Barry Svrluga of the Washington Post and a Duke grad goes off on the Big Ten and college athletics generally:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...ts-is-exposed/
Barry Svrluga of the Washington Post and a Duke grad goes off on the Big Ten and college athletics generally:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...ts-is-exposed/
A couple of cordial, friendly suggestions.
It’d be awesome if Duke could supply Coach Cut with a mask that fits so that it wouldn’t fall and expose his nose, repeatedly, during halftime interviews.
And, gosh, maybe the announcers at halftime would talk to each other, without masks, from further than 3 feet apart.
These behaviors, and their underlying message, are why some folks aren’t enthusiastic about college football during a global pandemic.
It may have been a different broadcast (I thought it was ours) but there was a sometimes visible plastic/plexglass screen between the two announcers. Makes it easier to talk while broadcasting, and also be close enough to be able to see your partner's hand signals. Six feet might now allow that to happen while watching the field.
Interesting story today on Bloomberg.com (with a quote from a Duke MD) about the ongoing disaster on college campuses. Worth reading, IMHO.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-to-spill-over
This. I think most of the broacast crews have a plexiglass screen right between the play-by-play person and the color commentator. The camera angle doesn't show it very well because it is seeing only the thin side of the plexiglass pane and also, well, because plexiglass is, um, clear and colorless.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
In fact it's new, improved technology that saved the day...https://deadspin.com/chiefs-develop-...ace-1845122165
I noticed yesterday that a lot of coaches don't even bother trying to cover the nose and mouth...
I imagine duke will have no interest in relaxing their current lockdown. I can see them allowing students, but I put the chance they allow non-affiliates on campus for a football game at approximately 0%. They want no part of what happened to UNC or NCSU, are currently doing okay, at least seemingly such that they can make it out the semester...there is no reason to risk that.
April 1