CTE, like Alzheimers's, Parkinson's, and cancer, is detectable much earlier with a Positron PET scanner, the machine that The University of Texas MD Anderson Hospital owns the patent for, but let their "blow buddies" at GE put out of business because GE and Seimans can't build as good a machine. Same happened with GE buying Imatron, maker of the one and only EBCT, which could do a heart scan in less than 60 seconds. I proposed that UIL buy four machines, put them in trailers and scan every HS athlete in Texas. Would prevent HS athletes dying from undetected heart problems. FWIW, GE bought Imatron and has 30 plus new machines in storage but won't sell them because they can't build one.
Agree with that. But I don't think GE has made appliances for quite a while. I think they have whorishly sold their name brand to other manufacturers.
That would be Phillips, who for years has bought the absolute **** of the marker and slapped their name on it. GE just hasn't sunk low enough that Phillips would buy their crap yet. The real purpose of my post was to point out that MD Anderson owns the patent on the PET scanner, yet would never us it on patients until a group was getting ready to build PET centers across the country. All MDA used them for was research on animals, never on patients, thus grabbing their ankles every time GE called. That travesty is on the administration of our fine University, who has now turned over the management of MDA to Catholic Healthcare Incompetence. I invite you to take a look at their financials and form your own opinion.
I think the OP was about the result of decline on the demand side for college football attendence. There are just so many options on how to watch the same content for free or cheaply than paying for gameday tix. The traditional channels that fund CF and CFP are getting hit on all sides by declines in broadcast, cable and live viewership. As the revenues decrease for ESPN et al then the cost of content will feel the same downward pressure. Attendence is just one factor that is declining with all the media options available.
My son attended Marcus high and because he was in the marching band, we attended most every football game, home and away. In a district with Plano schools, we noticed very poor attendance for those schools ... maybe it was because the stadiums were so big -- maybe in deference to bygone days. The attendance was good in Allen..but the there were still plenty of seats available in that massive stadium. Had a newphew play for DeSoto and that state championship bound team packed 'em in.
Their shareholders have lost their *** because of those management decisions. Capitalism works. Look out College football you could be next.
How big is the Allen stadium. I thought I remembered in was relatively small for the money spent. It's not 20,000 is it?
Thank you. As I recall, they put less than 20,000 seats, and put seats in both endzones, which I questioned the wisdom of doing. More yardline seats, nothing in the endzone, unless you are doing 35,000 plus.
Since neither was originally built for football, but were used almost exclusively for football for more than half a century, both the L.A. Coliseum and the original Soldier Field had the majority of their seating behind the goal line. That's how they were drawing 120k+ when Notre Dame came to town.
Not sure where you get your info from, but a lot of the statements made re: PET as well as the applications of EBCT are inaccurate. Your posts are blending politics and medicine.... the political parts I can't really comment on. But the medicine parts are wrong.
Sorry to disagree, Doc, but I stand by my statements. I know many physicians now prefer the larger 3.0 MRI and multi-slice CT, but I would take an old Positron PET over anything before or since, if I could find one. I'll refer you to Dick Butkus on EBCT. Ironically, the EBCT on Gennessee in San Diego averaged finding one unknown malignant cancer a week, while doing heart scans. Most of those were kidney cancer - something in the water in San Diego that ain't good. I'll agree to disagree
You Things that need to be taken into account: 1. appropriate clinical applications of a specific modality of imaging (what they are intended for and their ability to detect the disease process in question with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity), 2. the limitations of a specific imaging modality, 3. the practicality of an imaging modality for a screening test (time, cost, availability, and appropriateness of the modality). All of these are important considerations that most lay-people don't often think about. You are welcome to believe whatever you like. Heck you can try to detect brain cancer with an ultrasound, if you'd like (and good luck with that). At one point in time, people KNEW the world was flat. Not trying to be confrontational; just trying to shed light. Sorry for the sidebar. I was taking a break from interpreting a stack of CT's, MRI's, and PET scans. Stay healthy, and Hook 'em.
I saw the AD wants to make Texas Disney. When they “made it disney” last time, the experience went down hill. The gameday experience was fine throughout the 2000s and filled the seats. Why do people want to ruin a good thing? We do not need anymore disney. Football fans are there for football.
