Cuomo says Trump is 'facilitating' coronavirus, urges him not to be 'a co-conspirator' of COVID-19

[istodolez]

With a crucial difference - the mortality rate is far lower.

But it's startin' to kick back up! Have you checked the FT tracker lately? This could be noise but I'm not counting on it. Considering that one has to contract the disease before one dies from it, it looks like our most recent batch of chickens are coming home to roost:

 

[SoldierOfTheKing]

Who?

Kemp, DeSantis, Abbot... even our governor Inslee didn’t do anything so harebrained.

 

[wing2000]

I'm an American with 3 college degrees and I still have no clue how "college football" is a thing. (You'll be pleased to hear that some of the highest paid people on any given college campus are often the coaches of the football or basketball teams, depending on which the school is a "powerhouse" in...these guys are EXTREMELY powerful and wealthy individuals.)

...that's because we *value* football over learning.

 

[cow451]

Mind explaining it for a poor european that doesn't even understand how "college football" can be a thing in the first place.

The equivalent of rabid soccer (football) rivalries= college football rivalries. Spurrier was doing the “gator chop”, which is a gesture in support if the University of Florida Gators where he was a championship coach. The event was at Knoxville TN home of rival University of TN. Spurrier, interestingly grew up in a small town in northeast TN.

 

[cow451]

I'm an American with 3 college degrees and I still have no clue how "college football" is a thing. (You'll be pleased to hear that some of the highest paid people on any given college campus are often the coaches of the football or basketball teams, depending on which the school is a "powerhouse" in...these guys are EXTREMELY powerful and wealthy individuals.)

You might ask the same question about celebrities of any sort. Why is Kim K-West so wealthy? Sports bring revenue and marketing opportunities. It’s just “bidnez” as we say in the South.

 

[istodolez]

The equivalent of rabid soccer (football) rivalries= college football rivalries. Spurrier was doing the “gator chop”, which is a gesture in support if the University of Florida Gators where he was a championship coach. The event was at Knoxville TN home of rival University of TN. Spurrier, interestingly grew up in a small town in northeast TN.

In Oregon they finally decided that the annual game between OSU and UofO would NO LONGER be called "the Civil War". LOL.

Apparently this had been a long time in coming. But I'm so new to Oregon that I wasn't aware of this.

Ahhh, Americans and college football. Send our kids to college to learn and rejoice when a small portion of them suffer irreversible long-term brain damage.

 

[cow451]

...that's because we *value* football over learning.

How many people would pay money to watch a college debate?

 

[cow451]

In Oregon they finally decided that the annual game between OSU and UofO would NO LONGER be called "the Civil War". LOL.

Apparently this had been a long time in coming. But I'm so new to Oregon that I wasn't aware of this.

Ahhh, Americans and college football. Send our kids to college to learn and rejoice when a small portion of them suffer irreversible long-term brain damage.

Having played football myself, I’ll remind you that more recent research shows soccer “headers” and domestic violence are also having the same effect.
Having played football myself, I’ll remind you that more recent research shows soccer “headers” and domestic violence are also having the same effect.

 

[wing2000]

How many people would pay money to watch a college debate?

...not many. I'm more puzzled by how many people will spend an entire week's paycheck to see one college football game.

 

[istodolez]

You might ask the same question about celebrities of any sort. Why is Kim K-West so wealthy? Sports bring revenue and marketing opportunities. It’s just “bidnez” as we say in the South.

Oh, I fully understand that. College sports often brings in so much money for a university it would almost be fiscally irresponsible for them to get rid of it. Except that the sports-based departments also seem to have this MASSIVE overhead so I'm not sure how much of their wealth trickles over to the losers who can't play football or basketball but come to the university to do that other thing....what's that word? "Learn"? Something like that.

When I was a TA back in grad school it was fun to see how the athletic departments lavished extra effort on the student athletes and we were notified of ways to help ensure the student athletes could get help with making it through the taxing "Rocks for Jocks" intro geology class we taught.

And then I also went to school at another university where the Basketball coach was a local god. Well, not just locally. State-wide. And probably one of the richest men in our college town.

 

[cow451]

...not many. I'm more puzzled by how many people will spend an entire week's paycheck to see one college football game.

The same reason someone would for a Taylor Swift concert.

 

[istodolez]

Having played football myself, I’ll remind you that more recent research shows soccer “headers” and domestic violence are also having the same effect.
Having played football myself, I’ll remind you that more recent research shows soccer “headers” and domestic violence are also having the same effect.

I have little doubt of that. But as a non-athletic-American it is my sworn duty to make fun of you folks who played football or other college sports.

 

[cow451]

Oh, I fully understand that. College sports often brings in so much money for a university it would almost be fiscally irresponsible for them to get rid of it. Except that the sports-based departments also seem to have this MASSIVE overhead so I'm not sure how much of their wealth trickles over to the losers who can't play football or basketball but come to the university to do that other thing....what's that word? "Learn"? Something like that.

When I was a TA back in grad school it was fun to see how the athletic departments lavished extra effort on the student athletes and we were notified of ways to help ensure the student athletes could get help with making it through the taxing "Rocks for Jocks" intro geology class we taught.

And then I also went to school at another university where the Basketball coach was a local god. Well, not just locally. State-wide. And probably one of the richest men in our college town.

Dang. You went to almost as many colleges as Sarah Palin.

 

[cow451]

I have little doubt of that. But as a non-athletic-American it is my sworn duty to make fun of you folks who played football or other college sports.

I live to serve. Excuse me, but I have to go to my neurologist appointment now.

 

[Nithavela]

The equivalent of rabid soccer (football) rivalries= college football rivalries. Spurrier was doing the “gator chop”, which is a gesture in support if the University of Florida Gators where he was a championship coach. The event was at Knoxville TN home of rival University of TN. Spurrier, interestingly grew up in a small town in northeast TN.

I am somehow more confused than before, but thank you anyway.

 

[istodolez]

Dang. You went to almost as many colleges as Sarah Palin.

3 (3 degrees, unlike Sarah, I actually got a degree from each university I attended).

I realized as I was wrapping up my PhD that I'd spent 11 years in university, almost as much time going from 1st grade to high school graduation.

And I was one of the LUCKY PhD's...I did my PhD in about 3 years (the field I'm in actually has MS as a "terminal degree", ie you can get a good job with just that...so a lot of us did a separate MS rather than just getting one as a "participant trophy" before dropping out of PhD.).

And with each degree I somehow timed them all such that the achievement of said degree mapped almost perfectly to a massive downturn in the employment potential in my field. I was like a PREDICTOR function for mass layoffs in geology from 1986 to 1995.

 

[cow451]

3 (3 degrees, unlike Sarah, I actually got a degree from each university I attended).

I realized as I was wrapping up my PhD that I'd spent 11 years in university, almost as much time going from 1st grade to high school graduation.

And I was one of the LUCKY PhD's...I did my PhD in about 3 years (the field I'm in actually has MS as a "terminal degree", ie you can get a good job with just that...so a lot of us did a separate MS rather than just getting one as a "participant trophy" before dropping out of PhD.).

And with each degree I somehow timed them all such that the achievement of said degree mapped almost perfectly to a massive downturn in the employment potential in my field. I was like a PREDICTOR function for mass layoffs in geology from 1986 to 1995.

Kinda like arthritis predicting bad weather.

 

[ArmenianJohn]

Mind explaining it for a poor european that doesn't even understand how "college football" can be a thing in the first place.

It all started on November 6, 1869, when my Alma Mater, Rutgers, hosted Princeton (then "The College of New Jersey") for a game of football between the men of the two colleges. Rutgers won 6-4 and "college football", i.e. intercollegiate football, was born. Incidentally, this is also when the idea of "school colors" was born because the Rutgers contingent adopted scarlet as the school color and wore scarlet colored ribbons, clothing, etc. in that first game.

Throughout the decades, football has been a part of most colleges' campus life. Because of this, colleges developed loyal fans from their student bases and growing alumni ranks. To this day there is the notion (oft romanticized) that college football fans are more diehard fans than professional football (NFL) fans because most them are students or alumni of the college or university they support. Add to that the many state universities who garner support from the general citizenry of the state because they feel represented as taxpayers. But the reality is that it is a huge business and has so many fans and so many are diehards because they have a tie to the school - this is why "college football" is so huge and such "a thing" i the US.