And have every player sign a waiver of all a liability? Great college experience!

Ditto San Jose State as of 12:10 pm today. Sac Bee.

I hope you are correct SLO. I just got my info from LA Times and NPR who quoted the Fullerton Provost,Pamala Oliver, as saying that they are going to have “virtual” classrooms this Fall. But she did add that if things changed for the better with the virus situation, they would revert to in class teaching. So I guess its how you parse it. They did a lot of work on this before they announced, like seeing how many students could be in a class 6 feet apart, how students would leave the class at that distance, etc., (nothing worked) but that the faculty needed to know right away to prepare for “virtual classes this Fall.” My niece starts nursing school at Columbia this year and their first semester will be on-line. Frankly, I do not expect college sports to return until there is a proven vaccine available. Can you imagine the legal liability a college would face if it knowingly exposed it’s students to this virus?

Ask Bundesliga.

Got an eye opening look at the economics of trying tp play sports during this corona virus pandemic from the German Bundesliga. It is planning to play all of its soccer games in empty stadiums this season and the games will be played with the following conditions: all players will have to be tested and cleared before each game. There are 24 players on each squad so 48 tests there. The Bundesliga estimates that each team will have 234 support staff present for each game. They will be tested as well. So now you have 516 tests for each game. I will say its impossible to find out what these tests actually cost sine the government is paying for most of them now. But if you do it on your own thru your insurance it will be charged at the market rate. Insurance charges have ranged from $3000+/- to $1000+/- at this time. So- at the lowest cost: $516,000 in testing will be required before each match in the German Bundesliga games this season. With no fans in the stands. Can college football handle that scenario?

Fullerton first to announce only online classes for fall semester. Some eastern schools are cancelling fall semester all together. So, yes likely no fall or winter sports this year. What a bummer.

We all know Les loves the flashy perimeter game. It’s a great crowd pleaser when you make the three. But when you don't and we miss the open three- its very bad indeed. It’s like oxygen leaving the room when it happens again and again. That happened to us last year. So, yes I agree with the above. We need to get something going down low because we have lost our outside game for the most part to graduation. Maybe Les has some new perimeter help coming. We definitely need it. But get stronger down low now!

To answer my own question: No. as long as she is in academic good standing at Oregon. But, under the new rules, she had to get Oregon to release her. Evidently, this was not a problem.

Great job Russ. I think Holly Winterburn a great get for us. She obviously has very good talent. I wonder why she transferred. Sabrina graduating is obviously not the reason as oregon is still going to be a power next season. But so may we! We will have a huge line up for BW for sure, but now we are lining up on the bigger schools much better. Like very much the reuniting with Megan Jones story. They can now hang out in Davis together and be flying mates back home to England/Scotland on the Holidays. Maybe also with our two English MBB guys. BTW are the transfers not now automatic?

Just a thought:
“We all know it is a fool who tries to play it cool.”
Who knows where that phrase came from? Sorry. You have to be pretty old! Happy Easter to all. Just trying to keep calm. . . .

Cmt.
You are right. The Trump troll has an insatiable appetite for repeating the misinformation and outright lies of the Trump administration. He does not even recognize or give any credence to the actual facts. Just a bunch of conspiracy theories, victimization and pointing the finger. Just like his dear leader. So sad.

If you are interested in exactly what the Trump administration was thinking all along from the beginning of this crisis of incompetence and inaction, Google “Red Dawn emails”. Read what Trumps own medical experts were saying. No edits. These are the actual emails they wrote to each other. They are staggeringly scary. Note the email about “Historic understatements” i.e. “Napoleons retreat from Moscow: a stroll that went astray; Pompeii: just a little dust storm; Hiroshima: just a bad sunburn” etc. Again these are Trumps guys own words. No editing or opinion from me here.

Quoting Captain Trump of the RMS Titanic:

There isn’t any iceberg.
There was an iceberg but its in a totally different ocean.
The iceberg is in this ocean but it will melt very soon.
There is an iceberg but we didn’t hit the iceberg.
The iceberg is a Chinese iceberg.
We are taking on water but every passenger who wants a lifeboat can get a lifeboat if they want them and they are very beautiful lifeboats.
But passengers need to ask nicely for the lifeboats if they want them. We don't give lifeboats to nasty people.
We don't have any lifeboats. We are not in the lifeboat business.
Passengers should have planned for icebergs and brought their own lifeboats.
I really don't think we need that many lifeboats.
If we had any lifeboats they would be our lifeboats, not the passengers lifeboats.
The lifeboats were left on shore by the last captain of this ship.
Nobody could have foreseen the iceberg.

From Reddit.com

And we lastly have:

The Narcissist’s Prayer

That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, it is not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did.
You deserved it!

Just a few bites to chew on as we hunker down in our bunkers. By the way, the Titanic Captain did go down with his ship.

Tom Williams?

THE TALE OF THE BLACK SYPHILIS

Back in my Army days, 100 years or so ago, there was an Army tale often told about “The Black Syphilis.” Now, syphilis in ancient times was called the “French Disease” because nobody liked the French much back then, so why not name a horrible disease after them, right?. Well, the tale went that the French army (who had been where we were years before) had infected some of the local population with something called the “Black Syphilis.” It was an extremely contagious, deadly, and incurable disease that could be spread by mere touching, that the enemy wanted to use against our soldiers by exposing them to local women who carried the disease. There was no test for it and If you got it, the tale went, there was no cure and you could not be sent home because you would infect the civilian population; so, you would be quarantined until you died or could be put on a ship and sent to special military hospital prison camps in the Philippines where you would stay until a cure was found or you died. What a ridiculous tale! Could never happen.

Fast forward to the year 2020. We are faced with a deadly and highly contagious disease that some of our dear leaders have called “The Chinese Virus” (again, because they don’t like the Chinese much now) for which there is no cure and no vaccine and for those of us who are unlucky enough to get it may well wind up in special military built hospitals or navy hospital ships anchored off shore. The rest of us are quarantined in our homes indefinitely because, in part, there are not enough tests to determine who has the disease and who doesn’t. Another ridiculous tale right? Could never happen. . . .

DrMike everyone feels your pain. I don't mean this at all as disrespectful, but Move this to another site if you want. But, we are all witnessing the never to be seen before effects of a pandemic on international sports. We have seen the Olympics move with college spring sports as well. So to deny or ignore this because you are “overloaded” is not really helpful. Much better to be prepared for a new time in college sports. Like: football games in empty stadiums on HBO. Not all that bad given the times we are now living in. Also, The new recruits must be terrified with what is happenIng to their athletic careers, so much sympathies there as well. But, not the time for sugarcoating.

Dark clouds on the horizon. Gov. Newsom strongly hints that Fall college sports may have to be cancelled as well. Cites “boomerang” effect in Asia when restrictions were relaxed. Dittto NFL. Whoever said we were in “uncharted territory” here was understating the problem. Sports may never be the same again.

Great story in the NYT today about Sabrina Ionescu. A Graduate of Miramonte HS in Orinda, she is the daughter of Romanian immigrants, She is perhaps the greatest collegiate woman’s basketball player ever playing at Oregon. All time leader in double doubles. 2000, 1000, and 1000 points, rebounds and assists in her career. She was very close to Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna. She spoke at their memorial in LA. Story talks about how hard it was for her dealing with their tragic deaths, and then the cancellation of the National Tournament due to the virus. Her Oregon team was a favorite to win it all this year. A very classy lady indeed!

I expect NCAA will be very, very considerate of all of its athletes. I don't see a March madness in July because I don't see the virus gone by them. Another year of eligibility is a very possible and fair solution.

According to the NYTs this a.m., the NCAA plans to vote on Monday on what to do with the Spring sports athletes, i.e. 1) the costs of additional scholarships; 2) roster limits; and 3) whether to just address Senior athletes. An interesting question is “what are the Spring sports”? Are they sports that start in the Spring or end in the Spring? Obviously, the March basketball tournaments are the major events in D1 basketball and this was denied to all the involved players. Should they get another year of eligibility? This is really complex as if a given basketball team has say 5 graduating seniors and they all get another year and the team has 5 incoming recruits you could wind up with 18-20 eligible players on some squads vs. no change in number of players on another squad in the same league. Interesting to see what happens.