UConn men’s team pauses again due to Covid

[David 76]

Huh? The walk-on in the article is on Syracuse if that’s what you’re mentioning.

No. I recognized the name. But I just must have been confused.

 

[87Xfer]

The inherent problem with your entire post, particularly the underlined part, is that there is no positive outcome of comparing generations to one another. The set of conditions under which both groups were of high school age are so fundamentally different that it's impossible to compare. There is no value in this comparison.

The only outcomes of such an argument is further age-ism, self-aggrandization, generational split, and anger between both parties.

Just stop.

sorta like comparing sanogo to okafor. but isn't what this place place is for?

 

[6xChamps]

The women’s team got back to practice in 10 days so at least we know UConns medical staff isn’t fully committed to the 14 day quarantine no matter what. Women’s team was able to test out.

 

[87Xfer]

what a freaking circus this is. not surprising

 

[NJHusky]

The inherent problem with your entire post, particularly the underlined part, is that there is no positive outcome of comparing generations to one another. The set of conditions under which both groups were of high school age are so fundamentally different that it's impossible to compare. There is no value in this comparison.

The only outcomes of such an argument is further age-ism, self-aggrandization, generational split, and anger between both parties.

Just stop.

You’re right. the conditions are different. Having 200 tv channels, internet, unlimited video games and not going to the prom/drinking isn’t similar to fighting in Ww2 or Vietnam.

 

[CL82]

I forgot where I read this...It may have been somebody on Twitter, but they suggested that the Big East could have done something like have multiple bubbles or pods while splitting the conference geographically. For example, you can have UConn, PC, Seton Hall, STJ, Villanova, and Georgetown all in a bubble at Mohegan. Then have Marquette, Butler, Xavier, Creighton, and DePaul play somewhere around Chicago. You can keep them in the bubble for 2 weeks and everybody plays each other. That maybe the safest way to play. I don't know if its realistic, but it was just an idea.

I feel like that was on The Boneyard.

 

[UConnDad]

You’re right. the conditions are different. Having 200 tv channels, internet, unlimited video games and not going to the prom/drinking isn’t similar to fighting in Ww2 or Vietnam.

Or worrying about the draft lottery!

 

[goskis2018]

I’m surprised we had the amount of sports that we’ve had during a pandemic. I just can’t see Fox hunting, billiards, rugby, and other old sports actually being played during past global pandemics and plagues. We are so spoiled and arrogant. I’ll take 2 games, per month, gladly at this point. Anyway, go Huskies

Looks like the MLB played through the Flu Pandemic in 1918, 1919, and 1920

 

[Vancat]

Did I hear it was a walk-on?

not sure of the timing, but walkon Matt Garry said he tested positive.

Really nice article on Matt Garry Hartford Courant Mike Anthony

https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-mens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-basketball-matt-garry-column-20201203-na73xulzzzfo5nc5h3lezsgyey-story.html

the-boneyard.com

 

[Jbirdp5]

I don’t know where I read it but I thought jay Wright had said the big East was not going to do a bubble because it was too cost prohibitive. Anyone confirm or refute this? I can’t find the article

 

[auror]

I don’t know where I read it but I thought jay Wright had said the big East was not going to do a bubble because it was too cost prohibitive. Anyone confirm or refute this? I can’t find the article

“There’s no doubt: The bubble is the answer,” said Villanova coach Jay Wright. “If you want to get where you are sure that you’re going to get all your games in, the bubble’s the answer [and] the medical experts will agree to that. The challenge for us is ... our players and students. They’re not employees so to force someone to go into a bubble is shaky. And, if you do it for the men you have to do it for the women, which doubles the cost for everybody ... [and] we don’t think the schools, really have the finances to do that.”

From Early November

As Big East mulls a bubble, Mohegan Sun is a leading possibility

Villanova coach Jay Wright: A bubble is the answer.

www.nj.com

 

[huskymedic]

Did I hear it was a walk-on?

not sure of the timing, but walkon Matt Garry said he tested positive.

Really nice article on Matt Garry Hartford Courant Mike Anthony

https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-mens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-basketball-matt-garry-column-20201203-na73xulzzzfo5nc5h3lezsgyey-story.html

the-boneyard.com

>>On Oct. 26, he ruptured his left knee in practice. Torn ACL. Torn meniscus. Cartilage damage. Season over before it began.

He underwent surgery Nov. 19.

He contracted COVID-19 days later and tested positive Nov. 27.<<

>>In the days after surgery, when he could barely move around, Garry’s parents and/or brother would visit to help him. When they weren’t available one day, a friend stopped by. That friend soon tested positive for COVID. Garry did, too, days later.<<

His latest quarantine ended yesterday...

 

[Jbirdp5]

From Early November

As Big East mulls a bubble, Mohegan Sun is a leading possibility

Villanova coach Jay Wright: A bubble is the answer.

www.nj.com

Thank you, that is what I remembered reading. Wright made it seem like the bubble idea would be a non starter for some in the league

 

[UConnDad]

Boomers are not the same as the greatest generation.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Boomers are not the same as the greatest generation.

Greatest generation spawned and raised the Boomers. Maybe they're really just the "Better than average" generation. Anywho, good news is every agrees Boomers are the worst.

 

[BParkDog]

Nobody, including Boomers, think that Boomers are the "greatest generation." Boomers are the people who resulted from the Greatest Generation cranking out the kids after WWII ended. The "baby boom". The Greatest Generation fought and died in Pacific Atolls and French Fields. The Boomers normalized unrestrained consumption of useless consumer products and unhealthy food.