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Is there a solid date for our first game?

Nesbit is an 18 year old kid who changed his mind at the last minute. He probably burned the SLU coaches pretty bad. It is totally reasonable that this would happen, and happens every year hundreds of times. Let’s just move on. Can we get a New commitment to focus on?

Nesbitt looks a little bit like a project for a coach. A little unpolished. Otherwise, super athletic and talented. That said, any player can be 1 and done if he goes out and averages 20 points for a good team as a freshman. It is just pretty unlikely that Nesbitt will do that. Good luck to him. He is similar to goodwin physically, but that is all. Kern is physically similar to Javonte Perkins. He has shown good efficiency up to this point in his career. I hope we lock him up, and he can become the next JP here.

If you are a player on Memphis right now, non-starter, why do you wait to till the spring to transfer? Why not bolt and invest your time in a program that is investing in you?

Everyone, calm down. Every kid gets antsy before a big decision. Ultimately, he will realize that he can’t jam a Yuri pass in Memphis or Illinois. He can’t pitch a Hargrove alley hoop either. He can’t bring the Chaifetz to its feet, or eat Pappy’s. Also, once Kofi Kochburn is gone, Illinois will be a lower B10 team, and Memphis already showed who they are without Wiseman. I wouldn’t want to take the risk on their futures personally. He has seen what Ford does with big guards that rebound and defend. Hard to miss that one. It’s actually a pretty easy choice.

This is ridiculous, please creat a thread called “recruiting - 1997.”

If we go to the Final Four this year, it is Goodwin. Stats are great. Hard to debate your statements, but winning, and being the leader of a winning team means more to me than stats. Just something for J. Good to consider.

If this happens, it will be the best thing in history for the non-power five. Think about it, the tourney normally only let’s in like 20-25 small conference teams. Now, there would be like 200-230? Against the power five 60-70 teams? With the likelihood of upsets, it is possible the power five won’t even have a seat in the Final Four. It would be glorious!

I clicked on a Gordon thread on a message board, clicked no reply, and typed no personal attack, and provided nothing substantive about the subject matter of the thread. Who am I?

https://apple.news/AyEE_ObnNTuurDB24dBLf4Q This might explain it. Newly enrolled international students whose colleges and universities are operating entirely online this fall won't be allowed to enter the U.S. after all. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed on Friday that its guidance granting visa flexibility to nonimmigrant students only applies to those who were actively enrolled at American schools on March 9. "Nonimmigrant students in new or initial status after March 9 will not be able to enter the U.S. to enroll in a U.S. school as a nonimmigrant student for the fall term to pursue a full course of study that is 100 percent online," the agency said. It told designated school officials not to issue a Form I-20 to an international student in new or initial status who is outside of the U.S. and plans to take classes fully online. (Nonimmigrant students need a Form I-20, or certificate of eligibility, to apply for a student visa, apply for benefits and enter the country.) In an FAQ document last updated on July 15, ICE said that newly enrolled international students who are already in the U.S. can stay in the country. It also suggests deferment as an alternative for new students whose schools are modifying operations because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Confluence is the best name that I have heard.

One of the weirdest things about this chart is that it is wrong. That end spike was not shown in the underlying data. I couldn’t figure out whether it was right or wrong yesterday, and several articles were citing the number: 1,400. The underlying data was saying 873. Now, today, the same chart is updated to show 873. So, at least it is not a big upward spike yet.

Ohhhh, I’ll one up you there young timer. His great grand pappy and me played hopscotch down at the watering hole back in the day. He was a hell of a hop scotch player. Seriously, this post is the first time ‘grandpa’ and ‘AAU’ were used in the same sentence.

Honestly, if they left we would dominate the A10. Also, some of the East Coast teams, such as Rhode Island or Umass, would come alive and we would probably stay a 2 bid conference.

Honestly, the complaints are very superficial. I would commend them for not firing him on the basis that we do not like him. That said, if our complaints were couched as an inability to properly state an African American’s name as compared to white player’s name, then that would be a good reason.

Remember how annoying Roy billiken and old guy were earlier in this thread? That is you, right now, maybe worse, just the other side of the coin.

I don’t think you understood my post completely. I didn’t explain the numbers, and I am too lazy to do it now, but I do not think they are necessarily wrong. The main thing to take away is that there is a balanced way of reporting and a click bait way of reporting. We live in a world of click bait. What do you think sells more: 1) everyone is dying! Or 2) it looks like things are leveling off and maybe we oversold the risks! I don’t care if it is cavalier. It is an anonymous basketball forum. Not the floor of the senate.

The death rate was expected to be increased this year regardless of Covid19. The article doesn’t mention that though, or account for it, right? 37,000 is actually a pretty small number overall. There is another article which notes that 10 years are being lost per death, on average. Which really means that around 1/4 of deaths are from someone with a long time to live. Right now that would be 15,000 people. I am really getting worn out by how hyperbolic the news cycle has been on Covid19. There is evidence building that the virus is just not as big of a deal as we all thought, but every news outlet is holding onto the salacious headlines with an iron grip.

The quote I saw was a ‘couple billion’ that he is puttin into this, or expects to lose. So, it is probably just $250 sunk at this point.also, I don’t know if it is public which ones he is committed to, but the Oxford study mentioned it was funded by the Gates foundation, which would at least put his work at the current front of vaccine development.

I’m freaking out, man! well, that certainly is a major difference from the previous post.

I think it will change things a lot. Teams which can offer players a high likelihood of real money will be stronger. Some new teams from bigger markets will suddenly become powerhouses. For example, St. John’s or DePaul could always attract talent, but lacked the organization to sustain success. Now, it may not be necessary. Another interesting thing will be watching how other teams that still want to be in the hunt for those players react. The duffel bags used to shuttle cash may grow by an order of magnitude.

If the antibody results continue to place the mortality rate around or below 0.35%, would that change your thoughts?

Actually, here is a very straight forward question/proposition. Today, at least one vaccine is going through human trials. From what I read, this would be provided to 50 people and its effects noted. Later this would go through a second phase and then a third phase. Basically ramping up the amount of people who would receive the vaccine. Why are we following this procedure? Why not administer the vaccine to the final number (let’s say 4,000 people) that will receive it in its final phase now? I understand that all 4,000 might have negative effects. They might all die. However, if we cut 6 months off of the vaccine development timeline, how many people will live, 400,000? So, if we take the top 7 vaccine options, through which manufacturing is being ramped up immediately and funded by Bill Gates, and we push them into this final phase, let’s say 28,000 people are put at risk. If this can save 372,000 lives, why wouldn’t we do it? This may sound harsh or inhumane, but in my mind we are at war with this virus. We need to start thinking of this as a war, because it does not look like there is a cheap way to exit this thing.

I don’t think I was rude. My response was not meant to be rude, and I apologize if it came across that way. I am trying to keep the ball rolling on this. I am trying to drill down on a point though. The medical community is simply saying that we cannot have a quick vaccine because the risks are too high and it may cause problems. However, I think that unless it is shown that the risks have a decent or high chance of killing 500 thousand people, then the risks outweigh the status quo. I do not believe the medical community as a whole is geared towards making that kind of determination, and I am not seeing evidence that any vaccine is being pushed to a large group, like 2000 to 4000 people so that we can make a final determination on its efficacy. I think we should do this now.

I think we should avoid discussion of legal liability and the president’s powers. I honestly think we are in a situation which really can involve new laws and new interpretations. Everyone should just focus on doing the thing that reduces death the most. You can hedge any statement of immunity to things that are ”later determined to not be ‘grossly negligent.’” But the line ‘a reasonable approach will save lives.’ I do not trust that this has been properly answered and considered. Even Bill Gates interview notes side effects and needing to determine the effects, but what if the effect of waiting is 500-600 thousand deaths whereas an immediate release of a vaccine is 500 thousand people with chronic liver disease. What are the odds of a major long term disease? Is there an example we can look at for a failed vaccine launch? I am highly skeptical that we can contain this virus with testing at this point, either by its scope in the US or simply by our incompetence. If we can’t, then we either need a vaccine or herd immunity. If we choose herd immunity, there is a potential we could get there with reduced fatalities, but even then it is above 350 thousand. Based on our incompetence so far, I think it would be over 1 million people. A vaccine would solve all of our problems, and I just starting to think we may run into a time where we have to roll the dice. If so, then we need a vaccine where hundreds to maybe even thousands have received the vaccine and then exposure to Covid19 to test its efficacy, and we really do not have time to waste.