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Blue-White Game (edit: no fans)

I'd go with all students who wish to attend and graduates from 2020 who were had to do the virtual commencements, along with so many per player (10+). Probably would amount to 15,000 at the most.
 
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Erial_Lion said:
The crowd at a BW game is usually an easy one for Intercollegiate Athletics to manage...don't need ushers, don't need to be taking tickets, etc. Just hire some people to half-heartedly check people as they come through the gates, hire some security, and you're all set.

This year, you'd need to be ticketing (or some other way limiting the attendance), figure out how to socially distance the crowd and pay ushers to enforce it, etc. With the current financial situation, I don't see PSU shelling out the additional $ for a game in which they aren't taking back any $ (even if it was possible to have some level of attendance).
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The Ushers would not be able to handle it(nor are they trained to) and you would need a police presence with the way people act these days.
 
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Obliviax said:
Just like that, Mark Woganrich just posted this:


Speaking on the Penn State Coaches Show, Barbour said that Penn State is "going to push really hard" to entertain fans for football games at Beaver Stadium and at other sports venues this fall. Those plans will follow all COVID-19 guidelines that remain in place and will depend on the progress of vaccinations, Barbour added.

But the athletic director said she is hopeful that Beaver Stadium and other sports venues will host "as many Penn Staters, as many fans as want to be" there.

“Whether that means that they’re vaccinated or wearing masks, whatever it is," Barbour said. "So all of our efforts, all of our planning, is to be able to have full venues, and we're just going to have to monitor the COVID situation and the advice. But we’re going to push really hard, we're going to prepare for venues where every Penn Stater who wants to come, and who has a ticket, has the opportunity to do that."

Barbour was more guarded about conducting, or allowing fans to attend, a Blue-White Game in April to cap spring football practice. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf recently announced that outdoor events could be held at 20 percent of venue capacity. Technically, that would allow Penn State to hold a Blue-White Game with about 21,000 fans at Beaver Stadium.

Penn State begins spring football practice March 15 but has not announced plans to conduct a Blue-White Game. Barbour did not specifically address the popular public scrimmage, either.

She did, however, mention that Penn State views the process of bringing back fans to events from near-term and long-term perspectives.

"As much as we would love to have community members, our fans from all over the state and all over the region, back in State College, I do think we have to take a little bit of the long view in terms of really making sure that we do everything we can to protect our community, to protect our students, our staff, our coaches," she said. "And to make sure that the trajectory of where this virus is going, that we keep it going in the right direction. So we continue to monitor that as it relates to the spring."

Barbour referenced Penn State's plans for holding some form of an in-person graduation ceremony for the Class of 2021 and for returning to full in-person classes this fall as positive signs for the athletics department.

"We want to make sure, from an athletics perspective, that we do everything we can to help protect those opportunities and help ensure that those will be available to our greater community," Barbour said.
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There are leaders and there are followers...and then there are incompetent followers...!
 
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Obliviax said:
Just like that, Mark Woganrich just posted this:


Speaking on the Penn State Coaches Show, Barbour said that Penn State is "going to push really hard" to entertain fans for football games at Beaver Stadium and at other sports venues this fall. Those plans will follow all COVID-19 guidelines that remain in place and will depend on the progress of vaccinations, Barbour added.

But the athletic director said she is hopeful that Beaver Stadium and other sports venues will host "as many Penn Staters, as many fans as want to be" there.

“Whether that means that they’re vaccinated or wearing masks, whatever it is," Barbour said. "So all of our efforts, all of our planning, is to be able to have full venues, and we're just going to have to monitor the COVID situation and the advice. But we’re going to push really hard, we're going to prepare for venues where every Penn Stater who wants to come, and who has a ticket, has the opportunity to do that."

Barbour was more guarded about conducting, or allowing fans to attend, a Blue-White Game in April to cap spring football practice. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf recently announced that outdoor events could be held at 20 percent of venue capacity. Technically, that would allow Penn State to hold a Blue-White Game with about 21,000 fans at Beaver Stadium.

Penn State begins spring football practice March 15 but has not announced plans to conduct a Blue-White Game. Barbour did not specifically address the popular public scrimmage, either.

She did, however, mention that Penn State views the process of bringing back fans to events from near-term and long-term perspectives.

"As much as we would love to have community members, our fans from all over the state and all over the region, back in State College, I do think we have to take a little bit of the long view in terms of really making sure that we do everything we can to protect our community, to protect our students, our staff, our coaches," she said. "And to make sure that the trajectory of where this virus is going, that we keep it going in the right direction. So we continue to monitor that as it relates to the spring."

Barbour referenced Penn State's plans for holding some form of an in-person graduation ceremony for the Class of 2021 and for returning to full in-person classes this fall as positive signs for the athletics department.

"We want to make sure, from an athletics perspective, that we do everything we can to help protect those opportunities and help ensure that those will be available to our greater community," Barbour said.
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The way Barbour is talking about it, if there is a Blue-White Game, attendance will be limited to family members, Athletic Department staff, administrators etc. Anything involving the general public would require a plan and it sure doesn't sound like she has one that could be announced imminently.
 
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Art said:
The way Barbour is talking about it, if there is a Blue-White Game, attendance will be limited to family members, Athletic Department staff, administrators etc. Anything involving the general public would require a plan and it sure doesn't sound like she has one that could be announced imminently.
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I agree. maybe they can get it streamed or on B1G at least.
 
Art said:
The way Barbour is talking about it, if there is a Blue-White Game, attendance will be limited to family members, Athletic Department staff, administrators etc. Anything involving the general public would require a plan and it sure doesn't sound like she has one that could be announced imminently.
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Pathetic...but by now we should be used to it!
 
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Art said:
The way Barbour is talking about it, if there is a Blue-White Game, attendance will be limited to family members, Athletic Department staff, administrators etc. Anything involving the general public would require a plan and it sure doesn't sound like she has one that could be announced imminently.
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As of right now, the Borough doesn't want any visitors.

 
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bison13 said:
What about pushing spring practice back a couple weeks and then having a blue white game in early May after the students are gone. I've heard that as an option at a couple other schools though those states are more open than Pennsylvania is
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It more important to keep with the program rather than try and get a few thousand of fans in the stadium for a scrimmage. I would rather they wrap of spring practice mid April than mid May. That way any injuries that occur have another 4 weeks to heal and get back into conditioning prior to camp.
 
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Just let the students attend. Let the band play, cheerleaders cheer, Lionettes dance. Give the students some semblance of a football game. No tailgating, and tell them how they behave will determine their ability to attend games in the Fall. 20,000 students can easily social distance in the lower bowl. No need to open up the upper decks.
 
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Art said:
The way Barbour is talking about it, if there is a Blue-White Game, attendance will be limited to family members, Athletic Department staff, administrators etc. Anything involving the general public would require a plan and it sure doesn't sound like she has one that could be announced imminently.
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Barbour and Plan = Oxymoron
 
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ednit said:
Just let the students attend. Let the band play, cheerleaders cheer, Lionettes dance. Give the students some semblance of a football game. No tailgating, and tell them how they behave will determine their ability to attend games in the Fall. 20,000 students can easily social distance in the lower bowl. No need to open up the upper decks.
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IDK I thought Clemson had a pretty good model to follow. Whenever I saw them on TV they were spread out and wearing masks.
 
BBrown said:
IDK I thought Clemson had a pretty good model to follow. Whenever I saw them on TV they were spread out and wearing masks.
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looool. No way. And every shot of the crowd had like 1 in 5 wearing the masks. The announcers made fun of every crowd shot that came on. Not to mentionevery coach wearing a chin diaper or pulling down their gaiter to talk.
 
Sproul said:
looool. No way. And every shot of the crowd had like 1 in 5 wearing the masks. The announcers made fun of every crowd shot that came on. Not to mentionevery coach wearing a chin diaper or pulling down their gaiter to talk.
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Ok I only saw them a few times at the start of the season and midway point. By title games and playoffs. Yea absolutely a mess but then everyone but the B1G seemed to be more lax.
 
MacNit07 said:
There are leaders and there are followers...and then there are incompetent followers...!
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Then there are incompetent followers following incompetent leaders.

If incompetent followers incompetently follow incompetent leaders then does that make us competent?

If so, there may be a spring game and fans at games this Fall! (Unless Kevin Warren decides to try to cancel the season again).
 
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psu00 said:
Then there are incompetent followers following incompetent leaders.

If incompetent followers incompetently follow incompetent leaders then does that make us competent?

If so, there may be a spring game and fans at games this Fall! (Unless Kevin Warren decides to try to cancel the season again).
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Is that a rhetorical question.

We should see if we could get Warren’s son to transfer to a Big10 school. Then the season would have a much better chance of occurring.
 
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psu00 said:
Then there are incompetent followers following incompetent leaders.

If incompetent followers incompetently follow incompetent leaders then does that make us competent?

If so, there may be a spring game and fans at games this Fall! (Unless Kevin Warren decides to try to cancel the season again).
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And here we all that Delany was an incompetent jerk...
 
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ednit said:
Just let the students attend. Let the band play, cheerleaders cheer, Lionettes dance. Give the students some semblance of a football game. No tailgating, and tell them how they behave will determine their ability to attend games in the Fall. 20,000 students can easily social distance in the lower bowl. No need to open up the upper decks.
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I feel badly for the young man selected as the drum major. He was a senior, and it would have been his only season as such. Sucks.
 
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interrobang said:
If there's a BW game, even without fans, BTN will air it.
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"However, the university's plans for the day do not include attendance or media coverage outside of the scope of player and coaches' families and students. The event will not be broadcast on the BTN, nor will media outlets be invited to attend."


 
I don't understand the no streaming the game. Is it because the wifi at the stadium is so bad? (rimshot). It could be one guy in the press box moving the camera back and forth. Doesn't need announcers or anything. Women's volleyball has 5 cameras for their big ten network games and 2 for the btn+ games.
 
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