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Women's BB home openers vs SUU canceled

The fact that the conference is stupid enough to not let these games get made up is so incredibly stupid. With all the problems getting nonconference games, you would think the Big Sky would want to get their full slate in. Plus that’s totally unfair for teams that are in contention for winning the league. That’s horrible.
 
My guess is you could see this often if they can't play when scheduled. The schedule is getting so compressed that the availability of matching open dates prior to the BSC tourney don't exist. Travis was quoted that he would be surprised if some teams play more than half their games with the challenges.
 
I know players want to play, and coaches and AD's want the games played, but this season is just going to be a joke. As with the current NCAA football season, with so many games cancelled, especially in the Big 10 and Pac 12. Time to button in up, and plan for Fall 2021.
 
The season is going to be disrupted at times, but it's not going to be a joke. And, it's take it or leave it for this season. In basketball, there are so few players that some/many teams are going to have herd immunity by tourney time. Look at Utah. At least 8 players and 3 coaches already. Most everyone there is probably going to have had the covid in the coming months. Play on.
 
Until they can determine functional immunity after initial infection no one can say whether or not herd immunity will be an effective method of prevention.
 
This season w/ roughly 1/4 of its games already being cancelled is going to be a mess. A mess for the reasons that Travis and other coaches have pointed out. Tight schedule, covid infections at its highest peak, and inconsistent application of protocols between schools, conferences and states.

Right now I'd be hard pressed if most schools like to get in more than half of their remaining December schedule. California is maybe less than a week from entering a modified lock down for some of its hardest hit counties and I don't know that other states aren't going to have to consider the same. If states are comfortable with their rampaging covid numbers, then states like Montana, Idaho and Utah are likely to continue on as nothing has changed. California however isn't, and I'd be hard pressed to think if the lock down comes as it is suggested it might that the NCAA and BSC will have to consider their options if college campuses are locked down and campuses are closed.

Schools can't bubble, and can't isolate the same way professional sports teams have. The NFL can't manage its players well enough, I just don't have a lot of confidence in college sports being able to maintain this rate of cancellation (even in football) and somehow conferences or teams just don't throw in the towel eventually. College age adults are going to be the last to get the vaccine and schools aren't likely very keen in turning their facilities into a gigantic petri-dish for infection.

Because cities and counties as well as states can't effectively curb infections, keep people out of the hospital, I'd be hard pressed to think the NCAA is going to have a coherent strategy (which it doesn't) to the same. Basically the only schools capable of doing the things ultimately necessary to keep their players in the bubble are power 5 schools. Even then, schools like OSU are one cancellation away from not being bowl eligible. That Travis feels more comfortable by getting on a chartered plane to fly half away across the country to play at Georgia in a week or so than playing Montana Tech or any other regional institution, gives you an indication as to what a dumpster fire this is.

We are just going to have to make do as fans to what is going to be an often frustrating season of stops and starts. 2020 ya all.
 
Grizfan-24 said:
This season w/ roughly 1/4 of its games already being cancelled is going to be a mess. A mess for the reasons that Travis and other coaches have pointed out. Tight schedule, covid infections at its highest peak, and inconsistent application of protocols between schools, conferences and states.

Right now I'd be hard pressed if most schools like to get in more than half of their remaining December schedule. California is maybe less than a week from entering a modified lock down for some of its hardest hit counties and I don't know that other states aren't going to have to consider the same. If states are comfortable with their rampaging covid numbers, then states like Montana, Idaho and Utah are likely to continue on as nothing has changed. California however isn't, and I'd be hard pressed to think if the lock down comes as it is suggested it might that the NCAA and BSC will have to consider their options if college campuses are locked down and campuses are closed.

Schools can't bubble, and can't isolate the same way professional sports teams have. The NFL can't manage its players well enough, I just don't have a lot of confidence in college sports being able to maintain this rate of cancellation (even in football) and somehow conferences or teams just don't throw in the towel eventually. College age adults are going to be the last to get the vaccine and schools aren't likely very keen in turning their facilities into a gigantic petri-dish for infection.

Because cities and counties as well as states can't effectively curb infections, keep people out of the hospital, I'd be hard pressed to think the NCAA is going to have a coherent strategy (which it doesn't) to the same. Basically the only schools capable of doing the things ultimately necessary to keep their players in the bubble are power 5 schools. Even then, schools like OSU are one cancellation away from not being bowl eligible. That Travis feels more comfortable by getting on a chartered plane to fly half away across the country to play at Georgia in a week or so than playing Montana Tech or any other regional institution, gives you an indication as to what a dumpster fire this is.

We are just going to have to make do as fans to what is going to be an often frustrating season of stops and starts. 2020 ya all.
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Good analysis. :thumb:
 
HelenaHandBasket said:
Until they can determine functional immunity after initial infection no one can say whether or not herd immunity will be an effective method of prevention.
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Virtually no one gets covid a second time. Most of those are very light. The testing for immunity is getting much better. Herd immunity includes vaccination.
 
Flying across the country to play at Georgia isn't a big deal. The airplanes are required by FAA to have the best ventilation systems on the planet. Probably nowhere safer than on a commercial flight.
 
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