IVY LEAGUE CANCELS WINTER SPORTS

Can they cancel the founders degrees since it is obvious they skipped all of their English classes?

You all realize this means indoor track is done for right?

Good. Indoor track is lame.

Indoor sports aren't happening this year in any conference.

I am curious how the NCAA will handle 2 consecutive years without March Madness revenue.

bad for the NCAA, worse for the schools that rely on the NCAA revenue check for survival. it was less than 50% last year. if it doesn't happen this year, the NCAA will change forever

There is no way that 4 months from now we will be in a position to have packed stadiums at several different locations throughout the country.

Best case for March Madness is a bubble scenario. Unless they are already starting to plan the logistics for this, it isn't happening.

ehh...

People said that about football. They scoffed at the SEC, ACC, CUSA and Sun Belt. All of those schools ran fall football and had XC championships and functioned normally. So much so the other FBS conferences are trying to scramble to have semblance of a fall season.

I would not doubt the resolve of the above conferences to play basketball (and other sports). It will look different and many smaller conferences will cancel, but I also know those four conference are working on indoor track conference meetings.

Sliding Scale wrote:

ehh...

People said that about football. They scoffed at the SEC, ACC, CUSA and Sun Belt. All of those schools ran fall football and had XC championships and functioned normally. So much so the other FBS conferences are trying to scramble to have semblance of a fall season.

I would not doubt the resolve of the above conferences to play basketball (and other sports). It will look different and many smaller conferences will cancel, but I also know those four conference are working on indoor track conference meetings.

Not sure how close your paying attention. Yeah xc pretty much worked out, but how football going?

The Ivy League doing what other schools feel like they can't because of their endowment. A lot of schools pushed through with in person classes and with fall/winter sports because admin needed to be able to budget for their salaries. Those budget concerns don't exist in the Ivy League so they can prioritize student athlete health + safety.

This ^^^^

cancel the ivy wrote:

They don't care about sports anyways so it's convenient for them to cancel no matter what

Oh, how little you know, grasshopper.

Sports drive a major portion of alumni giving in the Ivy League. Cancelling football and basketball--and other sports--will hammer donations.

pavement88 wrote:

I am curious how the NCAA will handle 2 consecutive years without March Madness revenue.

Always the foremost question in a system of state-sanctioned corporatism.

The Ivy League has a mixed record so far on their calls.

Last year they initially cancelled their basketball tournament but still were going to let Yale go to the NCAA tournament the next weekend which was going to be held WITH fans. That was not a logical decision. I wrote Yale at the time and told them this was consistent. If everything needed to be shut down then they needed to act consistently. They reversed course the next week and shut everything down and so did the rest of the country.

With the fall sports, the Ivy League got it wrong on cancelling imo. The rest of the nation has shown that is was possible to hold outdoor fall sports relatively safely. Nearly every Ivy League fall sport would be ending its season right now. They should have had them. At the time when they cancelled outdoor fall sports with the plan to hold indoor winter sports (when we also have the flu) didn't make sense to me.

An entity that cancelled outdoor fall sports is almost certainly now cancelling indoor sports. I understand the logic of cancelling indoor sports but also would have no problem with them going forward. The evidence is Covid for college age students is for the vast, vast majority a fairly mild disease. If these students who are paying $75,000 a year to go to school and aren't on scholarship want to play sports I don't have a problem with them doing it. If an older coach doesn't feel safe precautions could be taken for them.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with the rest of the NCAA basketball season. With Football is a few players get COVID the rest of the team can play. With basketball I don't see how that happens. Seems like the entire team would be out 2 weeks unless the quaranting rules change that most seem to be following? If they just changed it to only those with a positive test sit out then things would be different.

Sliding Scale wrote:

ehh...

People said that about football. They scoffed at the SEC, ACC, CUSA and Sun Belt. All of those schools ran fall football and had XC championships and functioned normally. So much so the other FBS conferences are trying to scramble to have semblance of a fall season.

I would not doubt the resolve of the above conferences to play basketball (and other sports). It will look different and many smaller conferences will cancel, but I also know those four conference are working on indoor track conference meetings.

As I noticed above if a basketball player gets COVID does that mean the entire team will be out two weeks?

pavement88 wrote:

I am curious how the NCAA will handle 2 consecutive years without March Madness revenue.

doubt it-the basketball season may start a bit later than 2 weeks from now, but football was written off in August and it is happening-though there are some postponements; With a vaccine by late winter, chances are that there will be some form of March Madness with 20-30% fans; Traditional conference play may be curtailed with less travel; Syracuse not playing Miami in the ACC etc...Several tournaments that normally kick off the season have been merged into one larger tournament. NCAA isn't going to give up the billion dollar tournament revenue very easily...

wejo wrote:

Sliding Scale wrote:

ehh...

People said that about football. They scoffed at the SEC, ACC, CUSA and Sun Belt. All of those schools ran fall football and had XC championships and functioned normally. So much so the other FBS conferences are trying to scramble to have semblance of a fall season.

I would not doubt the resolve of the above conferences to play basketball (and other sports). It will look different and many smaller conferences will cancel, but I also know those four conference are working on indoor track conference meetings.

As I noticed above if a basketball player gets COVID does that mean the entire team will be out two weeks?

from what I saw Wejo, that is the case; The UConn men's team had at least one positive on the team and the entire squad has to shut down for 2 weeks, Seton Hall just had a positive, meaning their season opener on Nov 25th is likely delayed; Needless to say even if quarantine completed and all negatives, UConn would be rusty after 2 weeks of no practice/direct player contact...

All of their calls have been bad. They have shown an utter disrespect for the work that student-athletes put in. Senior cross country runners who had been running more than 100 miles per week all 4 years in college are missing out on their last chance to run cross country, and for what? What exactly is the risk? Someone might get a runny nose and a cough?