06-04-2014, 12:29 AM
Per Stanford Baseball's twitter account, the team flew back to Cali on Tuesday so that the players could attend Wednesday morning classes. There's no mention of when the team will fly to Nashville, but, given the time change when one travels east, it would have to be Thursday morning at the latest.
Is this "pit stop" back on campus required by NCAA rules? It seems crazy to me to ask a team to spend Monday night in the Eastern time zone, Tuesday and, I guess, Wednesday night in the Pacific, then Thursday in the Central. All for the purpose of attending a single day of classes. With today's technology, shouldn't it be possible to keep up with classwork via Skype and other tools?
Is this "pit stop" back on campus required by NCAA rules? It seems crazy to me to ask a team to spend Monday night in the Eastern time zone, Tuesday and, I guess, Wednesday night in the Pacific, then Thursday in the Central. All for the purpose of attending a single day of classes. With today's technology, shouldn't it be possible to keep up with classwork via Skype and other tools?
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)