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Meanwhile, someone on the PC Friar Talk board posted this:

"My good friend had lunch Tuesday with Bob Hurley Sr ( Dan’s father) . UConn has cancelled their non conference hoop games. Announcement expected shortly."
 
alexd. said:
Meanwhile, someone on the PC Friar Talk board posted this:

"My good friend had lunch Tuesday with Bob Hurley Sr ( Dan’s father) . UConn has cancelled their non conference hoop games. Announcement expected shortly."
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If that’s true it makes no sense at all. Another half measure to make people feel good.
 
navery12 said:
Amazing how many people are just willing to accept deaths even if it's a small percentage
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There's a lot of things in life that we are willing to accept deaths on. If that weren't the case no one would drive a car. It's just a matter of determining at what point does the benefit outweigh the possible outcome. People (not myself) are increasingly starting to favor a return to normalcy over losing lives.
 
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glastonbury50 said:
There's a lot of things in life that we are willing to accept deaths on. If that weren't the case no one would drive a car. It's just a matter of determining at what point does the benefit outweigh the possible outcome. People (not myself) are increasingly starting to favor a return to normalcy over losing lives.
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I completely get that, we need a lot of aspects of life to open back up. But we don't "need" sports back, and beyond that we certainly don't "need" sports back with live crowds. Even with the most conservative estimates of 1 game with fans resulting in 30 people dying it's crazy to me
 
navery12 said:
I completely get that, we need a lot of aspects of life to open back up. But we don't "need" sports back, and beyond that we certainly don't "need" sports back with live crowds. Even with the most conservative estimates of 1 game with fans resulting in 30 people dying it's crazy to me
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I haven't heard that yet. But if that's the case it's truly not worth it. I'm fine watching at home but I feel like sports should happen.
 
Can someone explain to me how playing conference only games helps anything? I think it’s a ridiculous stance and the powers that be are saying it’s for safety but I do not get that premise at all. What’s the difference if we play Marquette vs syracuse?
 
TMB4405 said:
Can someone explain to me how playing conference only games helps anything? I think it’s a ridiculous stance and the powers that be are saying it’s for safety but I do not get that premise at all. What’s the difference if we play Marquette vs syracuse?
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It's a pretty meaningless change overall and it's more delaying the decision to cancel over anything else. But the Big East can dictate testing procedures for their own schools, but can't control anything that's done for out of conference schools
 
Does anyone really think these student athletes will not be safer than the general population? I believe the games should be played to return to normalcy and Let the players decide if they want to play or not. If they don’t then fine. You never limit risk to zero in anything. But it seems the vaccine will be the only thing to change people’s minds.
 
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TMB4405 said:
Can someone explain to me how playing conference only games helps anything? I think it’s a ridiculous stance and the powers that be are saying it’s for safety but I do not get that premise at all. What’s the difference if we play Marquette vs syracuse?
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For some conferences it’s as simple as geography. Sure not all of the big East geo areas are clean, but if UConn was in a conference with a bunch of NY/MA/CT/RI schools it’s possible they could play a number of games against each other and not deal with any outbreaks
 
Kembacity said:
For some conferences it’s as simple as geography. Sure not all of the big East geo areas are clean, but if UConn was in a conference with a bunch of NY/MA/CT/RI schools it’s possible they could play a number of games against each other and not deal with any outbreaks
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Is it? Because that's silly. I was under the impression that from the article it's about being able to have players under the umbrella of the conferences regulations regarding the disease. Which is also...silly. On the plus side Indiana and Illinois are two losses on our schedule anyway.
 
glastonbury50 said:
There's a lot of things in life that we are willing to accept deaths on. If that weren't the case no one would drive a car. It's just a matter of determining at what point does the benefit outweigh the possible outcome. People (not myself) are increasingly starting to favor a return to normalcy over losing lives.
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The difference is if I die in a car accident, it doesn’t magically make everyone that drives by that accident also get into a car accident.
 
phillionaire said:
The difference is if I die in a car accident, it doesn’t magically make everyone that drives by that accident also get into a car accident.
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I think this is the key point that so many people are overlooking, the infection rate may not seem that much higher than the flu. But it makes a huge difference, even if only the "low risk" population is going to games the spread is still very scary
 
Bottom line is there will not be a season this year. The conference only play is a bunch of BS. May have seen the last of a few guys in UConn uniform including Bouknight. Would have been a fun year. Frankly, this will still be around next year even with a vaccine and we will need to decide how comfortable we are living with it
 
Vuce said:
Bottom line is there will not be a season this year. The conference only play is a bunch of BS. May have seen the last of a few guys in UConn uniform including Bouknight. Would have been a fun year. Frankly, this will still be around next year even with a vaccine and we will need to decide how comfortable we are living with it
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So you're saying we may miss 2 seasons in a row? That would be catastrophic. To colleges and to my mental state.
 
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So the OOC schedule might be canceled before it was finalized? Was it ever finalized? If so it was unspectacular enough to have forgotten about. Not like we’re missing out on Atlantis or Maui (sorry PC) and the conference challenges. Just away at Florida and 2 of vandy/notre dame/usc
 
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Taiwan has been allowing fans into their baseball games since early May. They've increased capacity since then, and allowed fans to sit in their seats with *no mask*

New Zealand had rugby matches with full stadiums.

WE CAN DO THIS TOO!

It requires everyone doing their job.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
Taiwan has been allowing fans into their baseball games since early May. They've increased capacity since then, and allowed fans to sit in their seats with *no mask*

New Zealand had rugby matches with full stadiums.

WE CAN DO THIS TOO!

It requires everyone doing their job.
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I hope this is true and it can happen, but New Zealand was way out in front of this and has done a great job controlling it. Can only hope if we start now it happens here as well
 
Vuce said:
Bottom line is there will not be a season this year. The conference only play is a bunch of BS. May have seen the last of a few guys in UConn uniform including Bouknight. Would have been a fun year. Frankly, this will still be around next year even with a vaccine and we will need to decide how comfortable we are living with it
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If season is cancelled I think Bouk stays, hes still young and could use the time to improve draft stocks. Some draft boards I look at don't have him getting drafted at all. I sort of think that the season he is projected to have by people in the UConn community is what gets him going first round. He needs one more big year.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
Taiwan has been allowing fans into their baseball games since early May. They've increased capacity since then, and allowed fans to sit in their seats with *no mask*

New Zealand had rugby matches with full stadiums.

WE CAN DO THIS TOO!

It requires everyone doing their job.
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navery12 said:
I hope this is true and it can happen, but New Zealand was way out in front of this and has done a great job controlling it. Can only hope if we start now it happens here as well
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New Zealand is about the size of Colorado with 80% of the country being uninhabited. The United States is 3,500% larger than NZ and only around 50% of the US is uninhabited. Most of that being Alaska.

NZ has been able to control the virus because they are a country of two beautiful, tiny islands and 500 even tinier islands. There are very few densely populated areas which has allowed them to test citizens at a high percentage and they have established fenced in quarantine facilities for anyone entering the country.

Great policies, not possible here.

Absorb all that and then add in that Taiwan is 5 times smaller than New Zealand.

There's no way to realistically believe we could attack this the same way. We're fighting the same enemy but we're in a much, much larger and more complicated battle.

EDIT: On a related but lighter note:

www.cnn.com

Man cuts through fence to escape New Zealand Covid-19 quarantine and visit liquor store | CNN

A man in his 50s absconded from a New Zealand coronavirus quarantine facility, cutting through a fence to visit a liquor store, officials revealed on Friday.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
 
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formerlurker said:
New Zealand is about the size of Colorado with 80% of the country being uninhabited. The United States is 3,500% larger than NZ and only around 50% of the US is uninhabited. Most of that being Alaska.

NZ has been able to control the virus because they are a country of two beautiful, tiny islands and 500 even tinier islands. There are very few densely populated areas which has allowed them to test citizens at a high percentage and they have established fenced in quarantine facilities for anyone entering the country.

Great policies, not possible here.

Absorb all that and then add in that Taiwan is 5 times smaller than New Zealand.

There's no way to realistically believe we could attack this the same way. We're fighting the same enemy but we're in a much, much larger and more complicated battle.

EDIT: On a related but lighter note:

www.cnn.com

Man cuts through fence to escape New Zealand Covid-19 quarantine and visit liquor store | CNN

A man in his 50s absconded from a New Zealand coronavirus quarantine facility, cutting through a fence to visit a liquor store, officials revealed on Friday.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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Oh yeah, completely different population densities of the US and NZ. Just saying because they're playing sports with fans doesn't mean it should happen here
 
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