UConn - Richmond officially OFF

[Huskymagic]

You're aware there's a big difference between a 100-person football team who primarily practices outside and in groups that often never interact with one another and a 13-person basketball team who practices indoors and all as one group?

You mean college football players never spend time indoors with each other? They don't live in dormitories together? They don't have team meals? They don't have film study indoors? They don't travel on team buses or planes? They don't workout in indoor gyms?

The COVID standards and protocols for D1 college sports should be the same. It's a question of principle, fairness, and equality. The NCAA is allowing football to operate under one set of conditions, and basketball under a completely different set of conditions. That is not right nor fair to the athletes, the coaches, and the public at large who follow/pay/support these teams.

 

[Storrs South]

 

[BlueDogs]

You're aware there's a big difference between a 100-person football team who primarily practices outside and in groups that often never interact with one another and a 13-person basketball team who practices indoors and all as one group?

Careful, you are using logic that contradicts the Storrs party line.

 

[TheChamps990411]

2020 the gift that just keeps on giving. Unfortunately its like getting gifts repeatedly from a really cheap and old relative. Its nothing you want.

 

[freescooter]

Basketball needs to have similar protocols to football. Applying one set of standards for football, but a different one for basketball is ridiculous and dangerous. College football is copying the European soccer league standards regarding COVID. Basketball needs to follow immediately or there cannot be a basketball season like this.

You cannot allow selfish behavior to run rampant in one sport, but encourage complete complicity and sacrifice in another.

The NCAA wants to have college basketball, but teams are encouraged and allowed to cancel games anytime due to 1 positive test. Its chaotic, stupid, and politically motivated and makes no sense to allow this type of behavior.

PS: Mark Emmert the definition of hypocrisy and corruption at its finest

A. This is why, if football ever leaves 5he NCAA it will bring basketball with it and we had best be prepared to bolt the Big East fast for any football league.
B. Playing indoors changes the equation in a big way Though I would favor stricter ones for football.
C. The basketball protocols are reasonable. Playing 5he season right now is 2hat is insane. Postpone until February and if things are better under control play 16-20 games in February and March. NCAA Tournament if possible in April at 1 or 2 sites.
D pretending this is a normal year is just nuts. And we have a slightly warped view from Connecticut and New England. Our positivity rate is fluxuating between 6-7 or so. Ohio is 45. Iowa is in 47. Idaho and the Dakotas are in the 50s. There was a county in North Dakota where every resident was infected. Not Manhattan in population of course, but still.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Hard to believe they wanted to play today, and we left them on read. We need to be more aggressive getting any games.

 

[HobokenHusky]

Higher major type you say

 

[Hurleyman216]

The NCAA needs to get their crap together and come up with protocols that make sense. In addition, they need to punish teams that don’t follow the protocols and take this seriously. Take Gonzaga as an example, they went against the NCAA guidelines and in the meantime played games and now also have another player and staff member test positive. They thought they were above the protocols. How many guys now on Auburn or West Virginia may have COVID now? That kind of crap can’t happen and they need to start banning teams from the NCAA tournament if it continues. Hopefully Gonzaga is forced to shut it down for 2 weeks now.

Not sure if there has been another D1 school who has been impacted by Covid more than UConn has so far this season. Other teams need to start taking this seriously.

 

[ThabeetDown]

No chance we get a game in next week. Hurley has made it clear he prefers practices over games. Most teams would bend over backwards to play as many games as possible -- but not Dan Hurley, he's made that known.

 

[Huskymagic]

A. This is why, if football ever leaves 5he NCAA it will bring basketball with it and we had best be prepared to bolt the Big East fast for any football league.
B. Playing indoors changes the equation in a big way Though I would favor stricter ones for football.
C. The basketball protocols are reasonable. Playing 5he season right now is 2hat is insane. Postpone until February and if things are better under control play 16-20 games in February and March. NCAA Tournament if possible in April at 1 or 2 sites.
D pretending this is a normal year is just nuts. And we have a slightly warped view from Connecticut and New England. Our positivity rate is fluxuating between 6-7 or so. Ohio is 45. Iowa is in 47. Idaho and the Dakotas are in the 50s. There was a county in North Dakota where every resident was infected. Not Manhattan in population of course, but still.

People can rationalize, excuse, or justify anything in this world. All of the COVID rates in those states don't prevent football from being played. People see what they want to see not what actually is. This type of subjectivity, selective application of rules, bias, and favoritism towards one sport should never be condoned by any sane, rational, and humanist person because it undermines the very fabric of respecting any laws.

My concern is that we we are allowing the rich(football) to operate under one set of rules/conditions and the poor(all other sports) under another set of rules. This is why I can't fault Gonzaga or a few other programs. The NCAA is making sure that football gets their money(the overwhelming piece of the pie) and everyone associated with football while basketball and every other program is harmed severely(they get the crumbs and the costs).

Football can try to break away and become bigger monopolies. That will lead to their demise. Hubris goeth before the fall.

PS: Basketball-centric schools should make their voices heard right now. These type of unfair and unequal rules by the NCAA cannot be allowed to continue.

 

[How Sway?!]

No chance we get a game in next week. Hurley has made it clear he prefers practices over games. Most teams would bend over backwards to play as many games as possible -- but not Dan Hurley, he's made that known.
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No chance we get a game in next week. Hurley has made it clear he prefers practices over games. Most teams would bend over backwards to play as many games as possible -- but not Dan Hurley, he's made that known.

Imagine seeing all of the evidence of UConn trying to find a game for Monday and still coming up with this type of post.

 

[NJHoops]

No chance we get a game in next week. Hurley has made it clear he prefers practices over games. Most teams would bend over backwards to play as many games as possible -- but not Dan Hurley, he's made that known.

Literally not true. What’s your motivation to lie here? The scheduling of these games goes way beyond basketball decisions, and the primary decision makers are not on the staff. Please look at what the state is requiring for programs to even be allowed in. They wanted the Richmond game badly. Mooney plays a disciplined style that Hurley knows well from many A10 matchups, and it would have been a good test. More than 50 teams have not played a single game yet. It’s a whole mess.

And, I don’t know, but maybe if more people had healthcare workers coming home to them, who are reeling, physically and mentally, with what it takes to care for the sheer number of hospitalized COVID patients (even ones who eventually recover), maybe people wouldn’t jump so quickly to the dead-not dead dichotomy. Or maybe they would, idk.

 

[Dooooooomed]

Old Dominion just had their 12/7 opponent cancel on them. Their next game now isn't until Saturday. Picked to finish 5th in CUSA.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

D pretending this is a normal year is just nuts. And we have a slightly warped view from Connecticut and New England. Our positivity rate is fluxuating between 6-7 or so. Ohio is 45. Iowa is in 47. Idaho and the Dakotas are in the 50s. There was a county in North Dakota where every resident was infected. Not Manhattan in population of course, but still.

Not true.

SD - 19.9%
ID - ~24%.

Still bad numbers, but nowhere near what you quote.

 

[superjohn]

No chance we get a game in next week. Hurley has made it clear he prefers practices over games. Most teams would bend over backwards to play as many games as possible -- but not Dan Hurley, he's made that known.

Will you at least come back and admit you don't know what you're talking about and you're wrong when UConn does play a game next week?

 

[superjohn]

A. This is why, if football ever leaves 5he NCAA it will bring basketball with it and we had best be prepared to bolt the Big East fast for any football league.
B. Playing indoors changes the equation in a big way Though I would favor stricter ones for football.
C. The basketball protocols are reasonable. Playing 5he season right now is 2hat is insane. Postpone until February and if things are better under control play 16-20 games in February and March. NCAA Tournament if possible in April at 1 or 2 sites.
D pretending this is a normal year is just nuts. And we have a slightly warped view from Connecticut and New England. Our positivity rate is fluxuating between 6-7 or so. Ohio is 45. Iowa is in 47. Idaho and the Dakotas are in the 50s. There was a county in North Dakota where every resident was infected. Not Manhattan in population of course, but still.

You continue to post false info in all these threads.

 

[upstater]

can we get one piece of good news today? It’s like one thing after another. Gotta play someone before Friday. Can’t wait another week.

This is good news. We knew Richmond had issues. Playing a team w/ a sick player--even if he's quarantined--can destroy your whole season.

 

[HooperScooper]

can we get one piece of good news today? It’s like one thing after another. Gotta play someone before Friday. Can’t wait another week.

Well Garry Parish of CBSSports.com says they will play the season and there will be an NCAA Tournament with a champion crowned. If only because there's too much money at stake and after last year's cancellation of the NCAA Tournament the schools and NCAA can't afford another cancelled tournament.

As I've said many times, I was always certain a season would start -- and I'm still confident the season will be completed and a champion crowned, if only because not having a 2021 NCAA Tournament would be financially devastating for too many entities. So, rest assured, college basketball will reach its finish line, one way or another. But, it's been clear for a while now, the ride from here to there is going to be bumpy.

No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 2 Baylor was to be the season's top game, but just reminds us the impact of COVID-19

Some thought the Zags-Bears game was a preview of the NCAA Tournament final, but let's hope not

www.cbssports.com

 

[Dogdeacon]

This is good news. We knew Richmond had issues. Playing a team w/ a sick player--even if he's quarantined--can destroy your whole season.

Yes, this find a bright side. The spin of football is forging ahead screw the consequences so should basketball is part of why 3,000 people are dying per day in our screwed up country. I'm bummed about a zillion things that are cancelled, mostly for my kids who are even less vulnerable than college students. But I'm willing to double down and hibernate even more for as long as it takes to get as many people as possible thru this thing. CBB isn't exactly a big picture priority for frocks sake.

 

[bendm]

This is why, if football ever leaves 5he NCAA it will bring basketball with it and we had best be prepared to bolt the Big East fast for any football league.

never miss an opportunity to bring up your worst nightmare do you? but as usual youre wrong. you can't extrapolate anything based on a once in a lifetime pandemic. the knight commission said THIS WEEK that only P5 football should be separated from D1, no other sports, and certainly not mid major football conferences like the aac.

 

[Huskygamble19]

Let me know when they play their next game on Feb 30th.

 

[auror]

Everyone needs to stop living...every...single...moment of every...single...day in the mistaken belief that by not living we won’t die.

You can live a better life social distancing in 2020 than you could living a regular life in 1992. It's not that hard. Sack up for 4 months until the vaccines are rolled out.

There are 100,000 people hospitalized in the US with COVID at this moment.

Do you know how many they have hospitalized in Australia with COVID? 0. They literally have no people in the hospital for it right now. They're hosting 40,000 people rugby events. Let me adjust this for populaion. Australia has 1/12 our population, so let's multiply zero by 12 and we get... 0.

We could have beaten this. But we didn't because we're too proud and too dumb.

 

[Huskygamble19]

The public is spending its time chasing its tail. Wake me up when they catch it.

 

[Leebo]

If people don't understand by now, they just don't want to. There's no reason to try to convince them.

 

[auror]

If people don't understand by now, they just don't want to. There's no reason to try to convince them.

We have to keep trying, because it's a public health crisis, and their actions affect me and more specifically my grandparents, whether I like it or not. My grandparents, who are massive UConn fans for the record, and who have been been more or less bunkered down in a basement for 9 full months while these idiots go around spreading a disease that would kill them if they happened to roll the wrong number on a die (1/6 chance, 30% chance of 1 dying if they both contracted it).

But I guess we don't need to just stay home and binge Netflix and Apple+ because we need to live our lives and damn the people who are lost in the crusade for normalcy. Queen's Gambit and Ted Lasso are both terrific, btw.

 

[3rdbass]

Yeah we just have to remember these are just games. People's lives are more important than a basketball game. Wow people in American are only about immediate gratification and are very selfish.

 

[UCDaveD]

No chance we get a game in next week. Hurley has made it clear he prefers practices over games. Most teams would bend over backwards to play as many games as possible -- but not Dan Hurley, he's made that known.

What a strange thing to pull completely out of your ass. No surprise who the sole “like” on that post is either.

 

[alphasigko]

This season is officially screwed up. What a damn shame.

 

[Rico444]

You can live a better life social distancing in 2020 than you could living a regular life in 1992. It's not that hard. Sack up for 4 months until the vaccines are rolled out.

There are 100,000 people hospitalized in the US with COVID at this moment.

Do you know how many they have hospitalized in Australia with COVID? 0. They literally have no people in the hospital for it right now. They're hosting 40,000 people rugby events. Let me adjust this for populaion. Australia has 1/12 our population, so let's multiply zero by 12 and we get... 0.

We could have beaten this. But we didn't because we're too proud and too dumb.

We definitely haven't handled this virus well, but Australia is an unfair comparison. As an island, they can control every person that enters the country, and at 1/12 our population, it's also much easier to manage when the numbers are low.

 

[Yardigan]

What a strange thing to pull completely out of your ass. No surprise who the sole “like” on that post is either.

It's true. Hurls has always preferred practice to games....