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Uconn cancels football season

UofCT2009 said:
That's not a joke?! Dear lord.
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I think it is a joke, but I honestly can’t tell anymore. Some of the stuff conferences are instituting sound like jokes.
 
phillionaire said:
I think it is a joke, but I honestly can’t tell anymore. Some of the stuff conferences are instituting sound like jokes.
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It isn't.

The idea is that teams on quarantine will miss practice so this is a way of evening it out slightly.
 
OldBosd said:
It isn't.

The idea is that teams on quarantine will miss practice so this is a way of evening it out slightly.
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Wow I guess that makes sense but that’s so stupid
 
No surprise here. I'm not sure people are ready to face the reality that a vaccine changes nothing for these players, although it helps the coaches and others they come in contact with. Most likely scenario is that COVID 19 is around for the rest of our lives.
 
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Win total will be the same as if they had a season, and no chance of injuries.

Win/Win........
 
I have 2 jokes. One about a tree falling in the woods and another about Hydroxychloroquine.
 
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The football team’s games against Illinois, Indiana, Maine and Mississippi have already been taken off the schedule by those schools’ respective conferences, and with the Atlantic Coast Conference likely to restrict its teams solely to conference play as well, games against North Carolina and Virginia were in doubt.

So would this same decision be made if UConn were in a conference that was only playing intra-conference teams so they had games to play? In other words is this really about the health and safety of the players as the press release says or because the team just can't get a schedule of games to play? Some of both?
 
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McLovin said:
"The safety challenges created by COVID-19 place our football student-athletes at an unacceptable level of risk." - AD DB

I had been holding on to hope that there would be a college basketball season starting sometimes this spring, but reading the tea leaves of this comment, it doesn't look too good. If they feel competition is too dangerous for the football guys, don't see how basketball is any different.

Even if a vaccine is available by spring, it probably isn't going to be given to healthy 20s somethings in peak physical condition with access to world class health care, it's going to the old and high-risk first.
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HuskyHawk said:
No surprise here. I'm not sure people are ready to face the reality that a vaccine changes nothing for these players, although it helps the coaches and others they come in contact with. Most likely scenario is that COVID 19 is around for the rest of our lives.
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It will be like the flu and every other thing that's around and a part of our lives but we will be heading back towards normalcy once the vaccines start being released months from now.
 
Deepster said:
Season is cancelled.....and the number of projected wins is the same! :rimshot
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Yes, but a big win for the Boneyarder whose avatar has "...predicting undefeated seasons..." beneath it, unless he removed it.
 
superjohn said:
It will be like the flu and every other thing that's around and a part of our lives but we will be heading back towards normalcy once the vaccines start being released months from now.
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SARS is around but almost no one gets it. Polio is around too.
 
HooperScooper said:
The football team’s games against Illinois, Indiana, Maine and Mississippi have already been taken off the schedule by those schools’ respective conferences, and with the Atlantic Coast Conference likely to restrict its teams solely to conference play as well, games against North Carolina and Virginia were in doubt.

So would this same decision be made if UConn were in a conference that was only playing intra-conference teams so they had games to play? In other words is this really about the health and safety of the players as the press release says or because the team just can't get a schedule of games to play? Some of both?
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It's 100% because we didn't have anyone to play.
 
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upstater said:
I think you're going to find a lot of schools (with schedules and teams to play) following UConn's decision quite soon
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Probably others will cancel but nobody is following UConn's decision. UConn was the first to do it because they had nobody to play, there's no way they go out on a limb and announce they are the first to cancel the season if they had a conference slate.
 
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superjohn said:
Probably others will cancel but nobody is following UConn's decision. UConn was the first to do it because they had nobody to play, there's no way they go out on a limb and announce they are the first to cancel the season if they had a conference slate.
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Of course UConn could find teams to play. At worst, H&H's with the other non-ND Independents just about fills up the schedule. The problem was state of CT travel restrictions and the limited opponents that wouldn't require quarantining.
 
Dooooooomed said:
Of course UConn could find teams to play. At worst, H&H's with the other non-ND Independents just about fills up the schedule. The problem was state of CT travel restrictions and the limited opponents that wouldn't require quarantining.
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I obviously meant a real schedule, they get nothing out of playing Central.
 
champs99and04 said:
It's beyond obvious that Democrats are exploiting the BLM movement in order to facilitate COVID fear/hysteria. The fact that black people have been disproportionately impacted by the virus only further dims the optics of sending a bunch of them out there without pay to generate revenue for the school/state.

Of course, we all know they would have no problem doing so if it were profitable. No gate money + four games already canceled makes it easy to play the virtue card.
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Or not...
 
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