Upcoming Season - Plans Being Considered

[billyjack]

Am I wrong thinking that the chances for a Big East basketball season increase significantly if the three remaining P5 conferences are actually able to make this football season happen?

To me, i think the NBA bubble will have the most impact on whether the Big East can have a season. If the NBA bubble continues to hold here for a couple of months, then the Big East will have a workable template to go forward with.

I guess i think that the football world has no impact on us, except to show us how NOT to go forward, cuz i'm biased against them cuz i think college football and the NFL are run by idiots. The SEC and ACC can force a football season, royally screw things up... and we could still have Big East basketball.

BJack spot on yet again. And that's why he is in the HLOH Poster Hall of Fame.

Wow, not sure about that, but thanks Gumby, i'll take it...!

[gtmoBlue]

Also would love for it to be in Omaha. As we all know well Nova has a high winning % in Omaha since realignment. j/k

heh, heh, heh. Good one Gumby. Come on down! We'll roll out the red carpet and $ beers. Omaha & KCMO came up in the Athletic's "44 Pod" article on bubbles. Both would host "Midlands Pods" .

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[Jet915]

Aaron Torres
@Aaron_Torres
Little college hoops note: If we get to the point where we bubble in college hoops, multiple sources have told me Omaha (home of Creighton) will almost certainly be the place for the Big East. For all the reasons
@KendallRogers
lists below for the CWS. Read his thread for details

[ArmyVet]

Dan Gavitt just made a statement that the NCAA will decide by mid-September whether or not the basketball scheduled will begin on time or if a shirt term delay will be required.

[DudeAnon]

Personally, I think they should just shut it down for this year. I now know someone personally who got it (29 years old) and months later has still yet to recover her sense of smell or taste. She is also losing clumps of hair now (though that may be stress related to the other symptoms.) There is too much unknown and the possibility of permanent effects on the senses, lungs and heart are too dangerous in my opinion.

By next year the vaccine will be commonplace and covid-19 will be a sore memory. Anything before then would just be impatience.

[MUBoxer]

Personally, I think they should just shut it down for this year. I now know someone personally who got it (29 years old) and months later has still yet to recover her sense of smell or taste. She is also losing clumps of hair now (though that may be stress related to the other symptoms.) There is too much unknown and the possibility of permanent effects on the senses, lungs and heart are too dangerous in my opinion.

By next year the vaccine will be commonplace and covid-19 will be a sore memory. Anything before then would just be impatience.

1yr? That wildly optimistic seeing as a large segment of the population is anti vax, another large segment doesn't want to be the guinea pig of a new vaccine before finding out what the lasting effects are, wed need to scale it up to a massive population, and finally the estimated effective rate is closer to 50% rather than 100%.

I admire your optimism but 1yr from now we won't be back to life as it was on St Patrick's Day.

[Jet915]

Personally, I think they should just shut it down for this year. I now know someone personally who got it (29 years old) and months later has still yet to recover her sense of smell or taste. She is also losing clumps of hair now (though that may be stress related to the other symptoms.) There is too much unknown and the possibility of permanent effects on the senses, lungs and heart are too dangerous in my opinion.

By next year the vaccine will be commonplace and covid-19 will be a sore memory. Anything before then would just be impatience.

The NCAA wont exist if they cancel another NCAA tournament.

[ArmyVet]

Personally, I think they should just shut it down for this year. I now know someone personally who got it (29 years old) and months later has still yet to recover her sense of smell or taste. She is also losing clumps of hair now (though that may be stress related to the other symptoms.) There is too much unknown and the possibility of permanent effects on the senses, lungs and heart are too dangerous in my opinion.

By next year the vaccine will be commonplace and covid-19 will be a sore memory. Anything before then would just be impatience.

The NCAA wont exist if they cancel another NCAA tournament.

True. All indications are that there will be an NCAA tournament no matter what. How the teams get selected will be fascinating. Can you imagine a PAC12 team who didn't play until January and then maybe had some games canceled in conference make the tournament with a 6-5 record?

[DudeAnon]

Personally, I think they should just shut it down for this year. I now know someone personally who got it (29 years old) and months later has still yet to recover her sense of smell or taste. She is also losing clumps of hair now (though that may be stress related to the other symptoms.) There is too much unknown and the possibility of permanent effects on the senses, lungs and heart are too dangerous in my opinion.

By next year the vaccine will be commonplace and covid-19 will be a sore memory. Anything before then would just be impatience.

The NCAA wont exist if they cancel another NCAA tournament.

Respectfully disagree. Profitable markets don't just disappear because of a break. People will still pay to watch/attend college athletics in 2021. Will the coffers be as deep? No. Might the NCAA go into debt, possibly. But at the end of the day it is a profitable venue.

[DudeAnon]

Personally, I think they should just shut it down for this year. I now know someone personally who got it (29 years old) and months later has still yet to recover her sense of smell or taste. She is also losing clumps of hair now (though that may be stress related to the other symptoms.) There is too much unknown and the possibility of permanent effects on the senses, lungs and heart are too dangerous in my opinion.

By next year the vaccine will be commonplace and covid-19 will be a sore memory. Anything before then would just be impatience.

1yr? That wildly optimistic seeing as a large segment of the population is anti vax, another large segment doesn't want to be the guinea pig of a new vaccine before finding out what the lasting effects are, wed need to scale it up to a massive population, and finally the estimated effective rate is closer to 50% rather than 100%.

I admire your optimism but 1yr from now we won't be back to life as it was on St Patrick's Day.

Maybe things will never get back to normal but a year will give a chance for more knowledge about what this thing really is. At the end of the day, this is amateur athletics and I don't feel comfortable asking kids to risk their health when a bit of patience would allow all of us to know what we are really risking.