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Post by oldfox on May 20, 2020 15:54:42 GMT -5
Personally, I don't see how you open up a residential campus this fall under the current social distancing and other COVID-19 public health protocols. I can't imagine that the state won't require colleges to report testing results for each dorm for contact tracing purposes. The cost of testing alone would bankrupt most college's if that many tests were even available.
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Post by yankee on May 20, 2020 22:35:17 GMT -5
The carnage our national leaders have caused is astonishing. The social distancing was needed, curve was flattened. If they want this now to become we live in fear until a cure, they will destroy not only colleges, but many small businesses. They have no backbone, especially the democratic governors leading this crap. And this is not political as I am a democrat. Cuomo and Whitmer are slime who dont care about the damage they are causing.
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Post by foxfanatic on May 21, 2020 10:10:04 GMT -5
Ultimately making sure people's lives are not in danger is the most important thing. We should slowly start to open things like the tri-state area is starting to do. But colleges make no sense to open until we are sure it safe. You just have too many people traveling all over the country/world to be crammed into small living spaces.
I have to disagree on Cuomo. He has responded well to this pandemic especially while getting no help from the federal government
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Post by shooter on May 21, 2020 12:13:34 GMT -5
I will update my front page post later with some NAIA and juco sports cuts that I didn't know about.
The latest division 1 casualties are men's and women's swimming/diving as well as men's and women's tennis at East Carolina. They are now at the FBS minimum 16 sports.
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Post by shooter on May 21, 2020 16:29:10 GMT -5
page 1 updated, that list is getting long and depressing!
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Post by yankee on May 21, 2020 19:43:21 GMT -5
Ultimately making sure people's lives are not in danger is the most important thing. We should slowly start to open things like the tri-state area is starting to do. But colleges make no sense to open until we are sure it safe. You just have too many people traveling all over the country/world to be crammed into small living spaces. I have to disagree on Cuomo. He has responded well to this pandemic especially while getting no help from the federal government There are many people losing jobs, homes, and their mental sanity. I am fine, I have a job that still pays. Most supporting Cuomos dictatorial ways either still have a job or are currently getting enhanced UI. When that runs out, gonna be rampant crime. Cuomo is the worst.
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Post by foxfanatic on May 21, 2020 20:19:36 GMT -5
Without the stay at home, there would be so many more deaths and hospitals would be overrun. It is awful that people are struggling financially but the federal government should provide more relief and help rather than promoting these protesters. Removing the stay at home too early will make the situation worse and then makes it even less likely there would be college sports next, which is something we can all agree we don't want to happen
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Post by yankee on May 21, 2020 22:30:47 GMT -5
Without the stay at home, there would be so many more deaths and hospitals would be overrun. It is awful that people are struggling financially but the federal government should provide more relief and help rather than promoting these protesters. Removing the stay at home too early will make the situation worse and then makes it even less likely there would be college sports next, which is something we can all agree we don't want to happen I agree the initial stay at home orders were needed. We were told it was to flatten the curve. Other states got that and have started getting back to business. Cuomo changed it from "flatten the curve" to whatever political crap he is pulling now. We flattened the curve weeks ago. Then he changed it. It is disguting and immoral, imo.
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Post by shooter on May 22, 2020 15:57:24 GMT -5
almost made it through the Friday news dump without more sports casualties, but Alabama Huntsville (D2) drops m/w tennis and its D1 men's ice hockey program. For many years until Arizona State added hockey, UAH was the only hockey program outside the Northeast/Midwest/Rockies.
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Post by fox94 on May 23, 2020 14:30:21 GMT -5
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Post by shooter on May 23, 2020 15:05:40 GMT -5
I generally don't agree with hot takes from columnists, or slashing sports, but IMO dude is right. As UConn exits the American, they have 24 sports. The second-highest total among AAC schools was East Carolina with 20 - and they just cut themselves down to 16. In the Big East where they're going you have big-money Georgetown with 27 and 3x national men's hoop champ Villanova with 24. Just about everyone else is in the teens. Marquette has 16 sports, DePaul only has 15 and then there's both Creighton and Seton Hall at the Division I minimum 14 sports. UConn was in a godawful fiscal hole long before the virus and now it's got to be exponentially worse. Now a half dozen or so of their Olympic sports will get cut so they can maintain the fiction that their football program is worth maintaining. It sucks and it's gonna happen.
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Post by fox94 on May 23, 2020 15:42:11 GMT -5
They should go back to IAA, FCS now
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Post by rfalum on May 23, 2020 16:07:54 GMT -5
Seems to me like the schools really getting hit hard in athletics are the football "have nots" that are pretending to be "haves." UConn is a pretty good example of this, but their athletic department has been mismanaged for a while and there's more to it than just that.
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Post by rfalum on May 26, 2020 17:20:11 GMT -5
Appalachian State cuts 3 sports: Men's indoor track, Men's soccer, Men's tennis
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Post by shooter on May 26, 2020 18:23:57 GMT -5
Appalachian State cuts 3 sports: Men's indoor track, Men's soccer, Men's tennis sigh. I'll update the list.
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