ACC has 4 coaches that are 70+
ACC has 4 coaches that are 70+
Right, I'm not a fan of K, but the fact that Duke also led the way in cancelling last spring makes me less suspicious of his motives.
Not sure Keatts and Brownell have done well enough to say they’ll be around for a while. Wasn’t brownell in line to be let go last year if the pandemic hadn’t happened?
Seth G just put his spin on K's comments. "It's not an NCAA issue, it's a school and conference issue. If a school feels they should pause, then pause, same for a conference."
And they would need to quarantine getting home and getting back to the team. Reality is CBB players have rarely been able to go home for either holiday with few exceptions. We used to be able to pay for them to fly home from away games that rarely got scheduled to close fall semester. Lots of focused practice and and team bonding opportunities over holiday breaks.Brownell was on the big time hot seat a season or two ago, but he seems to have righted the ship at least temporarily. Agree with you that the jury remains out on Keatts.
Bilas was calling for an evaluation of the situation and threw out a possible 30 day pause. I agree with him, and K now that I consider it more, that leadership on the covid plan appears lacking. And we all know why they are playing (tv/NCAA tourney $). But what would a 30 day pause accomplish? It sucks these players can't go home for thanksgiving or Christmas. But if you give them 30 days off, the situation will be no better, and likely worse, in 30 days, and they will have been out of the covid protocol that each team created.
We are back in the return to play segment of the protocol, fwiw.
According to Forbes, no one on the team was asymptomatic.
Any chance we could pick up any local opponents?
". After practice, according to Forbes, players leave, grab a meal to go and go back to their rooms, alone."
If this is the case, then I really believe we just need to pause the seasons of all college sports. Let the kids be with their families, and do the on-line school thing for the next few months until this is over.
This is no way to spend the holidays just so ESPN can have some content, and the NCAA can make its cash on the backs of their beloved "student-athletes"