Don't think the season will be allowed to fizzle because of the pot of goal at the end of the rainbow know as Mens NCAA tournament. The NCAA Men's tournament is the main source of revenue which funds most athletic scholarship. Fortunately the NCAA had a cancellation insurance policy last year. It is unclear if a similar insurance policy exists in the event of cancellation of the tournament this season thus the NCAA will do everything possible to make the tournament happen.
Actually only one was cancelled, the others were postponed, a big difference.
Pretty simple, like Duke , each team decides for itself....got it?
If you read my initial post it involved pushing the entire tournament back. That can’t be decided on a team by team basis.
My creative writing professor would accuse you of creating one straw man to prop up another. Why not cancel the games and keep the players in their cocoons instead of sending them home? AKA exactly what Duke WBB is doing.
Last reply, if a team suspends their season, I am assuming ( Ivy League) would not be eligible for any NCAA tournament, regardless of when. The men have chosen a bubble format and the women will do likewise in Texas.
The thread is about the NCAA declaring a pause.
Last that I heard is that they are looking at a bubble format for the women, but haven't said it is going to be in Texas yet.
Where are you getting this? I never ever said players are safe in their cocoons.
COCO: "Why not cancel the games and keep the players in their cocoons instead of sending them home?"
Your response is just bizarre. Isn’t the NCAA pause poll due to COVID or am I missing something?
Because that’s the worst of all possible worlds?
How so?
It restricts the liberties of the student athletes without giving them the opportunity to play.
I was in agreement with you until the dramatic parts about unreasonable and specimens. That games are being canceled and or postponed is neither unreasonable nor part of an experiment using these players. Some responsible adults are making decision to cancel games based on COVID testing primarily and contact tracing as a secondary & equal consideration. The civil liberties of the SA should not be a consideration here because each player had an option to opt out of playing this season without loss of scholarship. There are certainly restrictions once you decide to opt in but those restrictions are the same for everyone who decides to opt in. I voted to cancel the games because what you describe as an "experiment" and others have described as a "cocoon/bubbles" is clearly not working. It is not working because for games to continue eventually players have to come out of their respective cocoons and play other teams. Clearly cocoons, protocols and testing are not being administered equally across NCAA institutions. For example some schools are testing every day while others are testing a couple times per week. This (unequal testing & mandatory quarantine time) was the basis of Duke deciding to shut down. UCONN game tonight was postponed because UCONN played Providence on Saturday and Providence is shut down. Villanova game on Saturday postponed because Nova in shut down. My prior post which both you and @Alydar have perhaps misinterpreted is a statement about what to do after the decision to shut down. To be clear, I am not in favor of sending the players home after the season is shut down. I'm in favor of what Duke is doing which is staying in their cocoons, going to classes and continuing to practice basketball.
Agree to disagree Coco.
