NCAA releases guidelines for 2020 basketball season

[DungeonRealm]

Link:
https://wkuherald.com/coronavirus/ncaa- ... e2590.html

[apaladin]

So glad the NCAA had no say in FBS football. If they had there would be no college football this fall. The NFL has now had over 46,000 tests with zero positives. MLB has no positives in the last month. Thev NBA has played their season in this “high contact” sport with no problems. Many colleges are having all sports with little problems. Yes there have been a few postponements. Delaying basketball which is the easiest to control is just a stupid decision. It’s the “we have to do something to be safe” mentality. The reason being that students will be gone after Thanksgiving, Ok, fine aren’t the basketball teams still on campus before Thanksgiving and practicing. What difference would it make if they played 3-4 games the 2 weeks prior to Thanksgiving?

[Furmanoid]

You have to start after students are gone because students at one school could spread it to their team who could then spread it to other teams and cause a widespread outbreak. But if you wait till Thanksgiving break, the students can fan out across the country and start the widespread outbreak all by themselves without using the B-ball team as middle men. Covid caught from sports people is apparently way more worser than Covid caught from regular people which is why nobody else does stuff in bubbles or gets weekly tests or any of that stuff but it is absolutely essential for athletes.

[MetroMizzy]

Lolllllllll. Worser. Oh the horror of a virus with a 99.997% recovery rate in college aged students. Idiots.

[FurmAlum]

We're now 4-5 weeks into the high school football season nationwide. Does anyone know how many players have actually gotten sick from covid? Out of 48,000 players I heard it was less than 20 with 0 deaths.

Seems like if we can play HS football safely, we should have been able to play college football safely and not have any delay in the basketball season.

[apaladin]

We're now 4-5 weeks into the high school football season nationwide. Does anyone know how many players have actually gotten sick from covid? Out of 48,000 players I heard it was less than 20 with 0 deaths.

Seems like if we can play HS football safely, we should have been able to play college football safely and not have any delay in the basketball season.

The simple answer is fear mongering. High School and College age kids don’t die from COVID, unless it’s is a very very unusual case and still not by COVID alone. Delaying basketball and playing in bubbles is absolutely stupid, no other way to say it.