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Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 11th, 2020, 4:19 pm
by Sly Fox
And the other shoes drops as expect ...





Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 11th, 2020, 4:30 pm
by SumItUp
alabama24 wrote: August 11th, 2020, 4:03 pm I hope there still is college football, but I am not convinced there will be. Lets pretend that the SEC, ACC & B12 do play, and things go ok. Will there be a heisman awarded? National title?
If SEC, ACC & B12 are in, there will be a Heisman and a national champion. About the B1G.....


Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 11th, 2020, 4:36 pm
by Sly Fox
Since the B1G anouncement, both Nebarska & Iowa have been vocal about their disapproval of the vote. Neberaska has indicated they want to play this season however that can work out. Obviously they would be a natural fit to align with the Big XII. Frankly so would Iowa. Penn State has also indicated that they are interested in moving forward.

While Ohio State and other schools have had vocal support for football this fall from coaches & ADs, the college presidents make the call. And the Bucks lack that top level support at the moment.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 11th, 2020, 6:01 pm
by ATrain
CAA isn't playing football but so far have been mum about the other sports. Meanwhile, College of Charleston is opting out of fall competition: https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... all-sports

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 12th, 2020, 1:22 pm
by Purple Haize
I’ll be interested to see if BYU and/or Nebraska get added

https://voiceofmotown.com/breaking-revi ... -released/

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 13th, 2020, 9:19 pm
by ATrain
Purple Haize wrote: August 12th, 2020, 1:22 pm I’ll be interested to see if BYU and/or Nebraska get added

https://voiceofmotown.com/breaking-revi ... -released/
Nebraska won't be added

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 14th, 2020, 9:11 am
by olldflame
The inevitable postponement of ASUN Fall sports is announced.



I wonder what happens now with distance runners who compete in both T&F and CC if CC is moved to the Spring?

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 14th, 2020, 9:57 am
by ballcoach15
Moving everything to the spring will backfire in my opinion.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 14th, 2020, 10:44 am
by JK37
How so?

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 14th, 2020, 11:47 am
by ballcoach15
JK37 wrote: August 14th, 2020, 10:44 amHow so?
2+2=4

That's the best I can say, as of now.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 14th, 2020, 12:00 pm
by olldflame
ballcoach15 wrote: August 14th, 2020, 11:47 am
JK37 wrote: August 14th, 2020, 10:44 amHow so?
2+2=4

That's the best I can say, as of now.
Get with the times ballcoach. Don't you know that math is a racist white construct?

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 14th, 2020, 1:05 pm
by Purple Haize
JK37 wrote: August 14th, 2020, 10:44 amHow so?
He said it. Logic and normal space time constructs don’t apply

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 14th, 2020, 3:56 pm
by lynchburgwildcats
ballcoach15 wrote: August 14th, 2020, 9:57 am Moving everything to the spring will backfire in my opinion.
As a former SID of 10+ years, I actually agree with this. Don't know what his reasons are for saying it so won't say I agree with his reasons. Get your things in order folks because the apocalypse is nigh.

If there is anything I learned it's that a large number of coaches have little no interest in coordinating scheduling efforts. Is there an overscheduling problem where too many games are happening at one time for the support staff to handle it? "Not my job, not my problem, someone else has to figure it out, and if the solution is to change anything that I want then it's not happening."

And that was without all the sports playing at the same time. Now you double the amount of sports playing at one time and you don't increase support staff?

You can afford to make sacrifices like that when it comes to the SID end of things, but you can't when it comes down to athletic training/sports medicine. Most schools don't have a big enough sports medicine staff where each team has one or more ACTs dedicated solely to their team, they normally end up having one sport each season (or more than one if the staffing situation calls for it and you have an AD that will make things happen to properly accommodate it).

How are the ACTs going to provide the same quality of care when their workload has effectively doubled? How are they going to travel with the fall team for an away game when their spring team has a home game, or when both of their sports have a game or practice scheduled at the same time?

Sure, you can always say just hire more people, but that's not going to be an option for many schools. Considering many have cut sports programs or laid off employees, how are the optics going to look when a school is hiring additional athletics support staff when the academic side of things is having to deal with the fallout of having lesser staff? Does their staffing difficulties matter less? And if you don't hire extra help, are you going to be satisfied with a game plan that's inevitably going to burn out people and have them quit because they are being overworked even more than they already were?

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 15th, 2020, 1:27 pm
by JK37
Good answer. Reasons like that are why I was asking. Honestly out of curiosity.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 16th, 2020, 12:35 pm
by olldflame
Here is what teams/conferences that have cancelled their seasons due to "concerns for player health and safety" have to look forward to.


Players are much safer when in the disciplined team environment, but college administrators ignore it for political reasons.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 16th, 2020, 6:24 pm
by JK37
Litigious reasons too, I believe.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 17th, 2020, 1:42 pm
by Class of 20Something
It's counterintuitive but doesn't bringing students back to campuses remove them from being with more at risk populations?

If the ultimate goal is to reach herd immunity while having as few people die as possible, schools seem like the best option outside of a vaccine.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 17th, 2020, 2:30 pm
by ballcoach15
While the NCAA is sitting on their butts, doing basically nothing in reference to football, I read in USA Today this morning, that they have been busy planning the NCAA basketball tournament, including the possibility of using a "Bubble System". Didn't say anything about a regular season though. If football can't be played outdoors, how will they play basketball indoors ?

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 17th, 2020, 2:39 pm
by thepostman
You answered your own question. They are looking at bubble possibilities for the tourney.

The vaccine could be ready by January, if that is the case it may be a moot point. We shall see.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 17th, 2020, 2:50 pm
by Jonathan Carone
What I think we all forget so often is we're living through the scientific method right now. Scientists are constantly getting it wrong because that's the only way to eventually get it right. They've only had 8-9 months studying this virus. The fact we're as far along as we are this fast shows how incredibly talented our people are.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 17th, 2020, 3:00 pm
by ballcoach15
Serious question:

Can they have a tourney without having a regular season ? They way article read, they will have tourney "come hell or high water".

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 18th, 2020, 10:00 pm
by alabama24
App State has outbreak and has suspended football practice.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 19th, 2020, 6:46 am
by Class of 20Something
Every campus in the country is having outbreaks. But I guarantee that LU gets disproportionate air time from it. Still waiting on people to figure out that keeping the students away from their largely 50+ parents is the safest thing for the parents.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 19th, 2020, 9:12 am
by Sly Fox
A bunch of B1G parents are going to protest and erhaps storm the conference offices in Rosemont, IL trying to push the cmmissioner to switch back to playing this fall. It is not as crazy as it might seem. A number of university leaders are now claiming that there never was really a formal vote. And the decision has been exceptionally unpopular with ADs, coaches & players throughout the league. But presidents/chancellors who have the final say are less motivated by public sentiment.

Re: Official NCAA Coronavirus discussion Thread

Posted: August 19th, 2020, 10:14 am
by ballcoach15
B10 Commissioner will probably hide out in an underground bunker.

Liberty should never release any information on number of COVID 19 cases, whether it be 1 or 500.