Some good info - - from an HLOH post:
All the below quotes are courtesy of John Fanta on Twitter. Lots of good information here from Val.
“The Big East has been through a lot in its 41 years. I don’t even think Dave Gavitt could have come to grips that this would happen.” “When sports come back, they’re going to come back big.”
“If our campuses are not open, we will not have athletes coming back.”
Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman says the timeline for understanding fall semester / schools opening / sports returning could be late June / early July.
Val Ackerman notes that the Big East did have insurance for the conference tournament cancellation at Madison Square Garden. The pandemic is considered under the insurance umbrella.
Val Ackerman has described the future of college athletics as a “make it up as you go” playbook and “patchwork.” This sums up the level of unknown that is still out there with the pandemic, and the status of college sports returning this fall. There’s a high level of unknown.
Val Ackerman has announced that there will be alternative programming for the annual Big East Mental Health Forum for conference student-athletes this summer.
Think about the school locations of the 11 Big East schools. St. John’s and Seton Hall are in a totally different predicament than Creighton and Xavier. Staggered scheduling is a likely possibility, and it creates a complicated scenario. A lot of work to be done.
Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman says the formal vote for Name/Image/Likeness for college athletes is planned for January 2021 to be put into effect for 21-22 academic year.
Val Ackerman says the Big East is just looking at alternative schedules for the FALL right now. Basketball hasn’t been looked at in terms of alternative scheduling models.
“The NCAA is also looking hard at possible disruption (with national fall championships).” - Val Ackerman
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05-08-2020, 01:56 PM #1
Val Ackerman Press Conference
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05-08-2020, 08:00 PM #2
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Sounds to me like there will not be basketball in the 2020-21 school year. Unlike what Coach Franklin at Penn State said about his sport. I appreciate the Big East Commish!!
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05-08-2020, 08:19 PM #3
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That's not at all what I took from what she said. I can't believe the number of people who are totally " the glass is empty" on Covid 19. We're coming back from this and it's not going to take 2 years. We have to get the country moving again. We can't wait around at home for government handouts for the next 12 months.
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05-08-2020, 08:46 PM #4
If there are some schools open, and there are others that are not, I think that the open schools will be given a choice of competing or not. I can see where the league doesn’t operate as a league and schools are given the opportunity to schedule games with other schools in their area that are open. At the end of the year they hold league tournaments for some leagues and some do not. The NCAA has no automatic qualifiers and all schools are chosen at-large. Maybe it’s 64-68 teams, maybe 32. All depends on how big the pool of teams to choose from is.
I just can’t see where if schools are open and CAN field a team why they wouldn’t, as long as they can find other schools to compete against. Would especially look for schools in the same geographical area to compete against, so as to cut down on travel expenses.
Of course....this scenario is ONLY IF the season doesn’t go on as is regularly constructed......which I think it will.Last edited by XUGRAD80; 05-08-2020 at 08:51 PM.
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05-09-2020, 05:21 AM #5
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Reality according to who? YOU! Thats DEFINITELY not reality!! Thats called YOUR opinion!! So if Xavierhoops.com under the mens bsketball section wants to promote politics on their boards I'm all for it but that has GOT to be a 2-way street where ALL sides are heard from NOT just the right wing conservatives.
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