04-09-2021, 02:08 PM
It would have been better if the original poster had linked to the article that the other 11 words of the tweet referenced. Tweets are often not useful themselves. NCAA faces mounting criticism over volleyball tournament in Omaha
To me this sounds like it is all about the effects of uncertainty and novelty of a one-off pandemic tournament situation. Just how one can maximize the health and safety of 48 teams in a tourney in a pandemic is not a problem that has any history for guidance.
For instance, if they played at different sites, there probably would have been complaints about the facilities being different. ("We had to bus for an hour to get to our site.") There probably would have been complaints about having to set up a bunch of different broadcast feeds.
The only mention of "men" is in a reference to the controversy in the BB tourneys that this set of complaints seems to be trying to jump on the coat-tails. It would be different if they were complaining about the differences between the men & women VB tourneys.
Whether the choice for there to have been a single site or multiple sites is one that can be argued. At a single site, the number of bathrooms is more limited, but with no spectators, the bathrooms normally used by spectators can be utilized. I bet there are negatives on each side. In such a case, someone will complain no matter the choice.
As Tara said, this was a season where flexibility is paramount. I hope that all involved are flexible enough for the tournament to be successful and the athletes to be healthy.
By the way, was it a VB (or BB) team that I saw this season staying on court between matches rather than going to a locker room? Was that Stanford?
Do I recall that even for Regionals, the NCAA required its own court to be installed on top of Stanford's VB court?
To me this sounds like it is all about the effects of uncertainty and novelty of a one-off pandemic tournament situation. Just how one can maximize the health and safety of 48 teams in a tourney in a pandemic is not a problem that has any history for guidance.
For instance, if they played at different sites, there probably would have been complaints about the facilities being different. ("We had to bus for an hour to get to our site.") There probably would have been complaints about having to set up a bunch of different broadcast feeds.
The only mention of "men" is in a reference to the controversy in the BB tourneys that this set of complaints seems to be trying to jump on the coat-tails. It would be different if they were complaining about the differences between the men & women VB tourneys.
Whether the choice for there to have been a single site or multiple sites is one that can be argued. At a single site, the number of bathrooms is more limited, but with no spectators, the bathrooms normally used by spectators can be utilized. I bet there are negatives on each side. In such a case, someone will complain no matter the choice.
As Tara said, this was a season where flexibility is paramount. I hope that all involved are flexible enough for the tournament to be successful and the athletes to be healthy.
By the way, was it a VB (or BB) team that I saw this season staying on court between matches rather than going to a locker room? Was that Stanford?
Do I recall that even for Regionals, the NCAA required its own court to be installed on top of Stanford's VB court?