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Post by cruskater31 on Jul 13, 2020 15:30:21 GMT -5
I am almost ready to ask for my donations back. We should leave the league now. Patriot League is a spineless group of Ivy "wannabees". Put that on the record.
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Post by dharry13 on Jul 13, 2020 15:31:20 GMT -5
Hampton from the Big South just shut it down. Monmouth’s conference
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Post by timholycross on Jul 13, 2020 15:31:59 GMT -5
I did find this on "The Twitter" and I do think it's an intelligent remark. From a former BC football player.
"Dear class of 2021 please pay attention to what’s going on in the world of college football! DO NOT PLAY AROUND WITH YOUR RECRUITMENT!!!!! If you have a commitable offer on the table take it!!!!!"
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 13, 2020 15:33:07 GMT -5
ADMB
The Globe mentioned logistics were becoming too difficult. My examples, no indoor dining, cleanliness of hotel rooms, rest stops.
Also, each school having enough test kits to test players in a very timely way before competition.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 13, 2020 15:34:30 GMT -5
Chet Gladchuck is hoping for the Army Navy game if possible.
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Post by timholycross on Jul 13, 2020 15:38:13 GMT -5
I am almost ready to ask for my donations back. We should leave the league now. Patriot League is a spineless group of Ivy "wannabees". Put that on the record. I think we're going to see in the upcoming months how strong the relationship is between these "fine institutions" (copyright, R. Fouracre) and whether there are alternatives to the current situation. Many changes possible, I believe; and perhaps more closer-distant conferences are preferable for everyone.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 13, 2020 15:40:30 GMT -5
Saying it was on Twitter would have sufficed. Can't stand the medium but I would have found it easily enough. Tim: My comment was not meant to be of offense. Just trying to add a little humor to a grim situation. Personally I do not have a Twitter account. That way I stay out of trouble. 😎
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 13, 2020 15:40:45 GMT -5
Chet Gladchuck is hoping for the Army Navy game if possible. That sounds as if it might be a one game season for both teams. I read today that the Marine Base on Okinowa is on lockdown because of widespread infection.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 13, 2020 15:43:53 GMT -5
Bring back the ECAC North. All trips are within an hour or two.
That won’t happen because the college landscape has dramatically changed from 40 years ago.
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Post by timholycross on Jul 13, 2020 15:47:39 GMT -5
Saying it was on Twitter would have sufficed. Can't stand the medium but I would have found it easily enough. Tim: My comment was not meant to be of offense. Just trying to add a little humor to a grim situation. Personally I do not use Twitter, or have an account. That way I stay out of trouble. 😎 No offense taken. It's a shooting gallery, you go there to look up something and you're besieged by attacks on everyone and anyone. Good place to avoid, or at least use an alias.
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Post by rickii on Jul 13, 2020 15:56:36 GMT -5
Too bad we can't 'social distance' from the entire Ivy League
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 13, 2020 15:59:50 GMT -5
I’ve been told that there is a Zoom call with all football, field hockey, cross country, soccer and the Asst. Athletic Director, Taylor Leonard, tomorrow at 11:00AM. Not sure what the subject matter will be, but I would assume it may be either a notification that the season is being canceled or that the season is going forward with specific restrictions and protocols that are expected to be followed. Either way, it sounds like tomorrow may be D-Day one way or another. Hopefully there will be some good news. Having Taylor Leonard be the initiator of the ZOOM call was, in retrospect, a ruse. Don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure what was up if it was announced that ADMB was initiating the call.
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Post by rickii on Jul 13, 2020 17:00:41 GMT -5
So no Homecoming, no Parents Weekend, no BC game plus Worcester with no hotel room or restaurant revenue....meals in Kimball by lottery?
What else ?
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Post by gate93 on Jul 13, 2020 17:07:22 GMT -5
Having read Colgate's opening plan and the document on-campus students are going to have to sign about restrictions and behavior, I couldn't see how the logistics were going to work so PP's info from the Globe makes a lot of sense to me. For the campuses to be open, they are going to have to be bubbles. If inside groups are allowed to leave and return and outside groups are frequently visiting, its not a bubble. Then there is the question of how you ask all of the student body to make significant sacrifices to be on campus and live with fairly draconian restrictions while other groups don't have to follow the same rules.
I don't think its a great sign for college football as a whole that both the virtual media days for both the SEC and the ACC have been postponed without announcement of rescheduled dates. The ACC says their are postponed "until further notice." I think there is a good chance the Ivies are once again just the first domino.
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Post by gks on Jul 13, 2020 17:27:35 GMT -5
And at present, half the PL teams + Georgetown can't travel to MA because they're from states, visitors from which are supposed to quarantine for 14 days. Have not yet seen or heard that MA has exempted college teams from the 43 states + DC that are subject to this policy. I think this MA restriction is more exclusionary than those in the other PL states, at the moment. You are "urged' to Quarantine. There's no law.
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Post by lou on Jul 13, 2020 17:39:00 GMT -5
And in New York, you risk a fine up to $10,000 if you don’t quarantine. The governor admitted it will operate on an honor system.
“You could argue that every law is the honors system until you get caught, right? You can speed in a car until you get caught and then you get penalized,” Cuomo said.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 13, 2020 18:29:02 GMT -5
And at present, half the PL teams + Georgetown can't travel to MA because they're from states, visitors from which are supposed to quarantine for 14 days. Have not yet seen or heard that MA has exempted college teams from the 43 states + DC that are subject to this policy. I think this MA restriction is more exclusionary than those in the other PL states, at the moment. You are "urged' to Quarantine. There's no law. I know it's not the law. But the optics are terrible if the Univ of Miami shows up at Alumni Stadium for a game, spends 1.5-2 days in Boston, and scoots. Many in MA would take that as the Jesuits saying the good practice rules don't apply in Chestnut Hill. The Pats are very fortunate having a Marriott with 150 rooms at the stadium, so very easy to expand the bubble for visiting teams. _______________ Today's positive test percentage for MA state-wide, seven-day rolling average, is 1.7 percent. Last Wednesday, Worcester's positive percentage 14-day rolling average was 4.1%, I think one of the ten worst percentages in MA. Because the campus is only a 1000 feet or so from Auburn, where the positive test percentage is 1.2%, maybe HC could constructively posit the campus is more in Auburn than in Worcester. Boston is 2.3 percent. Worcester narrowly escaped being grouped with Chelsea, Lawrence, and a few others for intensified testing and screening by the state. Worcester's percentage, if it were to continue, is not conducive to maintaining a bubble. Possibly necessitate repeated rounds of testing at HC. __________________________ Yesterday in Madison County NY, where Colgate is, one person tested positive, for a positive test percentage of 0.3 percent.
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Post by cruskater31 on Jul 13, 2020 18:38:54 GMT -5
Will the NCAA address transfers and 5th years for league that cancels?
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Post by rickii on Jul 13, 2020 18:39:13 GMT -5
Help if you can....
I would like to see the estimated financial impact per state of NOT opening up the economy.
What is the estimated financial hit for all of 2020 at HC?
What is the estimated loss of life per state attributable to lost income, lost jobs plus small businesses going bankrupt?
What is the estimated number of all commercial enterprises that will vacate offices in NYC, St Louis, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco within the next year?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 13, 2020 18:48:08 GMT -5
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 13, 2020 18:52:03 GMT -5
Will the NCAA address transfers and 5th years for league that cancels? The NCAA is awaiting direction from the power conferences. Be patient.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 13, 2020 19:28:17 GMT -5
Help if you can.... I would like to see the estimated financial impact per state of NOT opening up the economy. What is the estimated financial hit for all of 2020 at HC? What is the estimated loss of life per state attributable to lost income, lost jobs plus small businesses going bankrupt? What is the estimated number of all commercial enterprises that will vacate offices in NYC, St Louis, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco within the next year? >The economy has re-opened in every state. In MA, there are only a few business categories not allowed to open before Phase IV. MA is now in Phase 3. >The additional cost to HC for 2020-21 in COVID-related costs is very low eight figures. For athletics, HC has such high fixed costs that loss of revenue is probably offset by reduction in operating expenses. > Answering your third question is complicated. Did you take economics? In any event, the Federal government threw so much money out, that many/most of those directly affected employment-wise did not lose significant income. True, some states are encountering significant delays in processing unemployment claims. The United States economic 'safety net is structurally less prepared to address an economic downtown of this magnitude, compared to other Western countries. The unemployment rate in Germany has barely changed. Germany's unemployment rate in May was 3.9 percent. As a consequence of Germany's management of the COVID pandemic, approval ratings for Merkel are up.. morningconsult.com/form/europe-polling-trump-coronavirus-response/Merkel has a Ph.D in physical chemistry. She rather famously, IMO, went on national television and announced the closing of brothels, among other businesses. I don't believe they have re-opened. > Commercial office space vacancy rates are being dictated not by companies going under,* but rather having so many employees working at least partly at home. While companies have fewer employees in their offices, this allows for more social distancing in the office. Whether working from home will continue, post-pandemic, who knows? * This many not be true in Texas, particularly in the 'Oil Patch'. But that is a consequence of the depressed price of oil making fracking uneconomical.
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Post by cmo on Jul 13, 2020 20:25:40 GMT -5
Bring back the ECAC North. All trips are within an hour or two. That won’t happen because the college landscape has dramatically changed from 40 years ago. if this whole thing results in more regional conferences for the 1aa’s/mid-majors it would be a silver lining.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jul 13, 2020 20:31:25 GMT -5
^ zero shot.
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Post by hc87 on Jul 13, 2020 21:11:28 GMT -5
I doubt we leave the PL anytime soon....it's (for bettah or worse) become our brand in the 21st C....I do think though that we will see some significant changes in the collegiate football landscape ovah the next few years....Covid-19 (like it has done in many other facets of life) has sped up this process so to speak. What these changes will be is anybody's guess(es) at this point. But I'd look for more regionalization, probably a decent amount of FCS schools dropping football for starters.
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