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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3631809, member: 5798"] Normally I'm a pretty optimistic fellow, and the 11 negative tests are a step in the right direction. But the tea leaves I'm reading keep saying the same thing. Based on the problems that Major League Baseball is currently having, trying to play WITHOUT a bubble, with various players, coaches and attendants testing positive on a continuing basis, leads me to believe it's not going to happen. I'm calling it right now. MLB WILL NOT finish their season. Too many players and coaches are testing positive. Too many games are being canceled or postponed. The ship is beginning to sink. I would be very surprised (but pleasantly) if the NCAA is able to have even a truncated season of 20-25 games including a 16 team field for the tournament. If they are walking on thin ice at the end of the season, trying to have a normal a 64 team tournament may be a bridge too far. Too many teams traveling all over the country. All of the football programs are trying to limit the amount of travel each school does. A 16 or 32 team tournament I think may the best we can hope for.................unless they step outside the box, and have the regional round at two sites, one in the east, the other in the west. I don't know how they could accommodate fans that would want to attend these games. I think this year, the fans will have to sit this one out. The less bodies inside the venues, the less chance of the virus being spread. You know a group of 5,000-6,000 people inside a 20,00 seat arena, a small number of them are positive. Query: would the players be allowed to make physical contact with family (none of whom have been recently tested) during the tournament? Of course like the rest of the BY, I'm hoping for a full and complete WCBB season with all teams playing a full and complete season culminating with UConn winning their 12th national championship. There are so many dynamics that go into having and administering a season of play in any collegiate sport. Protocols must be established before play can begin. [B]Keep a close eye on college football. [/B]I think we can judge if basketball can pull it off by how well the football teams do. If they can operate for 11-12 weeks, so can WCBB. All you need is for one player, coach or team manager to test positive. Then you have a decision to make. Do you quarantine just the person that tested positive, or the whole team? Do you cancel the next game (like MLB is doing)? Same thing for our opponents. What will the protocol be? The number one priority here has been, is and will always be the health and safety of the student-athletes. Their health and safety can [U]never[/U] be compromised. They still have 3 months to figure something out before play is scheduled to begin in early November. Right now, I'm shaking my head no. The rising numbers across the country in new positive cases being reported daily, and number of deaths keep rising. Instead of the numbers going down, they're going up. :( Folks don't want to wear masks or practice social distancing. The spike in new positive cases prove that. The CD keeps telling us that IF we did those two things, the numbers would go down. significantly. I doubt things will be any better come the first of the year. We'll see. [/QUOTE]

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