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Part of the school experience is learning, but we put 4th graders through active shooter drills so everyone can keep their guns. I can put on a mask so that everyone can watch a football game.

Well, I was vaccinated so I never even thought about it. I mean never! Who did? However, we don't know what we are dealing with regarding this new virus."Venson" is correct. We still don't have a vaccine for HIV and who knows when if ever we will for this virus .At this point who can say. I have renewed my season club seats, increased my scholarship pledge by 10%, and will continue to support the Eagles, but probably from afar.

I may get down voted for this, but part of the game day experience is to eat and drink and it is just very inconvenient to eat and drink with a mask on. You would have to pull the mask down at some point to eat comfortably. Hopefully we will have a more definitive answer by mid June because season tickets are due by June 30th. I am not sure I can enjoy the game day experience fully with a mask on. I will still donate to the MGSF, but I don't know if I would purchase my season tickets.

Well, my wife and I are religious about getting our flu shot in September. And like you, I mostly don't think about it after that. But when I do think about it, I know that the flu shot is considered successful when it protects anywhere between 30-40 percent of the population. That means that I could still come down with it, but then the other advantage of the shot kicks in, which is the severity of the flu event. Depending on the year, I could have a mild or medium "event". I could live with a vaccine that had the same outcomes with CV-19. Here is a chart for the last 15 years. Table. Adjusted vaccine effectiveness estimates for influenza seasons from 2004-2018 CDC calculates vaccine effectiveness estimates through the U.S. VE Network Table. Adjusted vaccine effectiveness estimates for influenza seasons from 2004-2018CDC calculates vaccine effectiveness estimates through the U.S. VE Network Influenza Season† Reference Study Site(s) No. of Patients‡ Adjusted Overall VE (%) 95% CI 2018-19 Flannery 2020external icon WI, MI, PA, TX, WA 3,254 29 21, 35 2017-18 Rolfes 2019external icon WI, MI, PA, TX, WA 8,436 38 31, 43 2016-17 Flannery 2019external icon WI, MI, PA, TX, WA 7410 40 32, 46 2015-16 Jackson 2017external icon WI, MI, PA, TX, WA 6879 48 41, 55 2014-15 Zimmerman 2016external icon WI, MI, PA, TX, WA 9311 19 10, 27 2013-14 Gaglani 2016external icon WI, MI, PA, TX, WA 5999 52 44, 59 2012-13 McLean 2014external icon WI, MI, PA, TX, WA 6452 49 43, 55 2011-12 Ohmit 2014external icon WI, MI, PA, TX, WA 4771 47 36, 56 2010-11 Treanor 2011external icon WI, MI, NY, TN 4757 60 53, 66 2009-10 Griffin 2011external icon WI, MI, NY, TN 6757 56 23, 75 2008-09 Unpublished WI, MI, NY, TN 6713 41 30, 50 2007-08 Belongia 2011external icon WI 1914 37 22, 49 2006-07 Belongia 2009external icon WI 871 52 22, 70 2005-06 Belongia 2009external icon WI 346 21 -52, 59 2004-05 Belongia 2009external icon WI 762 10 -36, 40 * Vaccine effectiveness estimates for 2018-2019 are preliminary estimates and will be updated with final estimates at the end of the 2018-2019 U.S. influenza season. * From 2004-05 through 2010-11, the Network also enrolled inpatients. † Vaccine effectiveness (VE) estimates for the 2008-2009 flu season have not yet been published. ‡ Number of patients used in VE calculation.

Wear a mask/gator for 3+ hours?! I may very well pass on that and just watch/listen to the game in the comfort of my home. I can tailgate in my backyard as well.

On a related note, CUSA is now scrambling to find another school to add

How are you going to wear a mask when it is 100 degrees outside? No way!

I think this may just be a holding pattern for us until TV contracts expire. I think WB is going to position us as best he can when real re-alignment happens in 2024.

C'mon Joe. Football players have been wearing facemasks for decades!

I have seen Kathy at games but have never met her. She is a devoted mother and Mean Green fan. https://meangreensports.com/news/2020/5/10/mens-basketball-mothers-day-hero.aspx

I completely forgot about her. I guess she's not interfering in athletics so that's good.

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/money/medical-center-admits-planting-staff-180543963.html

If there is a season, I'l be in attendance. I'll take precautions, just like I do now, but I'm not going to stop living life out of fear. I'm in that age bracket too, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be in hiding for the rest of my life. If it's my time, so be it.

I think at least 3 years. If you look around UNT football/basketball events you see a lot of grey hair, which at present is an endangered species. At 77 I may never attend a football or basketball game again, go to a movie or dine out. We have a vaccine for the flu, yet last year 34,000 in USA died, and 60,000 the year before. This new Virus is not going away, and when coupled with existing flue deaths could approach 100,000 per year. We just don't know. In Dallas most venues are open under certain self governing guidelines, yet few are venturing out. A return to the old normal is not going to happen overnight, if at all.

What a croc of &%$$#@! They got caught and tried to spin it. These stunts are not innocent "mistakes." They are intentional. They should not be allowed to get away with "oops, sorry."

UConn football is more irrelevant than we are to a national audience.

Limit/beat this: Specifically? What blueprint do you refer to? I think the bolded part speaks more to the act of not completely shutting down the economy while allowing for increased immunity among groups more likely to exhibit milder/no symptoms of infection. Sort of a balance. That's the way I'm reading it. I think your third paragraph is simplistic, partisan nonsense.

I pretty much agree with this take. Especially the bolded section: ********************************** "There are only two ways that this epidemic ends. One is by population immunity that makes transmission rare, and one is eradication of the virus. The latter is simply not going to happen. The former can be accomplished in two ways, or really, by a combination of both. One is natural immunity and the other is vaccine-aided immunity. We seem to have a number of people who don’t understand these basic facts; who somehow believe that the lockdowns are making the virus go away and when they end, we will all be safe. Not only is the first part of that belief not accurate (the second part is already the case for most of us), the lockdowns are delaying the one thing that would make it safe, especially for the at-risk groups. The sheer stupidity of the lockdown strategy, given the bifurcated nature of this epidemic, is that the strategy is forcing both the epidemic course and the lockdowns to go on indefinitely. If you ease the lockdowns now, you will see greater transmission and infections. You might as well never have put them in place. Only a government employee with a guaranteed job or a rich person (yeah, I’m talking about you Bill Gates) could think indefinite lockdowns are a viable strategy. The smartest strategy is one that would have allowed a moderate pace of spread, building population immunity, while protecting at-risk groups. The biggest at-risk group, seniors in congregate living situations, is already isolated, so it shouldn’t be difficult to protect them. Almost a third of our population, people 24 and under, have essentially a zero risk, and they have the highest rate of contacts. That group is an enormous head start on population immunity. The remainder of the population is generally very low risk as well. It is not hard to imagine getting to the desired 60% or 70% (and as some research suggests, it may not need to be that high) of the population being immune with very low risk. Certainly a lot lower risk than the damage we are doing to people’s lives right now with lost jobs and deferred health care."

It wasn't.

I think he’s thinking of former Dallas County Judge Lee Jackson. Has as she ever been spotted at Apogee ?

We have a vaccine for the flu, and in the past 2 years a little over 100,000 American residents have died of that Virus, an average of about 50,000 per year. If the new Virus continues it's rise into the fall with out a vaccine, deaths could probably be similar to the flu so with the 2 combined you may be looking at 10,000 deaths per month. I say "may", because no one knows. While I don't plan on hiding the rest of my life I plan to avoid venues where the risk of being infected is greatest. The situation the world finds itself in reminds me of a line in a country and western song, "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die."

Football is a contact sport. Will the players be wearing masks as well ?

Got my mask already

this systemic and Current Director Wray is not helping the case by refusing to release text messages from Gov't Phones. Yes Flynn plead guilty but look at his circumstances, he was bankrupt and evidence was shown that the FBI was threatening to also hall his son off to jail, he was desperate and now we also see his lawyers did not utilize exculpatory evidence that should have been used in court.

Well, when a father of worm and a mother of worm fall in love....

In this environment things are not going to get better as far as league affiliation. Everybody is just going to try and keep what they have with reduction in expenses.

Adding Ga St and eliminating two closer and long time rivals in La Tech and USM is very questionable. A conference with just large state schools does not accomplish anything. What appeals to students is playing good known teams, it has absolutely nothing to do with playing like universities. By the way, I also have a problem with thinking that students are different at different schools. Students pick schools based on prestige, location and cost, not some student population analysis. A more regional conference is what everyone says they want. Problem, no one seems to be actually working to accomplish this.

When everything shakes out with the new G5 conferences, lets form a true playoff system with the championship game played at the Frisco Bowl or maybe Shreveport.

During a meeting with the Alumni Board yesterday, Dr. Neal was asked about fall sports. He said they hope to have sports but you need other teams to play, so a lot depends on what rest of the conference decides to do. As far as game day, he said everyone who attends a game will be required to wear a mask. I hope by the time September rolls around, things will look a look a lot different but who knows. I saw this option pop up on my Facebook feed...https://ntmluxury.com/product/north-texas-mean-green-fm3d5-v-ntm0091

I’m not sure what she has done but to my knowledge she has not tried to relocate the University to Dallas. So there is that.

I think so, too. The question will be what things will look like in 2024-2025. The Big XII and Pac-12 are both the ones with the biggest question marks. The Pac-12 doesn't seem to care about athletics the way the other conferences do and they have a terrible network. The Big XII has some lots of other issues, including the LHN, two small privates, and far flung outposts that nobody else seems to want in WVU, ISU, and KSU. The MWC and AAC wait for the scraps to fall their way from that fallout. What happens beyond this is a crapshoot... If the Big 12 somehow gets the Pac 12 southern teams to leave, USC, UCLA, Arizona, and ASU, I suspect the MWC as we know it will be decimated. Boise State, San Diego State, Nevada, and UNLV will get a nice promotion and the league might stay as a power conference. If the Pac-12 gets the Texoma Four to leave, the Big XII probably gets poached off. How that affects us is very hard to know...it may not at all or it may be our ticket upwards finally.

Seems like many of the cases are never what they seem from the reporting. We seem to be quicker and quicker to judge and convict or exonerate based on what we see in the first reporting, or a short video clip. Agree, as we move forward we need to make sure that the benefit of innocent until proven guilty is extended to all, not just one side or the other.

But that was how his appointment was sold. And he did little to help UNT.

I can see the promo night-first 2000 fans get a UNT mask

Yes, forgot all about him, which was easy to do, but I really don't consider an ex-county Judge a big political plus.

Let's get to work! https://www.kvue.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-texas-colleges-returning-this-fall/269-329ed48c-0f69-46fe-9698-c9f2398ab6e0

That’s interesting. In Fort Worth there were thousands out and about last night...and have been for a while now. Rick

Think 10 yr in service should be enough or limit to 2 Senate Terms and 5 House Terms, pathetic seeing certain districts where they have the same member for 30+ yrs and yet situation is no better

Rick

Sorry, but I was in the 15% that is still alive who enjoyed reminiscing.

"History is dumb. Put it in a book on the back shelf so I can ignore it."

I just think NMSU brings good enough 🏀 basketball and utep wants to be aligned with the Texas schools. They really aren’t in a position to look negatively on the aggies. They need a travel partner and if New Mexico isn’t available (why not ask even though a ridiculous long shot) those 2 should be included. Utep won’t stay down forever and some competition from the school across the state line would get them in order fast. UTSA Texas state UNT La Tech Rice ULL Ark State Southern Miss UAB South Alabama or a real SWC resurrect: Houston Rice SMU UNT Texas State UTSA Arkansas State Memphis La Tech Southern Miss GMG

1959? Why is this coming up? Probably 85% of the people at that game are dead by now.

This is exactly how we should have things play out for us ASAP. We all know graduates of these schools--they are all close enough to draw fans from each other's fans. I can get someone to come to Apogee for a game against Rice or Tx State or La Tech. I can't for F_U or Charlotte or Old Dominion.

I always thought we ripped off the US Postal Service logo.

Well, we could take an from old name,"GULF COAST CONFERENCE", and create something new like the American Athletic Conference did. I would include UNT,UTSA, Rice, Texas State, LA. Tech ,ULL , Ark. State, So.Miss, and UAB, which would give you a base of 9 programs, 6 from CUAS and 3 from SBC.You would then determine if you want to go to 10 or 12 schools, drawing from Troy, USA, and UTEP. If you went to 12, add UTEP to other 4 Texas programs plus Ark. State for a Western Division, Troy and USA with La. Tech, ULL, So. Miss., and UAB for Eastern Division [Ark. State and ULL could go either way] . This gives you 8 CUSA programs, 4 SBC programs, and a new conference with a new name. If you went to 10 I would add either Troy or USA., as UTEP is in the same geographic boat as New Mexico State.I realize that some of us might look at this as putting lipstick on a pig, but if you look at existing makeup of CUSA it is basically SBC 2. Just an old man's opinion.

Meh. The second to the top feather on the far wing is much shorter on SOW. Completely different eagle. 😉

Michael Flynn was railroaded by Comey's FBI https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/michael-flynn-was-railroaded-by-james-comeys-fbi?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true ...”The final nail in the coffin of those who pretend political bias did not influence the FBI’s decisions in 2016 and 2017 is a text exchange between Strzok and Page on Feb. 25, 2016, discussing how to approach the Clinton interview: Rick