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Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by BitterYoungMatador2, Apr 2, 2020.

  1. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Last edited: Jul 9, 2020
  2. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    We're done on everything. Time to punt, let's reconvene Jan. 1.
     
  3. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    Used to always call that school Cal State Santa Claus
     
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  4. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    First classes before the current campus was build were held in the ag building at the fairgrounds. Thus, Turkey Tech.
     
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  5. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    Remember you're talking to a Virginia Tech grad, lol
     
  6. Donny in his element

    Donny in his element Well-Known Member

    Cross country, indoor track and outdoor track are counted as distinct sports as they each have their own season and eligibility. A distance runner likely will compete in all three.

    For Title IX, their scholarships are all shared across the sports, so they for all intents and purposes are a single scholarship sport.
     
  7. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    There has been a lot of talk about the impact of moving college football to the spring semester. In that discussion, the subject of early enrollees comes up. Here's my question: How many of these early HS grads rely on summer school to finish midway through what would be their senior year? Is that a thing? Or do they tend to rack up their credits in online programs? I ask because I doubt there are many districts offering summer school these days. But I have no idea how this thing works. Does anybody know the ins and outs of this practice?
     
  8. MTM

    MTM Well-Known Member

    A group of us got scolded at a college journalism conference for drunkenly singing Stanilaus is Coming to Town.
     
  9. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    They’re all separate, their scholarship counts and eligibility clocks are separate, and schools with all three programs usually figure out how to juggle schollies, eligibility, and “unaffiliated” AAU track and field clubs so that their best athletes are on campus for 6 years and have earned a bachelor’s degree and are usually well on their way to a master’s degree by the time the calendar runs out.
     
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  10. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Tough to argue. One thing I'm still curious to see shake out is the Masters in November, as an event and maybe (big maybe) with fans. That's one venue in this country where they can demand masks and get 100 percent compliance, or just throw someone out without a second thought.
     
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  11. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Yes. If they want to demand masks. The Augusta National membership, while in a high-risk category as a whole, isn't likely to be in the mandatory mask crowd. They're more likely to genuflect to their boy in the White House, aren't they?
     
  12. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Nah. They want the history to be on the course, not in a super-spreader event in the grandstands. Plus they'd hand out Augusta-green masks with the logo at the entrances, which would be great collectors' items afterward. (I would prefer mine washed before I buy it off eBay.)
     
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