How does ECU look?

[HighlandsApp]

That's awesome if the team is now near 90%. As of a week ago it was almost 60%. The 60% was from a player who was working on encouraging team mates to get vaccinated.

[Yosef10]

This is the range i heard as well. It’s not 90%, ‘94 just can’t help himself but to be a smart ass when he doesn’t have the info and/or doesn’t want to believe it.

[CheckYosef94]

Another promising thread ruined by the Covid obsessed crowd. We get it, we know where you stand, for Gods sake let something else control your mind and attention for 5 minutes.

It’s been said on here before the psychological impact of this crap is worse than the virus itself.

GO APPS!!

Also i eagerly await your posts when we inevitably lose a game because we’re missing an entire position group. Like it or not Covid is going to be a topic of conversation around this team unless there’s a dramatic increase in vaccination rates between now and 9/2. No amount of sticking your head in the sand is going to change that.

I'm confused how you think increased vaccination rates will help us not miss position groups. Especially after you just posted a tweet about how the Dolphins' co-offensive coordinator was just sent home after testing covid positive even though he was vaccinated. It would appear that having the vaccination doesn't do anything to ensure that you can keep playing because it is still possible to get and spread covid whether you're vaccinated or not.

Pretty simple: vaccinated players or staff who test positive and are asymptomatic can return to duty after two negative tests 24 hours apart. For non-vaccinated persons who test positive, the 2020 protocols remain in place, requiring a 10-day isolation.

I'm not sure how this makes sense from a protecting people from the virus standpoint. We could easily extend non-vaccinated players the same courtesy of being able to come back after two negative tests 24 hours apart. It seems pretty simple to me that you allow players who test negative to play whether they are vaccinated or not. Ignoring negative follow up tests of non-vaccinated players sounds like a punishment to me.

[CheckYosef94]

Another promising thread ruined by the Covid obsessed crowd. We get it, we know where you stand, for Gods sake let something else control your mind and attention for 5 minutes.

It’s been said on here before the psychological impact of this crap is worse than the virus itself.

GO APPS!!

Also i eagerly await your posts when we inevitably lose a game because we’re missing an entire position group. Like it or not Covid is going to be a topic of conversation around this team unless there’s a dramatic increase in vaccination rates between now and 9/2. No amount of sticking your head in the sand is going to change that.

I'm confused how you think increased vaccination rates will help us not miss position groups. Especially after you just posted a tweet about how the Dolphins' co-offensive coordinator was just sent home after testing covid positive even though he was vaccinated. It would appear that having the vaccination doesn't do anything to ensure that you can keep playing because it is still possible to get and spread covid whether you're vaccinated or not.

Just to follow up with you:

So that’s 4 days out while any unvaccinated person would have been *at minimum* 10 days. So basically a week of time saved. That’s why it’s so important in a football context.

If the whole protocol system wasn't set up to punish the non-vaccinated we could allow non-vaccinated players to return after two follow up negative tests 24 hours apart too. The fact that the protocols allow that for vaccinated and not the non-vaccinated is a perfect example of how this is a punishment. The fact is, if you're negative then you can't spread it. Making them wait a minimum of 10 days no matter what is ridiculous.

[TomA415]

Not going to name names but if you follow some of our guys on Twitter and Instagram there are a handful that have shared or liked posts supporting not getting the vaccine. A few very important players too.

I’ll leave it at that but I imagine we’re one of the least vaccinated teams in the Sun Belt

[TheMoody1]

What is our the current vaccination rate among the football team?

Don't know the number, but I wonder how many have a positive anti-body test.

[Rick83]

Not going to name names but if you follow some of our guys on Twitter and Instagram there are a handful that have shared or liked posts supporting not getting the vaccine. A few very important players too.

I’ll leave it at that but I imagine we’re one of the least vaccinated teams in the Sun Belt

This does not bode well for our season if this is true. If we were dealing with last year's Covid virus, it wouldn't be as concerning. Hospitalizations in NC have gone from 391 people at the end of June to 1,359 as of August 1st because of the Delta variant.
I don't know about those 1,359 people specifically, but across the country 98 to 99% of the new cases are coming out of the unvaccinated group because this Delta variant has 1,000 times the viral load as last year's version. So, the unvaccinated population is at a far greater risk now than ever before. With it's higher viral load it can be passed with a brief momentary exposure. Gov. Cooper will shut things down again if this trend doesn't soon reverse itself...I am lowering my expectations for this season...and hope I'm totally wrong.

[AppState89]

Thought this was a post about "How does ECU look???"

Just start another post about Covid. Sick of seeing Covid shit when I want to see opinions about ECU's team.

This bitching back and forth is taking all the fun out of this post!!! Please STOP, stick to the subject... ASU vs ECU

[AppSt94]

Not going to name names but if you follow some of our guys on Twitter and Instagram there are a handful that have shared or liked posts supporting not getting the vaccine. A few very important players too.

I’ll leave it at that but I imagine we’re one of the least vaccinated teams in the Sun Belt

Liking or retweeting doesn’t necessarily exhibit complicity. It could be a show of support.

[AppSt94]

Thought this was a post about "How does ECU look???"

Just start another post about Covid. Sick of seeing Covid shit when I want to see opinions about ECU's team.

This bitching back and forth is taking all the fun out of this post!!! Please STOP, stick to the subject... ASU vs ECU

This should be a good game. Both teams should be better than last year. I think that the line is a bit high, but I can see App winning by more than a TD. 9.5 seems about right.

[mike87]

Hell, our sports fix now consists of track, swimming, gymnastics and that European communist brand of football we call soccer. If we don't get a real sport to post about soon I think this board is going to implode. I'll forgive the Covid posts. Seems that's all we got right now to fight over.

Beach Volleyball though, we might get a thread about team 'A' going.

[AppSt94]

Hell, our sports fix now consists of track, swimming, gymnastics and that European communist brand of football we call soccer. If we don't get a real sport to post about soon I think this board is going to implode. I'll forgive the Covid posts. Seems that's all we got right now to fight over.

Beach Volleyball though, we might get a thread about team 'A' going.

Is it too early to talk about Curling?

[AppState89]

Thought this was a post about "How does ECU look???"

Just start another post about Covid. Sick of seeing Covid shit when I want to see opinions about ECU's team.

This bitching back and forth is taking all the fun out of this post!!! Please STOP, stick to the subject... ASU vs ECU

This should be a good game. Both teams should be better than last year. I think that the line is a bit high, but I can see App winning by more than a TD. 9.5 seems about right.

I feel the same way. Think it will be a close game. I want to win by 21+, but know that most likely won't happen. I love my dad (ECU grad), but I want him to have a bad 78th birthday. LOL

[AppSt94]

Thought this was a post about "How does ECU look???"

Just start another post about Covid. Sick of seeing Covid shit when I want to see opinions about ECU's team.

This bitching back and forth is taking all the fun out of this post!!! Please STOP, stick to the subject... ASU vs ECU

This should be a good game. Both teams should be better than last year. I think that the line is a bit high, but I can see App winning by more than a TD. 9.5 seems about right.

I feel the same way. Think it will be a close game. I want to win by 21+, but know that most likely won't happen. I love my dad (ECU grad), but I want him to have a bad 78th birthday. LOL

That’s awful nice of you. Lol. I think that a 21 point margin is possible. I’m not going to get overly excited or overly critical based on any margin. I want to see how the OL looks and how Chase and the WR look in terms of timing.

[BeauFoster]

Hell, our sports fix now consists of track, swimming, gymnastics and that European communist brand of football we call soccer. If we don't get a real sport to post about soon I think this board is going to implode. I'll forgive the Covid posts. Seems that's all we got right now to fight over.

Beach Volleyball though, we might get a thread about team 'A' going.

Was watching beach volleyball the other night with my 8 year old daughter (at her request, I promise). “Dad, you can see their buttcheeks!”

Huh, I hadn’t noticed.

[ArmantiWaterSafety]

ASU vs ECU

The closer we get the more I think the line is high. I'm thinking this is a field goal affair, the real question is who is going to be kicking them for us? If I have to watch us lose another game because of a field goal mishap I may explode, and that's not directed just at Staton. We've had plenty of letdowns before him as well that I happened to be attending.

[HighlandsApp]

Thought this was a post about "How does ECU look???"

Just start another post about Covid. Sick of seeing Covid shit when I want to see opinions about ECU's team.

This bitching back and forth is taking all the fun out of this post!!! Please STOP, stick to the subject... ASU vs ECU

I started it with a quote from ECU Houston about the advantage that he has having his team almost fully vaccinated. Then I found out how low ours was and that the team has the same division in the ranks that the members of this board have.

That is very relevant.

The group that started the whining and all praised the post quoted are in my opinion who changed the conversation.

The availability of players based on testing on game day is I believe very relevant to how AppState matches up against ECU.

['75App]

I believe it’s been done before by the longest field goal in history. It took forever for that thing to get through the uprights.
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You were right about that. Jerry Harmon kicked that thing and it seemed like it took 5 minutes to go through the uprights! Great win by Apps over the pierats in 1975 at Conrad Stadium!!

GO APPS!!!

[InFor6More]

Not going to name names but if you follow some of our guys on Twitter and Instagram there are a handful that have shared or liked posts supporting not getting the vaccine. A few very important players too.

I’ll leave it at that but I imagine we’re one of the least vaccinated teams in the Sun Belt

Liking or retweeting doesn’t necessarily exhibit complicity. It could be a show of support.

Yosef told me recently that there are two things you can take to the bank. Try to take away his musket and you’ll have to pry it out of his cold, dead hands and that he ain’t getting no vaccination.

[mike87]

I believe it’s been done before by the longest field goal in history. It took forever for that thing to get through the uprights.

You were right about that. Jerry Harmon kicked that thing and it seemed like it took 5 minutes to go through the uprights! Great win by Apps over the pierats in 1975 at Conrad Stadium!!

GO APPS!!!
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Pierats...that's a keeper.