How is your son's Fall 2020 College Baseball going?

Mine is at Iowa. They are shut down through next week along with all athletics after 92 athletes tested positive last week. They were a week into practices, but only had about 15 out of 40 players able to attend during part of that time so it's hard to tell what the "normal" plan for practice in a pandemic was.

Son is doing most of his classes online, which isn't unusual because they tend to schedule a lot of online classes to allow for travel. The county where his school is had about 1,000 positive tests last week. We'll see if they can get it under control. He's now driving for Door Dash out of sheer boredom and taking up golf. 

Damn is too funny!  My guy at Indiana is all of a sudden into golf too!

My son coach in Tenn...  First week was a rocky start as I believe an outbreak put a hold on planned small group team activities, among other school things.  The second week, activity resumed.  Then, last week, rain interfered at least a day or two.

I am generally not in the conspiracy theory crowd.  That said, golf participation is seeing a major resurgence!!  Those sneaky b@$+@rds.  

And, under the heading of "welcome to Tennessee", son showed up to the field early to find that one of the other coaches had set up hunting target in the OF, shooting his compound bow from the dugout  .  We need a better emoji for this.

My guy is playing golf too and loving it.

The UI situation is, um.... well... it is what it is. I hope they get things under control soon.

My son's school is online only. No in-person baseball activities permitted, which frankly sucks as he is a captain this year and was looking forward to running practices.

Trying to remain optimistic about the spring.

FAU baseball just finished first week of practice. Everything is done outdoors.   All of the players take online  classes.   All the players  stay within their group. No one has tested  positive. I understand that it was a tremendous effort on everyone's part to put a plan together that would work from the University President down to the medical team.

FAU gave options to all student to physically attend or take online. This more or less helps the spread of COVID.  Only 23 cases, 1 faculty.

They are completely online with the exception of labs which I don't believe any take. They are tested every 5 days. The football team is a mess, but very few of the other athletic programs have had many positive tests, at least that's what I hear. Baseball team is clear, they started practice on Monday with live ABs. Scrimmaging starts on Monday and it looks like that's what they plan to do most of fall as they need to see live play and game action before they get shut down again if it happens. 

The staff made it very clear that everybody is starting out virus free - if you want to go out and party, enjoy yourselves, but there are more guys on the roster than there are supposed to be, we're not going to wait for you to get healthy to evaluate your role. Roster sizes may have changed, the size of the travel roster did not. 

Utah furloughs every employee in  athletic dept, coaches and AD included. 

My catcher son is at KCU. They are holding regular classes.  He said they are 1 of 5 schools in the conference with no Covid cases. They have been having mixed groups for working out, which started this week.  He works out Monday, Wednesday, Friday with weights with a group that includes at least a football player and softball player.  I think they have more in the group, just not sure how many more or from which other sports.

I know he has caught a few pens for some of the pitchers, but the players aren't supposed to be throwing too much because the HC wants to save arms. They appear to be operating under the plan of business as usual for Spring 2021.

Unlike others here, he hasn't taken up golf.  But he likes to skateboard and hang out in his hammock.  He's enjoying the weather there outside of the heat and humidity of Florida lol

I hope others and their sons stay safe!

Son is back to normal, per se.  His apartment mate tested positive first monday there so he had to move out for 14 days.  He just went to practice on Wednesday.  Good thing was there were 5 guys in his secondary quarantine group and 4 were pitchers so they ran, worked out, and threw every day.  Only thing he missed was a few times of batting.  They are all back now but I think they will test again next week.  Hope no one is positive that test.  All classes are online.  One will go back to live next week.

Son just finished his first two weeks of college.  His school has only 2400 students and only 3 have tested positive for Covid.   I am not sure how many on-campus though - its 2 to a room and all are full plus a healthy off campus community.  Baseball doesn't start until next Saturday and I think that is good because it's giving him a chance to ease into his classes.   He has been throwing and hitting with the majority of the First Years.  The full team won't be on campus in the fall - prob 3/4's which is good in that it gives him more time in front of the coaches, more opportunity.  He's an LHP but is hoping he gets some reps at 1B (D3).  He's coming off a sore shoulder and says he's at 95% so hopeful they start the pitchers off slowly which I would expect them to do.   Even with Covid restrictions he seems to having a great time, maybe too good.  

My son hasn't started yet, moves in Sep 12 then gets tested, physical, etc. and everyone in modified quarantine until Sep 21 when they are supposed to start practices. Classes are mostly online and only upperclassmen, student athletes, and limited exempted underclassmen are on campus this quarter. It will be a different experience for sure...

My son is a freshman in New York. They've been in school two weeks, most classes are online and the number of kids living on campus was sharply reduced. They get temperature checks daily and virus checks every two weeks. So far cases on campus and in the surrounding county have been low.

Last week they started back in the athletic facility getting baseline info on player condition. Next week lifting begins and they'll be on the field  as a team the following week. (Players have been meeting to throw on the field regularly, but informally.)  The school uses coded wrist bands to manage a very strict schedule for players inside the weight training facility.

Hoping it all works and everyone stays safe. My son is really eager for baseball to fully ramp up because without, and without parties, college so far is pretty boring.

Several problems with the new golf craze:

1. Baseball players love to hit off their back foot and that makes for a golfing adventure.

2. As he borrowed my clubs he proudly told me that he broke the head off his own club!

3. BB players like to measure how far they hit everything vs how many are in between the trees.

But now I have someone to play with.

@Good Knight posted:

Damn is too funny!  My guy at Indiana is all of a sudden into golf too!

This is very common right now. I hope they all remember how to swing a bat when the time comes. As I watch MLB, it still seems as tho pitchers remain far ahead of hitters. 

@Good Knight posted:

Several problems with the new golf craze:

1. Baseball players love to hit off their back foot and that makes for a golfing adventure.

2. As he borrowed my clubs he proudly told me that he broke the head off his own club!

3. BB players like to measure how far they hit everything vs how many are in between the trees.

But now I have someone to play with.

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Campus is closed, so he's at home.  Yep, lots of golf, it's our family sport.  He gets frustrated because other people in the family work at golf, and while he often wins, it's a sport where he's not necessarily the best in the family.  Maybe it's the back foot thing.  Since golf has been open throughout the pandemic and is something to do, I've gone a lot to watch, and I'm learning to like it, I can even watch it on t.v. now.  In fact, it was pretty exciting the other day, to have a choice of live baseball, basketball, and golf to watch.

I live on a golf course. My backyard is the sixth hole. They shut every golf course in 3 counties for months. Ours is a private course, members only. When the public courses opened, unless you lived at same address together, you had to get a cart per person. 

I get the logic, but it was stupid.   IMO

It was a shame because most guys here play baseball and golf, it would have given them something to do before they went to play summer ball.

@Iowamom23 posted:

Mine is at Iowa.... He's now driving for Door Dash out of sheer boredom and taking up golf. 

 

I would check on the eligibility to be able to "work" for anyone with NCAA rules. Not sure if it has since changed, but even as a walk on at Tn for Football back in the day, we had to sign waivers to not work, year round. Which made zero sense. You couldn't get money from anyone but your parents. I guess that way you're not getting paid $500/hr by an alumni to house sit or mow the grass or whatever. But I would double check with the ability to work. I hope it has changed.  

UPDATE.

Oh good it did change!!: Google

https://www.nmnathletics.com/s...7.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=5200

NCAA Link

@Eokerholm posted:

I would check on the eligibility to be able to "work" for anyone with NCAA rules. Not sure if it has since changed, but even as a walk on at Tn for Football back in the day, we had to sign waivers to not work, year round. Which made zero sense. You couldn't get money from anyone but your parents. I guess that way you're not getting paid $500/hr by an alumni to house sit or mow the grass or whatever. But I would double check with the ability to work. I hope it has changed.  

UPDATE.

Oh good it did change!!: Google

https://www.nmnathletics.com/s...7.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=5200

NCAA Link

 

Yea, my kid a rule follower. He's checked with coaches on working in the past, so I'm sure he did this time too.