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Post by belfieldhappyhour on May 14, 2020 18:10:45 GMT -5
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Post by MisterD on May 14, 2020 19:01:09 GMT -5
Stay hungry, stay local.
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Post by blueandgold on May 14, 2020 23:37:29 GMT -5
This is fall.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on May 15, 2020 8:46:39 GMT -5
Who's in St. Louis' region? Dayton is probably the closest A10 school to them at about 350 miles away.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on May 15, 2020 9:27:29 GMT -5
This caught my eye thinking about the A10 - Mountain West Challenge with 3 Mountain West schools going virtual in the fall. That will surely have an impact on their basketball programs, unless they are seen as being allowed to be on campus (which opens a whole other can of worms). www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29168107/california-state-university-stay-online-leaving-fall-sports-airBuried in this article is this: Last week, the presidents from the 13-school California Collegiate Athletic Association, made up of NCAA Division II programs in the state, agreed to cancel all fall sports. They made the decision public Tuesday.Imagine being a recruit to one of those schools. It seems way premature to cancel fall events and eliminate the sports entirely. |
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Post by theneumann64 on May 15, 2020 10:06:24 GMT -5
This caught my eye thinking about the A10 - Mountain West Challenge with 3 Mountain West schools going virtual in the fall. That will surely have an impact on their basketball programs, unless they are seen as being allowed to be on campus (which opens a whole other can of worms). www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29168107/california-state-university-stay-online-leaving-fall-sports-airBuried in this article is this: Last week, the presidents from the 13-school California Collegiate Athletic Association, made up of NCAA Division II programs in the state, agreed to cancel all fall sports. They made the decision public Tuesday.Imagine being a recruit to one of those schools. It seems way premature to cancel fall events and eliminate the sports entirely. I think all of the California state schools are not going to be open for Fall Semester, so this is probably connected to that. |
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Post by big5explorer on May 15, 2020 12:35:08 GMT -5
This caught my eye thinking about the A10 - Mountain West Challenge with 3 Mountain West schools going virtual in the fall. That will surely have an impact on their basketball programs, unless they are seen as being allowed to be on campus (which opens a whole other can of worms). www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29168107/california-state-university-stay-online-leaving-fall-sports-airBuried in this article is this: Last week, the presidents from the 13-school California Collegiate Athletic Association, made up of NCAA Division II programs in the state, agreed to cancel all fall sports. They made the decision public Tuesday.Imagine being a recruit to one of those schools. It seems way premature to cancel fall events and eliminate the sports entirely. I think all of the California state schools are not going to be open for Fall Semester, so this is probably connected to that. Wonderful decision by the California state schools.  Interesting that it was made after the May 1st deadline for deposits for new incoming students. Looking forward to the potential for a lot of people to have egg on their face if any of the following occur over the next 4 months: 1. Mortality rates rapidly decline as the virus runs out of nursing homes available to infect. 2. Development of better treatments for inpatient and outpatient Covid patients. 3. More available, more accurate, and more rapid testing becomes available. 4. Less rapid spread of cases as herd immunity develops within communities. 5. A vaccine becomes available. 6. The virus mutates to a less virulent version. 7. The virus flames-out over the early summer, never to return. (See: SARS, MERS) |
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Post by theneumann64 on May 15, 2020 13:03:00 GMT -5
I think all of the California state schools are not going to be open for Fall Semester, so this is probably connected to that. Wonderful decision by the California state schools. Interesting that it was made after the May 1st deadline for deposits for new incoming students. Looking forward to the potential for a lot of people to have egg on their face if any of the following occur over the next 4 months: 1. Mortality rates rapidly decline as the virus runs out of nursing homes available to infect. 2. Development of better treatments for inpatient and outpatient Covid patients. 3. More available, more accurate, and more rapid testing becomes available. 4. Less rapid spread of cases as herd immunity develops within communities. 5. A vaccine becomes available. 6. The virus mutates to a less virulent version. 7. The virus flames-out over the early summer, never to return. (See: SARS, MERS) Let's try and keep this thread from going down the debating the responses to Coronavirus path. I get that the theme of the thread is related to COVID so it naturally lends itself to that, but there are also a few threads where it's being discussed. Your post isn't a problem, but I know people are going to start replying and suddenly we'll be into the same territory as we are in other places. I'll break my own rule here and say that I don't think points 4-7 are even remotely feasible in the next 2 months, before a decision on fall sports will have to be made everywhere. |
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Post by big5explorer on May 15, 2020 14:55:50 GMT -5
Wonderful decision by the California state schools. Interesting that it was made after the May 1st deadline for deposits for new incoming students. Looking forward to the potential for a lot of people to have egg on their face if any of the following occur over the next 4 months: 1. Mortality rates rapidly decline as the virus runs out of nursing homes available to infect. 2. Development of better treatments for inpatient and outpatient Covid patients. 3. More available, more accurate, and more rapid testing becomes available. 4. Less rapid spread of cases as herd immunity develops within communities. 5. A vaccine becomes available. 6. The virus mutates to a less virulent version. 7. The virus flames-out over the early summer, never to return. (See: SARS, MERS) Let's try and keep this thread from going down the debating the responses to Coronavirus path. I get that the theme of the thread is related to COVID so it naturally lends itself to that, but there are also a few threads where it's being discussed. Your post isn't a problem, but I know people are going to start replying and suddenly we'll be into the same territory as we are in other places. I'll break my own rule here and say that I don't think points 4-7 are even remotely feasible in the next 2 months, before a decision on fall sports will have to be made everywhere. So decisions are being made for 4-5 months down the road, regarding a virus with declining numbers in the Mid-Atlantic & Northeast. A virus that didn't exist here 4-5 months ago, and potentially might not exist here in 4-5 months. I'm simply arguing (with legit reasons) that it may be premature to make these decisions, including the one by the A10. And, I'm providing reasons it may be a premature decision. If you'd like, I can provide good reason that #7 is possible. |
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Post by jellybean on May 15, 2020 15:42:22 GMT -5
One of my business partners teaches at an ACC school down South. He said today that it looks like he will be teaching again on Zoom in the Fall.
#5 point in the discussion mentioned. I've been in meetings/calls at least once a week where vaccine is discussed. Here are some points I've heard. First, do not expect a vaccine this year or at least through the first half of 2021. Studies are skeptical once a vaccine is available ( there are at least 16 viable projects going on around the world)as to the "success" rate. Look for the same results from the common flu shot which is only successful 30-40% of the time.
#7 point was SARS and MERS will flame out and never return. I've been in meetings which state that people die of those diseases every year. The number is quite low though. I'm going to say 100 (tops) each per year. You would be surprised at what diseases we thought were long gone that still kill people every year.
Now back to the Fun and Games Department. The A10 pairings and schedule. So last year we had these pairs for H and A: SJU (PA), Fordham, UMASS, SLU and Richmond. I'm going to guess we keep SJU(PA), Fordham and add URI (or UMASS), VCU and GW. Those teams all should be in the bottom half of the preseason rankings and below top 100 teams. I think the league will try to get as many Tier I and II match-ups as possible so that's why we will see SLU and Richmond dropped as pairs.
As for the rest, since we played them on the road last year they will play us at home this year, we will see Duquesne and Davidson. Road games at GMU, Dayton and SBU. TBD (from SLU, Richmond and either URI or UMASS) which two we get at home and the one we will play on the road? I say we travel to SLU simply because the A10 powers don't like us.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on May 15, 2020 16:25:43 GMT -5
Here’s to this whole thing ending humongous conferences that cover 3/4 of the country. The AAC is stupid as a conference for anything except football. Ready for football to be spun off at this point. Crazy that any team would have to travel 1000+ miles for a conference baseball game.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on May 15, 2020 17:49:08 GMT -5
Eight sports in the MAC will no longer have a postseason tournament, and basketball is facing a new formatwww.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/mid-american-conference-cancels-postseason-tournaments-for-eight-sports-changes-basketball-format/"The pandemic and resulting financial issues play into that," Steinbrecher told WTOL. "As the financial situation changes, it will give us a chance to re-evaluate."
The changes go into effect starting with the 2021 season and will be in place for at least four years, Steinbrecher said.
It's just the latest ripple effect from the pandemic as conferences and athletic departments brace for the financial impact and fallout in coming months and years.Sadly for the mid-majors, this is going to be reality due to expenses and enrollment drops.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on May 19, 2020 11:00:14 GMT -5
Notre Dame is taking an interesting approach to this. Bring everyone back to campus 2 weeks early on August 10th, cancel fall break, and end the semester at Thanksgiving. No word on football... coronavirus.nd.edu/operations/campus-re-opening/ |
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Post by MisterD on May 19, 2020 18:49:42 GMT -5
I’d argue that’s atleast in part very much the word on football? Like I get the idea of trying to limit mass ins and outs, but you’re also probably front running an active pandemic back onto your campus?
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on May 20, 2020 16:43:49 GMT -5
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Post by glorydays on May 20, 2020 17:59:34 GMT -5
Notre Dame is taking an interesting approach to this. Bring everyone back to campus 2 weeks early on August 10th, cancel fall break, and end the semester at Thanksgiving. No word on football... coronavirus.nd.edu/operations/campus-re-opening/A lot of universities seem to be coming out with similar plans. Football? NBC is giving them at least $3 million per home game and Notre Dame has 7 home football games this year. Money talks. Maybe they play before less than capacity stadiums in September? (Come to think of it their home opener with Navy is on 8/29. Maybe they will move it back a week as both teams have an open date the next week.) Then they host Arkansas the 2nd Sat in Sept. There is no way the SEC messes with FB.... |
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Post by belfieldhappyhour on May 20, 2020 18:31:34 GMT -5
Notre Dame is taking an interesting approach to this. Bring everyone back to campus 2 weeks early on August 10th, cancel fall break, and end the semester at Thanksgiving. No word on football... coronavirus.nd.edu/operations/campus-re-opening/A lot of universities seem to be coming out with similar plans. Football? NBC is giving them at least $3 million per home game and Notre Dame has 7 home football games this year. Money talks. Maybe they play before less than capacity stadiums in September? (Come to think of it their home opener with Navy is on 8/29. Maybe they will move it back a week as both teams have an open date the next week.) Then they host Arkansas the 2nd Sat in Sept. There is no way the SEC messes with FB.... And that ND/Navy game is in Ireland. Will be interesting to see how that will work with the travel portion especially. |
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on May 20, 2020 19:05:59 GMT -5
subject to rules of individual states. Not seeing this in PA anytime soon. PA has said no organized sports until a county turns green. While also saying in yesterday's press conference that they have yet to define what the exact metrics are for moving from yellow to green. |
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Post by MisterD on May 20, 2020 19:41:02 GMT -5
Add blue.
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Post by 1801olney on May 20, 2020 20:57:41 GMT -5
Everyone relax and go get themselves some Wolf cabinets from Home Depot.
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Post by gymrat67 on May 30, 2020 12:24:50 GMT -5
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Post by gymrat67 on May 30, 2020 16:10:11 GMT -5
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