Duke women end their season [merged]
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This.........doesn't feel like a real season.
So far anyway
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Duke women’s basketball ends season due to Covid-19
The Blue Devil women and new coach Kara Lawson have decided not to participate in the 2020-21 season any further.
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Duke women’s basketball ends season due to Covid-19
The Blue Devil women and new coach Kara Lawson have decided not to participate in the 2020-21 season any further.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Probably not the coach’s call but the medical staf’s.
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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.
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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.
Are there 2 at UCONN?
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah...one might ask, in the same vein, why skip football and then
play basketball in the covid ?