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School is back in session!

It will be interesting to see when the men's basketball team can have group sessions, whether weight lifting or walking through instructions with coach. I believe those are limited in size during the summer. DC, please correct me if I am wrong about summer workouts.
 
I had not heard this until now. Thanks for posting-
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20200327/macmurray-college-to-close-after-174-years

Very sad.
MacMurray was founded in 1846, more than 50 years before Bradley. It is a beautiful campus with some of their buildings dating back to the 1800's, though updated in recent years. And they have been ranked pretty well academically-https://www.mac.edu/news/press-release/3675/macmurray-ranked-no-8-nationally-by-washington-monthly

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/macmurray-college-1717/overall-rankings

I am afraid there will be more colleges, mostly smaller private schools, that will go under in the coming months.
 
Da Coach said:
I am afraid there will be more colleges, mostly smaller private schools, that will go under in the coming months.
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I totally agree with this. During shutdowns, who is going to pay high tuition fees to schools, which will essentially be online schools. Even when covid shutdowns pass, the financial impact will be felt for years, and that will likely be felt by most private colleges and universities.
 
I hope Bradley can keep the doors open and the basketball season going. Does anyone know if D1 schools still have to field the same number of sports at the D1 level as has been required in the past?
 
LongTimeFan said:
I hope Bradley can keep the doors open and the basketball season going. Does anyone know if D1 schools still have to field the same number of sports at the D1 level as has been required in the past?
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The NCAA would have to make a change in their bylaws for there to be a reduction in required sports, and that hasn't happened yet.

Also, the new Bradley President, Dr. Stephen Standifird, declared on Monday that Bradley University would be open for the fall semester. This is great news.
BRADLEY UNIVERSITY TO RESUME ON-CAMPUS CLASSES FOR FALL 2020
​​​​​​https://www.bradley.edu/offices/com...e.dot?id=e4b9f046-72d0-4e9a-a18e-41094757f8ce

The NCAA has already announced that fall sports will return contingent on college campuses being open.
 
DC, have you seen any indication that basketball workouts can take place this summer. I may have asked this before but I don't remember any responses.
 
LongTimeFan said:
DC, have you seen any indication that basketball workouts can take place this summer. I may have asked this before but I don't remember any responses.
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As far as I can find, the only NCAA cancellations involved winter and spring sports. I don't believe the NCAA has cancelled or banned any summer activities.
They are apparently leaving it up to each college and state to decide.

On this page, the NCAA says:
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/what-will-return-ncaa-sports-look

How and when do NCAA sports return?
For each member institution, that return will come at a different time and will certainly take a different form. The NCAA’s COVID-19 Advisory Panel of leading medical, public health and epidemiology experts led by NCAA Chief Medical Officer Brian Hainline has put together nine core principles to help guide institutions as they answer these challenging questions. The document, “Resocialization in Sport,” takes into consideration federal recommendations, relying on experts, data and science, and puts the health, safety and well-being of student-athletes and the needs of the membership first.

Here are their rules, and 3-phase plan-
http://www.ncaa.org/sport-science-institute/core-principles-resocialization-collegiate-sport


The NCAA has also issued a special Covid-19 guide, last updated May 8, 2020-
https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/compliance/d1/D1GOV_COVID-19QAGuide.pdf

Note that at the bottom of page 36, they address summer activities.

NCAA Division I Council Coordination Committee May 6 Action Related to Summer Athletic Activities for Football and Basketball.
Question: In football and basketball, may incoming and continuing student-athletes engage in summer athletic activities without being enrolled for summer 2020?

Answer: Yes.

So it sounds like even if the academic summer courses are cancelled, the players can still engage in workouts.
 
I would be cautiously optimistic. We're benefiting from increased humidity making it harder for airborne particles to linger. If we do not do aggressive testing and contact tracing come fall, this thing will be back. I truly hope not.

If you have not witnessed COVID-19 first hand....I promise you it is as brutal as they say.
 
algotrader said:
I would be cautiously optimistic. We're benefiting from increased humidity making it harder for airborne particles to linger. If we do not do aggressive testing and contact tracing come fall, this thing will be back. I truly hope not.

If you have not witnessed COVID-19 first hand....I promise you it is as brutal as they say.
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And we know higher temperatures are detrimental to the Covid-19 virus. Unfortunately, the month of April was the coldest April in more than 20 years in the US, and one of the coldest ever-
https://www.noaa.gov/news/us-had-its...-than-20-years

And so far, the month of May has been well below the average temperatures, too.

If we can get warmer weather, it could help. Here is an example by comparison to a warmer state....
Arizona is having a heat wave. They have had 90-100° temperatures for weeks, and they are expected to continue-
https://weather.com/weather/monthly/...2b558409755f66

The number of new cases and new Covid-19 deaths in Arizona has plummeted. Despite a huge expansion of testing in the state which should have driven the number of new cases much higher, there were only 306 new cases reported yesterday in the entire state, and only 1 new death reported-
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/ar...-known-death-1

Those numbers are way down from past weeks, especially that death figure- only 1 new death reported. Arizona has a significantly older average age than most states due to it's attraction to retired individuals, Those are the most susceptible to the virus and to dying from it.
Compare those numbers to Illinois. Arizona has 7.3 million population, while Illinois has 12.6 million population. Yesterday Illinois reported 1,734 new cases and 51 new deaths, which itself is a sharp decline from last week. See the graph in this link-
https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronav...-may-17-deaths

Other warm-weather states have also seen declines in new cases. It is especially notable that states like Georgia and Florida, which lifted restrictions and allowed businesses, beaches, and public places to reopen weeks ago have been among the leaders in declining new cases, despite the massive expansion of testing, which should have driven the new case counts much higher.
Coronavirus Cases in Georgia, Florida Continue to Decline Despite Business Openings
https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-c...153633256.html

So let's pray for warmer weather and continued declines in these numbers!
 
algotrader said:
Georgia falsified their data

Florida pushing coroners to not report/misreport deaths

The data from those two states needs to be marked with a huge asterisk.
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I hesitate to argue something that is not really relevant here, and which is politicized far too much, especially by the media.
But in the cases you cite, even after correcting for the reported tabulation errors by the non-political Georgia Department of Public Health, the new case count in Georgia is still down since the state removed most of the restrictions-
https://www.ajc.com/news/coronavirus...BSVSNQDDAuZxH/
This is despite a huge increase in the number of tests being done which would have been expected to add significantly to the new case count.
It's hard to deny that the relaxing of restrictions has not resulted in the hysterical predictions by some in the media, like this laughable article-
Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...ndemic/610882/

Experts Predict Sharp Rise In Georgia COVID-19 Deaths Following Eased Restrictions
https://www.gpbnews.org/post/experts...d-restrictions


And with all due respect, the article about the Florida count relates only to the death count, which is not what I referred to. My post referred to the new case count since lifting restrictions. Even if it what the article alleges were true, by their own admission it would have only increased the death count by no more than 10% which still would have left the death count way down (see stats link below), and would have had zero effect on the daily new case count.
However, there is evidence that some states have inflated the number of deaths due to coronavirus.
Several states have revised their death counts down after they were scrutinized-
https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-...us-death-count
And a number of other states have admitted counting deaths which were never tested or officially documented to be due to the coronavirus-
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/n...us-deaths.html
So it seems reasonable for the Florida Department of Health (also a non-political organization) to review those numbers before making them public.

Nobody expects the case numbers to disappear, but the official statistics show that the new case count in Florida has not increased (it is actually down) despite the state lifting restrictions, and despite a huge increase in testing, which should have resulted in a big increase in new cases.
Even the liberal website Politico is mocking the alarmist, hysterical claims by media of "a post-apocalyptic hellscape of coronavirus infection and cadavers stacked like cordwood" because Florida opened up-
https://www.politico.com/newsletters...for-now-489225
 
I wonder how voluntary it will be. I would think that such things as weightlifting and shooting drills could at least be done.
 
LongTimeFan said:
I wonder how voluntary it will be. I would think that such things as weightlifting and shooting drills could at least be done.
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The key sentence in tha NCAA release is this:

Voluntary on-campus athletics activity must be initiated by the student-athlete. Coaches may not be present unless a sport-specific safety exception allows it, and activity cannot be directed by a coach or reported back to a coach.

There were no stipulations mention about what specific activities were allowed, so I presume the athletes can do whatever they want, as long as it is the athlete that initiates the activity, and the coaches cannot direct, receive reports, or observe them.
 
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