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Post by hchoops on Sept 20, 2021 21:45:04 GMT -5
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Sept 20, 2021 21:53:48 GMT -5
Bizarre to say the least
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Sept 20, 2021 22:14:26 GMT -5
Will the social justice and anti-racism education during games come during media timeouts?
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Sept 20, 2021 23:58:26 GMT -5
This could make for some brutal slaughters, e.g. Alabama State vs USC might have a 50 point spread.
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Post by alum on Sept 21, 2021 7:27:40 GMT -5
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Post by hchoops on Sept 21, 2021 8:17:31 GMT -5
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Post by Tom on Sept 21, 2021 9:39:27 GMT -5
Will the social justice and anti-racism education during games come during media timeouts? I am always one to tout the fact that student-athletes are supposed to be students first. I am all for education for college athletes. Vaval's kid brings up a valid point. During what part of a game will student-athletes be participating in these educational components? The only thing I can think of is that the students will become the teachers and there will be pre-recorded videos of the players that will educate the fans. I hope all those Southwestern schools have nice video boards like Hart
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 21, 2021 11:19:28 GMT -5
This could make for some brutal slaughters, e.g. Alabama State vs USC might have a 50 point spread. The SWAC is used to this. Majority of the non-conference for these schools are guarantee games on the road against power programs. Only difference is that now they'll get some home dates against the big boys as opposed to hosting non-accredited bible schools during finals week. Hey! Any opportunity for low-majors to get home games against the P6 is a good thing in my book.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Sept 21, 2021 11:25:53 GMT -5
I agree 100% on the home game aspect of this. It's amazing that the Pac-12 teams are willing to do that instead of playing another home OOC game and selling $400,000 or more worth of tickets
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Post by Ray on Sept 21, 2021 14:40:57 GMT -5
Hey! Any opportunity for low-majors to get home games against the P6 is a good thing in my book.
1000% agree.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 21, 2021 15:09:05 GMT -5
I agree 100% on the home game aspect of this. It's amazing that the Pac-12 teams are willing to do that instead of playing another home OOC game and selling $400,000 or more worth of tickets I think that it will help with recruiting by exposing these schools to a section of the country they have not previously had access to.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 21, 2021 20:32:34 GMT -5
I agree 100% on the home game aspect of this. It's amazing that the Pac-12 teams are willing to do that instead of playing another home OOC game and selling $400,000 or more worth of tickets I think that it will help with recruiting by exposing these schools to a section of the country they have not previously had access to. Pretty sure the SWAC plays at least a couple body-bag games out there every year already. If you look at the OOC schedule for most HBCU, it's an absolutely inordinate amount of guarantee games on the road against power schools. With a few home games against non-DI sprinkled in.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 22, 2021 11:36:23 GMT -5
I think that it will help with recruiting by exposing these schools to a section of the country they have not previously had access to. Pretty sure the SWAC plays at least a couple body-bag games out there every year already. If you look at the OOC schedule for most HBCU, it's an absolutely inordinate amount of guarantee games on the road against power schools. With a few home games against non-DI sprinkled in. Yes, but the impact of Washington, UCLA or Southern Cal coming to your little HBCU is a different order of magnitude.
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Post by hchoops on Sept 22, 2021 11:45:14 GMT -5
Now will the ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big 10 or even Big East follow suit and schedule the MEAC ?
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 22, 2021 14:16:12 GMT -5
Now will the ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big 10 or even Big East follow suit and schedule the MEAC ? Schedule, yes. Home and home? Let’s see....
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Post by Tom on Sept 22, 2021 14:44:45 GMT -5
It will be interesting to see where these games are. I anticipate the SEC will shortly announce a similar deal with the Patriot League with Duke coming to Worcester. Will the HC's home half be at Hart or Centrum?
When these Pac-12 vs SWAC games are at the SWAC, I wonder if some of them will be at neutral gyms instead of true home gyms. I know nothing, just idle speculation
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 22, 2021 14:49:27 GMT -5
Yep, “idle speculation,” especially that first paragraph. 😂
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 22, 2021 16:14:59 GMT -5
Keep speculating. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Give to the UNCF.
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Post by hchoops on Sept 24, 2021 12:19:25 GMT -5
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Post by dadominate on Sept 24, 2021 15:29:52 GMT -5
virtue signaling, meet college basketball!
seriously, the college game is getting less and less interesting to me. forcing elite athletes with no interest in school to play in college, transfers galore, divisive political messaging, and now lame virtue signaling moves like this.
what's next?
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Post by hchoops on Sept 24, 2021 16:46:20 GMT -5
virtue signaling, meet college basketball! seriously, the college game is getting less and less interesting to me. forcing elite athletes with no interest in school to play in college, transfers galore, divisive political messaging, and now lame virtue signaling moves like this. what's next? Hmm virtue signaling If you could define that, please. I have not heard of it.
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Post by rgs318 on Sept 24, 2021 16:53:43 GMT -5
VIRTUE SIGNALING = action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue. Example: "it's noticeable how often virtue signaling consists of saying you hate things"
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 24, 2021 17:31:26 GMT -5
Ah, yet another term that now makes my skin crawl along with “woke” perhaps the most overused term today.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Sept 24, 2021 19:59:54 GMT -5
And what is wrong with a P5 conference or any conference looking to schedule teams that they have not in the past? A great opportunity for a school and its fans to see another team in a location non traditional to its usual and often boring repetition of teams year in and year out.
For example, HC football playing at South Dakota State certainly was more exciting to the team and to us fans than playing a team in a neighboring state to Massachusetts. Jackrabbit fans now know of HC.
Hope that HC teams can schedule future games against teams in the MEAC, Big South, WCC, Big Sky, etc. Great trips for the team, and alumni. Potential for HC to enter new markets for student recruitment.
Time to think beyond your traditional neighborhood of comfort. The horizon has great opportunities for learning. The world is not flat.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Sept 24, 2021 20:15:25 GMT -5
Ah, yet another term that now makes my skin crawl along with “woke” perhaps the most overused term today. So true! Bromides are the opiate of those who like to pigeon hole people of a different opinion in a simplistic term. There has always been cadre of people who find comfort in tribalism of we vs them from the dawn of man. Maybe that is why, 2001 A Space Odyssey, is one of my all time favorite books and movies. Arthur C Clarke nailed it!
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