , everyday. Let me be clear. I’m talking to all of y’all . You old fucks and you trailer trash white boys. Keep up bitches.
Clemson's Dabo Swinney responds to criticism over private flight to Florida amid coronavirus pandemic
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Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney recently revealed that he took a trip to Florida on his private plane this past month, and he noted that he may go again for Easter this upcoming weekend.
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Swinney felt backlash from several members of the media for his comments, and he was asked about it during an interview on ESPNU Radio on Sirius XM on Monday.
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“That’s the one thing I’ve learned and really have just accepted. It doesn’t matter what I say or what anyone says. There’s going to be criticism,” Swinney said on ESPNU Radio. “I could say, ‘The sky is blue,’ and somebody’s going to be mad as anything. So that’s one thing I’ve learned over the years and I just don’t really get affected by that. I just speak my heart.”
Swinney was also asked about the possibility of playing the 2020 college football season and if he thought it was in jeopardy due to the coronavirus pandemic. He said that he believes the season will take place as scheduled, and he pointed to his faith and his belief that the United States is “the greatest country” in the world as his reasons for optimism.
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Swinney said that he just wanted to give his honest opinion to reporters, whether everyone liked it or not.
“I just answered a question the other day. ... You answer questions and you try to be honest and transparent, and you answer questions and then you get blasted because somebody may not agree with your answer,” Swinney said on the radio show. “But I’m not out blasting somebody else because they have a different opinion than me. It just comes with the territory, so that is just the way it is.
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“I just believe in our country,” Swinney added. “I believe in this world. I believe in the unbelievably smart people that we have out there. But more importantly I believe in God. And he’s so much bigger than this. There’s so many fearful things, but God can stamp this thing out just as quick as it rose up.
“And I don’t have any doubt that that’s what’s going to happen. That’s my belief. Now if someone wants to blast me because I believe things are going to turn around, well that’s fine. They can blast me for that. That’s OK if that’s what they wanna do. I just try to live my life with positivity. … I believe we are going to kick this thing in the teeth, and nothing’s going to change that belief from me.”
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Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney recently revealed that he took a trip to Florida on his private plane this past month, and he noted that he may go again for Easter this upcoming weekend.
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Swinney felt backlash from several members of the media for his comments, and he was asked about it during an interview on ESPNU Radio on Sirius XM on Monday.
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“That’s the one thing I’ve learned and really have just accepted. It doesn’t matter what I say or what anyone says. There’s going to be criticism,” Swinney said on ESPNU Radio. “I could say, ‘The sky is blue,’ and somebody’s going to be mad as anything. So that’s one thing I’ve learned over the years and I just don’t really get affected by that. I just speak my heart.”
Swinney was also asked about the possibility of playing the 2020 college football season and if he thought it was in jeopardy due to the coronavirus pandemic. He said that he believes the season will take place as scheduled, and he pointed to his faith and his belief that the United States is “the greatest country” in the world as his reasons for optimism.
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Swinney said that he just wanted to give his honest opinion to reporters, whether everyone liked it or not.
“I just answered a question the other day. ... You answer questions and you try to be honest and transparent, and you answer questions and then you get blasted because somebody may not agree with your answer,” Swinney said on the radio show. “But I’m not out blasting somebody else because they have a different opinion than me. It just comes with the territory, so that is just the way it is.
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“I just believe in our country,” Swinney added. “I believe in this world. I believe in the unbelievably smart people that we have out there. But more importantly I believe in God. And he’s so much bigger than this. There’s so many fearful things, but God can stamp this thing out just as quick as it rose up.
“And I don’t have any doubt that that’s what’s going to happen. That’s my belief. Now if someone wants to blast me because I believe things are going to turn around, well that’s fine. They can blast me for that. That’s OK if that’s what they wanna do. I just try to live my life with positivity. … I believe we are going to kick this thing in the teeth, and nothing’s going to change that belief from me.”
Mike Gundy's crazy coronavirus comments don't mean all college coaches speak like fools
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Aside from the beard he apparently has chosen to grow during the same coronavirus quarantine most of us are experiencing, Roy Williams’ appearance Tuesday on a computer chat with reporters offered nothing unsettling. He even delivered a moment of inspiration:
“As I was growing up, and even until the last several months, all of my heroes — my biggest heroes — were my teachers that I had all the way through high school and college, and mentors that I’ve had,” Williams said. “But now my heroes are all those health care people and providers. I just can’t imagine those doctors and nurses going to work every day worried about their own health and how it’s going to affect their families. And yet they still keep going.”
MORE: Will COVID-19 cancel college football season?
Late last month, Alabama football coach Nick Saban put on one of his best red blazers, stood in front of some sort of camera and, after thanking medical providers across the nation, declared that the staff that has produced five national champions since 2009 was back at work but doing it from home and “obeying all social distancing guidelines.” He went on to ask those who might be inclined to follow the coach’s advice, which is a huge chunk of college football fandom, to stay at home if possible and to be smart about any public interactions.
“And together we look forward to all that is to come, including the opportunity to play college football this fall,” Saban said. “But the best and safest way to ensure that happens is to listen to the experts, follow their guidelines and take care of each other.”
We offer you this as evidence that not all college coaches are talking like fools.
Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy should be viewed as the exception, not the rule. And yet, when Gundy spoke boldly and peculiarly on a teleconference with college football reporters on Tuesday, many analyzing his statements chose to ascribe their bizarre contents to the entire coaching community.
Seriously, though, even in the warped world of college football coaching, you couldn’t find more than a handful that would sign off on this statement:
“The NCAA, the presidents of the universities, the Power 5 conference commissioners, the athletic directors need to be meeting right now, and we need to start coming up with answers," Gundy told reporters. “In my opinion, if we have to bring our players back, test them. They’re all in good shape. They’re all 18-, 19-, 20-, 21- and 22-year-olds. They’re healthy.
“A lot of them can fight it off with their natural body, the antibodies and the build that they have. There’s some people that are asymptomatic. If that’s true, then we sequester them. And people say that’s crazy. No, it’s not crazy because we need to continue and budget and run money through the state of Oklahoma.”
It's crazy — everything he said, and how he said it. It’s a word salad that would be darned near impossible to penetrate if he didn’t toss in several buzzwords that make clear his intention: test, healthy, antibodies, sequester and — yes, the big one — money.
He said he thought the Oklahoma State football operation should be back at work on May 1, even though there’s a pandemic that is not yet close to being under control and even though the Cowboys are not scheduled to play a football game until Sept. 3.
Many coaches, perhaps most of them, are using their amplified voices to call for the American public to advise people to stay at home, shelter in place, social distance — whatever you want to call it. TCU football coach Gary Patterson donated to a program providing snacks and activities to school children in Fort Worth. Wyoming football coach Craig Bohl and his wife donated $100,000 to help fund scholarships for seniors in spring sports wishing to take advantage of the NCAA’s offer of an extra year of eligibility because their 2020 seasons were canceled. Oregon football coach Mario Cristobal and his wife donated lunches to the Eugene police department.
Proof that America can be a great country is right there in Gundy’s $5 million annual salary, paid to him though he has won double-digit games only six times in 15 seasons and hasn’t even won 70 percent of his games. He has coached in a major bowl game twice.
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Clemson coach Dabo Swinney is a far better coach, though no great example of how to comport one’s self in a pandemic. He and his family took a recent vacation to Florida by private plane when others elsewhere, even others of great means, were obeying shelter-in-place laws or stay-at-home admonitions. South Carolina had no rule in place, instead depending on whatever common sense its residents chose to exercise. Swinney’s decision showed that wasn’t 100 percent a safe bet.
When Swinney said last week, though, he fully expected — “zero doubt,” he said — that there would be college football in the fall in front of stadiums full of fans, he merely was exercising his right to be optimistic. He was not declaring himself to be the art of some reckless plan to lock up Tigers football players in their weight rooms and have them train in quarantine.
Not all college coaches are like Mike Gundy.
Thank heavens for that.
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Aside from the beard he apparently has chosen to grow during the same coronavirus quarantine most of us are experiencing, Roy Williams’ appearance Tuesday on a computer chat with reporters offered nothing unsettling. He even delivered a moment of inspiration:
“As I was growing up, and even until the last several months, all of my heroes — my biggest heroes — were my teachers that I had all the way through high school and college, and mentors that I’ve had,” Williams said. “But now my heroes are all those health care people and providers. I just can’t imagine those doctors and nurses going to work every day worried about their own health and how it’s going to affect their families. And yet they still keep going.”
MORE: Will COVID-19 cancel college football season?
Late last month, Alabama football coach Nick Saban put on one of his best red blazers, stood in front of some sort of camera and, after thanking medical providers across the nation, declared that the staff that has produced five national champions since 2009 was back at work but doing it from home and “obeying all social distancing guidelines.” He went on to ask those who might be inclined to follow the coach’s advice, which is a huge chunk of college football fandom, to stay at home if possible and to be smart about any public interactions.
“And together we look forward to all that is to come, including the opportunity to play college football this fall,” Saban said. “But the best and safest way to ensure that happens is to listen to the experts, follow their guidelines and take care of each other.”
We offer you this as evidence that not all college coaches are talking like fools.
Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy should be viewed as the exception, not the rule. And yet, when Gundy spoke boldly and peculiarly on a teleconference with college football reporters on Tuesday, many analyzing his statements chose to ascribe their bizarre contents to the entire coaching community.
Seriously, though, even in the warped world of college football coaching, you couldn’t find more than a handful that would sign off on this statement:
“The NCAA, the presidents of the universities, the Power 5 conference commissioners, the athletic directors need to be meeting right now, and we need to start coming up with answers," Gundy told reporters. “In my opinion, if we have to bring our players back, test them. They’re all in good shape. They’re all 18-, 19-, 20-, 21- and 22-year-olds. They’re healthy.
“A lot of them can fight it off with their natural body, the antibodies and the build that they have. There’s some people that are asymptomatic. If that’s true, then we sequester them. And people say that’s crazy. No, it’s not crazy because we need to continue and budget and run money through the state of Oklahoma.”
It's crazy — everything he said, and how he said it. It’s a word salad that would be darned near impossible to penetrate if he didn’t toss in several buzzwords that make clear his intention: test, healthy, antibodies, sequester and — yes, the big one — money.
He said he thought the Oklahoma State football operation should be back at work on May 1, even though there’s a pandemic that is not yet close to being under control and even though the Cowboys are not scheduled to play a football game until Sept. 3.
Many coaches, perhaps most of them, are using their amplified voices to call for the American public to advise people to stay at home, shelter in place, social distance — whatever you want to call it. TCU football coach Gary Patterson donated to a program providing snacks and activities to school children in Fort Worth. Wyoming football coach Craig Bohl and his wife donated $100,000 to help fund scholarships for seniors in spring sports wishing to take advantage of the NCAA’s offer of an extra year of eligibility because their 2020 seasons were canceled. Oregon football coach Mario Cristobal and his wife donated lunches to the Eugene police department.
Proof that America can be a great country is right there in Gundy’s $5 million annual salary, paid to him though he has won double-digit games only six times in 15 seasons and hasn’t even won 70 percent of his games. He has coached in a major bowl game twice.
MORE: Mike Leach apologizes for "offensive" tweet
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney is a far better coach, though no great example of how to comport one’s self in a pandemic. He and his family took a recent vacation to Florida by private plane when others elsewhere, even others of great means, were obeying shelter-in-place laws or stay-at-home admonitions. South Carolina had no rule in place, instead depending on whatever common sense its residents chose to exercise. Swinney’s decision showed that wasn’t 100 percent a safe bet.
When Swinney said last week, though, he fully expected — “zero doubt,” he said — that there would be college football in the fall in front of stadiums full of fans, he merely was exercising his right to be optimistic. He was not declaring himself to be the art of some reckless plan to lock up Tigers football players in their weight rooms and have them train in quarantine.
Not all college coaches are like Mike Gundy.
Thank heavens for that.
Mike Gundy's Pandemic Plan Is Ridiculous
Forget the experts, Mike Gundy has a plan to bring college football back. And it's just as absurd as you might think.
PAT FORDEAPR 7, 2020
I would like stock tips from Noted Expert Mike Gundy. Also, some cooking recipes. Could he offer best practices to our educators? How about weighing in on the Middle East?
I’m dying to be enlightened. Really.
Clearly, Noted Expert Mike Gundy knows far more than just football. Not that he’s been great in that regard lately—his Oklahoma State teams were 15–11 the past two seasons, 8–10 in the Big 12—especially given his $5 million a year salary. But it is now abundantly obvious that labeling him a mere football coach is too limiting. He is a Renaissance man, a visionary capable of seeing solutions where others see problems, a savant so cleverly disguised as a mullet-haired meathead.
Take, for example, the wisdom Noted Expert Mike Gundy dispensed upon the masses Tuesday in a media teleconference. When the only topic that matters in today’s world came up—the global COVID-19 pandemic—he flexed his intellectual prowess. He showcased his grasp of public health, economics, the workings of higher education, college athletics in general and other topics.
"The NCAA, the presidents of the universities, the Power 5 conference commissioners, the athletic directors need to be meeting right now and we need to start coming up with answers," Noted Expert Mike Gundy said. "In my opinion, if we have to bring our players back, test them. They're all in good shape. They're all 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22-year-olds. They're healthy. A lot of them can fight it off with their natural body, the antibodies and the build that they have. There's some people that are asymptomatic. If that's true, then we sequester them. And people say that's crazy. No, it's not crazy because we need to continue and budget and run money through the state of Oklahoma."
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Noted Expert Mike Gundy isn’t just talking the talk here. He is an omniscient observer with a plan. He wants to have his staff and support personnel, roughly 100 people, back to work in the Oklahoma State football facility May 1. Then the players after that.
“It might get backed up two weeks,” Noted Expert Mike Gundy allowed.
This may all come as a bit jarring to the simpletons who run Oklahoma State University, the Big 12 Conference, the town of Stillwater, the state of Oklahoma, the United States of America and the World Health Organization. Among others. But it’s not their fault they lack the foresight of the Great Rattlesnake Hunter.
Who needs Anthony Fauci when we have Gundy? Why all the worry about whether football practice can start on time in August, when the Cowboys are planning to be getting after it in May? What’s with all this conjecture about a shorter season or a delayed start when Noted Expert Mike Gundy is here to deliver football unto the masses right smack dab on time?
Like some other football coaches—including a Mr. Dabo Swinney, in Clemson, S.C.—the man in the visor has all the coronavirus answers. Just ask him.
The Oklahoma State administration weeks ago transitioned to online classes for the remainder of the spring semester, which runs through May 8. They moved graduation from May 9th to December. If they had consulted with Noted Expert Mike Gundy, these May plans might well have been salvaged. (But then again, final exams and graduations are so trivial when compared to the urgency of having the football facility fully staffed.)
The Big 12 shut down all athletics through May 31—something else that runs counter to Noted Expert Mike Gundy’s plan for spring 2020. Perhaps, when commissioner Bob Bowlsby grasps the Gundy vision, he and the rest of the league will come around and change their calendar accordingly.
And this crazy idea that universities should actually have to be open for on-campus learning in order to have on-campus football practices and games? Noted Expert Mike Gundy says no, that doesn’t have to be the case. What do academics have to do with college football, people?
The effects of the Noted Expert Mike Gundy plan can ripple out accordingly, a wave of wisdom washing over the populace. For instance, health professionals should be heartened to learn from the coach that tests soon will be available in such abundance that swabbing a bunch of football players daily to make sure they can block and tackle is basically a done deal. Plus, there is word on the Gundy News Wire that healthy young people can fight off the virus, no problem.
Just like that, the world’s population 22 years and younger receives a Get Out of Quarantine Free card. Now get back in that weight room, son. What could go wrong?
Worries about them transmitting the virus to others are clearly overblown. Besides, Noted Expert Mike Gundy has a plan for that—sequester the players on campus, so they can only do exactly what they were brought to Oklahoma State to do—play football and drive the local economy and deliver the populace out of pandemic depression.
“Everybody needs to see football,” he said. “Even if you watch it on TV it’s going to make people feel better. We’re trying to find a way to pay everybody’s salary and keep the economy going.”
Now, some smart aleck is probably going to point out that sending players back onto campus en masse to train weeks ahead of even the most optimistic of projections might make for bad optics when, ahem, the players are unpaid labor. Some of those players, when informed that their guinea-pig presence is necessary to “keep the economy going,” might be sassy enough to ask for a cut of the revenue. They might even think they are being described as a work force, as opposed to student-athletes competing for the love of the game.
His statements could be considered ignorant. Or dangerous. Or both. But Noted Expert Mike Gundy knows better. Actually, he knows best.
He’s going back to work May 1, ready to take the rest of college football with him. Tell Fauci and other infectious disease nerds to take notes from a real expert. He’s a college football coach, after all, and with that job comes not only incredible wealth but also the fealty of everyone else in his orbit.
It can breed belief in a man that he knows everything about everything. It can send a man whistling past the graveyard, which in this instance is not a euphemism.
Forget the experts, Mike Gundy has a plan to bring college football back. And it's just as absurd as you might think.
PAT FORDEAPR 7, 2020
I would like stock tips from Noted Expert Mike Gundy. Also, some cooking recipes. Could he offer best practices to our educators? How about weighing in on the Middle East?
I’m dying to be enlightened. Really.
Clearly, Noted Expert Mike Gundy knows far more than just football. Not that he’s been great in that regard lately—his Oklahoma State teams were 15–11 the past two seasons, 8–10 in the Big 12—especially given his $5 million a year salary. But it is now abundantly obvious that labeling him a mere football coach is too limiting. He is a Renaissance man, a visionary capable of seeing solutions where others see problems, a savant so cleverly disguised as a mullet-haired meathead.
Take, for example, the wisdom Noted Expert Mike Gundy dispensed upon the masses Tuesday in a media teleconference. When the only topic that matters in today’s world came up—the global COVID-19 pandemic—he flexed his intellectual prowess. He showcased his grasp of public health, economics, the workings of higher education, college athletics in general and other topics.
"The NCAA, the presidents of the universities, the Power 5 conference commissioners, the athletic directors need to be meeting right now and we need to start coming up with answers," Noted Expert Mike Gundy said. "In my opinion, if we have to bring our players back, test them. They're all in good shape. They're all 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22-year-olds. They're healthy. A lot of them can fight it off with their natural body, the antibodies and the build that they have. There's some people that are asymptomatic. If that's true, then we sequester them. And people say that's crazy. No, it's not crazy because we need to continue and budget and run money through the state of Oklahoma."
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Noted Expert Mike Gundy isn’t just talking the talk here. He is an omniscient observer with a plan. He wants to have his staff and support personnel, roughly 100 people, back to work in the Oklahoma State football facility May 1. Then the players after that.
“It might get backed up two weeks,” Noted Expert Mike Gundy allowed.
This may all come as a bit jarring to the simpletons who run Oklahoma State University, the Big 12 Conference, the town of Stillwater, the state of Oklahoma, the United States of America and the World Health Organization. Among others. But it’s not their fault they lack the foresight of the Great Rattlesnake Hunter.
Who needs Anthony Fauci when we have Gundy? Why all the worry about whether football practice can start on time in August, when the Cowboys are planning to be getting after it in May? What’s with all this conjecture about a shorter season or a delayed start when Noted Expert Mike Gundy is here to deliver football unto the masses right smack dab on time?
Like some other football coaches—including a Mr. Dabo Swinney, in Clemson, S.C.—the man in the visor has all the coronavirus answers. Just ask him.
The Oklahoma State administration weeks ago transitioned to online classes for the remainder of the spring semester, which runs through May 8. They moved graduation from May 9th to December. If they had consulted with Noted Expert Mike Gundy, these May plans might well have been salvaged. (But then again, final exams and graduations are so trivial when compared to the urgency of having the football facility fully staffed.)
The Big 12 shut down all athletics through May 31—something else that runs counter to Noted Expert Mike Gundy’s plan for spring 2020. Perhaps, when commissioner Bob Bowlsby grasps the Gundy vision, he and the rest of the league will come around and change their calendar accordingly.
And this crazy idea that universities should actually have to be open for on-campus learning in order to have on-campus football practices and games? Noted Expert Mike Gundy says no, that doesn’t have to be the case. What do academics have to do with college football, people?
The effects of the Noted Expert Mike Gundy plan can ripple out accordingly, a wave of wisdom washing over the populace. For instance, health professionals should be heartened to learn from the coach that tests soon will be available in such abundance that swabbing a bunch of football players daily to make sure they can block and tackle is basically a done deal. Plus, there is word on the Gundy News Wire that healthy young people can fight off the virus, no problem.
Just like that, the world’s population 22 years and younger receives a Get Out of Quarantine Free card. Now get back in that weight room, son. What could go wrong?
Worries about them transmitting the virus to others are clearly overblown. Besides, Noted Expert Mike Gundy has a plan for that—sequester the players on campus, so they can only do exactly what they were brought to Oklahoma State to do—play football and drive the local economy and deliver the populace out of pandemic depression.
“Everybody needs to see football,” he said. “Even if you watch it on TV it’s going to make people feel better. We’re trying to find a way to pay everybody’s salary and keep the economy going.”
Now, some smart aleck is probably going to point out that sending players back onto campus en masse to train weeks ahead of even the most optimistic of projections might make for bad optics when, ahem, the players are unpaid labor. Some of those players, when informed that their guinea-pig presence is necessary to “keep the economy going,” might be sassy enough to ask for a cut of the revenue. They might even think they are being described as a work force, as opposed to student-athletes competing for the love of the game.
His statements could be considered ignorant. Or dangerous. Or both. But Noted Expert Mike Gundy knows better. Actually, he knows best.
He’s going back to work May 1, ready to take the rest of college football with him. Tell Fauci and other infectious disease nerds to take notes from a real expert. He’s a college football coach, after all, and with that job comes not only incredible wealth but also the fealty of everyone else in his orbit.
It can breed belief in a man that he knows everything about everything. It can send a man whistling past the graveyard, which in this instance is not a euphemism.
Mike Gundy Says 'A Lot of' His Players Can Fight Off Coronavirus, Hoping for May Return
JENNA WESTAPR 7, 2020
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said he is looking to return to the program's football facilities next month amid the coronavirus pandemic.
During a teleconference with reporters on Tuesday, Gundy said he thinks it will be safe for his players to return.
"In my opinion, if we have to bring our players back, test them. They're all in good shape. They're all 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22-year-olds. They're healthy. A lot of them can fight it off with their natural body, the antibodies and the build that they have," he said, per KFOR's Dylan Buckingham.
"There's some people that are asymptomatic. If that's true, then we sequester them. And people say that's crazy. No, it's not crazy because we need to continue and budget and run money through the state of Oklahoma."
Health experts do not suggest young people should be exempt from social distancing practices during the pandemic. The virus can affect people of all ages, and younger people can even pose a threat to older people or those with underlying health conditions.
Gundy said the program will treat the coronavirus like the flu and anyone who contracts COVID-19 would be quarantined.
"We get people that get the flu during the season," Gundy said, per ESPN. "We quarantine them. We treat them. We make sure they're healthy. We bring ‘em back. It would be the same thing here, but at some point, we’ve got to go back to work. ...From what I read, the healthy people can fight this, the antibodies make it better. They're doing some blood transplants now with the people that have already gotten the disease, that have gotten over it that have the antibodies that can fight it. There's a lot of people who can figure this out. May 1's our goal. Don't know if it will happen. Players will come in after that."
Oklahoma State issued a statement Tuesday night regarding Gundy's comments.
"Everyone wants to return to some degree of normalcy as soon as possible," the school said. "As for Oklahoma State University, we will adhere to the advice of public health experts who are making informed decisions in the best interest of the citizens of our nation based on scientific data.
"We will not compromise the health and wellbeing of our campus community. This virus is deadly and we will do our part at Oklahoma State to help blunt the spread."
Professional and college sports are shut down right now amid the pandemic, and no date has been set for when college football practice can begin. Big 12 schools will not be allowed to hold in-person workouts and meetings with student-athletes until May 31. Last month, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said the conference would monitor the pandemic to decide if the upcoming football season should be delayed.
As the coronavirus continues to spread across the nation, health experts have not set a timeline for when people can resume going to work or gathering in large crowds.
Gundy told reporters that he realizes the seriousness of the pandemic, but he also thinks it's important for people to get back to their normal routines soon.
"I'm not taking away from the danger of people getting sick. You have the virus, stay healthy, try to do what we can to help people that are sick. And we're losing lives, which is just terrible. The second part of it is that we still have to schedule and continue to move forward as life goes on and help those people."
JENNA WESTAPR 7, 2020
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said he is looking to return to the program's football facilities next month amid the coronavirus pandemic.
During a teleconference with reporters on Tuesday, Gundy said he thinks it will be safe for his players to return.
"In my opinion, if we have to bring our players back, test them. They're all in good shape. They're all 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22-year-olds. They're healthy. A lot of them can fight it off with their natural body, the antibodies and the build that they have," he said, per KFOR's Dylan Buckingham.
"There's some people that are asymptomatic. If that's true, then we sequester them. And people say that's crazy. No, it's not crazy because we need to continue and budget and run money through the state of Oklahoma."
Health experts do not suggest young people should be exempt from social distancing practices during the pandemic. The virus can affect people of all ages, and younger people can even pose a threat to older people or those with underlying health conditions.
Gundy said the program will treat the coronavirus like the flu and anyone who contracts COVID-19 would be quarantined.
"We get people that get the flu during the season," Gundy said, per ESPN. "We quarantine them. We treat them. We make sure they're healthy. We bring ‘em back. It would be the same thing here, but at some point, we’ve got to go back to work. ...From what I read, the healthy people can fight this, the antibodies make it better. They're doing some blood transplants now with the people that have already gotten the disease, that have gotten over it that have the antibodies that can fight it. There's a lot of people who can figure this out. May 1's our goal. Don't know if it will happen. Players will come in after that."
Oklahoma State issued a statement Tuesday night regarding Gundy's comments.
"Everyone wants to return to some degree of normalcy as soon as possible," the school said. "As for Oklahoma State University, we will adhere to the advice of public health experts who are making informed decisions in the best interest of the citizens of our nation based on scientific data.
"We will not compromise the health and wellbeing of our campus community. This virus is deadly and we will do our part at Oklahoma State to help blunt the spread."
Professional and college sports are shut down right now amid the pandemic, and no date has been set for when college football practice can begin. Big 12 schools will not be allowed to hold in-person workouts and meetings with student-athletes until May 31. Last month, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said the conference would monitor the pandemic to decide if the upcoming football season should be delayed.
As the coronavirus continues to spread across the nation, health experts have not set a timeline for when people can resume going to work or gathering in large crowds.
Gundy told reporters that he realizes the seriousness of the pandemic, but he also thinks it's important for people to get back to their normal routines soon.
"I'm not taking away from the danger of people getting sick. You have the virus, stay healthy, try to do what we can to help people that are sick. And we're losing lives, which is just terrible. The second part of it is that we still have to schedule and continue to move forward as life goes on and help those people."
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