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Post by rgs318 on Oct 29, 2020 20:39:11 GMT -5
The phrase "...as clear as mud" comes to mind.
If the schedule is close to complete, when will it be announced? After all, November starts on Sunday.
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Post by HC92 on Oct 29, 2020 20:43:47 GMT -5
18 game PL schedule.
North Division: HC Army Colgate BU South Division Loyola AU Navy Central Division: Laf Lehigh Bucknell
North: 4 games against 3 other North = 12 1 game against each South and Central Team = 6
Central: 4 games against 2 other Central = 8 2 games against 3 South = 6 1 game against 4 North = 4 (Fr/Sat vs HC/BU and Colgate/Army)
South: 4 games against 2 other South = 8 2 games against 3 Central = 6 1 game against 4 North = 4
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 29, 2020 21:25:42 GMT -5
Very interesting. Let's do it
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Post by hchoops on Oct 29, 2020 21:28:58 GMT -5
Looks pretty good except I doubt the North and South teams will play each other. Too far. Maybe the North plays the 12 games you mention, and then plays the 3 Central Teams once or twice each. 15 or 18 total games
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Post by sader1970 on Oct 29, 2020 21:30:21 GMT -5
I read it and, no, I don't gather what it means. Speculation, which shouldn't be necessary. Guess you can read between the lines better than I.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 29, 2020 22:24:49 GMT -5
I wouldn't care if we played BU 18 times, thus avoiding all long travel, if that is what it takes to have a season.
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Post by hchoops on Oct 29, 2020 22:53:25 GMT -5
Telegram and Gazette Holy Cross basketball won't schedule non-conference games for upcoming season The Holy Cross men’s and women’s basketball teams won’t play any non-conference games in 2020-21, and the Patriot League is expected to release the upcoming season schedule, that is slated to begin after Jan. 1, soon. “It’s close,” Holy Cross director of athletics Marcus Blossom said Thursday, “but it’s not complete.” Blossom said there will be no non-conference play for any Patriot League members except Army and Navy. He expects the schedules for both Holy Cross teams to be more regional, with HC playing more games against teams that are closer geographically. In September, the NCAA announced that Nov. 25 would be the official start date for the 2020-21 college basketball season. The season was originally scheduled to start Nov. 10, but was pushed back because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Crusaders began practicing Oct. 15. “They’re working very hard, both the men’s and women’s programs,” Blossom said. “Obviously, they would have liked to have played non-conference games beginning Nov. 25 as the coaches and myself would have liked them to have that opportunity, but that’s not the case and we’re trying to focus on what we have in front of us and put our teams in the best position possible to succeed in whatever we have in front of us.” The HC men are coming off a 3-29 season and, under second-year coach Brett Nelson, have a largely new roster that includes six freshmen. Maureen Magarity is in her first season as Holy Cross women’s coach. The Crusaders, who graduated five seniors, including all-time leading rebounder Lauren Manis, won 19 games last year. Blossom said he does not expect to have fans at Holy Cross home games, and among the COVID protocols, will be increasing testing for all winter student-athletes who are competing from twice a week to three times a week. 6 freshmen would include Louth, unless Toland (or whoever wrote this ) was just going by numbers given to her earlier,
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Post by Crucis#1 on Oct 29, 2020 23:06:22 GMT -5
goholycross.com/sports/mens-basketball/rosterThe portraits of the new members of the team are included in the updated roster, except Louth. Based on his picture not being included, ...... maybe he is not on campus. He would still be a member of the team, just not allowed to participate at this time due to travel restrictions.
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Post by trimster on Oct 30, 2020 7:55:50 GMT -5
I wouldn't care if we played BU 18 times, thus avoiding all long travel, if that is what it takes to have a season. With no OOC games and if you follow the thinking of you must be able to get there and back in the same day, that could happen. Why HC can't look for local games is beyond me. I understand the whole thing about league unity, but having kids bus out and back to Hamilton NY in the same day with windows open on a bus in the middle of winter is absurd when you have many D1 schools nearby. Common sense is being thrown out the window.
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 30, 2020 8:00:02 GMT -5
...and not for the first time, I am afraid.
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Post by bigfan on Oct 30, 2020 8:17:57 GMT -5
There are many Div 1 schools here in New England which we could play and return to campus the same day. This is why the PL stinks. We could play Fairfield, Umass, Umass/Lowell, Northeastern, Sacred Heart, UNH, Uconn etc.
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Post by Tom on Oct 30, 2020 8:21:01 GMT -5
I wouldn't care if we played BU 18 times, thus avoiding all long travel, if that is what it takes to have a season. With no OOC games and if you follow the thinking of you must be able to get there and back in the same day, that could happen. Why HC can't look for local games is beyond me. I understand the whole thing about league unity, but having kids bus out and back to Hamilton NY in the same day with windows open on a bus in the middle of winter is absurd when you have many D1 schools nearby. Common sense is being thrown out the window. My guess is that HC could look for OOC games if they wanted to, they just choose not to. If Army and Navy can look for OOC games I would think HC could as well. HC has decided 1) to go along with a consensus decision of their league partners and 2) in this situation the negatives of looking for other games outweigh the positives
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Post by trimster on Oct 30, 2020 8:24:26 GMT -5
There are many Div 1 schools here in New England which we could play and return to campus the same day. This is why the PL stinks. We could play Fairfield, Umass, Umass/Lowell, Northeastern, Sacred Heart, UNH, Uconn etc. That would mean fans of HC could actually go to road games. We can't have that.
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Post by hchoops on Oct 30, 2020 8:26:09 GMT -5
Connecticut and NH have said they are allowing fans at college hoops games ?
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Post by trimster on Oct 30, 2020 9:10:54 GMT -5
Connecticut and NH have said they are allowing fans at college hoops games ? Not sure what CT and NH are doing vis-a-vis fans. I was thinking more along the lines of geograhic proximity.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Oct 30, 2020 9:17:26 GMT -5
The PL has said in the past that any OOC opponents must have testing standards and protocols similar to those established at PL schools.
The PL has traditionally concluded OOC play by January 1, given an 18 game conference season, and a post-season tournament.
HC ends on-campus instruction at Thanksgiving, and goes fully remote post-Thanksgiving. In effect, a post-Thanksgiving 'bubble' is being created for M/W basketball until January 1. OOC games could have the effect of bursting the bubble. All one needs is either a positive case or a positive case on a recent opponent's team, and one will have a team in quarantine for x days. And my sense is that a team-under-quarantine's games won't be postponed, but cancelled like Wisconsin-Nebraska. _____________ I believe CT has joined NY in saying no visitors from MA until further notice.
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Post by hc1998 on Oct 30, 2020 11:50:40 GMT -5
Connecticut and NH have said they are allowing fans at college hoops games ? I recognize indoor basketball and outdoor soccer are two different animals, but I was surprised to receive an email earlier this week selling tickets for the MLS Toronto team's game at Rentschler (sp?) field this weekend...I was more surprised to click on the link out of curiosity and see only a handful of tickets remained (obviously at lower capacities, but surprised people turning out for a non-local team). So who knows if they'd allow indoor fans now, or at some point later in the season.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Oct 30, 2020 12:16:53 GMT -5
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Post by thecrossisback on Oct 30, 2020 14:00:30 GMT -5
@burntboats Update: BU just sent out an email saying no fans at home hockey and basketball games for the duration of any season played this year.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Oct 30, 2020 18:32:10 GMT -5
See the full order, which includes exemptions, here.Mass. to Require Quarantine for Travelers From Conn., NJ Starting Saturday, Massachusetts will start requiring that people who travel from Connecticut and New Jersey quarantine upon arriving to the Bay State, the Department of Public Health announced Friday. It's the first change to Massachusetts' travel order for two weeks, when New Jersey was added to the list of low-risk states, along with California, Hawaii and Washington. Massachusetts will begin considering Connecticut and New Jersey at higher risk for travel starting at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 31, which is Halloween. The move comes days after Connecticut and New Jersey added Massachusetts to their own coronavirus hot spot lists. See the full order, which includes exemptions, here. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said after his state's move that he was in talks with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker about travel, since he didn't think the restrictions would be enforceable. Massachusetts' full list of states deemed to be low risk as of Saturday now includes just seven states, and the country's capital: California; Washington, D.C.; Hawaii; Maine; New Hampshire; New York; Vermont and Washington. Rhode Island had long been the only New England state not on that list. To be included on Massachusetts' list of low-risk states, one must have fewer than 10 average daily cases per 100,000 people. Travelers from states not on the low-risk list must fill out the Massachusetts Travel Form and quarantine for 14 days, according to the state's guidelines. That includes anyone who's coming from one of the low-risk states but stayed "for more than a transitory period of time in the last 14 days" in a higher-risk state. There are some exemptions, including for people who are going to higher-risk states just to commute or go to school. www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-updates-and-information
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Post by Tom on Oct 31, 2020 8:27:46 GMT -5
Sounds like payback
All kinds of exceptions. Too many people commute across state lines around here
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Post by cmo on Oct 31, 2020 9:31:36 GMT -5
If you come from out of state, can you provide a negative test in lieu of a 14 day quarantine?
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 31, 2020 10:28:31 GMT -5
If you come from out of state, can you provide a negative test in lieu of a 14 day quarantine? Probably not -- due to the logic of "well you could've picked up COVID while pumping gas this morning before driving across state lines". What about NY residents who drive to Massachusetts via Connecticut? Would I need to drive from NYC to Albany and then take the Pike all the way East if I wanted to go to Boston?
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Post by lou on Oct 31, 2020 10:51:00 GMT -5
Not quite, the Taconic Parkway ends in Chatham, then NY Thruway to Mass Pike
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Post by hchoops on Oct 31, 2020 10:59:53 GMT -5
If the.PL goes to 3 divisions, it may be more likely that the North has 3 teams: HC, BU, Army The Central 4 teams: Bucknell, Colgate, Lehigh and Lafayette The South: Navy, Loyola, AU The North could play each other 4 times for 8 games and play the Central twice for 8 more. Total of 16, enough to qualify for the Dance.(minimum is 15, I believe. Those Central games could be back to back on the weekend.
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