I don’t follow Weber closely but I notice that their QB Constantine is transferring to Rice. Still rank them #1 ?

It must be confusing having two coaches named Cody and two coaches named Hawkins; someone needs a pseudonym.

It would be nice if we had a accomplished receiver among the coaches. We have some great athletes who might need some individual skill coaching among the wide receivers.

I think if you look at it objectively Cody is well qualified for the job. Cody also performed well as a player, and was qualified to play at that level. The controversy stemmed largely from play calling that was perceived to be influenced by a desire for Cody to look good that ended up costing the team. True or not, I don’t think that dynamic is at play in this situation.

Seems like the easiest part is to put teams in the correct conference. Maybe since we have the oddity that we are in another conference for basketball that screws up their sort.

How lame it is that 24/7 class rankings still has UC Davis in the Great West.
National Rank
140
Prev. Year: 135
Next Year: N/A
G-West Rank
2
Prev. Year: 1

I think it’s really impressive to see the list of schools in the committed elsewhere list on page 1 of this thread. They’re all FBS except two lost to Cal Poly, one Ivy, and one to Azusa Pacific. We don’t lose many recruits to peer programs, a trend which is now pretty established for the Hawkins era.

It may be that the uncertainty of playing this spring creates uncertainty for how many scholarships will be available. Maybe that will become clearer by the regular signing date.

What’s the status of playing the Big Sky season this spring? Heard nothing for a while. It’d be great to see some of the guys from last years class, and with the short season they could play in two thirds of the games and still red shirt

In 2018 we signed seven guys on the regular February signing day, including Jake Parks. So sometimes outstanding guys are available who might have been hoping for an offer that didn’t come through.

I know this is just early signees, but it’s odd having so few “skill position” players. When have we ever recruited no QBs or WRs? Not that we lack at those positions.
Just three or maybe four offensive players total today

Is it possible that any of this years class enrolls and plays this spring? JC transfers seem likely but even high school students often have enough credits to graduate prior to final semester.

My dad was in high school when the war started, played a season of JC basketball in 42, got drafted in 43, learned to drive a tank destroyer in North Africa in 43 then spent six months in combat or hospital in France before spending two months as a POW in Germany. He left the Army as a sergeant shortly before his 21st birthday and played another season of basketball at the JC.

What’s the eligibility rule for situations like this? A conference can’t have some team’s players using up a season of eligibility while others bank everyone for next year; it’s not a level playing field. All one way or the other. If a team chooses not to play the five year clock should still apply.

Page one of this thread had them both saying they committed on Twitter, which prompted Dr Mike’s reference to a beer and a dog

Thanks

Contrary to popular belief there are aspects of life that are not within our power to change. People get sick and die. My brother died in Denmark of cancer during the start of this epidemic, I think they would have maybe been willing to try a little more to save him except for the Covid appearance. My wife died here in the states, and her care was also disrupted by the Covid shutdown.

There are many reasons people die and many ways those causes of death might be impacted.
A recent study indicated that if everyone drank two cups of coffee a day, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved each year. Yet somehow there is no mass hysteria mandating coffee consumption.

We now know COVID isn’t going to kill 99.4% of the people who get it, it’s time to stop treating it as the apocalypse.

You can’t trust the number of cases comparing countries because they have different levels of testing.
Deaths Per million is useful but in comparison to where the country is on the infection curve. If you’ve had a lot of cases and the deaths are high that’s better than if you’ve had few cases and the deaths are high.
High Deaths and low cases may reflect how callous the society is to the elderly..
All the flare ups seem to die off on their own, lockdown or not. The population where there’s been a flare up is less vulnerable to future flare ups.
There is some percentage of infection or vaccination of the population that when it is reached will preclude spread of the virus. No one knows what that percentage is, because there is some preexisting immunity in the population. The combination of preexisting immunity plus the resistance people gain from exposure seems to bring the virus under control. That’s why it dies down in one area like Sweden or Italy and can still flare up later in a place like California.
The virus is too infectious for a society to hide from for an extended period; there is no way to do so and still function to provide the other needs of people.
If you are a vulnerable individual you should isolate until there is a vaccine. Society can’t afford to isolate people in general who face negligible risk.

The point is that California will catch up to Sweden over time. Unless we have a cure or a vaccine the virus will eventually infect roughly the same proportion of the population, no mater if you lockdown or not This is not a new observation, that’s how they described the “flattening the curve” When you flatten the curve you don’t lessen the area underneath the curve because it stretches out a longer time.
Score for August 20th: California 135 deaths Sweden 1. Sweden is dominating at the start of the second half.

PS - Sweden’s death rate is higher than it could be because they don’t usually send elderly to ICU. Scandinavians are practical about spending on young folks in preference to old,

Winter is coming
Sweden made the right choice

Countries that exposed more of the population in spring will have fewer deaths in coming months, You can see this already:
Sweden 8/20 1 death. California 8/20 135 deaths
Sweden has a quarter of California’s population

Lockdowns aren’t saving lives , just changing temporal distribution of deaths.