NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?
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May madness…now that is insane.
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@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
May madness…now that is insane.
May Madness
Hey-- you better get the TM on that now. You know how the NCAA is about things like that!
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@bskeet Yeah totally. I’m on a group text with a concert promoter, a project manager at a major movie theater company, a lawyer, a non-profit employee, and a film editor, and just about all of them are voicing fears about the immediate future of their employment and livelihood. Those fears are very real but also hard to gauge the true future impact of this pandemic. Most of us in that text thread have purchased houses within the last 5 years and are still paying mortgages, two couples have kids under 1 who require daycare. And while you might say why would they pay for day care if they have to stay home, well, don’t pay for day care in a city like Austin and watch that spot disappear.
I’m certainly not going to bash what I think is a pretty sound observation that fear of a thing is usually worse than the thing itself.
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I’m sure some of you heard the Texas players were quite concerned about Andrew Jones - name right? The player that had cancer who has a compromised immune system. Maybe that should help us think of others for those of us that can’t do that!
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@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
If they want to make an actual impact stoppage of a few basketball games isn’t it. That’s just optics. All flights need to be stopped. All public transportation needs to stop. Ban groups of over 100 - sucks for bigger businesses as they won’t even be able to run right. Stop all inter-state traffic. Don’t allow people into or out of areas with known infection. Etc.
Cancelling games is window dressing and frankly a bunch of crap unless it’s just the start of something more sweeping.
Sports is often the catalyst for social issues in this country rightly or wrongly. The hopeful effect of this will be that without sports around, people will take heed of the warnings given by the CDC and WHO and not flippantly dismiss them because it doesn’t directly affect them. They’ll see people that are generally considered invincible because of the health and conditioning most athletes are in taking precautions and realize they need to as well.
Rudy Gobert’s story has really pissed me off since it came out that he’d been very dismissive of it and making light of the situation and now he has it and spread it to at least 1 teammate and who knows of he spread it to any opponents yet or not
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@Texas-Hawk-10 weird he was the one, karma?
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@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
If they want to make an actual impact stoppage of a few basketball games isn’t it. That’s just optics. All flights need to be stopped. All public transportation needs to stop. Ban groups of over 100 - sucks for bigger businesses as they won’t even be able to run right. Stop all inter-state traffic. Don’t allow people into or out of areas with known infection. Etc.
Cancelling games is window dressing and frankly a bunch of crap unless it’s just the start of something more sweeping.
That’s how they seem to be flattening the curve elsewhere. Exponential growth is hard to wrap a brain around.
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Ready or not here it is. I just hope that fear of the virus is worse than the actual virus.
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@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
Ready or not here it is. I just hope that fear of the virus is worse than the actual virus.
New Cases of the Virus in NY jumped by like 110 new cases in a 24 hour period. - went to like 330 now
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Ohio authorities estimate 1% of the state is carrying it. That’s almost 120,000 people.
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Listening to them talk with Jay Bilas, he is saying that he had been getting quite a few texts within the last 15 minutes and saying they would be all in favor of POSTPONING the tourney not Cancel.
Like Postponing for like a Month and then seeing where we are at and if no change or thing like that then Cancel
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KU NATTY CHAMPS
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ESPN says NCAA cancelled the tournament. Let’s wait a hot minute and see if that is accurate.
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Welp so much for that. NCAA just announced all winter sports are Cancelled - -not postponed - - FRICK - they were just talking to Mark Few when this came in and he said he was extremely disappointed - -that they Cancelled not Postponed
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@bskeet said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
ESPN says NCAA cancelled the tournament. Let’s wait a hot minute and see if that is accurate.
it is
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Way Coach Few sure sounds like from the Coach’s he talked to today , they are truly disappointed about Cancelling instead of Postponing
This just Sucks for Doke - -Devon
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@jayballer73 Yeah… I heard it too. Just seems premature to make such a drastic decision.
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@bskeet It is, NCAA declared cancellation.
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Gosh. I see the announcement now. Fudge.
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@bskeet It’s official. It’s cancelled. Not sure if you heard.
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Well, it’s been a pretty satisfying season with yet another unsatisfying ending. Are we cursed?
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So, is anyone thinking KU should have just caved and accepted a postseason ban this year?
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@bskeet said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@jayballer73 Yeah… I heard it too. Just seems premature to make such a drastic decision.
Jay Bilas is talking about a possible reason for cancellation could be due to contractual and insurance issues the NCAA has.
Another probable factor would be the logistics of trying to rebook venues in a couple of months down the road when many of those venues are also probably going to be trying to squeeze in NBA and NHL games as well.
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We are all going to wonder for the rest of our lives whether this was the year we win it, Selfs second championship. What if, what if, what if. We had a pretty damn good shot this year didn’t we? Great defense, best point guard, arguably best big man, a well-balanced well coached core of team guys. And it wasn’t like there was another monster NCAA team that were better really.
What stunningly incredible bad luck. We will get through this virus, but it will take a few months probably, then hopefully we are wiser about epidemics, and can get on with our lives again. But we will always always wonder what if.
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@mayjay said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
So, is anyone thinking KU should have just caved and accepted a postseason ban this year?
Hell no, KU needs to raise a national championship banner for this year since we were the unanimous #1 ranked team in the final poll this season. Give the NCAA a middle finger since there’s no chance in hell the NCAA wouldn’t have the balls to declare Kansas and South Carolina the men’s and women’s national champions this season.
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Leave it to the NCAA to make a decision that is questioned and criticized by many people.
I mean, look at all the other organizations that have made decisions in the last 24 hours which seem to be universally supported… And then the NCAA does this.
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This title feels so damn empty. I feel so shitty for all the seniors that worked so hard to get to this point and now it’s just… over. Goes for baseball, softball, track, basketball. The NCAA should do the right thing and give them all an extra year if they want and waive the scholarship cap for a year so no HS kids get left out in the cold.
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They could have moved the midwest regional to AFH. It’s been hosted there in the past. I think they could have found the venues… but yeah, media contracts and the insurance liability… I’m sure it’s all very intricate. But super disappointing.
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@FarmerJayhawk said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
This title feels so damn empty. I feel so shitty for all the seniors that worked so hard to get to this point and now it’s just… over. Goes for baseball, softball, track, basketball. The NCAA should do the right thing and give them all an extra year if they want and waive the scholarship cap for a year so no HS kids get left out in the cold.
100% agree with this. Also a great way to get a lot of athletes started in masters programs as well if they did something like this.
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Another heartbreaking story is Doke. The only way he was going to get to see his mom this spring was if KU reached the Final Four and could pay for his mom to fly in from Nigeria. I’d love to see the NCAA waive this rule for a one time exception and allow KU to fly Doke’s mom in for his graduation.
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@bskeet said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
They could have moved the midwest regional to AFH. It’s been hosted there in the past. I think they could have found the venues… but yeah, media contracts and the insurance liability… I’m sure it’s all very intricate. But super disappointing.
Hotel capacity in Lawrence is why AFH doesn’t host games anymore. As many fans that travel to the NCAA Tournament now, cities that host games have to have the hotel space and Lawrence doesn’t have the hotel space. That’s a big part of the postponement issue as well.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
Another heartbreaking story is Doke. The only way he was going to get to see his mom this spring was if KU reached the Final Four and could pay for his mom to fly in from Nigeria. I’d love to see the NCAA waive this rule for a one time exception and allow KU to fly Doke’s mom in for his graduation.
Hope KU still has it!
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@Bosthawk I posted on here a few days ago that, for the first time in my life, I believed we would win it all if we stayed healthy. Healthy, meaning not injured. I haven’t seen a team anywhere that could stay with us with a healthy Doke and Dotson.
I’m pretty sure the NCAA invented this virus to keep KU out of the limelight. (not really, but it feels good to say it)
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The men’s and women’s basketball tournaments have been canceled.
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Another potential issue with postponing the NCAA Tournament is how many teams would be missing players because of those players focusing on the NBA Draft at that point. Would Doke and Dotson play at that point in May or would they already be off campus at some training facility getting prepared for the NBA Draft Combine.
There’s just too many factors involved to feasibly host the NCAA Tournament in May.
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Disney is shutting down Disneyland in California until the end of the month. We’re going to end up like Italy in shutting down the country at this point to slow the rate of infection and not overwhelm our healthcare facilities.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
Disney is shutting down Disneyland in California until the end of the month. We’re going to end up like Italy in shutting down the country at this point to slow the rate of infection and not overwhelm our healthcare facilities.
hate to say it - - but your right my friend , just sucks gonna be almost a stand still, STILL gonna get worse with more cases and deaths - - period
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Now 1400 cases of Corona and 37 deaths
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Several school districts here in Houston have started postponing classes for the next week.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
Several school districts here in Houston have started postponing classes for the next week.
All of Ohio down for the next few weeks. Chapel Hill-Carrboro will postpone starting Monday.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
Several school districts here in Houston have started postponing classes for the next week.
don’t doubt that at all. – I was telling friends that here in Kansas our Public Schools are all going to follow suit too, following our State Univerisities lead , with suspending class. – Had a Statement come out where the upper ups were saying they were leaving it to the individual districts about how to go - - such as it read shortening classes , suspending class closing and such - - it’s coming
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And now pretty much every district in the Houston area that isn’t on spring break next week will be closed for the week.
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These wounds will fester. 1994 the White Sox were one of several favorites to win the World Series. The group of owners, including the Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf forced the lockout to happen. No world series. Major bummer, still sucks. Frank Thomas’ best shot at winning a ring. Technically he got one in 2005 but was hurt. Of course a big difference is the entire team comes back the next season. We won’t see Dok or Dotson again. Combined with the potential sanctions this is a bitter pill.
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@FarmerJayhawk said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
Ohio authorities estimate 1% of the state is carrying it. That’s almost 120,000 people.
This should sink in: Ohio officials estimate is that 120,000 are infected and contagious, but only have 5 confirmed cases.
For every confirmed case, there are about 20,000 infected.
There are more than 1000 confirmed cases in the US right now. That works out to 20 million infected in the US – using Ohio as the estimate. That’s about 15% of the population or 1 out of 6-7 people that you and I know.
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Well, I made the fatal mistake of checking in on other teams Boards, seeing what they were having to say about the Cancellation of the NCAA tournament - - I should of known better ,.
As usual Kentucky greater then though fans had their comments : - - Opened up their thread and BOOM very 1st one, about Corona? - - Oh hell now it was : - Well we lost three on the win total and then showing the graphic of their winds to KU’s All time wins - nothing to do about what caused Cancellation - -I swear to God.
@nd one I saw : Will Kansas hag a COVID 19 Banner? , – then says WHEW for once we didn’t blow a 18 point lead ( help me please WHAT? ) what the hell is that suppose to be referring to ? and then says going to hang next to the Helm’s bread wrappers- -see funny huh?
People say we as KU fans have a paranoia about UK - - ummm NEWS FLASH - -you might wanna switch that - this crap is crazy - -all kinds of things going on and they want to spend their time worry about poor little KU. - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@jayballer73 18 point lead I believe was the tre Burk Michigan game.
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@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@jayballer73 18 point lead I believe was the tre Burk Michigan game.
ahh , ya from you bringing that up NOW ya I remember that ,so probably so.
Just sucks , this I feel was going to be a special year. Our ranking in NET defensively , the combination of Doke & Devon - -now we will have neither , every way I look at it man - -THIS WAS OUR YEAR
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