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good. this country spends too much of people's money and attention on this nonsense. maybe we can make this permanent. it is insane that one can get into a college with zero brain power just for being tall (and ncaa and co enable that). what possible use does society have for that long term?
What use does society have for Facebook and Twitter long term? Those are far more detrimental to society than college basketball.
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It doesn't affect student athletes all that much. There will still be a draft, as always.
Whoever came up with the term “student athlete” when talking about slaves in college is a genius! I like to think if that term never existed then maybe society wouldn’t let universities exploit them for millions of dollars while paying them nothing.
So soft. Teams should just play. Anyone that isn't sick can play. It's a 5v5 game. Next thing you know tennis matches will be canceled.
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The scholarship is for an academic degree, not resume polishing for a professional athletic league. It's in the name.
That's a nice fantasy you are having, but for the elite athletes in the money sports, the scholarship has nothing whatever to do with an academic degree .
So soft. Teams should just play. Anyone that isn't sick can play. It's a 5v5 game. Next thing you know tennis matches will be canceled.
So socially responsible. This hurts a lot for some of us. I am a Creighton fan and this was our first big year in a long time, maybe our best of all time. Sports fans get accused of forgetting "it is all a game" sometimes. It is certainly more than a game when you think of how much some people's lives depend on the money from these events, but limiting the impact of this virus is certainly not "soft".
Will teams that finish #1 in various polls claim national titles?
Of course none of it matters that much in the long run but it is a big bummer for the athletes and fans!
MLS suspended it's season for 30 days. MLB opening day postponed for at least two weeks. NHL suspended it's season. Nascar is likely next.
I can see them not having fans at the races, but Nascar drivers and pit crews seem like they are at a lot less risk compared to basketball players. I would actually think this would be a great time for Nascar to capitalize on other sports being suspended.
This should result in an immediate extra year of scholarship eligibility for any of the kids effected.
The scholarship is for an academic degree, not resume polishing for a professional athletic league. It's in the name.
I hope actions like this can start to make people wake up that this is in fact serious and should be taken seriously. Still too many people calling it a hoax and that it's no worse than a common cold.
How bad does it have to be to fit in the "serious" vs. "not serious" bucket? It's like a rather bad influenza. The mortality rate is fairly low and difficult to estimate unless you test the entire population on a regular basis. It isn't like one of the outbreaks that kills 10%, 20%, 50% of the infected. It shouldn't be ignored, but it also shouldn't be treated like a new black death. It is difficult for uninformed pe…
In addition to all of the people it's going to kill, it will also decimate the world's intensive care resources. Many people who would otherwise die will live because they got a bed in intensive care. Conditions which complete for these ICU beds will see their fatality rate sky rocket.
It is incontrovertibly in the "serious" bucket.
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Umm... so you like the exploitation of young people? Universities make millions while “student athletes” get paid peanuts, and you don’t like someone pointing it out? Why?
How about we start by reserving the word "exploitation" for situations people cannot easily get up and walk away from? And not situations that people dream of, and struggle very hard to achieve?
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Hmm you don’t think there’s any seniors that could play so well that they’d make the NBA draft?
It isn't likely. An NBA caliber player that is a senior will likely have played 100+ NCAA basketball games. A few good/bad games in the tournament isn't going to change their overall chance of getting picked in the NBA draft. And the NBA draft is very shallow to begin with, only 60 picks total and still some of those players don't make the teams. In the NFL and MLB it is very common for undrafted/late round picks to…