Ivy League Postpones/ Cancels Fall Sports

The reality is there are just too many problems with sports. If you read the Ivy announcement, part of it is about how athletes and sports programs must adhere to the guidelines for the other students (and from the state). So if there are no visitors on campus allowed or no travel or limits on gatherings to under 50 (25? 10?) then competition against other schools is out of the question.

Some states are currently banning entry from others or requiring 14 day quarantines.

You expect 100+ footplayers to practice together and then get on planes or buses and travel all over the country every weekend?

The school presidents need to keep their students and staff safe. Fall sports are not going to happen.

Stan Ford wrote:

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

We acknowledge it. My state has started practices already too, but that doesn’t mean it will stay that way. Most schools in the US I’m guessing have some rules about if a certain number of kids get infected, the school will shutdown. No school = no sports. If the local pressure from governments and parents is too high, sports will be cancelled. The percentage of kids that player sports in college compared to high school is minuscule..high school sports are pretty much recreational activities for those who aren’t extremely skilled/using it as a ways to get into college. If the decision comes between safety of the community and holding high school football games, they will stop the games. Plus, attendance is where these sports get their money. You could set up a match up for high school rival teams and not get any money because schools aren’t going to allow spectators

Covid 19 exposed excesses in American society. Splurging spending, lack of savings, life style supported by debt. Even Universities could not sustain themselves after a three month shutdown. Makes one wonder where this all leads, and far more than athletics. And most people are still clueless to the threat.

Remember Ivies do not allow redshirting (i.e.-4 yrs to get in 4 yrs of eligibility). A simple solution for the SA’s - Take a Gap Year. Tell your school you have elderly family members and fear for your health and theirs. Take the Gap Year and save the money and thus postpone graduation for a year. Come back next year in the same place academically and athletically. If things fall apart at your school you can transfer without the uncertainty we are currently in. Just my opinion.

Baseball and softball are high school sports in the summer in Iowa. So it is the only state that has full blown high school competitions taking place. Some coaches and players have tested positive but it has not impacted the hundreds of games that take place.

What this dude from Iowa that seems to post the same message on every thread is neglecting to mention is that teams around the state are dropping every day due to positive tests including the #1 ranked baseball team in the state, season is over due to Covid.

Baseball is pretty safe except for the standing at bases and sitting in dugouts, which are exponentially safer than grabbing and sweating on people like in soccer and football. The issue is, if a player tests positive the team withdraws from competition for 14 days. In a sport like baseball where you might be playing one or two games a week, the season is going to get real short real fast. Schools are going to be dropping games and forfeiting, leaving awkward situations for the teams that are supposed to play

There are 500 baseball and softball teams playing. There are 10 that have a case of Covid-19. The tournaments are taking place as scheduled. The point is that sports can continue with a few bumps in the road.

They’ve also only been playing for just about a month. Wait till school starts again and you have 1000s of kids sitting and walking next to each other for hours a day. Everyone knows that sports are not the issue except for contact and close quarters sports, it’s the spectating and daily activities that come with sports that make them complicated, too complicated for kids that are also trying to study and life with families too handle. This isn’t the NHL where you can lock players away in hotel rooms and only let them out to play sports.

I don't feel the least bit bad for any of you!

No reason why cross country and track can't coexist. Runners could do indoors, then during outdoor season alternate weeks of track and cross country meets. The schedule could be worked out.

The Ivy League has been leading the call for lockdown since day 1. Call me a cynic, but I suspect public safety is not the only motivation here. The Ivies are essentially socialist bootcamps. A cratering of the US economy is just what these people want.

Here's a portent of the future if the lockdown continues:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/business/brooks-brothers-bankruptcy/index.html

Yeah because colleges expecting people to pay more than 60k for 4 years straight benefit from people having less money....

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

Covid 19 exposed excesses in American society. Splurging spending, lack of savings, life style supported by debt. Even Universities could not sustain themselves after a three month shutdown. Makes one wonder where this all leads, and far more than athletics. And most people are still clueless to the threat.

+1

After reading this article I feel like the Ivy league schools got on their life boats and that the rest of the NCAA schools are just deck chairs on the Titanic.

https://www.si.com/college/2020/07/09/college-football-season-in-jeopardy-stanford-ivy-league-coronavirus

[quote]Community College Graduate wrote:

The Ivy League has been leading the call for lockdown since day 1. Call me a cynic, but I suspect public safety is not the only motivation here. The Ivies are essentially socialist bootcamps. A cratering of the US economy is just what these people want.

Here's a portent of the future if the lockdown continues:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/business/brooks-brothers-bankruptc

1) The Ivies get their donations from the wealthy and their students who pay full freight are wealthy. They are definitely not rooting for economic collapse.

2) Investment banks and hedge funds fill their ranks with Ivy graduates. This is not something one would see if the Ivies were socialist boot camps.

College teaches people how to think, its sunday school that indoctrinates them.

No news. In May the CSU cancelled all sports which mean it's off of Hollywood's production schedule. Ivy had no people in Hollywood to remote-produce the shows anyways. Maybe some producers would come out of hiding. But most are relaxing in Malibu until there is a vaccine.

Stan Ford wrote:

The point is that sports can continue with a few bumps in the road.

They probably could if they wanted, but they don't. The admins making these decisions don't care about sports, they don't want the liability and they don't care enough to explore creative alternatives