@drgnslayr Careful, you are going to sound like one of us Commies... đ
mayjay
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@BeddieKU23 said in BIG, ACC, PAC12 Alliance:
The Big-12 has been flat out left at the alter. What a disgrace.
It is interesting that the same things that have allowed us to enjoy more and more basketball viewing than we could have conceived of watching 30 years ago (ESPN, huge television contracts, proliferation of networks both cable and streaming) are now resulting in so much disintegration of the conference structure in which it all has been based.
What is just ridiculous is I don't even care if KU has fb. We are paying for years of pure crap.
@wissox Being in SC, and having no connections to anything KU-related except this Board, "out of touch" is pretty accurate!
@jayballer67 It will be crimson...and blue.
@Crimsonorblue22 What is the Brady beef? Am I missing something? Or, getting old, forgetting something?
@jayballer67 There is a world of difference between you saying "college basketball is history" in your first post, and now saying it is going to change.
Of course it will. That was my point. It will adapt, and we won't be wringing our hands about players who aren't there.
I am lost.
Drama drama, sky is falling, waah waah waah...
Say 50 or 500 guys a year go out of HS, on top of all the one and dones. College bb will still be around, lower echelon players move into the ranks, the competition isn't quite as high but it all levels out in the end. No shortage of good athletes who will move up and be excellent. More opportunities for some to get schollies.
People will still watch their favorite teams, the Field House will still get 16,300, and the sun will come up every day for the next 4 to 5 billion years.
Me, too!
Lucky people in Chiefs viewing area get to watch, but not on nationally.
However, it will be rebroadcast on NFL Network at 1:00 a.m. Eastern time.
Since it is the first preseason game since 2019, don't forget that the results don't matter. This is more of a tentative showcase testing players' timing and for coaches to see who gets to survive the first cuts. Reportedly, KC may play first string OL and Mahomes together for a full quarter (longer than most teams) because 3 of them have never even taken an NFL snap and the other 2 are new to Reid's schemes. (Don't be surprised to see Mahomes often giving himself up in the backfield rather than scrambling if a block is missed!)
@Marco You can say that again! đ
When is Late Night this year?
How many of us do...đ¤
The more I think about it, the more I think KU and the other pending schools should join together and sue in federal court to enjoin the IARP and NCAA from proceeding. The "independent" forum has publicly admitted it cannot do its job and wants to be just another tool of the enforcement arm. This was experimental, and the schools consented based on guarantees of an unbiased investigation and decision.
Even the military learned long ago that a court system has no credibility when the court is controlled by the prosecutor.
@Marco said in Self Has Covid:
You did good with this post, keep up the good work
Thx. The product of hours and hours of dealing with this frustration!
@approxinfinity That made me smile. Thx!
The timing is insane, as they are almost explicitly saying: "We cannot do our jobs so please let the enforcement staff do it for us."
They should have simply refused to take more cases until these are resolved, and then propose new rules. How can any reviewing authority not believe that this cry for relief does not affect their approach to current cases?
@FarmerJayhawk Understanding people who react strongly to reports of several cases of side effects will be easier when you remember what many psych studies show about how the human brain is numb to large ststistics in evaluating risk.
People can identify with reports of small numbers of people, but cannot conceive of mass numbers as individuals. A local news report of post-vax clots has a face in it. A report of thousands of people in hospitals on respirators is just a number. The important part of that word, number, is "numb." People are numb to victims in the thousands.
The old saying is appropos: "A single death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic."
Fundraising for hunger goes nowhere until the ads show a starving baby with flies flitting about, and campaigns for St Jude hospital show those poor bald kids in wheelchairs -- faces, not stats.
So, my advice is to (gently) present to your mom the reports coming out lately about individuals expressly regretting not getting vaccines as they go to ERs and ICUs. Find some where people talk about thinking they were safe because of (whatever). It just might make more of a difference when you say, "Mom, I saw this and my heart broke thinking this could be you."
I had to admit to my doctor when my diabetes started getting into the uncontrolled range, "Well, I guess I am proof that denial is not an effective health care strategy." Recognizing that we all do some stupid things may help, too.....Good luck to her and you through this mess.
If I didn't live in The Confederacy, I would chuckle nonstop at the idiots in other states' governments. But one difference is that you guys get a mob following several nitwits who make the news because of new stupidities. Our mob and nitwits seldom make news. An occasional intelligent person is what makes news here.
@BeddieKU23 So the "independent board" no longer wants the authority/responsibility to conduct an unbiased independent inquiry, and wants to simply rely on NCAA enforcement staff's investigations. The NCAA just gave all the schools an open door for appeals to the courts.
@approxinfinity And we are supposed to be respectful when the first post is itself disrespectful, and the poster admits he is trolling?
@ICThawk The expectation seems to be premised in the idea that to compete with the SEC for tv money, other conferences will expand, likely to 16 teams. That number offers possibly more rounds of conference playoffs, as well as the chance to create 2 geographical divisions that help reduce travel problems for the teams at the far edges. I have seen pods of 4 mentioned, too. Theoretically, expanding the teams also will provide inroads into untapped tv markets like KC (plus, you know, the real biggies, like Topeka, Hays, etc)
Dunno if those expectations are valid. KU's weakness in fb may be fatal, but on the other hand the Big Ten may think that giving KU new areas to gin up interest and recruit in could resurrect fb in Lawrence (no huge 4-school Texas based anchor dragging us down).
@Marco Was the draft last night? We actually had the tube (anachronistic, that!) off for the evening and read.
@Marco Did you miss my extensive post about the history underlying Black suspicion?
I don't know what underlies Latino hesitancy except possible suspicion of anything federal.
Goodbye, Danny Duffy, and thanks for everything!! Hope you recover and pitch Series winning Game 6 for the Dodgers!
@Crimsonorblue22 Unfortunately, the unvaxxed will continue to ignore anything coming from CDC because they think it is a huge power grab by Biden. After all, everyone knows getting people to wear masks or get vaxxed has such great benefits to any would be dictator.
So they will ignore it and then, when some Epsilon or Gamma or Tau or Phi or Omega variant comes along that kills vaxed people at the same rate, the unvaxxed will say, "See? The vax don't work." At which point any survivor has my support in knocking unvaxxed heads off.
NIL should make these interesting, as players sell the rights to their announcements. T-shirts sold to the crowds, etc, but they will have issues if they run afoul of the schools' licensing rules. Can't put logos on items to be sold, etc. Wonder if the schools will grant permission?
Very weird: I wrote that and posted it, and it immediately said I had posted it 8 minutes ago. Guess I time-traveled.
@jayballer67 They just want lots of hats. Future protection from the sun from breakdown of ozone layer, etc.
@FarmerJayhawk said in OU, Texas to the SEC?:
@Kcmatt7 said in OU, Texas to the SEC?:
Id be lying if I said I wasnât nervousâŚ
Anyone who isnât is either ignorant or lying đł
It certainly gives us an excuse to displace our worries about the Delta variant, our political upheaval, and whether a big asteroid will strike the earth within 4 million years...
@tis4tim said in OU, Texas to the SEC?:
@Kcmatt7 said in OU, Texas to the SEC?:
Id be lying if I said I wasnât nervousâŚ
Where's @stupidmichael when you need him?
He realigned with another Board. He ignored the unwritten rule requiring a profane posting announcing his departure due to people saying things he didn't like.*
*All untrue. Have no idea!
@FarmerJayhawk said in Self Has Covid:
Have to meet people where theyâre at.
Scared to go where these people's heads are at!
Number 16. They look no further than Fox news for info--not answers, just info--supporting their fear/hesitancy/paranaoia.
@wissox Never, ever understood bring in a relief pitcher who then walks the first batter. Have the outgoing pitcher do it.
Hard for me to get bent out of shape over a few minutes of song that carries meaning to a group that for literally centuries was the target of intentional destruction of identity.
@Marco said in Self Has Covid:
I mean, I just do not understand why roughly 43% of America has chosen to not get vaccined? "Well, it wasn't fully studied, was rushed!" Man,, what is ever "fully" studied? And the craziest part? Of that 43%, many - and putting it out there, I am not a so-called liberal - are among those that complained the loudest about our economy being shutdown.
There is a different group of people whose fear of the vaccine's safety is understandable to me despite the fact that it is an emotional reaction.
We have all heard of the Tuskegee research scandal, but the details and breadth of what I think should have been prosecuted as criminal neglect of medical responsibility should not be forgotten. From the CDC webpage:
In 1932, the USPHS, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began a study to record the natural history of syphilis. It was originally called the âTuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Maleâ (now referred to as the âUSPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegeeâ). The study initially involved 600 Black men â 399 with syphilis, 201 who did not have the disease. Participantsâ informed consent was not collected. Researchers told the men they were being treated for âbad blood,â a local term used to describe several ailments, including syphilis, anemia, and fatigue. In exchange for taking part in the study, the men received free medical exams, free meals, and burial insurance.
By 1943, penicillin was the treatment of choice for syphilis and becoming widely available, but the participants in the study were not offered treatment.
In 1972, an Associated Press story about the study was published. As a result, the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs appointed an Ad Hoc Advisory Panel to review the study. The advisory panel concluded that the study was âethically unjustifiedâ; that is, the âresults [were] disproportionately meager compared with known risks to human subjects involved.â In October 1972, the panel advised stopping the study. A month later, the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs announced the end of the study. In March 1973, the panel also advised the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) (now known as the Department of Health and Human Services) to instruct the USPHS to provide all necessary medical care for the survivors of the study.1 The Tuskegee Health Benefit Program (THBP) was established to provide these services. In 1975, participantsâ wives, widows and children were added to the program. In 1995, the program was expanded to include health, as well as medical, benefits. The last study participant died in January 2004.
On May 16, 1997, President Bill Clinton issued a formal Presidential Apology for the study.
(some paras omitted, incl re $10 million settlement of class action suit)
That is a horror to anyone who hears about it, but to a population that is descended from survivors of slavery and Jim Crow and lynchings, the violation of trust in medical treatments is deeply seared into their memories. One can only imagine the reactions to that news as it was spread from family to family, from parents to children.
It is all the more horrifying that this abuse continued for nearly 3 decades after the Nuremberg research protocols mandated informed consent in all human experiments, after the universal revulsion to Nazi medical torture in the guise of research.
This stuff happened within the memories of millions of Blacks. For them to be doubtful, even scornful, about whether they should trust government public health assurances that the vax is safe is regrettable, but certainly understandable.
Perhaps when the vaccines receive full approval, the negative connotation of "experimental treatment" can be discarded and we will see this vulnerable population being more accepting.
@Oldmanhawk I respect opinions that do not disparage people's efforts to stay healthy and advocate freedom with no responsibility. But I understand your point and will try to make my points after the anger is only simmering rather than raging!
@Crimsonorblue22 Thank you for actually understanding my point.
I should explain that my reaction was based on reading in that comment that vaxxed Grandma needs to take responsibility for not getting exposed and should not go out, but not a word about anyone who wants to not get vaxxed having any responsibility to stay home, wear a mask, and not expose anyone.
This is so contrary to medical safe practices that it always needs to be called out. And yes, the attitude helps endanger everybody by encouraging the spread, and possible (inevitable?) mutations of covid.
@HemisphereHawk said in Self Has Covid:
I believe very strongly that someone can protect themselves if they choose to.
Bullshit. You must be ignoring the many stories of people who did everything they could and caught it anyway, most of whom died (which is why these stories made the news).
Also, you refer to anyone doing everything they can to protect themselves as cowering in fear. Your freedom to do what you want stops at the point where what you are doing endangers others. Smoking is a great example. Have you managed to miss how it is being regulated to save other people from exposure?
You left out gun-related deaths. I assume you think that everyone's freedom includes playing with guns in public, taking them into any place of business (your covid aerosols are basically bullets), and just letting anyone scared of guns cower in fear.
Do you tell flu patients to just go out as soon as they are feeling okay, and anyone scared of the flu just has to deal with it? As a doctor, your attitude toward public health is one reason we will be in this mess for way too long.
@jayballer67 said in OU, Texas to the SEC?:
BUT the question then becomes - - does the Big 10 WANT Oklahoma State instead of Texas
Assume you mean SEC?
@nwhawkfan said in Olympics:
Shame that there are no fans in the stands. It really takes away from the atmosphere, especially during the opening ceremonies.
I did like how they painted the seats different colors to give the illusion os fans in the distance. But no audience roars (Tonga guy would have raised the roof), although the assembled performers, delegations, and athletes tried!.
@Marco said in Self Has Covid:
@mayjay That's what I mean, so low as to where one could almost say - and I don't think that anyone has? - that while you might catch it after already being vaccined you are not going to be hospitalized and or die.
Is this a subtle joke about Biden?
@approxinfinity I wanted that info, too, but it wasn't in the article I read. I was just browsing through Google News, and don't remember the article source.
This is social media--you can't expect assertions to be verifiable! đ
@Crimsonorblue22 Grief in so many cases now is exacerbated by a crushing sense of helplessness in seeing so many people refusing a free, lifesaving, 15 minute x 2 shot. Sorry you have to go through it.
@KirkIsMyHinrich As with everybody else, you have to sort through the chaff to find the wheat. For example, the point about Calif law was important.
I agree that there is a short fuse when anyone ventures an opinion on something he perceives as his bailiwick. But I have noticed that with almost everyone who writes long expository posts.
It is not correct that you cannot die if you have Covid after vaccinating. The odds are extremely low, however. Same for hospitalization. Only 5500 people in the US have been hospitalized or died from Covid, out of 160,000,000 fully vaxxxed.
And it is spreading despite the vax. Article today says there was a maskless concert recently--16 people who were vaxxed caught it.
St Louis is mandating masks for everybody again. I assume this will happen many places as Delta goes to town. Here in South Carolina, it would probably lead to a second secession....
20% of new cases in the US are in Florida, which has been too busy to notice the Delta variant due to patting itself on the back for easing restrictions so early.
@Texas-Hawk-10 "Un-American" usually means contrary to America's purported ideals, which as you point out certainly can seldom be found to have been followed in our history.
Or, more succinctly, American history is pretty damned un-American.