Ivy League Postpones/ Cancels Fall Sports

Penn-Franklin Field over 50,000

Princeton- over 40,000

Harvard- about 30,000

Yale- over 60,000

SEC is still pushing for fall sports. This could be the beginning of the NCAA breakup

More than 60,000 NEW Corona cases reported so far today in the US. Case numbers are exploding and increases in deaths will follow shortly. Kudos to the Ivy schools for cancelling Fall sports and making decisions based on decency and perspective.

As far the usual gorged spectacle of SEC and Big Ten football, I cannot imagine something I'd care about less in the current context than roided meatheads pummeling each other on the field. So many more important things for all of us to deal with right now.

Everyone will get the virus. Distancing is intended to spread out the infections. It will not stop it. Some of you don't seem to understand that. The Ivies were very supportive of the BLM protests but now they are the first to take these actions. They are creating their own demise. Who is going to pay $55k in tuition to take online classes?

Can the P5s exit the NCAA immediately or do they have to provjde notice? I say get a good lawyer and pull out tomorrow. Form their own association and move on and watch the Ivies stomp their feet.

Everyone will get the virus. Distancing is intended to spread out the infections. It will not stop it. Some of you don't seem to understand that. The Ivies were very supportive of the BLM protests but now they are the first to take these actions. They are creating their own demise. Who is going to pay $55k in tuition to take online classes?

Can the P5s exit the NCAA immediately or do they have to provjde notice? I say get a good lawyer and pull out tomorrow. Form their own association and move on and watch the Ivies stomp their feet.

Stan Ford wrote:

Everyone will get the virus. Distancing is intended to spread out the infections. It will not stop it. Some of you don't seem to understand that.

Not true.

Franklin field has seating over 60k. Perhaps your familiar with something called the Penn Relays.

Enough of this nonsense.

And enough of the stupid ‘slow the spread’ bullshït. Let it blow through faster. Masks DO NOT work. Social distancing is a joke.

Quit putting a band aid on a broken leg.

News hysteria and idiots.

Serious for elderly and the unhealthy? Yes. But last time I checked neither of these were competing athletically.

93je82g8d wrote:

If you have a shot at an Ivy league education and you postpone to run around in the grass in the future you are insane IMO. When you are ten years into your profession that diploma (assuming you don't major in something not marketable) will be worth much more than a season of XC.

Think big picture both in terms of health and in terms of your education.

As someone who ran XC at an ivy and is now about ten years into my profession, I’m going to disagree with you on this one. (I’m assuming kids have the option to defer for a year, not decline and/or reapply.) Being able to compete at the college level was a highlight of my life and one of the things I’m most proud of. My job is fine and rewarding, but I would gladly trade a year to be able to compete in college again.

Wrong. Not only will death rates not increase, they will decrease because the positives are so many with only a small % actually sick, and a small % of those hospitalized, and again a small % of those die.

Death rate is now lower than the flu.

Hysteria will kill more than Covid.

Kvothe wrote:

Minor point: aren't some football players track athletes as well?

Very few these days.

Franklin Field might seat 60,000 but they don’t come anywhere close to filling it. I would guess they would be lucky to get 20,000 and they probably give the tickets away.

Case and Oberlin just cancelled fall sports.

Fred Gwynne wrote:

Franklin Field might seat 60,000 but they don’t come anywhere close to filling it. I would guess they would be lucky to get 20,000 and they probably give the tickets away.

Sorry I should have checked before posting. They don’t draw 5,000 fans . Ivy League football isn’t paying for others sports like the Power 5 conferences.

Also for those saying there is too much money involved to cancel big time football you are wrong. There will not be any sports in 2020. No school president is going to risk it and look foolish. College and Professional sports are over this year. The pro’s might start up but it will quickly shut down.

This certainly doesn't bode well for high school sports

Petrovic wrote:

This is pathetic.

Remember in March when it was going to be a three week lock - down to flatten the curve?

They will keep this nonsense rolling for another year and a half is my guess.

This is insane. We're all at the mercy of neurotic morons.

Nobody wants to acknowledge that high school sports are taking place in Iowa and youth tournaments with thousands of people are also.

no research wrote:

Penn-Franklin Field over 50,000

Princeton- over 40,000

Harvard- about 30,000

Yale- over 60,000

"Besides Yale and Harvard, I don't think any Ivy stadium has a capacity over 30,000 and some are under 20,000."

You're right, I did no research. But if you want the actual capacities, they are:

Yale 61,446

Penn 52,958

Harvard 30,323

Princeton 27,773

Cornell 25,597

Brown 20,000

Columbia 17,000

Dartmouth 11,000

I wasn't too far off. But the point I was making was that the football revenue does not drive the athletic budget at Ivies the way it does at the Power Five conference schools. They can cancel football for a season and still survive; at most other schools this will result in small revenue producing sports being cut.

Harvard Senior, Kieran Tuntivate, was to be a top 10 returner in the mile/1500 (3:57) and the 10,000 (28:45). Nice range.