@BeddieKU23 said in Next season...:
Without a proper end to this season I don't see it.
After no World Series due to the strike, baseball has never been the same to me. I hope once basketball starts back up my love for the sport does as well since the players didn’t walk out on us. But it’s a bitter pill to swallow and it may change our love for the sport forever. Just the way it is.
I figure it will as pissed as I am right now.
Where would it be played: Paige arena. No one’s using it this time of year. And who cares if Coronavirus gets set loose in Columbia?
It happened. Life goes on--fortunately.
It’s not - that’s why a distraction would be fantastic.
Allow me to answer this for you Borzello - Because the media was calling out the NCAA as dragging its feet. This forced the NCAA to cancel the tournament instead of using a couple days to fully explore all options.
The NCAA was believed to be exploring options for postponement throughout the day on Thursday, but several logistical hurdles prevented this from being a viable option.
A growing number of universities around the country are closing for the foreseeable future due to this worldwide pandemic, so the lack of a defined timetable to return to campus would put the NCAA in a bind. It's hard to send an entire campus home for a month, bring students back, have the teams practice for a week or two and then hope to start an NCAA tournament. And that's not even accounting for the ability to secure arenas, secure travel and identify television programming windows for men's and women's basketball in particular. It's a great idea in theory, but not great in practice.
There's simply a calendar issue, too. In men's and women's basketball in particular, many players without remaining eligibility would be pursuing their professional options or attempting to start their post-basketball careers. The NBA is able to delay things for a few weeks and reassess, because it's able to extend its season into the middle of the summer with no issue. It's likely impossible to do that in any college sport, particularly one expected to end in March or early April.
-- Jeff Borzello
What really pisses me off is it was this year! Last years team sucked why not then?!? Next year KU isn’t likely to be eligible for post season play. I’m super bummed our boys best chance in years was robbed.
Will 2019-20 NCAA champions be crowned in college basketball and other sports whose championships were canceled?
The NCAA hasn't provided a definitive answer on this, but it's difficult to envision anything beside a simple "no." College football crowned a champion based on polls for a number of years, so Kansas and South Carolina would win titles in men's and women's basketball if the NCAA decided to do it that way -- but that seems unlikely. In all likelihood, there's going to be a blank line in the college sports annals next to 2019-20.
-- Jeff Borzello
How in the hell did KU drop to #2 in NET behind Gonzaga by beating Texas Tech? What a garbage ranking tool.
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Sums it up
@jayballer73 18 point lead I believe was the tre Burk Michigan game.
Ready or not here it is. I just hope that fear of the virus is worse than the actual virus.
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For all of us @drgnslayr esp.
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Stay safe.
May madness...now that is insane.
@jayballer73 Hey, KU might be healthy by then!
@bskeet hope so
If they want to make an actual impact stoppage of a few basketball games isn’t it. That’s just optics. All flights need to be stopped. All public transportation needs to stop. Ban groups of over 100 - sucks for bigger businesses as they won’t even be able to run right. Stop all inter-state traffic. Don’t allow people into or out of areas with known infection. Etc.
Cancelling games is window dressing and frankly a bunch of crap unless it’s just the start of something more sweeping.
I live in a small town. We all have a central post office to get mail (No door to door delivery). Everyone in town (1,500) will get it if one person does.
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Not great for retirement funds. Might have to work extra now. This is the real tragedy. I’m out of shape about sports, but the economy is getting bent over and being gently screwed with a chainsaw right now. Might present a buying opportunity for someone if they can figure out the bottom.
Maybe with the NBA shut down we’ll get a bonus year of Dok (hardship waiver medical or otherwise) and Dot. Ok, I know I’m dreaming...
@bskeet said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
i'm not a epidemiologist but my understanding is that this virus is corona-style which is not one that people tend to develop immunity as compared to chicken pox/shingles.. I think it's a different strain...
People can get the coronavirus more than once, experts warn — recovering does not necessarily make you immune
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Not sure of the validity of this, so would encourage looking for other sources.
That doesn’t sound promising for an effective vaccine then.
Is it possible that all the young folks that statistics have proven will survive the virus will now have anti-bodies to protect them when they are elderly and no longer need to fear the virus? Is it possible it has a latent period like chicken pox and shingles? Are we under or over reacting? Either way it should’ve been done a month ago.
The nfl isn’t thinking about canceling, because only Tom Brady and the oldest coaches are at risk. Lol
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@kjayhawks said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
Wonder if they would try to move it back to like May if this stuff clears out?
I may be mistaken, but I believe the Ivy League has cancelled spring sports already - like baseball.
I don’t think it’s going away soon. I really hope I’m wrong.
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Big 12 done too
Just named FSU the ACC champ and Leonard Hamilton coy
ACC just announced they are cancelling their tournament. 11:23 am. Announcement is sad to listen too. Big12 next... :(
@Texas-Hawk-10 they should. Schools foster disease. Kids are great at spreading colds and such. It’s as if they’re meant to supplant us.
@BeddieKU23 ACC just shut down...maybe. Clemson isn’t taking the court.
@kjayhawks not even 20k now. Less than 1000 with only 250 total spectators allowed in.
I’m becoming more and more doubtful there will be a tournament.
On here’s a scenario that may work. Delay the tournament 10-14 days. During that time any teams that want to play, and any essential staff, and the 125 fans from each team should be quarantined and monitored by medical staff. That weeds out the infected; should be plenty long for the incubation period. (And it gives Garrett time to heal ;) )
@mayjay said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@dylans Do you deal in your job with agricultural diseases, or just crops? What happens in a situation where one cow dies of anthrax?
Crops and the diseases that naturally populate the fields. I own cattle as well and my dad is part owner of a feedyard, so I’ve been around a few million cattle (literally). Anthrax is rare here, thankfully. There is a dead hauler that picks up the carcasses normally, but under a positive test result I’m not sure what they do. Isolate and incinerate? Burying only preserves the problem for later.
The WHO has said to release dogs out of quarantine, they don’t carry Coronavirus. WHO let the dogs out!?!
I ask anyone who thinks the kids should give up their dream, what have you giving up? Are you going to work? How is that any different? As a college student I was never around the elderly. As a middle aged man I talk to people in their 70s and 80s weekly. I can’t get sick, it would be disastrous. I will try to communicate thru email and the phone as much as they will allow, but it’s the wrong generation for that.
@benshawks08 said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@dylans The CDC tested 8 people yesterday so testing EVERY player would be a huge increase in the current testing going on right now.
Our government at work.
Again the tournament is in 5 days. Testing can be done in 24 hours or less. If the NCAA cared they could test the players. They don’t care about the players, but they do care about the pressure the media is putting on them to panic and cave while still going about their daily life - going to work etc. The players can be quarantined in McCarthy Hall -a regular death sentence - until cleared upon returning. No parade though.
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@dylans Also keep in mind these players are still students that have classes with hundreds of other students on a college campus where the local clinic is not prepared to deal with mass exposures. These players are exposed to a lot more people on a regular basis than adults are because they are still students.
I believe you corrected my wording on this yesterday, so you know there are no students on KU’s campus. How many more campuses will be the same in a week?
Also less exposure than anyone who uses the subway - 1 million passengers a day.
Either everyone should be forced to stay home and not work or these kids should be allowed to play the game they’ve worked their asses off for.
Jay Williams wasn’t telecommuting. Tell the kids to stay home while going out himself. He didn’t miss his opportunity to get his face on tv, but the kids should? Nah. That’s not right.
Logistically it’s pretty simple, but maybe I have a simple mind. Get on a bus and don’t get off until you’re there.
@mayjay yes, typical noncommittal cya lawyer speak. Our DA is very good at it...As he lets everyone off. I guess that’s better than the opposite.
Jay Williams and Charles Barkley want to cancel the NCAA tournament for health concerns for the players. That is dumb. The players will be fine, to slow the spread of the virus is the only reason to remove the crowd. The players fit the demographic that will be fine. If a player tests positive, measures should be taken to quarantine, assuming we’re still doing that in a week.
The health of the players with maybe 20 people hitting the court 10 of whom are already exposed to one another anyway isn’t much exposure risk. I’m not overly social and see more people than that. How many people touch the door handle at the convince store I get gas at every morning? More than 10 I guarantee you that. The players are is less at risk than anyone using public transportation. How many people on the subway each day?
@drgnslayr Only if 100% of the people die. The balance survived. It shows the mortality rate is high for the elderly and low for anyone else. That’s all.
@mayjay I don’t not like what you did there with a double negative. It isn’t inconsistent with straightforward confusing lawyer speak. Lol
🤞 🤞 🤞 we have a tournament
@FarmerJayhawk tourney champs (in their own minds)
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@Texas-Hawk-10 yeah that’s not normal. FYI
I’d be pissed if I paid for classes and they were indefinitely suspended and switched to online classes for any other reason.
Keep in mind a lot of schools are on spring break right now so kids have been traveling all over the country and world. Who knows how many new cases are going to pop up on college campuses in the next 2-3 weeks. KU is also hardly the only school taking this step. A lot of schools beside KU are doing the same thing to minimize the spread of the disease.
My quote is that I think it’s ok for this and basically only this if you need a translation. Sorry for my poor communication skills. I seem to have you confused this evening, at least I feel misrepresented.
@Texas-Hawk-10 yeah that’s not normal. FYI
I’d be pissed if I paid for classes and they were indefinitely suspended and switched to online classes for any other reason.
KU has suspended classes indefinitely
This is surreal.
@Crimsonorblue22 left the league to dodge Bill because of them... 😝
@Crimsonorblue22 24hrs I believe. The tourney is in 2 weeks, so maybe it’s feasible.
@mayjay Tom Hanks has it