Looking more and more less likely that NCAA sports will occur this coming fall. We will soon find out what Ivy league schools are doing.
The Ivies have postponed fall sports. Disccuss here:
Looking more and more less likely that NCAA sports will occur this coming fall. We will soon find out what Ivy league schools are doing.
The Ivies have postponed fall sports. Disccuss here:
I coached in the Ivy League. If they're really going to make an announcement this early, it almost certainly will be that all Ivy fall sports are cancelled.
A decision to "go" couldn't be made until much closer to August, because we really don't know how things are going to be ~8 weeks from now, when seasons would actually start. But an announcement to cancel can be made any time.
I coach a D3 team in NYC. Unfortunately a lot of other schools (and the NCAA itself) will likely be stampeded by an Ivy cancellation announcement.
The thing is, based on info available so far, I truly believe that cross country should be perfectly fine for collegians. But if you're going to cancel football, you can't let a pantywaist sport like cross continue.
Could be an interesting week. Princeton announced today that only freshman and juniors could return to campus this fall with sophmores and seniors doing course work online.
This looks like it no international students can come to the states if they are enrolled online only.
lease wrote:
The thing is, based on info available so far, I truly believe that cross country should be perfectly fine for collegians. But if you're going to cancel football, you can't let a pantywaist sport like cross continue.
I don't know how XC can be completely safe. Aside from logistical issues like travel, hotels, busses etc, racing in a huge pack can't be covid-safe. We've seen suggestions like running one team at a time but I don't think we are going to see much XC this fall.
People keep saying XC seems like a low-risk sport compared to others...how? What other sport has 300 people shoulder to shoulder breathing as hard as they can on each other?
Research has indicated that something literally on the order of 99% of infections with SARS-CoV-2 have occurred indoors. Outdoors, the sun and especially the wind seem to disable and/or dissipate the virus.
Cross-country runners are travelling 6-12mph. That's a wind they're generating--in addition to any environmental breeze that may be occurring that day. And we know that viral load appears to be critical for infection/illness; viral load in a running situation would be essentially nil.
As someone pointed out above, the dangers would lie in things like traveling in vans to meets, overnight accommodations, and so on. But the races themselves should be fine.
...With one caveat: When runners are called to the starting line, and packed close together, it might make people feel more comfortable if the athletes had to wear masks then. In which case, three starting commands: masks off; runners set; and the gun.
Our team has 25 members flying to Arizona next week for a 1 week training get away. Sounds like some of you would be too scared to have your guys do that.
CBS Sports and Forbes are predicting that Ivy will announce that football will move to the spring.
What is name of your school?
That is ludicrous.
Especially Arizona.
But when you make this argument to leftist idiots, they make the argument of how “Florida is so hot and look at the virus there!” 97 degrees today in the Northeast, how the heck do these idiots expect us to believe that a virus can exist in the summer?
Yeah, but just look at it this way --- because it's 97 degrees, people are more likely to head indoors where there is air conditioning and they are out of the heat. This is the opposite of what happened in New York in March, where it was cold so people headed indoors where it was warmer. In both situations, but for different reasons, people were congregating indoors. The common element in both situations is being indoors which appears to have an impact on the spread of the virus.
Until the science is MUCH clearer it's cavalier to assume that the virus cannot transmit outside. A coach or administrator making that assumption right now is not someone I'd want to be around nor trust to lead kids.
Schools that carry on with sports this year are derelict.
Well it's official my international athlete won't be running for Princeton this fall. Sophomores and Seniors are online students thus he will not be able to enter the USA.
The writing is on the wall for a very different 2020 XC season if there is one. Not looking good.
How can you run sports when you have parts of the team not even on campus... I predict the ivy league shuts down fall sports completely and the whole year is in jeopardy if they are still only allowing parts of the student population back on campus. Furthermore, sending kids out to events only to bring back COVID when you work so hard to keep your campus virus-free makes no sense.
Honestly there will not be fall or spring sports. Give it up.
A Spring football season for Ivy League makes sense. They would only have to play a 7 game season. The Ivy League doesn’t follow the same season guidelines as other FCS conferences anyway. They didn’t play games until school was in session (which decreased number of games played) and they do not participate in the FCS Championships as all anyway.
They could legitimately start season April 1 and be finished before exams.
cold hard truth wrote:
Honestly there will not be fall or spring sports. Give it up.
Been saying that for months, nobody listened, thought I was insane
Remember how mad a lot of people were at the Ivy League for cancelling its basketball tournament
nickp91 wrote:
Remember how mad a lot of people were at the Ivy League for cancelling its basketball tournament
That's because they started the whole thing. It was a domino effect, and we're gonna see it happen again. History often repeats itself.