Seasons and Tourneys Cancelled?

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May 29, 2015
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Well, my daughter's senior season is officially cancelled. I get it -just a terrible way to end a 16 year journey.

I read that the Ivy League is going to petition for an added year of eligibility for their athletes. My question is, what does that mean? If they are continuing classes online (or in whatever format), the students should still graduate at the same time. So ... they have to enroll for a bogus year of college to play another year? Or they have to basically forgo employment for a year to play?
 
May 29, 2015
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I think they realized how bad the optics were and weren't going to play the other 3 scheduled games following nor the games scheduled for Friday or Saturday so figured why finish a meaningless 1 v 8 game.

I'm a PR person ... I get the optics. I'm saying they accomplished the opposite of what they wanted to do in this case.
 
Jul 3, 2013
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DD just got the news that her school is going to online after spring break(starts tomorrow) until April 5th. All cocorricular activities, including athletics suspended as well. She was at the rec center for hitting, so they're all going to play some hoops.

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Mar 10, 2020
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Reasons for cancelling
Consideration to health, Liability & Revenue.
Respectfully thinking if its a consideration to health,
Closing some schools and not all is peculiar.
Closing the campus, and going to online is reasonable. But then to have teams interacting contradics reasoning to limit social contact.
Leaves liability & revenue to be discussed.
 
Oct 2, 2017
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Do you guys think that Local tournaments, non college Tournaments will be canceled. I'm talking local 10u, 12u usssa sanctioned tournament.
 
Oct 2, 2017
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I feel the same. With everything going on, such as Most Major Sports canceling and now colleges, It seems only a matter of time before these cancel. But then again, spring is basically here and it will start warming up. So I think that will impact some decisions.
 
Aug 19, 2015
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Atlanta, GA
That is always the tough part ... being on the bubble. However, with the size and the scale of any event, you have to take that "user prep time" into account. Doesn't matter if it is canceling t-ball games because of potential bad weather or large-scale professional/educational events ... you have to know your audience and know what the window is.

Honestly, if you had me on retainer, I would tell you the best thing to do is definitively postpone it NOW. Don't be wishy-washy, don't hope for the best. Know your audience and what they have to put into attending. Announce you will reschedule at a later date and with adequate notice, but you certainly aren't holding it on the originally planned date.

I wish I had that kind of power! LOL. Considering I would have to fly there and attend a ceremony with 5000+ people in the room (no one would be 6 feet apart!), I'm crossing fingers for a cancellation notice ASAP.
 

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