Duke women end their season [merged]

[bluedevil]

per espn..Duke WBB season is over...

 

[CL82]

per espn..Duke WBB season is over...

?

 

[Alydar]

But I guess it's safe for the men's program?

 

[JordyG]

Report: Duke women's basketball ends season due to COVID-19

...

247sports.com

 

[SimpleDawg]

This.........doesn't feel like a real season.

 

[Adios]

Gotta save face for St Krzysewski.

 

[bluedevil]

But I guess it's safe for the men's program?

So far anyway

 

[Alydar]

Question: If the decision was made by the AD then why the women and not the men0?

Answer: The men produce revenue, the women are a revenue drain.

 

[oldude]

Isolated decision or harbinger of things to come?

 

[MilfordHusky]

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[EdSaid]

You want everyone to be safe and somehow get a season in, but everyone knows in the back of their mind you could be shut down at any time.

 

[Alydar]

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I didn't realize that a team can simply stop playing without the consent of the AD and probably the school president. The coaches would be at risk of termination for insubordination.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Does their exposure to the risks of Covid diminish by wrapping up their season. I suspect the players end up with increased exposure by terminating the season.

 

[oldude]

I didn't realize that a team can simply stop playing without the consent of the AD and probably the school president. The coaches would be at risk of termination for insubordination.

The NCAA is allowing any player to opt out of playing if they so choose. Hundreds of football and basketball players have done so. This may simply have been a decision by all or most Duke WBB players to opt out, essentially forcing the team to cancel the remainder of the season. I don’t think it has anything to do with insubordination.

 

[HuskyNan]

I didn't realize that a team can simply stop playing without the consent of the AD and probably the school president. The coaches would be at risk of termination for insubordination.

Probably not the coach’s call but the medical staf’s.

 

[Alydar]

The NCAA is allowing any player to opt out of playing if they so choose. Hundreds of football and basketball players have done so. This may simply have been a decision by all or most Duke WBB players to opt out, essentially forcing the team to cancel the remainder of the season. I don’t think it has anything to do with insubordination.

If it had been UNC the Dukies would be screaming "quitters!!".

But maybe alumni contributions are down. Remember, there are a lot of unemployed waiters and waitresses.

 

[Alydar]

Probably not the coach’s call but the medical staf’s.

True, but are there 2 medical staffs at Duke?

 

[bluedevil]

True, but are there 2 medical staffs at Duke?

If it had been UNC the Dukies would be screaming "quitters!!".

But maybe alumni contributions are down. Remember, there are a lot of unemployed waiters and waitresses.

True, but are there 2 medical staffs at Duke?

Are there 2 at UCONN?

 

[sivad40]

Question: If the decision was made by the AD then why the women and not the men0?

Answer: The men produce revenue, the women are a revenue drain.

The Golden Goose of collegiate sports aka college football has already laid its egg. I don't know I posted it here or somewhere else but I said I wouldn't be shocked if college football have be allowed to finish its season and women's college basketball wouldn't.

 

[Alydar]

Are there 2 at UCONN?

UConn isn't the topic. Milford suggested that the stoppage was due to a medical staff recommendation. My question is if so how did they arrive at different conclusions for the men and women. I mean, both teams will be playing an ACC home and road schedule so the environments they are and will be in are identical.
My speculative thought is that the one and dones on the men's team need the exposure, a really poor reason, if true.

 

[KY Card Fan]

I'm a huge fan of WBB but I can't understand why any winter college sports, women's or men's, are being played.

 

[msf22b]

The report noted cases and contact tracing...
Seemingly not an arbitrary decision.

 

[Carnac]

This.........doesn't feel like a real season.

Like I said earlier, take one game at a time, and don't look past the next game. It may not come. Right now, the only game I see on UConn's schedule is DePaul on Dec 29.

 

[billybud]

Question: If the decision was made by the AD then why the women and not the men0?

Answer: The men produce revenue, the women are a revenue drain.

Yeah...one might ask, in the same vein, why skip football and then
play basketball in the covid ?

 

[billybud]

Sounds like Duke has been iffy...Coach K made no bones about it that he thought the season should have been scrapped.