(04-15-2020, 01:02 PM)stupac2 Wrote:Field hockey is SUPER common in that East Coast block of schools. I could get to a place where Women's Volleyball could be allowed, though the players at the net are usually pretty close together, so I opted for Field Hockey as the ultimate Title IX challenge.(04-15-2020, 11:38 AM)Farm93 Wrote: 2) No field hockey, and therefore no other NCAA sports.
I assume you're using field hockey as a stand-in for all non-revenue team sports, because I'm not sure there's anything unique to it that wouldn't be true about soccer or water polo or a bunch of others. I know it's possible in theory to do competitions in golf or tennis or track safely, but I'm not sure you can do anything else about them safely, and I genuinely don't know how you have athletes in dorms but no one else.
Anyway, we'll see. I'm setting my expectation that we don't see any sports of any kind* until next spring at the earliest, but am willing to be pleasantly surprised if that's not the case.
*Excluding certifiably insane proposals like doing UFC fights on a private island.
FWIW - Men's water polo also could get eliminated as that would not present a Title IX issue for college football.
In many Northeastern states the best colleges don't really have big football, so my guess is the government and business leaders in those 7-10 states will not prioritize the preservation of college football in their new normal goals. It is very hard for me to see how College Football can move forward if 7-10 states are saying college sports are too dangerous and/or are not a high priority.
I just got an SAT College Board message for my HS student. They clearly understand it is possible public high schools might be closed for the rest of the calendar year and have already shared that potential plan with parents like me. You just don't talk about things like that if it is highly unlikely to happen.
If you review the recent messages from colleges, school districts and testing agencies it seems pretty clear they are all at least planning for closures to possibly continue for the rest of the calendar year.
And that's for education related items. Again, I can't imagine a world where the Governor of RI or CT will prioritize testing women's field hockey players each week while not having enough testing resources for teachers, police officers, health care workers, public transit employees, employees at defense contractors, etc. to be testing at least once in 2020.
Governor Cuomo's goal seemed to be to get to a place where NY can complete 500,000 tests per week. Even if he gets to that number it would take his state 38 weeks to test every citizen just once. Forget testing field hockey, soccer, cross country and football athletes in D1, D2 & D3 multiple times per month. The math doesn't work, but maybe one of those POTUS45 miracles will happen and we will all be packing into Stanford Stadium for a "back to normal" night when Stanford is scheduled to play USC.
OOoops!!!
Per CNN and the LA Times we have news.
City of LA is already planning on not allowing concerts and sporting events for the rest of 2020 with internal e-mails bouncing around on how to announce that policy.
There is no way the Pac-12 is doing anything if the City of LA has declared sport events are not permitted for the rest of the year.
