apaladin wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:38 pm
Peeps on the UR message board are pretty bummed as expected. Apparently the one positive was not a player and they are questioning why some teams keep playing(Gonzaga) with positive tests and others shutdown for 2 weeks. Good question. If this trend continues of shutting down because someone closes to the program tests positive I think the season of all teams are in jeopardy. Just crazy.
My experience with this virus to this point is that, at times, there's a lot of talk and not a lot of walk.
From my observations, organizations can put in all the protocols they want, but those protocols are useless if not enforced. A lot of these protocols, too, are just placebo.
College basketball is attempting something that really is novel in 2020 - playing a full week-to-week schedule among teams from different conferences and different parts of the country.
By most accounts, Richmond is doing the hard but correct thing. Gonzaga is doing the easy but incorrect thing. If playing basketball is the top priority, just own it and stop pretending otherwise.
To your question of "why," the answer is always the same in major college athletics - money.
