Understand that the virus is going to make it through populations eventually, the numbers above just indicate where the progression has been to this point. The virus now is killing Swedes at a single digit rate per day, and they haven’t killed their economy. They’re still going to school and playing sports.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of football players test positive after the Fall. They are not going to be isolated. I suspect they will go to parties. They will likely eat in communal settings or have the exposure to shopping etc, some may not be on campus but who knows how safe their living conditions will be. A lot of the students will catch it whether they play football or not. The argument that “ if it just saves one life” assumes that playing is riskier than the players self directed alternative.
Is it?

if teams don’t play in the spring, the same nightmare applies. I expect many teams won’t play in the spring either for health or other reasons including ticket revenue. So we’ll have some conferences who burn player elegibility and others who don’t, except perhaps the five years to play four may still apply.

Teams who wish to do so should play the games on their schedule that also wish to play.
Without full stadiums, little risk above what people face in other activities.
Whether the season is cancelled or not, some students/coaches/fans are going to catch COVID.
NCAA could say the limited season doesn’t cost a year of eligibility.
Issue shouldn’t require near unanimity of opinion between various colleges and politicians.

The new helmets look like Cal’s in the Davis game. If we have gold pants and navy blue Jerseys we’d have that look.
Movie, thanks for posting the link, we really looked good in the first quarter. Crawford was outstanding, with five catches and a pass completion.

Perhaps with the career Gilliam has had they figured he graduated.

It would be entertaining to watch intrasquad 7 man football with all the QBs and receivers on the team.

Plus he stays up on the latest news in medicine, including shining light in the lungs.
https://aytubio.com/healight/

I hope institutions don’t make a decision for a few months. Just withhold judgement until some clarity is possible. It is foolish to lock into a position at this point.
If schools go to all online, why do we need so many? We would only need five or ten. A rush to all online seems likely to be suicide for most schools.

We can’t know the death rate if we don’t know how many have had the disease, and we don’t yet. A USC survey indicates perhaps 4% of Los Angeles county has had it, which implies its about as lethal as the flu, but perhaps more contagious,
It’s fallacious to just divide deaths by positive tests unless you have tested everyone who had the disease.

We’ll know how to estimate how many have had the disease pretty soon once someone does a large random antibody test,

People who decide these things should withhold judgement for a while until the situation clarifies or the calendar forces a decision.

common sense: A geographical area will have multiple strains of the virus unless they’ve been isolated. Natural selection will favor less lethal and more infective strains. The extremely lethal strains will tend to spread less due to host dying and/ or attracting medical isolation, while mild symptom strains will spread more easily to more people. Eventually this will be a mild disease that most people have had.
It’s about time someone reports how far this virus has penetrated a population by doing the antibody tests on a random sample. To date we don’t seem to know if .5% or 50% of the population of
any country has been infected. If that isn’t known how can anyone predict what kind of isolation will be necessary in the fall?

There was a dearth of reporting as usual.

Regarding Anthony Villegas, most mention his height as either 5’10” or 5’11” and weight 190+. He looks relatively tall and runs through a lot of tackles.
Saw one review of top running backs that listed him as 5’9” and 170, which might reflect a earlier year. http://battleprepwest.com/2019/02/06/norcal-top-rb-class-of-2020/
I suspect this guy is going to be one of our outstanding walk ons.

He also ran for 280+ yards against Mitty.
He’s got decent but not great speed and he’s not small, so he’s definitely a good addition .

A running back from Palma will walk on.

https://www.montereyherald.com/2020/03/01/villegas-to-play-football-next-fall-at-uc-davis/

Any more rumors about our QBs in spring practice? Are any of the transfers at spring practice?
We may have our deepest and best receiving corp ever, along with a big talented offensive line, plus a outstanding veteran running back. Great situation for a new QB to step into.

The point being that in 2018 the expectation was more along the line of
“SJSU should thump UC Davis in opener”, Davis was a game they put in the preseason guarantee win category.

Lo and behold, this years look at San Jose’s schedule does not have Davis in the “guaranteed” win category, occupied by New Mexico and Connecticut.
https://mwwire.com/2020/02/27/san-jose-state-football-first-look-at-the-2020-schedule/

Our 2020 San Jose game gets a big bump in importance. If Davis beats San Jose, it will make SC look foolish for the expense of switching them in for us. It would be so sweet to beat them.
Both San Jose and us have to replace productive quarterbacks, but San Jose has a graduate transfer who’s played quite a bit fro Arkansas and Texas AM