NESCAC has officially cancelled all spring sports due to coronoavirus. I feel terribly for all of those athletes, particularly the seniors. Awful circumstances. https://nescac.com/news/2019-20/COVID19-Athletics
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Wow.
I suspect that college baseball players in the NESCAC don't go to these great schools for the baseball but rather for the education. Many of these schools have yet to play a game. Will these student athletes get to keep a full year of eligibility? If you have a 2020 committed to the NESCAC ( I don't - NEWMAC for me hoping they stay the course) next year the team could have kids taking masters classes to use up last year of eligibility. Seniors with 2 years, Juniors with 3 and Sophomore and Freshman with 4 years of eligibility. Right? I don't think D3 is limited to numbers of players on a roster. I just don't know. I would think some kids will want to play their full four years but the majority will say I got a degree from Amherst so onto Medical or Law school or the real world. Thoughts?
Feared that this may happen but didn't think they would make the call this early. I would assume other conferences will follow. Still holding our breath that our HS season plays out.
Gunner Mack Jr. posted:I suspect that college baseball players in the NESCAC don't go to these great schools for the baseball but rather for the education. Many of these schools have yet to play a game. Will these student athletes get to keep a full year of eligibility? If you have a 2020 committed to the NESCAC ( I don't - NEWMAC for me hoping they stay the course) next year the team could have kids taking masters classes to use up last year of eligibility. Seniors with 2 years, Juniors with 3 and Sophomore and Freshman with 4 years of eligibility. Right? I don't think D3 is limited to numbers of players on a roster. I just don't know. I would think some kids will want to play their full four years but the majority will say I got a degree from Amherst so onto Medical or Law school or the real world. Thoughts?
There is no reason they couldn't have had both.
Gunner Mack Jr. posted:I suspect that college baseball players in the NESCAC don't go to these great schools for the baseball but rather for the education. Many of these schools have yet to play a game. Will these student athletes get to keep a full year of eligibility? If you have a 2020 committed to the NESCAC ( I don't - NEWMAC for me hoping they stay the course) next year the team could have kids taking masters classes to use up last year of eligibility. Seniors with 2 years, Juniors with 3 and Sophomore and Freshman with 4 years of eligibility. Right? I don't think D3 is limited to numbers of players on a roster. I just don't know. I would think some kids will want to play their full four years but the majority will say I got a degree from Amherst so onto Medical or Law school or the real world. Thoughts?
I would guess kids at an top academic wouldn’t hang around an extra year just to play baseball. If they’re headed for grad school it’s likely at another school. Most of the NESCAC’s are small colleges and not universities. Tufts would be one exception. Babson, a NEWMAC has graduate programs.
That's a shame. I expect my son's senior season of HS season will be called off very soon, too.
Seems premature, but I'm no epidemiologist.
Swarthmore, Grinnell, St. Lawrence, Berea, Kenyon and Smith also have canceled spring sports
Seems inevitable the rest of the academic institution dominoes will fall soon, too (for classes and sports). The university where I teach just asked all faculty to complete an online form indicating how quickly they could take their classes online, and what obstacles they would face in doing so. (This follows various emails warning us to start getting prepared to potentially teach online...)
IMO this is going to be largely a lost semester. Assuming in-person classes do get cancelled, I would prefer to just give students pass/fail grades, and to pass those who make reasonable efforts after everything moves online. Too late to refund tuition, too much disruption to expect everyone to complete the usual academic demands at the customary level (some will; many will not). Many of my students may soon have their young kids at home full-time, too, and need to supervise their online learning...
I actually hold out hope that many D3 follow D1 and keep spring baseball. For high schools in CT its too early to call it and HS's have until mid-June so there is more wiggle room than for colleges. I just hope the CIAC (the CT "authority") takes there time with spring sports decisions based on facts on the ground. It's ok to postpone the start of the season.
I did just see on Babson's schedule that MIT has been canceled. Let's see how the other dominoes fall....
What are the possibilities of regrouping and getting a makeshift season together if this ends up less significant that previously thought by the end of March?
Gunner Mack Jr. posted:I actually hold out hope that many D3 follow D1 and keep spring baseball. For high schools in CT its too early to call it and HS's have until mid-June so there is more wiggle room than for colleges. I just hope the CIAC (the CT "authority") takes there time with spring sports decisions based on facts on the ground. It's ok to postpone the start of the season.
I did just see on Babson's schedule that MIT has been canceled. Let's see how the other dominoes fall....
Didn't CT cancel states for hockey and basketball? MIT and a small number (in the big picture) of universities may have an issue lesson common to most universities ... a large number of Asian students who have travel to Asia during or since December.
RJM posted:Didn't CT cancel states for hockey and basketball? MIT and a small number (in the big picture) of universities may have an issue lesson common to most universities ... a large number of Asian students who have travel to Asia during or since December.
Yes CT did but they haven't opined on spring sports. I just hope they take a rational approach. I just heard from my niece who is a D3 Lax player at Drew. Drew going remote learning but they are keeping their spring sports so there is a D3 bucking the trend. There is hope for D3 baseball.
Gunner Mack Jr. posted:RJM posted:Didn't CT cancel states for hockey and basketball? MIT and a small number (in the big picture) of universities may have an issue lesson common to most universities ... a large number of Asian students who have travel to Asia during or since December.
Yes CT did but they haven't opined on spring sports. I just hope they take a rational approach. I just heard from my niece who is a D3 Lax player at Drew. Drew going remote learning but they are keeping their spring sports so there is a D3 bucking the trend. There is hope for D3 baseball.
Glad for your niece, but what the heck is the thinking behind that decision, I wonder? How is Lacrosse OK, but not class?
Chico Escuela posted:Gunner Mack Jr. posted:RJM posted:Didn't CT cancel states for hockey and basketball? MIT and a small number (in the big picture) of universities may have an issue lesson common to most universities ... a large number of Asian students who have travel to Asia during or since December.
Yes CT did but they haven't opined on spring sports. I just hope they take a rational approach. I just heard from my niece who is a D3 Lax player at Drew. Drew going remote learning but they are keeping their spring sports so there is a D3 bucking the trend. There is hope for D3 baseball.
Glad for your niece, but what the heck is the thinking behind that decision, I wonder? How is Lacrosse OK, but not class?
I'm sitting here expecting, at any time, notification from my D3 baseball player that he's coming home at spring break, not to return, and wonder how it would be possible for them to complete a season. We're an 8.5 hour drive from the campus and I can't imagine how it could logistically be done.
D3 Illinois Tech just canceled their California trip so my son at Caltech won't be playing them this weekend. Wesleyan canceled last week. They'll probably scrimmage Claremont Mudd Scripps in a Sunday DH to makeup. Caltech is having a meeting today at 4:30 Pacific for all Spring athletes so we'll see what they say. Caltech is supposed to take a trip to Seattle and Portland during their break the last week of March. As of now it's still on, but Seattle of all places??? Only a matter of time before that trip is canceled. We're supposed to go out to visit him during HS Junior son's Easter Week break but Caltech is weighing remote instruction for their 3rd term starting that week. So much up in the air right now!
TerribleBPthrower posted:What are the possibilities of regrouping and getting a makeshift season together if this ends up less significant that previously thought by the end of March?
Sorry Terrible, but I think that is a pipe dream. All of these measures are being taken to help mitigate the anticipated exponential increases in cases but there is zero indication that any leveling off period will happen in three weeks - we are still in the very early stages of climb in the US. Hell, we haven't even really started testing on any broad scale yet.
Our HS season doesn't start games until 4/2. I think any day our high schools here in NYC will close. I'm hoping it's just for a few weeks.
Chico Escuela posted:Gunner Mack Jr. posted:RJM posted:Didn't CT cancel states for hockey and basketball? MIT and a small number (in the big picture) of universities may have an issue lesson common to most universities ... a large number of Asian students who have travel to Asia during or since December.
Yes CT did but they haven't opined on spring sports. I just hope they take a rational approach. I just heard from my niece who is a D3 Lax player at Drew. Drew going remote learning but they are keeping their spring sports so there is a D3 bucking the trend. There is hope for D3 baseball.
Glad for your niece, but what the heck is the thinking behind that decision, I wonder? How is Lacrosse OK, but not class?
I would guess the answer is keeping a few thousand kids in school/classes and dorms is not social distancing but keeping 200 athletes in different dorms playing outdoor sports with few spectators is ok. That's my read. State of CT thinks its wrong to have kids play games indoors with no fans but is ok with 2,000 kids going to school together - that's the inverse and makes no sense too. I am not sure whats right.
nycdad posted:Our HS season doesn't start games until 4/2. I think any day our high schools here in NYC will close. I'm hoping it's just for a few weeks.
Private schools in NYC are already starting. Ours in Brooklyn closed early ahead of a two week spring break that was supposed to start this Friday but they closed early yesterday and we're hoping they come back on the 30th, but who knows. Coach and I were texting today about the season, he didn't sound hopeful. Says maybe they'll get a scrimmage or two with some very close schools so the seniors at least can finish with a few games. Friend with a son at a different Brooklyn private school (think nationally ranked baseball program) says they are hearing the same - not looking good for the season. But no official word yet.
My son is in a private catholic HS in Queens. I'm sure as one closes they all will. Is your son at Poly? I heard they are going online?
nycdad posted:My son is in a private catholic HS in Queens. I'm sure as one closes they all will. Is your son at Poly? I heard they are going online?
No, my son is at a different BK private school, but Poly is where my son's friend is at. I think most of the BK schools are getting ready to pull the plug. AD at our school is being very vague, coach has no info. And I highly doubt they will return to classes on the 30th. To top it off, my daughter at Pitt just got the "we're going virtual" email.
BK-CatcherDad posted:nycdad posted:My son is in a private catholic HS in Queens. I'm sure as one closes they all will. Is your son at Poly? I heard they are going online?
No, my son is at a different BK private school, but Poly is where my son's friend is at. I think most of the BK schools are getting ready to pull the plug. AD at our school is being very vague, coach has no info. And I highly doubt they will return to classes on the 30th. To top it off, my daughter at Pitt just got the "we're going virtual" email.
Gotcha, yeah my 2020 plays summer ball with a bunch of kids from Poly. I think they are already planning on where they can meet up to get their work in ;-)
I used to believe that a mouse can scare an elephant, but it can't kill an elephant.
But now we've got a mouse scaring an entire nation into killing its own economy.
So I was wrong.
Ivy League just cancelled the baseball season too according to Kendall Rogers.
game7 posted:I used to believe that a mouse can scare an elephant, but it can't kill an elephant.
But now we've got a mouse scaring an entire nation into killing its own economy.
So I was wrong.
You may be right. But unless you are an epidemiologist with a time machine, you're just guessing (as am I).
Why would public health and medical officials want to damage the economy and cause widespread disruption unless their judgment was that there is a serious risk? They have 401ks, too. They may be proven wrong; but at this point I have no reason to just assume they will be.
nycdad posted:BK-CatcherDad posted:nycdad posted:My son is in a private catholic HS in Queens. I'm sure as one closes they all will. Is your son at Poly? I heard they are going online?
No, my son is at a different BK private school, but Poly is where my son's friend is at. I think most of the BK schools are getting ready to pull the plug. AD at our school is being very vague, coach has no info. And I highly doubt they will return to classes on the 30th. To top it off, my daughter at Pitt just got the "we're going virtual" email.
Gotcha, yeah my 2020 plays summer ball with a bunch of kids from Poly. I think they are already planning on where they can meet up to get their work in ;-)
That's the irony of this. Cancelled classes and games isn't about containment, but rather deferred liability. All the kids will be home now, going about town, hitting the gym, coffee shops, etc.
Exactly. If you think kids who are out of school for three weeks are sitting home "containing" themselves, you're crazy. This is just an extended party for spring break.
my youngest freshman in dorm has already announced that if and when they get moved to online he is going to live at his brothers apartment right next door to campus at different school...he has no interest in being at home for online school.
Just heard: classes are going all-online at Furman and Wake Forest. Wake also extended spring break by a week (they are currently on break). I think most US institutions of higher ed are going to do something similar.
Chico Escuela posted:Just heard: classes are going all-online at Furman and Wake Forest. Wake also extended spring break by a week (they are currently on break). I think most US institutions of higher ed are going to do something similar.
Annnnnd Wake Forest just pulled the announcement from its web site. I guess they weren't quite ready to release it yet?
March Madness now closed to the public per the NCAA.
Chico Escuela posted:Gunner Mack Jr. posted:RJM posted:Didn't CT cancel states for hockey and basketball? MIT and a small number (in the big picture) of universities may have an issue lesson common to most universities ... a large number of Asian students who have travel to Asia during or since December.
Yes CT did but they haven't opined on spring sports. I just hope they take a rational approach. I just heard from my niece who is a D3 Lax player at Drew. Drew going remote learning but they are keeping their spring sports so there is a D3 bucking the trend. There is hope for D3 baseball.
Glad for your niece, but what the heck is the thinking behind that decision, I wonder? How is Lacrosse OK, but not class?
How’s this for logic? Celtics coach Brad Stevens was instructed to sit five feet away from announcer Brian Scalabrine for the pregame Coach’s Corner.
Scalabrine asks Stevens a question then leans over and shoves his mic in Stevens’ face. Then Steven’s walks out into an arena and sits between two coaches with 18,000 strangers who have been “who knows where” all around him.
How’s this for logic?
Germaphobia defies logic.