One Trick Pony wrote:The SMU athletic department would be well advised not to play games with that donation calling it an annual and exspect it with out a product on the field then charge again the following year.
I can't see Rick ever doing anything to monkey around with donations - especially from loyal fans who attend events.
I think things will open up to the point where we can have the games with no attendance restrictions, just suggested masks. Now will the conference or NCAA impose additional restrictions? Maybe. And will the university nix the Boulevard? Maybe. But short of a massive reopening regression, we are going to have football.
ponyboy wrote:I think things will open up to the point where we can have the games with no attendance restrictions, just suggested masks. Now will the conference or NCAA impose additional restrictions? Maybe. And will the university nix the Boulevard? Maybe. But short of a massive reopening regression, we are going to have football.
I'd be ok with one fall that is entirely about the football, with the Boulevard returning next year.
By the way, I don't know how things are down there, but in UP you have a lot of places that in effect look normal. Foxtrot Cafe, for instance, is open (it's a new small grocery on the ground floor of the rebuild of what used to be the Chase Building in Snider Plaza) and, though staff is wearing masks, customers are not. I would imagine that an open Boulevard would mean that most people wouldn't mask up. Another example is the Park Cities YMCA reopen. Policy is masks and gloves -- few are wearing even masks. I'm not criticizing -- just describing.
Interesting new studies in the peer review process that are illustrating that the body itself isn't as receptive to the virus in hot and humid environments. So, we could be on the verge of discovering that as long as you are above a temperature/humidity threshold, being outside together has very little risk.
